I haven't felt the urge to jump into a Call of Duty campaign for years, usually preferring to focus on multiplayer, but returning to Modern Warfare 2 has changed my mind on that. It was a bit surreal, but I remembered the days when all of my friends would endlessly play multiplayer together, challenge one another to finish missions on the hardest difficulty, and stay up until the sun rose.Īnd even after I rolled the credits, I had the urge to go back, ramp the difficulty up a notch, and try all over again. As I sat playing through the missions, locating the enemy intel, shooting down hoards of enemies, I felt like a teenager again, if even for a moment. It is honestly a testament to the high-quality of Call of Duty campaigns and their gunplay mechanics that this game still holds up against modern AAA titles to well.Īnd the nostalgia hit me. It really does look strikingly good, and the big-budget action setpieces that Call of Duty is known for look incredible here, and still have all of the impact that they did over a decade ago. Of course, we're missing the fan-favorite multiplayer of the original game, though in turn Modern Warfare 2 Remastered is also available for a budget price, which is honestly well justified by the quality of the remastered campaign. It all comes together to make for a wonderful game to look at, and a great game to play. Cutscenes are all completely new, though if it's been a while since you last played the original game, you're unlikely to realize. Which is, of course, far better than the original actually was. High resolutions, HDR support, brand new textures and cutscenes - this game looks the way you remember it.
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Somehow, despite being over a decade old, this game still plays brilliantly, and with the new remaster's visuals, it looks like a modern game too.Īll of the familiar stages are rendered with higher quality textures and much more clarity than ever before, especially if you're running the game on a PS4 Pro. Long reload animations, barely any recoil, and clicky, familiar gunshot sounds. It is admittedly a little odd, going from the realistic, bass-heavy, recoil-spraying gunplay of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone, but the guns of 2009's Modern Warfare 2 are somehow incredibly nostalgic. It's much the same problem I have with The Division in the modern day: how can I, a trained and armed soldier, feel comfortable shooting down those wearing normal, everyday jackets, clearly struggling to survive? The Division's probably just on my mind because of the recent global pandemic, but that certainly helps me empathize with the "enemies."īut in those moments where it's two heavily-armed military factions facing off in war, bullets flying overhead and explosions surrounding you on every side, Modern Warfare 2 is every bit as good as when it originally released. Seemingly, the only thing separating them, is that one decided to pick up arms when a heavily-armed, unannounced military force stormed into their homes and opened fire. But then your enemies in the favela appear, with little difference to the civilians that ran.
Fighting through a Brazilian favela, you are told not to shoot innocent civilians, which run and cower with their hands over their heads while wearing plain clothes, a distinct departure from the armed soldiers you've been fighting up to this point. Throughout my experience playing, I couldn't help but think about how different my perspective is now. This is a theme that persists throughout Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Maybe it's because these hollow, digital people look much more like real people than ever before. Maybe it's because I feel more empathy than my teenage self did. Maybe it's because of the prevalence of mass shootings, the horror of which gets echoed and repeated near-infinitely by social and traditional media alike. In the modern-day, it's much more harrowing. A digital playground to mow down faceless, lifeless beings, not even questioning the context. I distinctly remember playing through the game all those years ago and finding it fun, if anything. I didn't shoot a bullet until the final segment, and even that I did hesitantly. It's been a long time I played through Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2's infamous mission, No Russian, and for the first time, I just walked.
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