Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II

Despite the interesting new survival type missions and the sporadic dialogue options I didn't feel connected to any of the characters. Where MW1 dared to show the ugly side of war and made you care about characters like Farah, this MW doesn't really do any of that. Backstories aren't really explored and the villains don't get enough exposure to be truly hated or iconic in my opinion.

The previous game also promised to be a prequel to the existing series but this game seems to overwrite the established storyline, which is a confusing choice.

Overall the campaign is enjoyable and not terrible, but I expected a lot more and it doesn't live up to the previous installment.

Multiplayer is great fun though!

The servers don't work on launch, but that's the new staple of a cod franchise. You can't play with friends. Weapon progression is very slow. The climb over wall feature is horribly done. There are some decent maps, and there are some awful maps, the border crossing one is the worst. The forced crossplay and sbmm feels like something nobody askes for or wanted. Refunded it within 24 hours. Sad day as a childhood cod fan. Hopefully the warzone 2 will have a better launch and be more engaging. I think the recent controversy and lawsuits against blizzard and activision have really lowered the caliber of devs working for the company.

This game is really fun, it's got the classic call of duty gunplay which is pretty good and in my opinion the campaign was pretty enjoyable for the most part, although the stealth sections near the end could have been a little more fun and i found them to be pretty tedious because the crafting system wasn't really anything special. I got this game for the multiplayer though, and honestly i don't know if i like it or not. One one hand, the guns feel great and the new attachment system is refreshing, on the other hand the severe connectivity and optimization issues mixed in with quite a few bugs ruins the flow of the game for me. 6/10.

The campaign was pretty good, but the multiplayer side of things is a complete mess. The User interface (UI) is all over the place and not easy to navigate. They've experimented with a new perk system which is a complete shambles. The gunsmith has become unnecessarily complicated; for some reason you need to use other guns to unlock attachments for the gun that you are using or want to use. It is completely baffling to me why they've changed so much (for the worse) after the success of MW2019.

As of writing this you are currently unavailable to check your statistics such as wins, kill/death ratio so on and so forth; I imagine they will add this in near future as this has been a staple of call of duty for many years. There are also a number of game modes missing most notably the hardcore mode which a lot of people are extremely frustrated by. Overall I give this game a 5/10 would be higher if I was only reviewing the campaign, but the online multiplayer has been lacklustre to say the least.

Having the title MW2 they knew that if they mess up nothing will be left of COD because the OG is still one of the best if not even the Goat of the series.

Gratfully they made an amazing with an amazing Campaign like MW2 back in 2009.

Graphics in the cutscenes start looking like a real movie and the gameplay was good overall.

With MW2 you will at least have a 9 hour long Story(played on Veteran). From my point of view, this is a near perfect COD game.

Does it surpass the MW from 2019?

By far!

Story 9/10 Gameplay 8.5/10 Cutscenes 10/10 Graphics 10/10 Missions 8.75/10 Ending 9/10

Overall 9/10.