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richardhutnik on 16 November 2010
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SHMUPGurus said:
richardhutnik said:

Modern Warfare 2 might of had good level design, but the story was one of the greates pileup trainwrecks I have run into a LONG time.  It is abysmal garbage how the game went.  You MAYBE buy the invade America premise, maybe.  But based on the whole No Russian level, where you could go through most of it without firing a shot (wow, I was lucking that I didn't need to gun down civilians), that was nonsense.  And then the plot twist near the end was beyond inane.  If this were a movie, it would be under 20 on Rotten Tomatoes.

Let me guess, story matters a lot for you (because of that thread you made)? Lately, with Black Ops, it's obvious that I personally prefer gameplay over story any day.

Also I agree, the story in MW2 was kind of all over the place with lots of plots holes everywhere and such (I just figured out it's really a story about conspiration, especially referring to what happened in 2001...). They should have hired a better writer, haha. You can't say that the pacing was bad though. One of the best cinematic experiences on the gaming market. I'm also a bit biased about the game because of the music mostly (can't say anything bad about Zimmer!).

If you read my posts, you will see I am not BIG on story in games.  If the come through, that is great.  What I take a shot at MW2 is like they built up everything with Zimmer's music and all to have an epic feel, and then threw it away with a HORRIBLE storyline that was so bad with the holes, it wrecked it seriously.  I contrast this with the original Modern Warfare, which worked real well.  Yes, it felt real well, but ended up messing it up real badly.

For me, I end up defending Black Ops because, once you get past the forgettable story (eventhough it was held together better) it has more features for greater replayability than MW2 had.  I get bots and Zombie mode, and Zork and also a Smash TV zombie mode knock off.  I also get the Five zombie level.  All and all i feel I am now set with Call of Duty.  In short, for replayability, Black Ops is superior for me.  Only regret about getting rid of MW2 is that I lose the special ops mission stuff.