Modern Warfare 2 Means New Game Craze

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 one of years most anticipated games.

 

            Activision and Infinity Ward gain massive reputation for their awesome games. According to developers at Infinity Ward wanted to stretch their creativity with an original, present-day game. The result, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare won numerous awards as 2007's best game and has sold more than 14 million units worldwide making Modern Warfare 2 one of the most anticipated games of the year.

Modern Warfare 2's multiplayer remains mostly the same as its predecessor titles at a basic level. The main activity in the multiplayer has not changed at all, but everything that surrounds the basic concepts of Modern Warfare has been modified and expanded to create intense, hardcore new levels.

One of the new changes is the selectable killstreak bonuses. For example, if the person could get three kills in a row before a person could call in UAV drones to give the players a better sense of where the enemies are currently located. People can also still call in airstrikes and helicopters. But now people can also call in supply drops, send up counter-UAVs that block enemy radar, send in a harrier jet that hovers above the battle and guns down the opposition, or even call in a Predator missile strike, which lets you control a missile as it drops from the sky.

Less successful elements from the original Modern Warfare have been modified or completely removed. Perks that had a lot of complaints in Call of Duty 4, like Martyrdom and Juggernaut, have been changed. For starters, Martyrdom is now a "deathstreak" bonus that if a person dies four times in a row without killing anyone, the persons’ next spawn will give them Martyrdom. This makes it rare, as opposed to COD4, where almost every player dropped a grenade every time they died. Juggernaut is gone completely, due to its complaints as being used as a “cheating way to last longer in game play,” says Antonio Palomera, a junior at South East High School.

Modern Warfare 2 does not have a co-op campaign mode but makes up for it in other ways. The campaign is around six to ten hours long. It also includes a level in Rio de Janeiro, a level in Siberia, a level on an oil tanker, and a stealth-based oil pipeline level where players will be undersea in scuba gear. Swimming will be a new gameplay mechanic (it might be a bit hard to do an underwater level without swimming, after all). Vehicles such as trucks, tanks, and helicopters will be featured and most are controllable.

The demo started on the level Cliffhanger, in which Captain Soap MacTavish and Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson are somewhere in the Tian Shan Mountain range in extremely frigid conditions. The demo started off with Captain MacTavish and Roach climbing up the side of a mountain, but soon finding themselves blowing up a fuel depot and escaping from the base on snowmobiles while being chased by enemies. When people play the game this part of the demo is in the beginning of the game.

The majority of the people of the ages between 13 and 35p that were waiting for the Midnight release at the GameStop in South Gate had pre-ordered the game for the Playstation 3 and only few got the prestige version. This version includes collectible items such as night vision goggles but only for a higher price of $89.99 than the normal version, which normally costs $59.99. There are other places such as Fry’s Electronics, which sells the normal version for $55.99. Modern Warfare 2 has broken records for most sales in first few days of release.