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Modern Warfare 2: It’s bloody, brutal and will be an instant hit

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

PC, PS3, Xbox 360 (£39.99-£54.99, 18)

Anticipation for this first-person shooter has been running at fever pitch for months, but the refusal of the developer Infinity Ward to show the full game to anyone until a week before the release has been irritating.

Many have wondered whether this might be a damage limitation exercise, whether the game might not live up to the promise of its all-conquering predecessor two years ago.

As one of the few journalists to have had proper hands-on time with the full game, I can say without a shadow of a doubt that Modern Warfare 2 sets a standard that will have its competition gasping for air.

Set five years in the future, the game has players trying to track down a Russian terrorist called Makarov. He is a ruthless psychopath who, during the course of the game, implicates America in a monstrous criminal act.

The setting of this crime is shocking enough to warrant the on-screen 'disturbing content' warning, giving you the option to skip this astonishingly brutal part of the early game.

Modern Warfare 2 introduces levels in which you climb with ice picks in Arctic conditions, take an oilrig by stealth and fire-fight through wartorn suburban streets in America. Not only has the single-player gameplay been raised up a notch from the original Modern Warfare, the story is also well thought out and not just a simple link from one level to the next. For fans of the series, John 'Soap' McTavish also returns as your superior officer.

Unfortunately, there isn't the option to play through the story mode as a co-op adventure with a friend, but rather there are now 24 co-op missions that range from clearing slums in Rio De Janeiro of insurgents while not hurting civilians, to racing snowmobiles.

It would have been nice to be able to play the full single-player game with a friend, but the co-op missions work well enough. A nice touch is the ability to set the difficulty level individually for each player, so experienced players and noobs (inexperienced players) can complete missions together.

The multiplayer levels are everything you would expect from the Modern Warfare series, but now with some neat additions and 'perks'. Fans of the original online play are going to find themselves right at home.

Overall, Modern Warfare 2 looks gorgeous with rich colours and crisp graphics, with the single player game boasting near cinematic cut scenes.

The game play surpasses all of the other first person shooters I've played and Modern Warfare 2 will be an instant classic. As long as you are aware that the 18 certificate is not there just for show, Modern Warfare 2 is a double-barrelled blast.
 
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Modern Warfare 2 - the 'shocking' video game poised to smash records

A new video game that gives players the option to kill civilians in a terrorist attack is poised to become the single most lucrative release in the history of entertainment when it goes on sale on Tuesday.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is the latest in a series of ultra-realistic first-person war games, the last of which won a Bafta earlier this year for its story and character development. In the course of the ten hours or so the game will take to complete in solo mode, the player will assume a variety of roles in a global war against Russian ultranationalists led by Vladimir Makarov.

Like many war-themed titles, the game – set five years in the future - features bloody conflict throughout, but Modern Warfare 2 is so harrowingly realistic at some points that an on-screen warning offers players the option to skip scenes they may find disturbing.

One of the most controversial of these is an episode where your character must choose whether to kill unarmed civilians in a Russian airport in order to infiltrate a terrorist sect successfully. The scene is so genuinely shocking in its brutality that the game’s distributor Activision has already attempted to forestall criticism by issuing the following statement.

"The scene establishes the depth of evil and the cold-bloodedness of a rogue Russian villain and his unit. By establishing that evil, it adds to the urgency of the player's mission to stop them.

"Modern Warfare 2 is a fantasy action game designed for intense, realistic game play that mirrors real life conflicts, much like epic, action movies. It is appropriately rated 18 for violent scenes, which means it is intended for those who are 18 and older."

Critics of the game, though, accuse Activision of being disingenuous. Warnings of extreme content, they say, are like a red rag to a bull, and have a particularly strong appeal to younger players who are more likely to be affected by the action they see onscreen.

Keith Vaz, MP, a long-time critic of violence in video games, told The Times: “I am absolutely shocked by the level of violence in this game and am particularly concerned about how realistic the game itself looks.

“Whilst I appreciate that this game has been certified as an 18, I firmly believe that certain levels of violence should not be made into interactive entertainment. This would include acting as a terrorist, as is the case here, or violence against women. I will be raising this issue in Parliament on Monday.”

The last game to generate similar controversy was Grand Theft Auto IV, released in April, 2008, in which players steal cars and murder their way to the top of the big-city underworld.

On release, GTA IV broke all records for an entertainment product, grossing $300 million in its first 24 hours on sale, nearly three times as much as the movie blockbuster Iron Man, which was released the following month.

Retailers in the UK claim that Modern Warfare 2 is already on target to break this record, despite Activision having added £10 to the standard retail price for similar games. The high-street specialist chain GAME is opening 320 of its stores on midnight on Monday to cope with expected demand.

Stuart Rowe, Chief Operating Officer of the online retailer, Play.com, told The Times: "Modern Warfare 2 will undoubtedly become the most popular video game of all time. The demand has been unprecedented, pre-sales of the game have already overtaken all previous records set across our broad range of product categories."

On Monday evening, Amazon confirmed that Modern Warfare 2 will be its biggest selling video game yet, with advance orders running 50 per cent higher than for GTA IV.
 
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The Video Game industry is the largest in entertainment. The adult porn industry as the greatest industry on the internet.

Our society has gone to hell.

"What is and should never be."
 

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Well my 2 cents are this game is Amazing. I have yet to see a better game. Definitely worth the $60.
 
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It's a very sad and disturbing condition our society is in where graphic sex and graphic violence are the two greatest forms of entertainment. What's more disturbing is that it is socially acceptable.
 
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Critics of the game, though, accuse Activision of being disingenuous. Warnings of extreme content, they say, are like a red rag to a bull, and have a particularly strong appeal to younger players who are more likely to be affected by the action they see onscreen.
That's with everything in society. A warning is an instant flag for young people to do it. In my opinion it falls on the parents to make sure, as reasonably as possible, to limit their children's exposure to such content.
 
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They have always been the two most used forms of entertainment though... The only thing that has changed is the technology allowing it to keep pushing towards 'real'. However, sex and killing has ALWAYS been celebrated, even if the reasoning behind it was masked with ulterior motive.
 
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It's alarming to think how many waking hours the adult male spends on video games and masturbation.
 
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A lot less since the invention of the internet... Now I can hit a site, knock one out and go to sleep. Before I had to get brown wrapped tapes in the mail and schedule when to get them to hide the stuff from the wife then find a good hiding spot so no one could find it and remember to take it out of the player when i'm done so it isn't turned on when company is over :)

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I think now we have people at a younger age and people in general who cross into those taboo areas that they would have never came across or had the ability to foster into a severe mental issue. I also think that there's only so much you can do to prevent that from happening. There's a lot of facets to that discussion.
 
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I just picked it up for the PC. I've loved the whole CoD series. I can't wait to play this.
 
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It's alarming to think how many waking hours the adult male spends on video games and masturbation.
Well what else you gonna do?

Work= Who wants to do that

Sleep= No stay up and play video games

Eat= Sure after i do some drugs

Drugs= Sure then i want to have sex or play video games

You can only lift so long then its back to old faithful.

Sex, knukle shuffle, video games. HAHAHA This is great.
 

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B, Im sure you were hooked on something back in the day? Coleco vision maybe?
Darts, ping pong? Something, com'on now...

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It's alarming to think how many waking hours the adult male spends on video games and masturbation.
Well, for me, none...the sex has been held hostage because I bought a PS3, and the PS3 got broken the day that I bought it...so, im asss3ed out in more way than one...lol
 

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damn that google adsense is quick...tekken...lol
 

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Has anyone ever wondered how much Am.com makes from all the google adlinks and adwords flying around this board?
 
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Young men and women (our sons, daughters, fathers, mothers) are returning home scarred and maimed physically, emotionally and psychologically by the subject matter of these games (both war violence as well as pornography) and our society makes game, entertainment and insane revenue off of it. There is a distorted sense of decency in our society.
 
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decency disappeared from this society a long time ago.
 

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B, I think that this is not really a toss at the video game industry that you are throwing at but more a point that our society makes insane revenue off of many mishaps and sorrows of our people...

I see the number one thing that companies capitalize off of is lazy people. I have said this from day one. There are millions of gadgets belonging to many genre that advertise how it will make someone's life easier, better, doing it quicker, faster, more efficient.....I challenge anyone to walk into ANY store this shopping season (does not matter the type of store) and tell me that 95% of the items that you view aren't for making someone's life easier (lazier)...i will be that they are...hell, even food now is designed in a way that it cooks faster.

Hell, not only do we have a remote for our television, but now we have a robot that picks up the remote and changes the channel with the remote, wtf?
 
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B, I think that this is not really a toss at the video game industry that you are throwing at but more a point that our society makes insane revenue off of many mishaps and sorrows of our people...

I see the number one thing that companies capitalize off of is lazy people. I have said this from day one. There are millions of gadgets belonging to many genre that advertise how it will make someone's life easier, better, doing it quicker, faster, more efficient.....I challenge anyone to walk into ANY store this shopping season (does not matter the type of store) and tell me that 95% of the items that you view aren't for making someone's life easier (lazier)...i will be that they are...hell, even food now is designed in a way that it cooks faster.

Hell, not only do we have a remote for our television, but now we have a robot that picks up the remote and changes the channel with the remote, wtf?
Not the video game industry as a whole, but rather those that exploit this violence (modeled after our real time, present day, children, soldiers) and market it to those who are fixated on the graphic violence and the very nature of the violence it portrays.

The line has been crossed IMHO.
 

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So is that to say you are also against sports like football,mma and boxing since they promote violence and inflicting damage on another human?
 
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Games, researched, designed and developed to portray and depict, increasingly graphic, gratuitous, voilent death of others and a sports video game are apples and oranges.
 
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I been trying to get this Steam **** configured right, for the last 20min. What BS.
 
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Not the video game industry as a whole, but rather those that exploit this violence (modeled after our real time, present day, children, soldiers) and market it to those who are fixated on the graphic violence and the very nature of the violence it portrays.

The line has been crossed IMHO.
I am one of those real time present day children and I'm ok with it. To each is own though. War is an amazingly horrible thing but it provides an incredible rush.......paintball is nothing more than a war simulation.....people don't critique that for what it represents.
 
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must say i get a rush from it as well, being 23 i am among the youngings as well, and love shooting and hunting but COD lets me get a little relief from the off seasons
 

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So is that to say you are also against sports like football,mma and boxing since they promote violence and inflicting damage on another human?
I was actually talking about the real thing.
 
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It's alarming to think how many waking hours the adult male spends on video games and masturbation.
damn add lifting in there and Im spent!

Seriously though, the game is great. It is up to the parents to keep it away from young kids and to only allow young adults who can handle it play. All in moderation.
 
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My 360 broke last week :( it worked fine for 3 1/2 years and then poof!
 
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damn add lifting in there and Im spent!

Seriously though, the game is great. It is up to the parents to keep it away from young kids and to only allow young adults who can handle it play. All in moderation.
My issue is not about age or parental controls. Being over 18 does not make it any less indecent IMO.
 
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i picked mine up monday at midnight then did 13 hours almost straight. the game flat rocks. not thrilled with some of the maps though like breacourt france. renamed of course to fit the new game
 
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I'm stuck in the small village, trying to catch "that" guy. I just get swarmed by opfor, and get turned around. I keep getting killed.
 
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I'm stuck in the small village, trying to catch "that" guy. I just get swarmed by opfor, and get turned around. I keep getting killed.
i dont play the game im an online player only
 
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I'm finding my way out.

I love CoD multiplayer, but I usually start out finishing single player so I get the feel of the game down.
 
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My xbox took a sh*t 2 weeks ago after 3 1/2 years of working fine. I can't begin to tell you how pumped I am for this game. COD is the only game i own for xbox. I did get to swing by the rents house to play my little brothers since he did get mw2. BEST GAME HANDS DOWN!!
 
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My xbox took a sh*t 2 weeks ago after 3 1/2 years of working fine. I can't begin to tell you how pumped I am for this game. COD is the only game i own for xbox. I did get to swing by the rents house to play my little brothers since he did get mw2. BEST GAME HANDS DOWN!!
im with you there. my only 3 games are cod2, modern warfare 1&2
 
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Personally i dont know people that take the images and views shown in COD or other video games literally to the extent where they act it out in real life but i realize what your saying that it is crazy how the most popular things on the internet are games and porn, I guess when its open to you at anytime you use it. Im not one that's against video games but im not one that would go crazy if for some reason some were banned. Either way COD is a sick game and well worth it to buy.
 
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Personally i dont know people that take the images and views shown in COD or other video games literally to the extent where they act it out in real life but i realize what your saying that it is crazy how the most popular things on the internet are games and porn, I guess when its open to you at anytime you use it. Im not one that's against video games but im not one that would go crazy if for some reason some were banned. Either way COD is a sick game and well worth it to buy.
 
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It's alarming to think how many waking hours the adult male spends on video games and masturbation.
I think the more alarming thing is to think of the lack of self control or lack of better things to do. :blink:
 
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I think the more alarming thing is to think of the lack of self control or lack of better things to do. :blink:
you obviously dont play games. they are great at passing time when you have nothing to do. like for me when im on 3-11 i come home around 11:30 and play for a while b4 i go to bed
 

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Just got offline from playin mw2 and I played against an eight year old.... He cursed me out when I won
 
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I totally understand exactly what you are saying. But since the dawn of time man has been intrigued with sex and violence. This is nothing new at all. I do however think that it is getting really extreme with the gore movies and sopme extremely hard porno. There is this new kind of porno out called anal prolapse porno. Not many pornos can make me gag but this stuff can do it.
 
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I finished the campaign on Friday night. As far as the campaign mode goes, it's not as good as the first. Getting into online now and am enjoying it so far.
 
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Online In my opinion is much harder then 4 the spawning is messed up in Team Deathmatch i mean i cant count how many times ive gotten shot in the back from someone basically spawning directly behind me after i spawned. It seems as though the guns are a lot better too and you die a lot faster its overall a lot harder in my opinion but still very very fun.
 
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This thread made me laugh because of the irony. So many people gave their opinions about the game when the OP was trying to address a social issue involving the game.

Side note I wish my online would work. Maybe I should try 1 more time.
 

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