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Call of Duty Modern Warfare Review Thread
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Does the game still have infinite spawning enemies in the SP campaign? I stopped playing the original because of that.
Oh, metacrigic. 86 at the moment. Higher by a tad than anything since Modern Warfare 3, though I've always found CoD metacrigics to be a little disagreeable for my tastes, and always constrained by the state of a game at launch. Like Black Ops 4 having a higher score than 3 or 2.
No thank you BRO
This isn't a remaster or a remake (already had one of those). It's a reboot of the concept. The campaign is completely different.
Oh, metacrigic. 86 at the moment. Higher by a tad than anything since Modern Warfare 3, though I've always found CoD metacrigics to be a little disagreeable for my tastes, and always constrained by the state of a game at launch. Like Black Ops 4 having a higher score than 3 or 2.
No thank you BRO
This isn't a remaster or a remake (already had one of those). It's a reboot of the concept. The campaign is completely different.
Im still surprised by the amount of ppl who werent aware. But i admit they didnt really make it clear enough
Sounds like the campaign is pro military propaganda trash as I expected.
Inspired by American Sniper and Sicario? Trash.
Inspired by American Sniper and Sicario? Trash.
Sicario was fantastic. American Sniper was serviceable.
But inspiration from Sicario is exactly the thing you want to see in these games. Masterclass film.
I have no issues with Sicario but using it as an inspiration for "authentic war" as they kept saying when they revealed the game? That's a really bad move.
Really unsatisfied with how unbalanced multiplayer is so far due to the low TTK, bad map designs and killstreak spam. Hopefully Spec Ops and campaign make up for it.
Might be a dumb question; can you play the whole campaign co-op? Or is the co-op a separate campaign/specops?
Campaign is its own thing, a completely solo experience. Special Ops is the cooperative mode.
I know people love to shit on Black Ops 3's weird storyline, but it was amazing how they pulled off a seamless single player campaign with proper co-op you could play in split screen, online or with a combination of two. Had reception for the story been better I wonder if it's a feature that would have been implemented in other games in the franchise too.
Not about comparing quality, it's that American Sniper is right wing military propaganda.
Inspiration from Sicario would mean this would be like the anti American military intervention in the film but the game doesn't appear to be. Probably because the weapon manufacturers are getting paid in licensing fees for Call Of Duty Modern Warfare and they're tied to the military so don't want to see criticism in the story campaign.
Yea I read that and looked at the score and it made no sense.
Call Of Duty games' early reviews are always kinda misleading. First of all, it's often not even launch version, and it's played in a controlled environment with normal reviewers. No hacking, no servers failing (everything's local, or if they choose matchmaking it's with 20-30 people at max, not millions of people connected), everyone has everything unlocked, devs give out tips and suggestions on how to get the best out of the game. With such a limited time it's hard to notice what's OP, what's not balanced, what's exploitable, so in general most experiences are great.
And well, at the end of the day it's Call Of Duty. Even the worst episodes are some of the smoothest, most satisfying shooters out there with bombastic campaign setpieces, fast-paced multiplayer and an additional mode or two to play in co-op or something. I have a hard time thinking of a Call Of Duty that doesn't at least deserve high 70s or low 80s, because even the most uninspired games (see Ghosts) just felt pretty damn good to play for a while.
the campaign seems spot on so far. 4 missions in. Andweapon manufactures have always got licensing fees. Nothing wrong with that.
no different than car games or sports games.
Multiplayer is just one big unbalanced cluster fuck of a mode. For all the "grounded realism" they were going for in the campaign all that gets thrown in the trash when you boot up mp.
The comments against many of these reviews are a bit depressing. Plenty of Edgelords proclaiming that "if you can't review the game without getting your snowflake politics involved, don't bother and get somebody who can handle weapons to do it" (?).
Strong disagree. I don't mind a tough narrative, but if the game appears to court controversy for the sake of it instead of because it adds to the story, it absolutely deserves to be called up on it.
I felt the same way about the torture scene in GTAV.
Strong disagree. I don't mind a tough narrative, but if the game appears to court controversy for the sake of it instead of because it adds to the story, it absolutely deserves to be called up on it.
I felt the same way about the torture scene in GTAV.
It seems to be mostly a tonal/aesthetic inspiration; how they've tried to present its content, but not the content itself. Though there's at least a mission using NVG that's heavily inspired by Sicario/ZDT.
Spot on in terms of not being military propaganda? Not talking about quality here. You should read the article if you don't see the issue, it's beyond just licensing fees.
I thought they didn't want to do this anymore with this one
Chalking up 1400 words of opinion to a singular sentence is hard. I think, when reading as a whole, my score matches the text. (PCG)
Ghost was relatively negative I think? 72 on opencritic.
Most CoD games struggle to get above 80, so MW being 85 is an improvement.
It also came out not too long after Doritos-gate. Black Ops 2 already got a relatively low rating for the series despite being a fan favourite, and Ghosts was a huge step backwards from that despite the generational leap.
Nice! My copy arrive this morning. Downloading 80GB of patches now. Might get to play by mid-afternoon.
Perfect campaign length. Paid $0.00 for my redbox pick up today, gonna play though it right after work!
The themes of this game seem like an alt right wet dream, but doesn't seem it bothers any reviewers?
That can't be more far from what the game is actually about.
Eh, it's all the same. The west is under attack and hard men have to make hard decisions. Only they went with a few face saving reskins to have powerful women in place. Not a significant difference to me.
I don't know exactly what you mean. I was commenting on the words in the reviews versus the scores in some reviews. Not one sentence
So by your logic, every modern shooter are bigoted shitholes
Only the ones where it's Middle Eastern terrorists attacking the west, prompting the in game discussion of what is the ethical limits of forcefully dealing with their gruesome attacks.
Look, the bottom line for me is that this game is jingoist trash with a racist streak, and I really hope the politics of gaming come under scrutiny by games journalists right when games are released.
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