COD:MW2 is (another) first-person blaster set in the modern era, and attempts unsuccessfully to capitalise on the runaway success that was COD4:MW. Instead of playing two characters in the single-player campaign and forming a bond with them, you now play five characters - Roach is a member of a CIA sponsored special forces company, Joseph Allen is a marine who is drafted by the CIA. There's also Ramirez the marine and 'Soap' from the original COD4:MW. The other guy is an astronaut, and is only in one level. He dies. The original COD4:MW had some close-to-the-bone missions, many being a replay of the 2003 Iraq invasion. COD:MW2 pushes its luck ...  Read the complete review

Copied from Ciao account of the same name: CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 2 is an arcadey first person shooter developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision. Story Starting where the original Modern Warfare left off, you are pitted directly into the gritty world of nuclear bombs, terrorism and bloodshed. The original game left off with you killing terrorist leader Zakhaev, and this starts off at precisely the same time. However, a new terrorist threat has arisen, and he goes by the name Makarov. A CIA agent is sent in, undercover, as a terrorist to assist Makarov in a massacre of civilians in a Moscow airport, before killing ...  Read the complete review

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare was as close to perfection as a first person shooter could ever have gotten; every aspect of the game was polished, fine-tuned and streamlined. The game was understandably greeted with impressive sales, reviews and accolades, and when word of a sequel surfaced I and every other like-minded gamer was paying close attention to the trickling stream of information as it oozed out of the game review websites. The pre-release hype of any game should be taken with a pinch of salt, given that most of it is fuelled by the promise of advertising revenue on game review sites and has little to do with the actual opinions or impressions of ...  Read the complete review

Unless you've been living in a cave for a few months you will no doubt have heard of this game already. And this was probably down to the very successful $200 million advertising campaign. This was not only one of the better games of 2009, it was definitely the most hyped. After installing the game a cut scene ensues which I feel was of a lower standard than the opening to the previous modern warfare game. I began to feel disappointed, once the game started I was mildly confused about who I was playing and what the rationale for my mission even was. The action was great nice slick gameplay, but where was my story? The games predecessor had a brilliant story ...  Read the complete review

The Call of Duty Series now reaches a long way back, and since the very first release it's been keeping everyone hanging on the edge of their seats as they await the next instalment in the series, or a map pack for the current one. So, does this game really live up to the hype? I think it does, it delivers everything, and more. The one thing is, once you've got your head around the controls (easy) and beginning to have some fun killing other people from across the globe (harder) it gets a bit repetitive. Graphics: The graphics are incredible, and the settings panel allows the graphics to be tweaked all the way from super low, to super high. The game ...  Read the complete review