Thread: Modern Warfare 2

Originally Posted by MalReynolds

The CoD games have never, ever, ever, ever - EVER been about hyper-realism. Not ever. They're arcade shooters, like Timesplitters. Your soldiers can take shots and shots and then not die, alll you have to do is hide behind a rock and wait for the red to go away or pick up a med-kit.

CoD: MW wasn't even very realistic. Since when am I allowed to decide if I want to carry more ammo into battle, or have my bullets do more damage? Did I miss that part of basic, where I was told that my perks would be variable on how many people I kill in a firefight? Shit, I killed 3, I get to use the satellite for enemy tracking.

The games have been about having fun, and providing a balanced challenge online. Which they have (not counting the M16 or the Thompson M40). I'm sure the heart-beat monitor will be used in the SP campaign, giving the item an excellent frame of reference as to the inclusion in the multiplayer. Possibly even the throwing knives - and there's no gaurentee that they're a 1hk anyway.

I'm not looking forward to the riot shield, however. It mucked up CS1.6 pretty well.

I see exactly what you're getting at and quite a bit of it I can agree with, but I guess all-in-all what I was trying to say is this:

It seems like they're taking CoD4 and just slathering it with a bunch of uber-cool shit to spice it up again. Yeah, that can be said about every sequel to every game, I know. But theres just something about CoD4 that I feel should be left alone (yeah yeah nobody is stopping me from playing CoD4). I could deal with it if they were going a totally different direction with the game, but they're not. They just dumped a truckload of tactical coolness on top of it. This seems like it should be an expansion pack, or a mod, not a new game.

In the long run I'm sure I'll love the game regardless. I just tend to nitpick at shit before its finally released.