Modern warfare 2 360 doing the rounds

[L.S.D]

Today me and my friends got stoned and went to the midnight launch at gamestop. There was a huge line around the entire minimall it was in it was insane. We drove by while I leaned out the windows and yelled MODERN WARFARE 2 SUCKS! at the crowd and CASH IN ON OTHER'S SUCCESS! at the national guard recruiters that where there. We where going to make a second pass because I found some random halloween mask in the back of the car that was like a fucked up star wars mask and I was just going to yell random shit about 360 and PS3 sucking and how it has been on bittorrent for a week to piss people off but the cops showed up so we left. I guess it was an asshole thing to do but no one really got hurt and it was pretty funny.

Lol, that sounds fun

[Inky]

my xbox has been fucking up not reading discs so I haven't gotten very far into the single player. I need to rip it apart and give it a thorough cleaning, maybe a new laser is in order.

 

I did get to play the infamous airport level. hahah that's some fucked up shit. If you thought GTA rose a shit storm with the media and parents wait until they get their hands on that level.

[emsley]

Shibat: All you noobs omg wtf!

 

This still aint hacked and on PC lazy fucks this game has been floating around weeks now the release groups are pussying about.

[emsley]

It's landed on PC Razor 1911 yet again doing the big titles before anyone else.

Now All I have to is sleep (whacks him self with hammer)

[Shibathedog]

Yep, it is out now for PC, here is the deal though-

 

The Razor1911 release requires you to be logged into steam or some shit, BUT Razor1911 has just released a patch that removes this. So if you get the Razor1911 release make sure to grab the patch too.

 

SKIDROW has also released a Proper, If you download this one it is all cracked and ready to go, no steam/patch required. In the NFO they claim to have cracked the Multiplayer EXE but I'm not sure what this means, Probably for LAN play, if you can play it on IWNET or whatever though that would be pretty nuts.

[emsley]

yeah you log into steam and run an .exe with the razor 1911 release.

Then its like : STFU steam.

 

The skidrow seems like the bare bones release fire up and off you go.

I wil be very happy just to blitz the single player.

 

Edit: if i knew about the skidrow i would of got that one. Dam I hope this works.

[Shibathedog]

I just finished the game for the first time, only took about 5 hours to complete and I did plenty of fucking around. Overall I was pretty disappointed. Here is why in the most poorly written paragraph ever. I guess it's more like an unorganized list of random thoughts.

 

The storyline is absolutely absurd and not even remotely believable. (gets pretty corny at times too) The gameplay consists mainly of hide, shoot a bunch of dumbass AI, hide somewhere else, shoot some more dumbass AI, halfway through the game I was just bored and wanted it to be over with. They will just keep running into your line of fire and shit goddamn are they dumb. See with MW1 you could just be all badass and keep advancing and kicking ass as long as you where fast enough, they pretty much force you to hide all the time in this game. The constant Hoorah military humor or whatever it's supposed to be that I can't stand is was driving me nuts. The soundtrack to this game should just be AMERICA!!! FUCK YEAH!! Because that's exactly what this game is, it tries to pump you up for America and motivate you to fight on but it's just so damn corny. They mix it up with some pretty cool driving levels and such but it still gets repetitive. The driving levels are really really easy because you all the sudden have insane auto aim, you just have to shoot in the general direction of the enemy. Your teammates are pretty much worthless and don't do a good job of anything. The weapons are barely different from each other, you can pretty much grab any random rifle or whatever and be fine/not even really notice. I would usually pay more attention to what kind of scope was on the gun than the actual gun. Although I was digging the FAL because for some reason it operates like an M1. Weird because last time I checked the FAL was fully automatic. There are no firing modes in this game though so you can't change it. If you want burst fire/single shot instead of auto you have to go find a different gun. Kind of stupid. The thing that annoyed me most however is that there is so much shit blowing up in your face at all times that a lot of times you can't even see WTF is going on so you just spray randomly and hope you live. So yeah this game is definitely action packed. That terrorist level was definitely fucked up, I have never seen anything like that in a video game before. You slowly walk through an airport and slaughter hundreds of civilians and police. There are people dying and trying to crawl to safety, people dragging other people to safety, people crying and freaking out, they all get shot. There are piles of civilian bodies everywhere. I don't know how well this is going to go over. I guess shit like that happens in real life but damn. (and since they left an american body behind EVERYONE WILL THINK IT WAS AMERICA!...stupidest thing ever, that would never work, this part of the story was the most halfassed of all of it, this level was CLEARLY for shock value only) As far as bugs go the only problem I ran into was it kept spawning enemies either right next to/behind me (practically touching) or on top of me. It seemed to only happen on certain levels though. Which is another thing, level design, not really all that great. Not terrible, but not great. A lot of the missions felt like crappy versions of missions from MW1. (They do a couple sniper levels but it's not nearly as good) The game is also FULL of cheap gimmicks. What trained military personnel seriously walks around with dual uzis/auto glocks/etc? The advanced military tech you get to use throws off the balance quite a bit too. They do a lot of half assed things to advance you through the game. Like one part you are supposed to use this crazy missile launcher thing to take out a bunch of enemies, so you do and OH LOOK IT CONVENIENTLY BROKE TIME TO GO SOMEWHERE ELSE!!! They do that more than once too. They do a lot of things for shock value as well, the terrorist level, there are a couple levels where you are walking through perfect American dream suburbia (ZOMG LOOK WHAT THEY DID TO AMERICA!!!), there are some levels in a warzone version of the capitol for the same effect, little things as well like almost falling and dying and someone comes and saves you and its supposed to be all badass. Now that I think about it they make you think you died like 10 times in that game and every time they try to have some dramatic save your ass scene. It gets really stupid after the first 2 times like you already know you aren't dead. The Riot shield and people who carry it are pretty annoying because it is completely indestructible. It felt like the game kept repeating itself. Throughout the entire game I would get to the next level and think, Oh, it's like a different version of that other previous level but mostly the same. Of course at the end they set it up for another sequel.

 

I could bitch some more, but to sum it all up I would say it's a good rental that you would play once, have some fun with it, and then forget about it. They try to make the game more memorable with shock value, big explosions, and a lot of stuff that seems like it would only appeal to bros, but it takes more than that. I haven't played the multiplayer but from what I hear it is a disaster so why bother.

[emsley]

I cant read it yet shibat.

 

Edit: I just found out my download was going for over 8 hours and it only managed 1.4% on 4 meg connection configured correctly - all the seeds had fucked off.

I am not a happy camper.

[Shibathedog]

Yeah I tried to to include too many spoilers but there are a couple. Something I forgot to mention was the Lean. You probably already know that they took it out. At first I thought okay fine I'll deal with it but the enemies can lean and you can't! Luckily if you shoot them in the hand/arm they will be all OH SHIT THAT HURTS and run into the open where you can kill them.

[emsley]

Woah lean is gone?

 

We went over the download at my old man's the router kept shutting off so he switched to XP and for some reason the download shot up to 3MEG a second says 11 hours should have it tomorrow afternoon when he gets in from work.

 

The holy bible of reviews "gamecentral" or teletext as its know in england gave this 9/10 I got my hopes back up a little more now.

[Shibathedog]

Every publication everywhere is going to give this game insane reviews just because it is so big. It's good but its not really THAT good. It works like the Halo games. The first 3 reviews that came in on Metacritic where perfect scores. That's bullshit, no game gets a perfect score. Maybe CLOSE to a perfect score, but absolutely perfect?!

 

Yeah there are a lot of things missing from this game that where in MW1. That's why people are getting all pissy about it. Although they seem to be buying it anyway.

[The-Ice-Man]

Well, I'm gonna get the orignal for christmas and have fun playing that, then wait for the sequel to be really cheap. If it's not as good as the first one it's likely it won't stay full price the same amount of time MW1 has done. And no lean for a modern military shooter is stupid. I've been playing Raven Shield a lot latetly, take the lean away from that game and you're dead every time. I might try Operation Flashpoint 2 at some point, it's supposed to be quite realistic, and it has 1 shot lethality like the proper Rainbow Sixes.

[emsley]

OFP I was going to look into that but apparently you can run half way across a map and get zipped by a bullet and that's that , start again.

That does not sound like fun to me.

[Shibathedog]

It probably won't drop in price. The first one still hasn't dropped too much in price. This game is selling massive copies, so far day 1 sales in the UK/US Alone are 4.7 million, with an estimated 8 million worldwide. Most of the people buying this are just going to think it's awesome no matter what too because of it's target audience. Then others who really have no idea and just want to try it because it's popular are going to keep picking it up. I'm pretty sure that what I read also said that it now has the record for biggest selling game ever in the first 24 hours.

[emsley]

I'm up to the oil rig level no way is this game better than MW1.

I actually find it occasionally irritating because the enemies sit in cover and don't do fuck all and they spawn in fucked up spots like i dunno on top of your head while your lied down in cover?

AI is pretty bad.

make me have flashbacks to world at war which was a steaming pile of shit.