Call of Duty Modern Warfare II 2022

i feel old and i hate young zoomers

there will no COD game next year, it looks like Modern Warfare 2 instead will get a campaign DLC and presumably more multiplayer stuff including warzone stuff


single player campaign unlocks in like a week for anyone who buys the $100 edition, MP launches 10/28

campaign releases this weekend for $100 digital owners, entire game unlocks next weekend, warzone 2.0 launches in a few ... weeks?

unlocks single player campaign (only) tomorrow 10/20 at 10am PDT for vault editions, a week later for everyone. Its 63 gigs installed on my PS5 with 20 gigs or so being the uninstallable campaign once I finish, so not too bad much better than the 200 gig monstrosities of earlier CODs

played 3 single player campaign missions so far on PS5 (17 total I believe), REALLY fun and tense and visually drop dead gorgeous. Switching on night vision goggles looks amazing. As usual I walk up to enemy soldiers thinking they are on my team and they kill me, but its not a COD or bf campaign if i can't tell friend from foe.

so far they are leaning into brown terrorists which is surprising, nowadays enemies are always Russians or unmentioned vague no ethnicity terrorist state (Top Gun). I'm sure there will be many twists and turns though.

can't even access any of the multiplayer menus or anything, but the campaign play is pretty much exactly like MW1 (2019) with mount, peek, cover, etc options. Finishing missions awards nameplates and icons and stuff and finishing the campaign unlocks a blueprint (blueprints just pre-unlock some wep attachments in a static config, leveling weps unlocks them all in MP/WZ and it was SUPER fast maxing out weps in beta)

yeah the campaign is just 3-8 hours, i've played 2 hours and already halfway thru. the real action is multiplayer, i had 200+ hours sunk into WW2 (2017) and MW1 mp and the beta here felt just as good if not better.

what i really appreciate too is there is no zombies mode this year, i don't like that game mode at all and i always felt like i was getting screwed out of 1/3d of my game purchase price by a mode i never played.

Utnayan said:

Can someone tell my why this COD game is better than the others in multiplayer then the other 98 COD games?

Asking because I have never noticed a difference in any single one of them and do not understand the nuances of why one is disliked over another. Or what makes this one so special. Is it actually different or are we so fucking staved for something to play we are looking at this and thinking it is better than 90% of the other garbage out there?

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• maps are not too big, not too small, and there are no spots where you can just camp and snipe. every place has multiple entry/exit points so you can run and gun and kill campers
• a decent variety of weapons, there is no "its only worth playing with gun X" which happens frequently with too many MP fps games. multiple ARs and SMGs seem viable and equal
• movement feels "good", you don't ever feel like you were trying to move forward and the game stopped you hard in front of a window or something. That happens with some of the bad CODs
• you can select exact which game modes you want, I generally only play TDM because objective games have assholes who never play the objective so you just rage at teammates who treat it as TDM. I like just running around and getting kills most of the time. Compare this to say Overwatch 2 which is 100% objective and it sucks donkey dick when your teammates don't understand that you need to stand next to the fucking hauler to move it forward.
• you can play a few games a day, solo, and do decent, feel like you moved progress a bit (unlocks, levels, etc) and be done. No goddamn "let me spend 2 hours now finding a raid group in Destiny" kinda shit
• MW2 has a TON of grouping options. 95% of the time I play solo and it works great, but if I wanna play with my brother I can do campaign co-op or 2 player MP or warzone. 4 player squads work just fine too in multiple game modes. It all just works, AND its cross play now so he can play on PC while I stay on PS5.
• its all boots on the ground, none of the gay IM A FUCKING SPACE MARINE flying jetpack shit from Halo, Fortnite, etc
• short TTK, pros and cons here I like quick engagements but if you like long TTKs Apex is probably better. Warzone is high TTK too assuming 5/5 plates
• good options for weapon customization plus loadouts. A meta will develop but I found a lot of things worked in the beta.
• game ran silky smooth and loads were super fast on PS5
• on PS5 i dont have to worry about PC cheaters which I know was a huge problem in PC warzone

for me COD wins most years because of a massive player base (noobs like me who aren't FPS gods), a team deathmatch with no building, good visuals and weapons, fast loads, multiple game modes (MW2 has 6v6, 12v12, and 24v24 plus 128 player warzone in Nov) and MW2 seems to be the best since MW1 in 2019.