Modern Warfare 2 [2/2]

Ok, now all the trailers are out of the way, and your all hyped up ( I hope), let's continue.

Looking at the trailer I can see straight away it looks to be more action packed than the last, most of whihc was sneaky missions behind enemy lines as the SAS. Now we seem to be part of a Counter Terrorism unit and are intent on getting rid of the old bad guy's right hand man. Again, a little cliched if you ask me.

However looking at the trailer again, I can see vehicle gameplay will be there, and it looks like we can shoot whilst driving! Look closely as the snowmobile is driving, and you'll see his gun come up and fire! I'm all happy just about that.

It seems like som rather large battles are in store, the mountains and Brazil seem to be quite large and contain lots of fighting, the mountains of Russian also has the most brutal scene, where a man on a snowmobile is impaled through the skull, with an ice axe! I don't know if this is a set piece where an NPC does it, or it's one of your guys driving, either way it looks awesome.

It would seem someone's being interrogated too, he's wearing orange and I think he has explosives strapped to him-someone important? So far it seems the game is shaping up well, but I don't know whether it will be any different graphically to COD 4. I know that in HD COD 4 was easily the best looking shooter I had.

From information gleamed form interviews and Wikipedia, I've found that the story involves the character you played as in the last game one "Soap" MacTavish-who is now leader of a unit created to birng down one Vladimir Makarov. The name of this unit: Task Force 141.

I'm sure that a demo or some more trailers will become evident soon, and I'm excited-I know the switch to Modern War was strange for some and hated by others, but WAW showed me Treyarch are out of ideas, and if they can only copy Infinity Ward now-then let them do all the COD games I say.

As a parting shot, here's the Xbox case, which is awesome. However it isn't final.

Remember, remember-the 11th of November.

Modern Warfare 2 [1/2]

Here it is! I've managed to gain the chance to blog on a game just as the hype begins to build, so let's recap on COD 4.

Call of Duty 4 was the game that distinguished Inifinity Ward as a company willing to deviate from COD's standard WWII setting, it was at a good time since WWII shooters had been played on too much in the past. At first many were wary, but then as demos were released and hype began to build. People realised just what Inifinity Ward had done, they had been brave and came out with possibly the greatest FPS of all time.

Now COD 4 was very good, a little bit boring story wise, but being in a modern setting was enough for fans, who soon made it clear they enjoyed the game. Xbox Live and Playstation Network, advanced that, as COD 4's multiplayer was deemed the most popular next to Halo 3.

I know from experience, that playing online in a game of COD 4 is the most fun I've ever had. To get a bunch of friends together and play was brilliant, and it's Create-a-Class made the game just that little bit different to ensure you kept coming back.

Of course, then Treyarch got the next game and COD: World at War was essentially a carbon copy of COD 4 with WWII decorations. I refuse to admit it existed...Blergh.

Now the hype machine has begun to roll with the news of Modern Warfare 2 (note, not COD). The first teaser was one that contained some secrets, btu I'll let you watch it first:

Seen it? Excited?

Now if you go to the games site: http://modernwarfare2.infinityward.com/

Here people could examine the teaser and find things, amongst some things were some Perk icons, a teddy bear, and a couple of other images. All very interactive.For those of us, like me, who can't be arsed, feel free to watch this and see these images for yourself:

Now, on the 24th a full lenth trailer was released. This included gameplay, locations, and hints at the story line, locations revealed are, the mountains of Russia, Afghanstan and Brazil, watch the trailer and see for yourself: