Modern Warfare 2: Who Bought It?

tony_j15 · November 11th, 2009, 02:44 AM

Who picked it up, and for what system? One of my friend's got it for X360, he was super-pissed about the change to party chat. We both agreed that the storyline is pitiful-old-man-balls. IIJM, or is the 360 starting to show some age? TBH, the graphics are a bit on the sucky side. Overall, it's well-polished, but the textures are startin' to look shady. Gawd, there's a crap ton of weapons!!!
Anyone on the PC side having trouble with Steam or with bad discs?

ShyguyXPC · November 11th, 2009, 03:34 AM

My bro got his today, with the cheap ass NVG's (all plastic housing, cheap plastic that feels like it will crack if dropped), they do work, but looking through them, they kind of feel like a miniaturized Outdoor IR Night camera, you can switch between regular black/white and then there is the green color filter. and another setting I think.

as my bro said, they are no where near Military grade, even for Gen 1 NVG, but he and a few of his friends got the same version of the game, so their going to use their NVG's for some night time Airsoft games LOL.

as to the game, he was playing single player and having fun with it. especially thought the one level where your undercover and mowing down unarmed civilians was fun...

though seemed kind of odd for him to like that, since he was over in Iraq several times, twice in Baghdad in the last 3 years.

anyways, that one scene/level alone is going to stir up more controversy than the PC versions shortcomings.

YouTube - Modern Warfare 2 "Airport Terrorists" Mission

granted its a game, and granted games like GTA let you do similar things, but not nearly as graphic and realism as this one. GTA's killing of people is almost comical in a dark humor kind of way. but this might be a bit over the top, had it been armed terrorists or hordes of zombies you were hosing down, might be a bit different, but even I'm a bit hesitant on whether I would even enjoy playing this level... especially since at the end your character gets blown away anyways after all that senseless killing.

as to the bad discs, yeah I have heard of a couple who are having troubles with it too.

but my bro was playing the game offline tonight, mainly to avoid getting a ton of game invites on LIVE.

**GroundZero3** · November 11th, 2009, 08:47 AM

ll be picking it up this Friday as im out of town right now. I CANT WAIT

osprey4 · November 11th, 2009, 08:49 AM

And don't forget the most realistic version yet, Modern Warfare 3.

**GroundZero3** · November 11th, 2009, 08:53 AM

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Originally Posted by osprey4

And don't forget the most realistic version yet, Modern Warfare 3.

rofl!

tony_j15 · November 11th, 2009, 04:29 PM

ShyguyXPC · November 11th, 2009, 06:51 PM

LOL, thats good, watched it first, cracking up, then just showed my bro (had him pause MW2 to watch this LOL), he was cracking up pretty good too, since a lot of that he could "relate" to while serving over in Iraq and Saudi Arabia LOL.

nemowolf · November 11th, 2009, 09:54 PM

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Originally Posted by ShyguyXPC

My bro got his today, with the cheap ass NVG's (all plastic housing, cheap plastic that feels like it will crack if dropped), they do work, but looking through them, they kind of feel like a miniaturized Outdoor IR Night camera, you can switch between regular black/white and then there is the green color filter. and another setting I think.

as my bro said, they are no where near Military grade, even for Gen 1 NVG, but he and a few of his friends got the same version of the game, so their going to use their NVG's for some night time Airsoft games LOL.

as to the game, he was playing single player and having fun with it. especially thought the one level where your undercover and mowing down unarmed civilians was fun...

though seemed kind of odd for him to like that, since he was over in Iraq several times, twice in Baghdad in the last 3 years.

anyways, that one scene/level alone is going to stir up more controversy than the PC versions shortcomings.

YouTube - Modern Warfare 2 "Airport Terrorists" Mission

granted its a game, and granted games like GTA let you do similar things, but not nearly as graphic and realism as this one. GTA's killing of people is almost comical in a dark humor kind of way. but this might be a bit over the top, had it been armed terrorists or hordes of zombies you were hosing down, might be a bit different, but even I'm a bit hesitant on whether I would even enjoy playing this level... especially since at the end your character gets blown away anyways after all that senseless killing.

as to the bad discs, yeah I have heard of a couple who are having troubles with it too.

but my bro was playing the game offline tonight, mainly to avoid getting a ton of game invites on LIVE.

Jakks PAcific puts out a set of monocle night sight head gear thingy for 100 bucks. They work and not intended to be military grade, good luck on that for 100 bucks.

thephilosophizer · November 11th, 2009, 11:04 PM

I picked up the 360 version yesterday. Any other day I would have gotten the pc version, but my brothers are in cali (I'm in Mass), and they only have an xbox.
Finished the single player today. Kinda short (I'd say about 6 hours play time), lots of gun types, I think it would have been cool to before to pick your weapons before the missions, but whatever.
The game seems to really go for shock value. I think 4 or 5 of the characters you play die in the story, makes having continuity a bit tough, but I suppose it's meant to make it feel more dramatic.
Multiplayer feels identical to cod4. Same graphics, same tactics, different maps, some different guns. But hey, haven't tried the co-op, probably give that a try this weekend.

Aaron_8015 · November 11th, 2009, 11:08 PM

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Originally Posted by thephilosophizer

I picked up the 360 version yesterday. Any other day I would have gotten the pc version, but my brothers are in cali (I'm in Mass), and they only have an xbox.
Finished the single player today. Kinda short (I'd say about 6 hours play time), lots of gun types, I think it would have been cool to before to pick your weapons before the missions, but whatever.
The game seems to really go for shock value. I think 4 or 5 of the characters you play die in the story, makes having continuity a bit tough, but I suppose it's meant to make it feel more dramatic.
Multiplayer feels identical to cod4. Same graphics, same tactics, different maps, some different guns. But hey, haven't tried the co-op, probably give that a try this weekend.

Thanks for the spoiler....

All I want to play is the single player.... (they should release them seperately $20 for single player and $40 for the multiplayer).