Infinity Ward knows a thing or two about showing off its games during a press conference. After watching Modern Warfare 2 be played in front of a live audience at Microsoft's 2009 shindig, and thinking about how many ways the demonstration could have gone awry, I have settled on that conclusion.
The last time my eyes were this glued to the screen, I was watching Call of Duty 4's "All Ghillied Up" level during E3 2007. Similarly, the section of Modern Warfare 2 shown starts off relatively calm, free of any humans besides you and your partner, but quickly ramps up the adrenaline in a very cinematic way.
But enough of me transcribing the events of a videogame as if I'm telling a story -- you owe it to yourself to watch this thing.
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this looks amazing.. the radar on the gun was epic..
@psycho terror2, fully auto pistols don't really even out the odds with the autofire people... they still have automatic G3s.. which is just about the most accurate weapon in the game..
All I want to know is when and where can I sign up for a Multiplayer Beta key!?
You know, so I can promptly be the victim of tea-bagging, head shots, and suckered into a cheap grenade kill by a wounded player =)
Why would you not stay zoomed on the video itself? You're sitting too far away to see what the fat guy is doing with the controller and no one is talking (even if they were, it'd be narration--something you don't need to see). The video is the important stuff!
Sucks you got bad seats, but jeez! Hold steady on the videos, man!
I'm concerned about the lenght. Hopefully it's nowhere near as short as the first one. Although I will probably be spending most of my time Online, cause I'm one of those addicts, but I want a long compelling Single Player as well.
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8:28 AM on 06.02.2009
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Describe for me!
Mental Note: Watch this when you get home.....
It's basically just some guy crawling up a frozen waterfall with picks, then he falls and some guy helps him up, then shooting for the rest.
Looks good nonetheless though.
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/06/02/e3-09-modern-warfare-2-stage-demo/
Looks fricken awesome. Also, next time I play CoD4 I'll know I'm a handsome beast of a man.
would even the odds somewhat with those cheating autofire pad wankers on XBL...
@psycho terror2, fully auto pistols don't really even out the odds with the autofire people... they still have automatic G3s.. which is just about the most accurate weapon in the game..
Weapon grinding - who'd have thought it would be so fun?
Seriously, looking forward to this, but hopefully it'll last longer before getting traded in than W@W did.
Aliens in CoD6 confirmed!
You know, so I can promptly be the victim of tea-bagging, head shots, and suckered into a cheap grenade kill by a wounded player =)
You forgot to mention the snowmobile part.
Sucks you got bad seats, but jeez! Hold steady on the videos, man!
Did anybody else notice that Soap has taken the leader position?