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Everything from the crowds of civilians (who scatter and act as civvie's probably would) to the intense pace, sound effects and level design - everything about this game seems to be an improvement on MW1 which is no simple feat.
I personally think it looks astounding, no video game to date has made me feel this close to being "in the game" and that's just from having seen the trailer.
If you don't think that this "looks amazing" then chances are you weren't a huge fan of the first MW and/or FPS games in general. I'd be very surprised to see anyone who's played a lot of FPS games say they're not impressed by this.
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Aside from the fancy graphics, nothing in that level stood out to me whatsoever. Just an endless slum crawl, ducking through shacks and shooting meaningless guys + the occasional mutt.
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The heli drop-in level in MW1, IIRC, had you and your squad blowing doors, storming a variety of different building types, shooting soldiers on rooftops with RPG's, cars exploding, armed trucks, etc.
It's been a while, but I don't think it compares.
For the record, I think MW2 will likely be a great game judging from the other clips out there. But if the majority of the levels are as lifeless as this one, then the predecessor is superior in my book.
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And I'm 100% sure there will be plenty of door-blowing, RPG'ing and cars exploding - as Toasticus said 8 minutes of footage isn't enough to make the kind of assumptions you are.
I however think that if every 8 minutes of this game is as good if not better than the footage shown here, I'll be most impressed.
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It's also important to remember that this isn't a piece of officially released media. It's a low-resolution clip from a presentation, and hard to say how early on in the campaign it's from. It also looks like it's on easy mode, and the person playing didn't really do much to sell any sense of urgency. I'm far from claiming that MW2 will for sure exceed or even meet the quality of campaign that MW1 had, but at the same time I don't see this video as any reason to believe otherwise either.
Either way, I've mostly just been pushing you for some evidence that you aren't just hating on something popular and it seems like you have some reasoning behind your opinions. So, nothing stopping us from just agreeing to disagree about this particular video.
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Have you played on Veteren? If you did, I'm sure you died more than 30 times on your playthrough.
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The constant stream of bullets into your already dead body was just one of those last straw things.
Overall though, I don't think any dev behind the COD games has achieved a decent really hard mode. If you look at it this way, perhaps I'm just reiterating what you already know but, enemy AI always knows where you are, even in lower difficulty levels. Its a computer. There are just checks in place to make it look like the computer doesn't know where you are. Veteran mode just flat out turns those checks off and the game turns into trial and error and memorizing where each enemy is. On the Chernobyl level I noticed this when I tried hiding in a back corridor until the friendly chopper arrived. The second wave of enemies who spawn after the checkpoint immediately knew where I was and a stream of bullets constantly flew over head and hit nothing but the wall kitty corner from me. Thats where the fun-ness dissolved from the campaign and the veils fell making it apparent it was a game run by a computer. I know my initial post wasn't about Veteran mode, but since you mentioned it I thought I'd go off. Was it that I called the NPCs "combat incompetent" that led you to assume I would have that hard of a time on Veteran mode?
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Because of Kotick and Activisions' pricing strategy I will definately hold out until I get either a cheap used copy or a budget version. Call me naive but I am not going to take their BS. Most people who say that now will end up buying it within the first week but I mean it.
I know that it's not Infinity Wards' fault but I guess they have to find a more gamer friendly publisher, if they don't want to suffer from the fallout caused by consumer rage.
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It is called a first person SHOOTER.
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Later levels in Mw1 had you in attack planes, avoiding(or not avoiding) nuclear explosions, and crawling around in ghillie suits trying to snipe amongst dozens of enemy troops.
It's much more than just shooting.
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They set these demos on the easiest difficulty so that they can get through the levels as quickly as possible.
These games, when set to the hardest difficulty, are extremely intense and aren't "dull" in the least. Every bullet counts. It's impossible to just run and gun like the guy in the video was doing.
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I'm so glad that I did decide to watch this vid, as it made me realise that my expectations were way too high. To me, it looks to be too similar an experience to CoD4.
I think I'll skip single player (for the first time in any game I've played), and jump straight into online multiplayer, which will definitely be epic.
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This has GOTY written all over it.
I can't wait to spend waaaaay too many hours playing this on Live. Oh yeah.
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This place will put *all* sorts of crazy and stupid ideas in your head. It can be worse than reading any democratic politics site :)
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Oh hell yes. I'm going to be... sick on the 10th.
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Maybe I suck, because parts of the game on Veteran were really flippin hard.
Getting the achievement for the airplane level is actually a pretty significant accomplishment.
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