I fucking love it.
It looks brilliant and sounds brilliant. And it’s so realistic.
I got to that bit that’s been in the news, where you join terrorists in a massacre at an airport, in order to infiltrate their group.
Basically, if you’re like me, and you’d like to know what it feels like to walk slowly through an airport and machine gun hundreds of innocent people as they flee for their lives, then MW2 is worth the price for this scene alone.
It’s the most realistic depiction of mass murder I’ve ever experienced in a game. The graphics, the movement, and the sound (screaming everywhere).
It is superb. Absolutely superb.
Now, I don’t know why that is. I don’t know why I enjoy imagining that I’m killing hundreds of innocent people. I don’t know why.
I used to do the same thing with Command and Conquer. In case you don’t know the game, it was a war game, where you had this big map, and you’d point and click to send soldiers here and there and build gun turrets and flame throwing vehicles and all sorts of shite. All in order to beat the other army.
Well, what I used to love doing was killing my own men. I’d build two long parallel lines of gun turrets and flame throwers, and I’d tell them all to aim their fire at the ground between them. So what I’d have is this long corridor of neverending bullets and flames.
And then I’d select all my soldiers, hundreds of them, and I’d order them into the crossfire. Just to watch and hear them die.
If I had to describe how that made me feel, describe it using one word, I would describe the emotion as ecstasy.
There was just fuck all else going on bar these imaginary soldiers being put to death. I had no perception of my surroundings, no perception of my room, no perception of time, no perception of self.
But, in contradiction, I was also on one almighty power trip, a bit like this cunt:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i65p06qwvk#t=4m36s. It was all about the destruction, but it was also all about me. A bit like arson.
As for the rest of the game, the rest of Modern Warfare 2: fantastic. I’ve been racing down ski slopes at 100mph, having half hour single-player shoot outs in the shanty towns of Rio, and I’ve only started.
And the multiplayer is fantastic as well. The same excellence as Call of Duty 4, with extras.
Best game of the decade, in my opinion.
