hongkongtony

Disgusting cash grab. FULL of bugs. Poorly thought-out game design. AI that kill you in the final zone / endgame. Map is okay. Lazy cut and paste interior designs and everything is almost everything is a similar color. TTK is broken. People with 2 purple plates AND a better gun (RPK custom) will lose to a player with ZERO plates and a weaker gun (shooting each other at exact same time, in the exact same area of the body). If there's no point to the plates, what's the point of playing this game at all? They need to stop increasing max health and buff the strength of the plates!

This review is based solely on the multiplayer. Someone correct me if I'm wrong here, but this MW2 multiplayer only launched with 8 core-only multiplayer-focused maps (ones that aren't used for bigger game modes) that are frankly... boring, monotonous, and/or uninspired. It's hard to say that any of them are instant classics. Gunfights are just tedious and the spawn points ensure that another player will quickly interrupt any fun you might actually get into. Take the map "Embassy", for example ( ****/modern-warfare-ii/embassy/ ). The tennis court in the NW corner is nothing more than a huge chunk of empty space that nobody will ever use. There are roofs and balconies and a helipad that could add fun and variety to the matches, but the players can't access them. 2009's MW2 on the other hand launched with 16 (SIXTEEN!) core & HARDCORE multiplayer maps including a few classics like Favela, Highrise, Rust, Scrapyard, Terminal, Afghan, Quarry, and Karachi. So instead of including a great variety in maps at launch or remaking some old classics, Activision decides to introduce different game modes instead, including modes with jarhead AI running around. Leveling up guns has never felt like more of a mindless chore and the UI design is really confusing. This might just be the most boring CoD game launch ever. Multiplayer is just another rushed $70-100 game obviously designed just to level up weapons for use in the upcoming Warzone 2.