Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

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6.6

Mixed or average reviews- based on 3152 Ratings

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  1. FlaMinGTaCo
    Sep 5, 2010
    2
    most overrated game of all time sold millions of copies because of the name on the box absolutely terrible campaign, highly overrated multiplayer with way to many bugs/glitches to exploit. This game could have been good but to be honest it wasn't it was poorly made there is evidence it was rushed to meet a deadline, the CoD series has never deserved its critical acclaim as once you getmost overrated game of all time sold millions of copies because of the name on the box absolutely terrible campaign, highly overrated multiplayer with way to many bugs/glitches to exploit. This game could have been good but to be honest it wasn't it was poorly made there is evidence it was rushed to meet a deadline, the CoD series has never deserved its critical acclaim as once you get down to it they are all average shooters.… Expand
  2. Doozer
    Nov 11, 2009
    0
    Terrible game, terrible even more so for what crap like this is doing to the games industry. The devs are get so high and mighty in their ivory towers, kinda like governments.. think everything they do/say MUST be right and MUST be the best for all. Wrong, this is a disgrace to all gamers on all formats. It *IS* slightly better on the consoles than the PC (and I have a PS3 and a fast PC) Terrible game, terrible even more so for what crap like this is doing to the games industry. The devs are get so high and mighty in their ivory towers, kinda like governments.. think everything they do/say MUST be right and MUST be the best for all. Wrong, this is a disgrace to all gamers on all formats. It *IS* slightly better on the consoles than the PC (and I have a PS3 and a fast PC) other than the fact I personaly always prefer FPS games with a mouse on PC. Even so, all the lies and PC/Trophy issues aside - the game underneath is still a very bad game masked by loud bangs and 'hollywood esque' derivitive action that does nothing for gaming but everything for critics of gaming. Avoid, Return to store, or just hang your head in shame if you buy this... vote with your wallets and buy a game that is WORTHY of your support not the one that gets the 'biggest advertising budget'. As for the professional reviews, well it's been obvious that gaming sites/mags have been taking backhanders for many years now, or are so linked to their sponsors/advertisers that they dare not speak evil of them (esp the massive titles that 'save' the industry each year with a giant cash influx from the brain washed masses).. games like NFS, COD, Madden etc. Please stop buying that crap and think about all our futures as gamers and how you can help change by using your brains and standing up for what you want and ignoring/not buying this kind of thing just because they have adverts everywhere saying 'the most anticipated game of the decade' - that shows such arrogance that I knew the moment I saw that this would be a re-hash of an already not that great COD4 original.… Expand
  3. Jorge
    Nov 10, 2009
    1
    This game is just BS. It is obvious Activision shelled out the big bucks to those a$$ wipe reviewers. Unbelievable that something so serious as giving a professional opinion has come some low that seems prostitution. Really, get this game at your own risk!!!
  4. SadMan
    Nov 10, 2009
    1
    Its Modern Warfare 1 with new perks and guns. Nothing new to offer the gaming world except a copy of its predecessor, with an old graphics engine, unblanced and small multiplayer, and a 3 hour single player. Save your money, not worth it.
  5. daniels.
    Mar 1, 2010
    0
    This game deserves nothing. if it wasnt for all the hyper and over rated coverage id give it a one, the singleplayer is crap and lasts for 5 minutes, the mutliplayer is boring and you'll want to cheat just to get your $ worth. dont buy this game unless you enjoy disappointment, however.. bad company 2 BETA was more fun.. try you're luck there with a user rating of 9.
  6. JeffD.
    Nov 10, 2009
    0
    ThE CRAppiest game ever. this SUCKED. I want my money back. I would rather watch barney and friends! Short campaign, stupid first person camera... If ur wondering what games I do like, Halo.
  7. BenR
    Apr 17, 2010
    0
    I am sorely disseminated by this game. After all the fun and glory of Call of Duty 4 i was hoping that this would be as fun but to no avail. The plot could be spread on the already growing pile of anti-russia games. Multiplayer rewards players for crouching in the corner.
  8. AidanG.
    Apr 18, 2010
    4
    I'm going to give an honest to god review from a REAL TENTH PRESTIGE. I started with Single Player. It was pretty good but a little short, but Ghost was a lovable character, I suppose. Ok so we're at a 9 with this. Spec Ops is incredible fun with a buddy and the missions are great. At this point, a 10. Now multiplayer. I expected it to be great fun just like Single Player and I'm going to give an honest to god review from a REAL TENTH PRESTIGE. I started with Single Player. It was pretty good but a little short, but Ghost was a lovable character, I suppose. Ok so we're at a 9 with this. Spec Ops is incredible fun with a buddy and the missions are great. At this point, a 10. Now multiplayer. I expected it to be great fun just like Single Player and Spec-Ops was; boy was I wrong! I kept playing now for a couple months and have gotten tenth prestige. I honestly hate multiplayer, but yet it is so addicting, I can't get away from it badness.… Expand
  9. alexMm
    Sep 23, 2010
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game totally blows. I was really excited when it first came out, but it gets boring fast, probably because of the cheats, glitches, bugs and other stuff people found out, and because of its incredibly unbalanced weapon pallet. Save your money, this game is not worth it. Overall, 2/10… Expand
  10. MichaelAn
    Nov 10, 2009
    1
    As a PC player I was truly disappointed with this game. I made the mistake of pre-ordering it before reading about its massively stripped features. I'm now stuck with a game not worth anywhere near the price I paid for it, and one I have no interest in playing again once I play through the single player in after 4 hours. Great.
  11. KevinM
    Jan 4, 2010
    1
    Probably the worst game ever created. If you want to get the same experience without paying $60 then consider hitting yourself in the head with a hammer.
  12. NathanielD
    Nov 10, 2009
    4
    An extreme dissapointment, where CoD4 brought great change and new features, This just improves it slightly. With the asking price so high, the 7 hour campaign is utterly insulting. Multiplayer is of course great, if you somehow figure out how to filter out the idoits.
  13. MaxS
    Nov 10, 2009
    0
    This game held a lot of promise and the SP was not half bad. Unfortunately the MP is where it's at - and this game is a major disappointing. To list the number of features which are not missing or the things which are now impossible as compared to cod4 would be too exhaustive. Sufficed to say, many things are missing, things which many PC gamers including myself expect to be standard This game held a lot of promise and the SP was not half bad. Unfortunately the MP is where it's at - and this game is a major disappointing. To list the number of features which are not missing or the things which are now impossible as compared to cod4 would be too exhaustive. Sufficed to say, many things are missing, things which many PC gamers including myself expect to be standard as part of any good game. Personally, the biggest problems with the new multiplayer system are the very low maximum number of players, 0 ping advantage for host, lag spikes, copycat perk (what's the point of leveling up?), and in general IW seems to take a lot of control / customisation away from us - which ultimately serves to worsen the experience. I sincerely hope there will be a patch to add dedicated servers, modding and lean. Lean is another great thing missing from this game. All in all, not worth the money it is selling for.… Expand
  14. MikeH
    Nov 10, 2009
    0
    The PC release of this game is flawed beyond all expectations. Not only do the people who bought it on Steam have to wait 2 extra days to play, us Europeans have been screwed even further by IW refusing dedicated server support. Ping to IWNET servers is horrible, and 9x9 on PCs is a joke. The 360 version is no better. Unstable, the story is cliche and having a Russian antagonist is just silly.
  15. RantC
    Nov 10, 2009
    0
    I love the new features like mouse and keyboard control on a PC! So amazing! And it doesn't take long at all to adjust to shooting 5 feet from where your target is standing to be able to register a hit on them because of latency! I'm happy to spend more money than normal on a PC title for less features than in the previous version. Game of the year all years!
  16. CheezB
    Nov 10, 2009
    0
    I honestly see no reason to buy a game that gives such a kick in the balls to PC gamers. I can not see why they would remove so many elements that have become assumed features of a PC game. It is a shame that so much work has been put into making such a great looking game with apparently great gameplay, but ruined in this way.
  17. montyq
    Nov 10, 2009
    0
    Good graphics, but activision didnt need to charge so much for it, i know its all about making money at the end of the day but they didnt have to rip us off, activision knew it would sell anyway so why!. anyway ive seen it but ill leave this for the screaming school kids that seem to dominate the online xbox community. Teenage Kids, I hate them as they know how to ruin a perfectly good Good graphics, but activision didnt need to charge so much for it, i know its all about making money at the end of the day but they didnt have to rip us off, activision knew it would sell anyway so why!. anyway ive seen it but ill leave this for the screaming school kids that seem to dominate the online xbox community. Teenage Kids, I hate them as they know how to ruin a perfectly good online game.… Expand
  18. AbrahamM
    Nov 10, 2009
    0
    Trash. Gameplay is weak and unimaginative. Revolting graphics and terrible sound. Multiplayer is ridiculously similar (in a bad way) to the previous two installments. Nothing new. Just rinsing and repeating for Activison and sadly gamers are loving it.
  19. JohnK
    Nov 10, 2009
    0
    The gameplay is tired and repetative, and it gennerally lacks innovation seeing as this is the third in the series to use the exact same multiplayer format. I expected better from infinity ward.
  20. ScottM
    Nov 10, 2009
    0
    They PC port plays like a console game. No adjustments to the FOV and no dedicated server makes this a game to pass on if you are a PC Gamer. Purchase it on the console if you can leave with the dated graphics since this is what the game was built for. To bad Infinity Ward ignored the PC gamers. Pass on this one, try again next year.
  21. MichaelL
    Nov 10, 2009
    0
    No dedicated servers. Host Advantage. 100ms+ ping. No leaning. 9v9 max multiplayer. No modding or custom maps. No ability to kick/ban hackers. All this AND an increased price? Worst. Game. Ever.
  22. dannio
    Nov 10, 2009
    0
    This game is great. I have been playing for 2 and a half hours and I haven't found a flaw yet. They really took the flaws of CoD4 and worked mad hard on them. They also added a ton of new features and weapons. Now this is a flawless game (so far) I haven't played much of the campaign but it seemed pretty interesting from the beginning. Not recommended.
  23. DionD
    Nov 10, 2009
    0
    Horrible, offensive, I never played the first one, heard the hype and gave it a go. For people whom aren't mindless idiots It may be good, the rest of us should avoid.
  24. ArkonBlade
    Sep 29, 2010
    2
    a pile of crap is the best way to describe COD MW2 . the story mode sucks the enimy AI is rediculasly retarded they track you through walls when you try to sneak up on them and as soon as you peak around the corner they open fire before you can even get your sights up. your AI team is dumb as **** they run blindly out in the open and fire at enimys never hittin a damn thing as soon as youa pile of crap is the best way to describe COD MW2 . the story mode sucks the enimy AI is rediculasly retarded they track you through walls when you try to sneak up on them and as soon as you peak around the corner they open fire before you can even get your sights up. your AI team is dumb as **** they run blindly out in the open and fire at enimys never hittin a damn thing as soon as you try to peak around the corner every enimy on screen that was shooting at your AI team turns on you. its complete bull **** . still no online Co op for the story mode . they canclled it at the last min . my guess why is the stupid enimy AI wouldnt know WTF to do if it had more then 1 player it had to auto lock onto behind a damn wall and just shoot them selves in the damn head. the online... i wouldnt touch it . i like COD4 online but thats the last of the COD games i wanted to play online . im glad i dont care any more for this game online any more because i heard from all my friends it was garbage ,… Expand
  25. JosephS
    Nov 10, 2009
    0
    Short single player campaign No dedicated servers Peer to peer hosting 100ms as standard Host has the latency advantage ~10 second pause when the host disconnects No custom content like maps, mods Forced DLC with a price tag 9v9 max 65 FoV No console No recording No lean 'Tactical' nuke All of this for just $60. Although it does have some great features such as mouse support, Short single player campaign No dedicated servers Peer to peer hosting 100ms as standard Host has the latency advantage ~10 second pause when the host disconnects No custom content like maps, mods Forced DLC with a price tag 9v9 max 65 FoV No console No recording No lean 'Tactical' nuke All of this for just $60. Although it does have some great features such as mouse support, in-game text and graphics options.… Expand
  26. EzdarothThegreat
    Nov 10, 2009
    0
    The main reason for this rating, is that some random laptop with 1mbit upload bandwidth doesn't quite compare to game server provider's rack server with 100mbit upload. Any PC-gamer that doesn't like latency shouldn't even take a look at the multiplayer, just for the sake of Infinity Ward using much worse system in order to avoid extra work on the PC-version. When The main reason for this rating, is that some random laptop with 1mbit upload bandwidth doesn't quite compare to game server provider's rack server with 100mbit upload. Any PC-gamer that doesn't like latency shouldn't even take a look at the multiplayer, just for the sake of Infinity Ward using much worse system in order to avoid extra work on the PC-version. When Infinity Ward gave us the news they won't support the PC-community, few other companies hinted the same way. This way they are hurting the whole PC-gaming community, since the core features of PC-gaming are being taken off. The server system would be enough for 0 rating alone, but the fact that many other aspects of the game have been ruined makes me want to rate it negative. Killing the mod community and not even having a command console is something you can't accept on PC.… Expand
  27. RomanH
    Nov 10, 2009
    3
    As a PC user I am upset and ashamed that IW has betrayed the same fans that supported them when they broke off from the MOHAA team and started their own studio. I'm sure everyone's well aware of the chart that's been floating around, which proves that IW not only didn't add anything new to MW2, but in fact they removed MANY key features. In fact, almost all the As a PC user I am upset and ashamed that IW has betrayed the same fans that supported them when they broke off from the MOHAA team and started their own studio. I'm sure everyone's well aware of the chart that's been floating around, which proves that IW not only didn't add anything new to MW2, but in fact they removed MANY key features. In fact, almost all the features that made CoD4 great have been removed. I feel that my rating of this game as a 3 isn't as much as a penalty, but a favor to IW because they deserve much less with this abomination.… Expand
  28. Clone25
    Sep 25, 2010
    4
    This game is just like the others for xbox 360. the graphics don't improve nor does the gameplay. Its just another call of duty game. the sniper is so annoying to use its like your character is drunk while sniping. In my opinion, its just another call of duty game
  29. RachaelB
    Nov 10, 2009
    4
    Considering the hype for this game, the fact that Infinity Ward/Activision issued a patch to disable trophies means I can't play the single player. Add to that the friend invite system is broken and you can only play in random online matches means I was sold a bill of goods that doesn't live up to its claims.
  30. ZachS
    Nov 10, 2009
    4
    This game is very bad. I have had it for a week, and I must say that this is THE worst first person shooter of all time hands down. Haze? Perfect Dark? They don't even compare to the level of poor graphics and gameplay contained within the game. I give this a 4.0 for poor effort.
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  1. Telegraph
    100
    Modern Warfare 2 crosses into the must-have category of video games effortlessly. It offers an unmatched shooter experience, a compelling story mode, a slick package of mini missions and a multiplayer which is pretty much unparalleled in depth.
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  2. Cynamite
    100
    Modern Warfare 2 offers epic gameplay, a stunning Spec-Ops mode and a huge amount of adrenaline.
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  3. GamesRadar+
    100
    Anyone who already has issues with the single-player ‘style’ of IW’s games will still find fault with the scripted, linear experience, but in terms of sheer drama and show-stopping set-pieces accompanied by laser sharp FPS controls, Modern Warfare 2 is your daddy. And that’s without Spec Ops and Multiplayer.
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