Combined with that tagline from all the teaser trailers - “The ultimate weapon is team” - it’s like all the characters in Modern Warfare 2 belong to some kind of modern man’s emotional support group, where they vow at the beginning of each meeting to always reinforce one another’s confidence and offer positive affirmations. And then Price appears and blows up a helicopter so Rudy, Alejandro, Ghost, and Soap can escape. “Alejandro is the toughest dude in the regiment,” says Rudy during the rescue mission. “While Rudy finds Al, I’ll use the cams to help Ghost plant charges in key areas.” Or, in the same cutscene, some 60 seconds later: Its writers deploy a technique whereby every playable character, protagonist, or in-game comrade repetitively congratulates, praises, and encourages one another: I could hereby confirm the product you receive from Activision is worth the exchange of your $69.99 - or $23, if you approximately slice Modern Warfare 2 into thirds, and take the campaign solely as its own product.īut writing in the spirit of Modern Warfare 2 - as in, schematically, dispassionately, edgelessly - means also writing about it in a way that, throughout many of its aforementioned 17 missions (at a rate of around $4.11 per mission, again excluding multiplayer), is to be hoodwinked or fooled to play ball with developer Infinity Ward, which repeatedly tries to convince you its game is anodyne and convictionless and not trying to do anything provocative.
If this were a set of Bluetooth headphones or an 18-button mouse, and I were advising you how to invest in a new and broadly competent electronic device, Modern Warfare 2 would be a “buy” recommendation. And the other three are some of the worst that the creators of Call of Duty, be they Infinity Ward, Treyarch, Sledgehammer Games, or others, have ever produced.īy this forensic appraisal, Modern Warfare 2’s campaign is generally, verifiably OK, in the sense of being neutral.
Five of them are what we might conversationally describe as “OK.” Three of them are bad. I feel like it’s in the spirit of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 to try to be as dispassionate and schematic as possible, so to begin with, let me outline that there are 17 missions in this campaign.
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