MW2 Leaked – Review

As you all may know, Modern Warfare 2 for Xbox360 was leaked last night, 31^st of October, 11 days before the official release date for PC. The only bad part is that I don’t have a console, was never actually attracted by the idea of buying one, throwing some money on it, but that’s not the point here.

So a friend of mine downloaded the game last night and I made him a visit to make a real impression about how the game ACTUALLY is, because we all know that games can turn out to be a lot different from how they look in the trailers. Got a double-layer blank DVD, he converted something like from Wave 4 into Wave 3, I have no freakin’ idea what that is, I’m kind of clueless about console pirating and stuff like this, but in about half an hour the game was on the disk. The console he has is Xbox360 Elite, bought in 2007 when it was firstly released, chipped so it can handle pirated games.

The graphics of the game  look good, and the visual effects are really awesome, especially the explosions, the weapon animations etc; they did awesome job with the motion capture for your squad mates and civilians, which move a lot smother and realistic then in COD4. The weapon list is very impressive, I haven’t played much, but I can’t tell how many weapons I used. A lot of new ones, but from what I saw, some old weapons from COD4 are still present, like M1014 semi-auto shotgun for example, M14, some new skins etc.

For the ones that want to play it, I’m not going to spoil it, so I’m not gonna talk much about the missions I played, but all I can say it’s that the first mission is not the one with the bank robbery in Rio de Janeiro. The first one is a training “mission”, as it was in COD4, after that you are in a mission about being picked into the team, followed by the mission in the mountain base in Kazakhstan, to which we are all familiar about. That’s how far I manage to play. But here comes the bad part: This guy calls me about 1h ago and tells me that he finished MW2. I was like “WOW, already?”, and he was like “Yea, 6 hours of gameplay”. SIX HOURS. That isn’t something I expected at all…especially that I know he’s not a very good player, so the game may even be done in 5h, maybe even less by a experience player.

In the end, from what I saw myself wile playing, the gameplay, graphics, storyline and all that are very well made, and it would have been perfect if IW added dedis to the PC version of the game, so I’m not going to buy it (for singleplayer we have torrents ffs). The only downside seems to be the actual playing time, which seems to be quite short.

With that being said, we can only hope for the best for the PC version, but I’m baffled about how short the game seems to be.