Better late than never, but my best friend recently loaned me his copy of Modern Warfare 2 for the PS3. I just completed the mission where you have to fight house-to-house in Virgina against waves of Russian soldiers, and so far I really don't like this game all that much. The singleplayer campaign seems to be expertly scripted but horrendously designed as a game. You'll walk 2 steps forward at any given time and BANG! DEAD! You'll reload on the next checkpoint, walk another 2 steps forward and BANG! DEAD! And all this repeats ad nauseum until you can find the jerk you can't see 30 feet away that you can't see because everything in this game is shaded brown so it all blends in. There's a lot of really well-done voice work in this game, but you can't appreciate it since 99.9% of the time it always sounds like this: "RAMIREZGETTOTHE*BLAST*MANDOWNMANDOWN*RATATAT*COMINGFROMTHELEFT*BLAST**BLAST*LET'SMOVEMOVEMOVE!" It's such a cacauphony of noise that all you can do is just follow the white dot around you with the big "FOLLOW" tag on them and hope for the best. Realistic? Perhaps, but if I wanted "realism" in my First-Person Shooter experience, I'd enlist in the military.
On the flip side, there are some fun early stages, such as the level where you have to fight off Russian soldiers determined to storm your constantly-shifting defensive position at the Burger King. I just wish that the moments of fun weren't so surrounded by moments of frustration, because there's a lot of potential fun going on here.
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