Product Description

Modern Warfare 2 - (Hardened edition) is tougher than ever! The sequel to the Multiplayer Game of the Year winner 'Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #832 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: ACTIVISION
• Released on: 2009-11-10
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Platform: Xbox 360
• Format: Unknown format
• Dimensions: .26 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
The call of duty needs answering once again, as the blockbusting first person shooter series returns to the modern day. A direct sequel to Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, you now play new character Sgt Gary "Roach" Sanderson. Your commander is "Soap" from the first game as you join a multinational anti-terrorist squad out to stop Russian ultra nationalists.

Watch your squad grow from inexperienced rookies to veteran warriors

A snowmobile race is just one of the new vehicle sections

Modern Warfare 2 is a direct sequel to Call of Duty 4

You'll journey all around the world in the fight against terrorism

The story mode features an even more varied series of locales than before, including a snowbound mission that starts with a daredevil mountain climb and ends with a high speed snowmobile chase as you make your escape. With other levels set in Afghanistan, Rio de Janeiro and even underwater this has more action than a dozen Hollywood blockbusters.

But that's just the single player mode - the multiplayer is even more ground-breaking than before, with new co-op options and even more rewards and perks for competitive play.

Key Features

• Call of Warfare - Stunning cinematic action, including new underwater missions, new gadgets such as the motion detector and new vehicles including snowmobiles and more.
• Rough guide - Massive globe-spanning adventure sees you travelling to the deserts of Afghanistan, the slums of Rio de Janerio and the wilderness of Russia.
• Bigger world - New larger levels allow you to tackle missions however you want: will you try a frontal assault or a more stealthy approach from another angle?
• Special co-op - New Special Ops mode will introduce two player co-operative play for the first time, in a series of non-story missions.
• Be the best - Competitive multiplayer is even bigger and better than before, with new kill streak rewards that unlock everything from supply drops to a AC-130 gunship attack.

About the Developer: Infinity Ward
After working on Medal of Honor: Allied Assault for EA, Infinity Ward's first game as their own company was fellow World War II title Call of Duty. Since then the California company has never had time to do anything else, as the ongoing series has become one of the best-selling of all time.

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Customer Reviews

The best just got better
The original Call of Duty4: Modern Warfare was arguably the best first person shooter on the Xbox360 and possibly the best shooter ever made. The pressure was certainly on developers Infinity Ward - how to top one of the most popular games on the current generation of consoles. What they did was serve up more of the same, only looking better than ever and introducing more depth, including a co-operative mode.

It's CoD4 as you know and love: the single player campaign is great, clocking in at about five or six hours and delivering great set-pieces that range from the caves of Afghanistan to suburban North America, from oil rigs and snow bases to the Whitehouse itself and referencing along the way some action films such as the snow mobile chase of Die Hard 2 and the shower shoot-out of The Rock. The 'story', such as it is, is told with the now-familiar device of the dual parallel narrative, British and American. The graphics are outstanding, the motion capture perfect, the levels varied, the sound and voice acting absolutely spot-on.

However, as is the case with CoD, you come for the single player campaign but you stay for the multiplayer. Safe to say, the multiplayer is even better on this than CoD4, which was almost perfection. There are more weapons, more customisation, more perks, more depth in levelling up, bigger maps, more detail - yes, more is more here and it's outstanding. The multiplayer detail is as good as the original CoD4 single player game.

The biggest new addition would have to be Special Operations mode. That's a co-operative game (online or system link/split screen) where yourself and another player have to complete a certain objective, such as holding out in a siege scenario or clearing out a location. This feature is perfectly well balanced and a great new aspect to the Call of Duty franchise.

At it's heart, Modern Warfare2 is still a Call of Duty game and it's unlikely to win any converts from the nay-sayers, who decry it as an on-rails, whack-a-mole, run and gun game. It is all these things but that's not a bad thing in itself and when compared to the mediocre, half-finished rubbish that was Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, Infinity Ward have established with Modern Warfare2 the bench mark for all future first person shooters. This game is almost perfection.

The Hardened Edition comes with a code to download the complete original version of Call of Duty in high definition (also by Infinity Ward), featuring almost two dozen levels, with online multiplayer functionality. This is a great game when you fancy some retro warfare. All told, an excellent package.

A must buy. Beautifullly designed and gameplay 10/10
I am not a Huge COD fan, so don't get me wrong.
I am a guy that loves action + a good storyline + FPS.
Cod 4, was amazing, and Cod 6, had a lot to live up to, to try and compete with such a high level.
I can tell you, from playing The Special ops (side missions) and the whole campaign on Regular, that this game is very entertaining to say the least. A word of warning. After i had finished Cod 4 on Veteran, i thought i could take anything on. How wrong i was. They have slightly upped the difficulty on this one, making the enemy cleverer, even on Regular.

The story line is the usual jargon, however i didn't find it as interesting as Cod 4. I do have to say, that the thought behind some of the scenes and the storyline in itself is absolutely superb, however it feels like it was a bit of a hit and miss.
Special ops is great, especially if you have a friend over and want to muck around for just 30 minutes, be it online or split-screen. Multiplayer looks stunning, although i haven't played it much.

The overall gameplay time, with all the cinematic,s and gathering the intel pieces that i found out was only worth 20 G, lasted around 9 Hours. However the special ops will set you back another 5+ hours on Veteran, and The campaign might set you back another 10-20hours on Veteran.

Thus, almost like Cod4.

I really suggest this game, if your into modern warfare, and if you have a passion for FPS. There is A LOT of action, so don't be disappointed.

Dubbed

Great but not perfect
I was a cod4 fanatic, that game gave me months and months of enjoyment now to cod6, a lot to live up to.

the campaign:
very action packed, your heart doesnt slow down from start to finish.
however the story itself is weak, almost an afterthought.
the game is very very short. <5hours on Veteran (also not very difficult, I found parts in cod4 harder on vet)
However I genuinely enjoyed it, which is a rarity from a single player for me nowadays.

spec ops:
my favorite new aspect to the game - great fun for some split screen with a mate. Also some of these missions are alot harder than the campaign as you have to co-ordinate your actions.
All in all very very fun

Multiplayer:
the same as cod4 with new maps, new weapons, new perks, new attachments, also a few new game modes. So far it is great fun. However I am not a fan that IW have put in thermal sites and heartbeat sesnsors, these have detracted from the experience hugely, these give a huge advantage over lower ranked people who dont have access to these yet (or the counter perks).

heartbeat sensor is like a personal UAV for your local vacinity, it means you never have to be scared of a corner again :P and allows easily racking up huuuge kill streaks as unless someones is using a perk to counter this then they can never sneak up on you. So this removes from the twitch reflex shooting that was more prevelant in cod4


All in all this is cod4, with minor additions, IW haven't created a new game here. If you loved cod4 you will like this. If the multiplayer will be quite as fun a few months in is yet to be seen, at the moment I think new attachments could get annoying quickly