The console versions of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 launched this morning. Hundreds, probably thousands of retailers did a special midnight release in celebration of the billions of sales sure to come in. If you care a lot about MW2 you probably stood in line at a said midnight release and rushed home to get to work on the anticipated follow-up. Unless you went straight to multiplayer, you’ve probably already seen the below ten minutes of footage from the game.
But if you haven’t, here you go: the first ten minutes from MW2. The game starts with a bit of a tutorial, illustrating the firing mechanics and typical tutorial stuff. There’s nothing spectacular here, but there are a few notable things that can be observed: the brilliant visuals, the fresh(er) quick-snap aiming, and me attempting to play basketball.
I’ve only put a few hours into the game thus far, so I don’t feel confident in lobbing any sort of criticism or praise. I can say, though, that this is definitely the sequel to Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare in more than a few ways -- the game feels familiar, but I’m also catching spots of innovation and refinement. You know, the kind of stuff you'd expect from the sequel of a popular game.
The video is after the jump. So, how are you guys digging MW2? What about the first ten minutes?
My moany bitch mate made me play some single player last night "So he could see the cutscenes" - Fag.
Hit the PVP pretty hard after that, got to about rank 14 before needing sleep for work today, got about 3.5 hours sleep in the end vs 4 hours play. i worked hard for these big black bags under my eyes.
My 360 just gave the E 74 message and flashing red light, after i stayed up all night to get it and took a day off work... been playing less than an hour.
oh Kenji, i feel for you buddy that sucks bigtime.
But "My 360 just gave the E 74 message and flashing red light, after i stayed up all night to get it and took a day off work... been playing less than an hour."
- makes my inner fanboy laugh so so fucking hard! Priceless.
I have a PS3 but i like good controls and games without serrated edges on everything. Uncharted is the only thing worth getting on that... Voice chat is crappy too.
No probs on my PS3 matey. Games look lovely, controls are the same as the 360 versions and the controller it's self i've grown up with. I'm not a graphics nitpicker so a slightly jaggy Ghostbusters does not bother me at all.
Not only does it run every game perfectly fine for me, it actually WORKS too! Not RRoD, no E74's - It just does EVERYTHING.
Tell my COD party about how poor the voice chat is, while we're all chatting, perfectly, some on standard mobile headsets, some on the PSEye mic, others on the sexy official mic.
I'm not going to list all the AAA exclusives the Trey has, but you know full well it's far more than uncharted 2 bringing all those 360 users over to the darkside and the REAL current gen of consoles.
PC version looks good... surprisingly good. I expected it to just look like Modern Warfare again, but it has some nice textures and nice new effects. It also looks very smooth at high res, and runs at a locked 60fps.
I played through the first 6 levels or so... does anyone else remember the intro to Red Alert 2? This game really makes me remember that.
i felt like an old man at the midnight launch last night. Seeing a couple of kids there with thier parents made me angry.
It's because of unfit parents like that that 18+ games aren't considered "adult" games. We should be able to have whatever content the devs want in games safe in the knowledge that it's for 18's and over only.
i wanted to go over and ask them - "Hey would you let that little brat that dragged you out to break the law for him at midnight watch a fucking porno?!"
@SexualChocolate: There is such a thing, it's called the Adult rating intended for 18+ people, but since Gamestop and various other stores refuse to sell games with that rating, and due to the small audience it would cater, developers do not use it, unless they don't want to make money.
Also, I think this is a prime example of why a 10 minute taste is utter garbage. I love this site, but this is 10 minutes of useless crap no one cares to watch. In my opinion, a 10 minute "taste" should be something to entice a viewer who's unsure whether he/she should purchase a game or not. This really shows nothing. You might as well have given us a 10 minute taste of MGS4; it would have literally been all cinematic. Even if you had shown 10 minutes of gameplay, you should have picked 10 INTERESTING minutes to cover or posted 10 minutes of what most people are buying this game for, multiplayer.
...must...resist...watching...
Got mine on Amazon hasn't gotten here yet, it should sometime today though. It doesn't matter anyway because I'm at work! ARRG!
God that intro just reeks of high-budget. The actual gameplay made me laugh too, it's almost exactly what most people would do. Shame you can't piss off the basketball people by stealing the ball. :(
You're missing the point. If the first ten minutes exposes that nothing happens gameplay wise within the first 10 minutes, then so be it. A game's intro cinematic is just as much a part of the game as all of the big explosions and firefights you already have seen in publisher cut promos.
PS3 fankidz that desperatly try to spam every forum and gamesite in an attempt to justify paying nearly twice the price for an utterly identical console, is quite cute actually :)
Shouldnt you be playing instead of posting comments all day long?
@ IronPikeman - i'm in the UK, MW2 is rated 18+ here, you need ID to buy it if you LOOK younger than 21.
Yet parents were at Blockbuster last night buying the game for their kids (who were there with them) This is why, when a game is rated 18 (not sure what rating you have in the USA, M? is it?) rather than the blanket "that's suitable for adults" it can fall into, it has to be looked at as "kids will be playing it" and as such we get the rage from the media as we have.
@Baleur - i'm at work so can't play right now, just got back from an hour with it at lunch though - bliss.
I'm hardly "spamming" this post, you should see some proper "sexual-hijacks"! Simply enjoy reading the "my 360 broke and i can't play _________" comments, and responded to some bullshit ranting about how great a broken 360 is.
Trust me if i could have stayed home and played MW2 I would have, but i'll just have to settle with sitting at work dropping the odd comment on the Toid.
Getting it today (at least, I better be - I payed mightily for street date shipping), but not sure how much I'll be able to play it. So much goddamned work to do this week.
What's the over/under on when the first person in the world prestiges (or am I already too late for that)?
ITT Sexualchocolate:
Says "the Trey"
Quotes an actual PS3 commercial
Uses the term "AAA" in a console debate
Why anyone gives him anymore credit than one gives your standard 12 year old with ADHD and a YouTube account, I'll never understand.
@Sexualchocolate
I bought many many games before I was 18 that were 18 rated, GTA San Andreas included. You'll find more places ignore the restrictions than actually apply them. From my experience, at least.
the ps3 fanboys nail what they can, I go through 360s like water and have had the same ps3 since launch. They never let me forget that. But they don't understand that people keep going back for a well maintained and robust online community. I was putting in some hours at gamestop last night for the midnight and I took alot of guff from them, but in the end the 360 version outsold 25 to 1 easy, so it turns out they're just bitter.
@Sexualchocolate: Thanks man. Xbox Live doesn't think so though, they made me change it from SnatchTease because they said it was inappropriate. So I changed it to TheSnatchTease, sounds more official. Skip a year later, last week they made me change it again, so I went with TheeSnatchTease. I'm crossing every iteration of the name off the list.
Snatch - That sucks bigtime man! I like it. If you ever get a PS3 and try to use it, I'll have probably stolen it for a spare account! mwahahaha.
Jon B - So did I, been a while though, but i think like the first Resident Evil, maybe even RE2, and perhaps GTA3 was still in my pre 18 days. - As a pre 18 kid it feels like it's your right to have such things but as a soon-to-be-parent it's something that's dropped into my mind in another light.
I just think that if it were strickly adhered to the games for those of us over 18 would be better, more visceral and could be down right disturbing! I do however think "an adult" should be anyone 16+ but that's another argument.
i just feel it is the last clinging on of the myth that "Games for teh kidz" for 18+ games to be pretty much available to everyone who want them. until we get true adult games for adults we will always be seen by the rest of the non-gaming world as "big kids playing with our expensive toys"
Although, we would probably see what we have in movies, 99% of titles being gimped in the adult violence / gore section simply to get it in front of a bigger audience.
So many films have been spoiled by squeezing it into a lower rating.
I dunno, what i do know is that my son will not be playing 18+ video games until he's of an age that I'd allow for him to watch a porno. Be that 18, 16 or whatever society considers an adult in 2020 odd.
Me too Spiritual Sodomy, me too. I cringed as i paid, I even said in a grumpy voice "I didn't want to buy this" to the cashier.
Don't regret it though, have missed having COD in my life, just wish Infinity Ward would drop those cunts Activision. I'm sure they don't "need" them anymore.
I thought the idea of comments on a videogame were to generate discussion about games with other people who enjoy them, not to be an anonymous prick to the site's authors who didn't do anything but respond to you reasonably. "My bad."
@IronPikeman: This website is not an advertising service for games. The whole point was to include the first ten minutes of gameplay, be there boring cutscenes, graphical glitches, long loading screens, or whatever. This is about the *real* experience, not about gussying it up to make you want a game you might not actually like.
has anyone else experianced problems with joining and invites? i couldnt join or invite a friend if it would save my life last night, we tried for close to an hour before i said f it and started playing. i just kept saying were in the wrong locations in the PSN like if we were in MP lobby it says were in Spec ops lobby, and it kept saying the game we were trying to join no longer exists.
You know, I thought originally that it would cost tons of money here in Poland and it will suck. But after watching this, and seeing that it costs around 115pln (thats 41bucks) here I'm considering this 'a buy tomorrow thing'... hmmm, if only I could play a little MP and see how it really is.
The only thing missing from this 10 minute taste is that half of the game box seems to be cut out. I don't know why. Is that to save money making the packaging? It's so flimsy...
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6:23 AM on 11.10.2009
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Hit the PVP pretty hard after that, got to about rank 14 before needing sleep for work today, got about 3.5 hours sleep in the end vs 4 hours play. i worked hard for these big black bags under my eyes.
But damn... Every time I see a video of this game, I really think I may end up grabbing it...
The perks are severely fixed in this one.
could you make another ten minutes with more gameplay plz?
I know its against the TEN-MINUTES-VIDEO rule.
But plz...want see more :)
But "My 360 just gave the E 74 message and flashing red light, after i stayed up all night to get it and took a day off work... been playing less than an hour."
- makes my inner fanboy laugh so so fucking hard! Priceless.
Get a PS3 dude.
Not only does it run every game perfectly fine for me, it actually WORKS too! Not RRoD, no E74's - It just does EVERYTHING.
Tell my COD party about how poor the voice chat is, while we're all chatting, perfectly, some on standard mobile headsets, some on the PSEye mic, others on the sexy official mic.
I'm not going to list all the AAA exclusives the Trey has, but you know full well it's far more than uncharted 2 bringing all those 360 users over to the darkside and the REAL current gen of consoles.
Nuff said.
I played through the first 6 levels or so... does anyone else remember the intro to Red Alert 2? This game really makes me remember that.
I too must haz moar minutes!!! Going home to drop and hour on COD at lunch soon.
It's because of unfit parents like that that 18+ games aren't considered "adult" games. We should be able to have whatever content the devs want in games safe in the knowledge that it's for 18's and over only.
i wanted to go over and ask them - "Hey would you let that little brat that dragged you out to break the law for him at midnight watch a fucking porno?!"
Also, I think this is a prime example of why a 10 minute taste is utter garbage. I love this site, but this is 10 minutes of useless crap no one cares to watch. In my opinion, a 10 minute "taste" should be something to entice a viewer who's unsure whether he/she should purchase a game or not. This really shows nothing. You might as well have given us a 10 minute taste of MGS4; it would have literally been all cinematic. Even if you had shown 10 minutes of gameplay, you should have picked 10 INTERESTING minutes to cover or posted 10 minutes of what most people are buying this game for, multiplayer.
Got mine on Amazon hasn't gotten here yet, it should sometime today though. It doesn't matter anyway because I'm at work! ARRG!
You're missing the point. If the first ten minutes exposes that nothing happens gameplay wise within the first 10 minutes, then so be it. A game's intro cinematic is just as much a part of the game as all of the big explosions and firefights you already have seen in publisher cut promos.
PS3 fankidz that desperatly try to spam every forum and gamesite in an attempt to justify paying nearly twice the price for an utterly identical console, is quite cute actually :)
Shouldnt you be playing instead of posting comments all day long?
Yet parents were at Blockbuster last night buying the game for their kids (who were there with them) This is why, when a game is rated 18 (not sure what rating you have in the USA, M? is it?) rather than the blanket "that's suitable for adults" it can fall into, it has to be looked at as "kids will be playing it" and as such we get the rage from the media as we have.
@Baleur - i'm at work so can't play right now, just got back from an hour with it at lunch though - bliss.
I'm hardly "spamming" this post, you should see some proper "sexual-hijacks"! Simply enjoy reading the "my 360 broke and i can't play _________" comments, and responded to some bullshit ranting about how great a broken 360 is.
Trust me if i could have stayed home and played MW2 I would have, but i'll just have to settle with sitting at work dropping the odd comment on the Toid.
What's the over/under on when the first person in the world prestiges (or am I already too late for that)?
ITT Sexualchocolate:
Says "the Trey"
Quotes an actual PS3 commercial
Uses the term "AAA" in a console debate
Why anyone gives him anymore credit than one gives your standard 12 year old with ADHD and a YouTube account, I'll never understand.
I bought many many games before I was 18 that were 18 rated, GTA San Andreas included. You'll find more places ignore the restrictions than actually apply them. From my experience, at least.
the ps3 fanboys nail what they can, I go through 360s like water and have had the same ps3 since launch. They never let me forget that. But they don't understand that people keep going back for a well maintained and robust online community. I was putting in some hours at gamestop last night for the midnight and I took alot of guff from them, but in the end the 360 version outsold 25 to 1 easy, so it turns out they're just bitter.
That said: They have Blockbusters in the UK? Wow. They barely have Blockbusters in the US.
Jon B - So did I, been a while though, but i think like the first Resident Evil, maybe even RE2, and perhaps GTA3 was still in my pre 18 days. - As a pre 18 kid it feels like it's your right to have such things but as a soon-to-be-parent it's something that's dropped into my mind in another light.
I just think that if it were strickly adhered to the games for those of us over 18 would be better, more visceral and could be down right disturbing! I do however think "an adult" should be anyone 16+ but that's another argument.
i just feel it is the last clinging on of the myth that "Games for teh kidz" for 18+ games to be pretty much available to everyone who want them. until we get true adult games for adults we will always be seen by the rest of the non-gaming world as "big kids playing with our expensive toys"
Although, we would probably see what we have in movies, 99% of titles being gimped in the adult violence / gore section simply to get it in front of a bigger audience.
So many films have been spoiled by squeezing it into a lower rating.
I dunno, what i do know is that my son will not be playing 18+ video games until he's of an age that I'd allow for him to watch a porno. Be that 18, 16 or whatever society considers an adult in 2020 odd.
Don't regret it though, have missed having COD in my life, just wish Infinity Ward would drop those cunts Activision. I'm sure they don't "need" them anymore.
That Rio level is a bitch, though.
Yeah this is the least "R4BB1E RABB73 RA33LE S0NY 15 TH3 B3ST RABBLE!" Sexual Hijack I've ever actually seen.
I thought the idea of comments on a videogame were to generate discussion about games with other people who enjoy them, not to be an anonymous prick to the site's authors who didn't do anything but respond to you reasonably. "My bad."
This.
if i aimed like that in multi cod4 or any multiplayer pc fps i wouldnt get a single kill.