I beat the game last night.
Well, the story is defiantly isn’t worth writing home about, which is a shame, because there was potential for true greatness here, pushed back by sloppy storytelling and non-existent character development.
Isn’t it really short too?
Yep, but satisfying as hell. Normal will kick your ass!
Does it still have those parts were enemies will endlessly spawn until you cross a magic line?
I think they got rid of that. I really hope they did.
There are parts that use that, but it’s either reduced dramatically, well hidden, or I just didn’t notice.
You’re not going to be in front of the Nazi Capital Building shooting the same screaming Nazis for half a god damn hour until you realize you have to move forward in the level to make them stop respawning.
Sorry. I just flashed back to a part towards the end of World at War. It was a fucking bitch.
In CoD :4 it seemed like just a cheap way to stretch their game’s length, If it wasn’t for that I would have breezed through the game in less than an hour other than 2 hours.
I dunno, I liked the story, the extremely open ending, the twist in the middle, characters and such. I just hate how I have to wait another year for MW3 
is there any REAL reason for this thread to continue?
the game’s already out, if ya want to shoot simulated russian civilians buy the game. I won’t but then again Infinity wards only has COD3 on the wii
Actually, CoD3 wasn’t developed by IW. Neither was CoD5.
And also, the first Modern Warfare was also just released on Wii.
Though I’m not sure it can still be called Modern Warfare >>
In that manner it can be called Call of Doody: Modern Wiifare 2.
It can continue as a MW2 thread maybe?
Actually, OP made me check this game out. And I thought I gave up with gaming completely.
Killing civilians was actually thrilling. And fun.
Props to Infinity Ward for having balls.
EDIT: and actually, it’s a very interesting point here brought by devs, because it raises the question: How much is too much?
The mission pretty much shows that nothing is too much.
I’m on it.
Every argument in this thread is now invalid, for he has spoken.
https://g4tv.com/videos/42694/Sesslers-Soapbox-The-Modern-Warfare-2-Airport-Scene/
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Because if Sessler says it it has to be true…
Sessler is just saying what most (sane-ish) people were thinking in the first place.
I was intentionally exaggerating.
Regardless, I still think Adam Sessler is awesome!
A bit of a bump to this thread, but I just played this level and was going on a bit of a rant in the steam chat about it. This is what I thought;
I’m all for developers pushing the envelope, doing new and awesome things, and being very edgy (and sometimes, controversial). In my opinion though, this level does none of those things, aside from being controversial.
I am glad that IW chose to put in an option to skip this level from the get-go when you first start the game; but that also made me think - if you have to prompt players whether they want to play a level or not due to content when they first start the game, is it really necessary to include it in the first place? If this option is given then it’s obviously not integral to the core storyline of the game. I realize that choosing to play this one particular (short) section of the game was entirely at my own will and that I had the option to skip it but I wanted to see what all the fuss was about, and considering the storyline is pretty short as it stands, I want to get my full $60 worth. Also, being involved in aviation (albeit non commercial) this particular level hit pretty close to home for me.
I knew what was coming, and I was still pretty shocked. Watching my cohorts mow down everyone in sight, leaving a few stragglers barely alive to scream in pain and try to crawl away, leaving trails of blood, was very painful to watch, and not entertaining in the slightest. I was enjoying the single-player portion of the game until I hit this portion. At which point I was too disgusted to continue.
I’ll be the first to say I’m not easily offended…but this sure did it for me. IMO it was completely unnecessary and over the top. I think IW could have done something much more clever and groundbreaking instead. (Yes, killing civilians in video games has been done before, and it’s tasteless every time, no matter what engine it’s being rendered in, or what location they place you in to do it.) Hell, they could have placed part of it in a cutscene and it wouldn’t have bothered me as much. Lots of movies are violent too, but you’re not interacting with and directly controlling them; it’s a completely different ballgame.
I say that, without this scene, the storytelling of the single player campaign would be less immersive. THAT part alone makes you think\feel and with that it helps aspects of the rest of the game have real reason. Real emotion.
That shock? That pain? means IW DID THEIR JOBS. Like mentioned by someone before entertainment doesn’t necessarily mean “holy shit! that was fun!” or “this is exciting!” or some such… there are more emotions than that and a good movie/game/book can hit several of them like this game did.
… in my opinion it comes down to one thing… Feelings.
my wife hates horror movies (not just gory ones… those she just thinks are stupid) she doesn’t like the feeling of being scared.
I have friends that don’t like chick flicks (although I don’t like horrible ones) they don’t like anything that brings up romance\lovey dovey crap.
The people who are disturbed by this don’t want that feeling in their gut of “holy shit… what did I just do?!?” or (what I felt at the time) “would this be worth the cost no matter who we are ‘taking down’ or what other atrocities we are preventing?” (which, in this case, was moot point anyways since they know you aren’t one of them).
but I also think others should be entitled to their opinions…
my only disagreement:
WRONG!
Political Correctness rearing it’s evil, evil head is why that is there. I am not a politically correct person to begin with but that doesn’t mean I don’t see it having SOME use. It’s just that it always goes to far.
Case in point:
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[COLOR=‘Red’]ETA: I was going to add another about a woman that was trying to get every zombie movie or game ever made pulled from shelves because she was offended that zombies were being portrayed as something that could really happen and it went “against her religious beliefs”… I am having trouble finding it which leads me to believe it wasn’t true… but I don’t see things like that being far off.