Epic single-player campaign picks up immediately following the thrilling events from Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
The definitive multiplayer experience returns, with a host of new perks and enhancements
New cooperative SpecOps mode, the perfect combination of Modern Warfare's single player intensity and the addictive replayability of its multiplayer
Special Ops Mode allows two players, either alone or with a friend, to engage in unique mission play and features split-screen functionality.
‘Modern Warfare 2’ contains new and updated weapons, new weapons attachments, and a variant of the multiplayer weapons customization system from ‘Call of Duty 4’, now available in the single player campaign.
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Customers find the game fun and exciting. They also appreciate the graphics quality. However, some customers have issues with dedicated server support and lag. Opinions are mixed on the storyline, multiplayer, value for money, and functionality.
Customers find the game fun and exciting. They mention it's polished, slick, and entertaining. They also appreciate the great gameplay, action scenes, and music that really pulls them into the game.
"...The first thing I notice is the terrific sounding music, really pulls you into the game!The second thing I notice is the extraordinary graphics!..." Read more
"...Call of duty 4 Modern Warfare 1 was amazingly fun and had great assortment of weapons and good but small simple maps...." Read more
"...The game IS phenomenal. The graphics are noticeably improved over Modern Warfare 1, despite using the same graphics engine...." Read more
"...You'll notice that some missions will be similar. All in all it's pretty good...." Read more
Customers are satisfied with the graphics quality of the game. They mention it looks nice, is polished, and runs smoothly. Some say the set pieces are really cool.
"...pulls you into the game!The second thing I notice is the extraordinary graphics! I was really blown away by the difference to MW1...." Read more
"...The game IS phenomenal. The graphics are noticeably improved over Modern Warfare 1, despite using the same graphics engine...." Read more
"...everything is nice and polished, the graphics look great and run smoothly meaning that the company took the time to optimize the game thoroughly...." Read more
"...There are also alot of twists and turns that leads up to the very intense and very cool grand finale that has it's own twists...." Read more
Customers have mixed opinions about the storyline of the video game. Some mention it's immersive, action-packed, and keeps them on the edge of their seats. Others say the storyline is muddled, short, and jumps around.
"...The same is true for MW2, the game is so fast paced that if there were more than 18 people, you would be getting an instant head shot as soon as you..." Read more
"...to play Multiplayer you're going to have to put up with a LOT of frustrating deaths, even if you get the drop on somebody, because he is enjoying a..." Read more
"...It takes certain missions from the game (and adds alot of knew ones) and has you tackle them based on how many stars you want to earn...." Read more
"...I liked the twists in the storyline even though it is kind of hard to keep track of what's going on story-wise when you're trying not to die...." Read more
Customers have mixed opinions about the multiplayer of the game. Some mention the single-player game is really good, while others say it's a little irksome and substandard.
"...There's a lot of recycled sounds and some new ones. Multiplayer is more of the same which isn't a bad thing, and the new co-op mode, from what I've..." Read more
"...(for what bizarre reason I have yet to discover) and the substandard multiplayer has made it apparent that this was a straight console port through..." Read more
"...The Single Player is decent... I would say the first MW was better than MW2's storyline...." Read more
"...I don't see eye to eye with your opinion, I do think the multiplayer is a crappy deal...." Read more
43 customers mention "Value for money"18 positive25 negative
Customers have mixed opinions about the value for money of the game. Some mention it's well worth the price, while others say it's not worth the $50 for a new copy.
"...so many achievements to accomplish, it does help, but alot of them are useless and stupid...." Read more
"...Not the game it could have been but pretty decent. MP is worth jack (but NOT because of the lack of dedis... just want to make that clear), and SP..." Read more
"...The price is higher than I would like, but similar to comparable games. I would recommend this product, and purchase it again...." Read more
"...I bought this game for $33+3.99 s&h and it was well worth the price. It still has a hefty $60 retail price so I got lucky...." Read more
Customers have mixed opinions about the functionality of the product. Some mention it works quite well, while others say it doesn't work. They also mention the provided servers work great and the game will not load on their computers.
"...The sheer lack of features, the higher price (for what bizarre reason I have yet to discover) and the substandard multiplayer has made it apparent..." Read more
"...And graphically, this game is great. Runs great on my 2 year old PC too. Never got choppy once. Very awesome...." Read more
"...Most people cannot get it to work! There were a few who had managed to get their controllers working, but we couldn't figure out how they did it...." Read more
"...I had no technical problems, and the game ran perfectly on my Dell XPS 710 2.66 ghz dual processor with 2 GB RAM and Nvidia Geforce 8600 GTS with..." Read more
38 customers mention "Dedicated server support"0 positive38 negative
Customers are dissatisfied with the dedicated server support in the product. They mention that the multiplayer lacks dedicated servers and LAN play.
"...It is true that it is missing dedicated servers...." Read more
"...and, OH, no dedicated server support...." Read more
"...Not having a server admin sucks? To be fair there is a plus side.. you can join a game instantly...." Read more
"...Some seem to not like this game because of 2 reasons: no dedicated servers and 18 players max playing together at one time...." Read more
25 customers mention "Lag"0 positive25 negative
Customers are dissatisfied with the lag in the video game. They mention it takes forever to load, leaves them stuck on many laggy servers, and has a minimum of sixty seconds between games. Some customers also mention that ping is still a major issue and the NAT issue takes awhile to solve.
"...Horrible latency just ruins the experience. The game measures latency by a 4 bar system, similar to a mobile phone's signal strength...." Read more
"...I loved playing in 50+ people servers in MW1. Oh yes the lag can get quite bad at times but since everyone's lagging eh :/......" Read more
"...Also ping is still a major issue. I run DSL and my ping never really stablized to the point that lag was not an issue.)..." Read more
"...Despite my high ability for games, MW2 would lag to an extreme at some points of the game. Not constant, but some spots here and there...." Read more
So, I had read practically all the critical reviews, and I was very skeptical. Not sure wether to get this or Black Ops. I thought about it "come on its only $19.73 plus shipping" and then I made my move. 3 days later(great job with the shipping btw)I get it, and after creating an account with steam which wasn't very difficult(I dont know why every one is complaining about it..hmm..) and downloading the game(took about a hour and a half)I get on to SinglePlayer. The first thing I notice is the terrific sounding music, really pulls you into the game!The second thing I notice is the extraordinary graphics! I was really blown away by the difference to MW1. Now on to the gameplay, even though I haven't beaten the game yet ( I know 5-6 hour terrific campaign, what is this goofball thinking?!)I hafta say its unbelievable. I don't know, it for some reason makes me feel really proud to be an American. I haven't played much of Spec Ops so I can't say much about it, but I will say, it will keep you busy well after you finish the campaign. Now for what you have all been waiting for..Multiplayer!..So like I said earlier I read almost all the reviews and the majority of them were all talking about 2 things:(1) Nobody plays online anymore! NOT TRUE! sure if you want to play Ground War or 3rd person mode it might take a while to find a match,But if you go to capture the flag, domination, and regular team deathmatch in 1-5 minutes you will find a match.(2) Too many hackers! Yep that is a problem for sure, if you get into a hacked server they will finish all your challanges for you in about 20 seconds. Of course, you can leave before they get more than 10 challanges done. Now if I was rank 70, I would say fine go ahead get my fall camo for me, Thanks! But since I was only rank 15, and I didn't even realize what they were doing before it was to late I just left the match and switched to prestige mode which fixed it. Of course you will probably find those aimbot hackers and wall hackers, but you know what people, JUST LEAVE THE STINKING MATCH, it isn't that hard! I have had the game for 2 weeks now, and I have to say...I like it...(btw wonna add me on steam? name's Cobra)...
I own Every Call of Duty game made for the PC. -Call of duty 5 World at War which I have on my PS3.
The Modern Warfare series is better than the World War 2 that made Call of Duty a house hold name.
Call of duty 4 Modern Warfare 1 was amazingly fun and had great assortment of weapons and good but small simple maps.
Call of duty 4 Modern Warfare 2 builds upon COD 4 with more guns, bigger maps, better perks, more over all customization.
Some say that it is not worth play.... That would be a out right FanBoy Lie. People That say that have never even played the game!
Most of these reviews on this site and many other sites are out right lies and trying to make you think MW2 is so bad that they want you to Boycott it!
Go to Gamespot, GameTrailers, Gamespy, etc for for a review by people who own the game!
It is true that it is missing dedicated servers. Which I do hope they will bring in at a later date so the player can decided if he wants to use IWnet or dedicated servers to play online.
After playing Online for over 18 hours I have only seen a total of 3 minutes of lag! This game is very playable and it is very fun.
Now lets talk about steam. Steam is a great program that you have to have to play this game. Steam is made by valve who are the giants behind Half-life 1 and 2 , Team Fortress 2, Portal just to name a few. Steam is great. You start it up and it auto patches all your games. Meaning you don't have to go search file servers to find a patch and install it. Steam takes all the leg work out of keeping your games playable. More about steam click here:[...]
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The English version shipped by amazon is NOT licensed in Japan. I bought it and can't register in Japan and therefore can't use it. Still waiting for an acceptable response from Amazon. Amazon Japan should NOT be selling this!