Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered

Ammo runs out way too fast

This game is so fun to play and has great missions but GHOST NOOOOOOOO

Still the best CoD yet.

My first time playing a Call of Duty game, and I had a lot of fun with it! The campaign is great. I was really engaged with the story once the whole twist thing became apparent, and now I'm downloading MW3 cause I /need/ to see where it goes from that ending.

Yeah ngl this one kinda banged. Gunplay is smooth and snappy, level design is fun and creative, scenarios are often tense and exciting, visually it's explosive as it needs to be. Yes, narratively its still pretty stupid, with utterly contrived excuses to make both the US and the main characters more and more back-to-the-wall endangered, but it's still just fun and the fantasy of it kinda electrifies you.

Earlier in the game it felt a little more conscious in its meta elements, not necessarily in a good way but an interesting way. Between No Russian and the levels in South America, the game seems to insist on putting you in situations where you have to do something outrageous, where you have to slaughter civilians. I suppose maybe it's to convey the stakes or the hectic reality of war, but it ultimately feels more like an excuse for shock porn and nothing else. Characters are so minimal in this game that innocent NPCs might as well be environment props. It also does its best to convey a sort of vulnerability of America while projecting strength or resilience. Mostly this is done through the ridiculous Russian invasion, which can only occur because of some outrageous series of events that we can't be blamed for not anticipating. It's hard to deny the backdrops though. Fighting on US soil is fun and the explosive remains of familiar territory makes the game more engaging than setting it in made up Middle Eastern country #7.

I get the sense this will generally be the high points in the franchise- exciting or engaging shootouts over top of nonsense narratives that can't figure out if America is unbreakable but taken advantage of or if it's vulnerable but with the best of the best to keep it afloat. I should also mention that these games have maintained this utter respect for British military and intelligence which I did not realize would be present on starting the story, but if we're being honest characters like Price are represented as more embodiments of American ideals that are generally accepted as Western more than actually European ones.

Looking forward to Black Ops (the game I spent the most time with growing up but never touched the campaign of) but I'll have to slog through another couple of dogshit mobile and DS games first so that's a bit of a trick.

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