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Friday, Nov 6, 2009

Before I begin, I want to start by saying I was a big fan of infinity ward back in the day when they released the first ever game for PC, called 'Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, to put things to perspective its still my favorite fps next to Doom provided an epic experience I never seen or felt before in my entire life. The most memorable part of the game as the Omaha beach landing where the Allies landed in Normandy amidst of a German s*** storm is still the most epic experience I had in gaming. Of course back then they were not called Infinity Ward, they were called 2015 studios and belonged to EA.

Soon they detached and formed Infinity Ward, after which Activision bought them (back then, Activision was not even a shadow of the giant EA). Their debute game was Call of Duty, there are many reasons why it was such a great game:

1: There is no I in team: For the first time in FPS, you are not alone, infact throughout the game you were surrounded by your friends and making you feel small but important part of a big war.

2: Iron sights: The best thing to come to FPS, is when you pressed the right mouse button for aiming down the sights of your rifle, it was genre changing.

Add that to the overall cinematic flare and you got yourself one explosive game from start to finish.

Fast forward 2009, not alot has changed. Infact some problems really started to show its ugly head, here are some of them from the Campaign:

1: Heavily Scripted: Sure you need scripted events for story telling and cinematic moments, but the problem is Call of duty was never about story telling, infact it used scripted events so heavily and tied to gameplay in such a way that when you play in veteran, you die alot and you can start to memorize the enemy patterns and before you know it, you are fighting to break the script to move on to the next check point instead of playing the game the right way.

2: Grenade Spam: Infamous grenade spamming in veteran, when foes throws grenades more than they shoot bullets. Infinity Ward is aware of this and promised MW 2 wont have such fault.

3: Infinite spawn: There are sections in the games where enemies seams to spawn forever unless you crossed an invisible checkpoint and breaks the spawning script. Again IW is aware of it, which is good.

4: Short campaign: I might not speak for everyone else, but 5-6 hrs campaign is ridiculously short. Sure you have multiplayer but not everyone likes online play, some of us prefer alone time and love proper narrative. IW said MW 2 will be about the length of MW, so I am a bit down .

5: As Light as Feather: The weapons, even those bazookas have virtually no weight to them! After playing Killzone 2, damn it feels so strange! Not only weight, they have no recoil!

But there is still hope as MW 2 is still yet to be released to date, hope the team learns from their mistakes and provide a memorable experience like they did over the years.

Category: Editorial
Posted by Gamer_4_Fun, 5:12am
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Thursday, Nov 5, 2009

First I had my doubts, i mean honestly this game is nothing special and way overhyped than it should be and I dont support that kind of thing. Then I decided to buy it as I would love the co-op part of the game, playing next to a friend is priceless. But now, after the recent trailer, its very likely i wont be getting MW2. Why? Simple, the trailer shows everything wrong with today's world, hiphop. I consider myself as one of the very few ambassadors of Rock n roll, trying my best to keep it alive. And If I buy a game, that clearly supports hiphop nature (with 50cent likely making an appearance, yuck), this is not good for me. Draw whatever conclusions you like, if there is 1 thing in the world i hate the most its hiphop, if you love hiphop, please remove me from ur friends list.

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Monday, Nov 2, 2009

This year we went the extra mile, extra mile wearing a pumpkin and a shoe...only. Thats right, some 30+ put a pumpkin on the head, all nude and just rushed the streets, lmao, it was really cold i can tell u that. I had some problems, apart from being nude, my pumpkin was not properly cut, i had no idea where the f*** i was going. After some 20 minutes of running, a whistle came, followed by 5 more, that my friends is not a good sign, it was the cops, still not sure as i seriously not sure where i was going. Then someone shouted "Cops! RRRRUUUN!". The cops thought we were some nutjobs, well... they were seeing nuts thats for sure. God this couldn't get any worse, now i seriously couldn't pull out the pumpkin otherwise they would see my face, also the pumpkin was rotting, ugh. I somehow manage to end up in an alleyway and hid the entire night in a Dumpster (nude). I had surprisingly good sleep, and plotted my way back to my home, it was 6 am. I went over a small wall, over some hedges and came to a house, the streets were empty probably because everyone was tired after the party, or there was a curfew for that....incident. Anyways nearly there, then the door opened, an old black lady came out, she nearly got a heart attack when she saw the first thing in the morning was nuts, not the kind she would like. I had no words for it, i took the paper she came for and covered as much as I could and ran.

Sure it didn't exactly go according to plan, but it was absolutely worth it. I was so tired, i took shower for 2 hrs straight. Then a call came from the police station, two of my friends called me and that they were not that lucky. So i had to bail them out, it was nothing serious, just a night in jail.

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