Fight for survival and shoot your way to mission success as the acclaimed Call of Duty franchise makes its triumphant return. Exploding with the realism and intensity that have become the hallmarks of this gripping series, you'll lay waste to your enemies as hails of gunfire erupt. Move out for intense action and make sure you're prepared to answer the Call of Duty.This harrowing sequel to Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare thrusts you once more into the haze of battle. Arm yourself with sophisticated tools of destruction and get ready to stare death in the face as you enter a raging conflict. Experience the rigors of battle and struggle against long odds to seize victory. The awesome power of war comes alive in all its grit and glory in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
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If you loved the first MW then you will feel right at home with MW2, same game mechanics but extra tid bits to justify calling it a sequel. I'm not going to go into single player because the beef of this game is in multi-player.
HUD The first change you will notice when playing MP is there is a lot of flashing points and kill names when you score a kill, which makes the game feel more arcadey but I welcomed this change.
WEAPONS You can level up almost any weapon in the game... I was hoping to level up the knife and make it a katana blade, let's hope they add that in MW3 hahaha. There aren't many returning weapons from MW1 but that's good since this is a sequel, you will enjoy finding out the details of each weapon.
MAPS I noticed that the maps do not taylor to run-n-gun twitchy gun fights, which is good because I'm almost 30 and can't hang with the 13 year old gun-slingers now-a-days. There are a lot of corners and different levels where your enemies can shoot you from, so you will need a little more patience this time around
KILL STREAKS / DEATH STREAKS (NEW) This was a big change, instead of the standard set of kill streak rewards from MW1 (UAV, Air strike, Helicopter) there is a whole heck of a lot to choose from, but you can only bring 3 kill streak rewards to a match. Death streaks are when you die multiple time without scoring a kill, from my experieince none of the death streaks weren't that great but they do help. Matrydom which was a perk in MW1 is now a deathstreak reward, that was the only useful one.
What's great about it: Multi-Player will keep you hooked
What's not so great: Single player story is confusing