Embedded with Makarov, Allen participates in an airport massacre that sees the player casually wander the duty-free aisles recklessly spraying volleys of. Because Vladimir Makarov is a very obvious, lazily-written antagonist.Īnd it’s here where I have to mention the controversial No Russian level. You could tell me he was the last thing Tom Clancy’s oxygen-starved neutrons conjured up before he departed this mortal coil, and I’d believe you. He effortlessly epitomizes every fictional Russian antagonist ever: from the name to the cheapness in which he holds human life.
Really, really obvious.Įverything about him could easily have been transplanted from a minor character in Red Dawn. I say mysterious, but actually, I mean obvious. Modern Warfare 2 first puts you in the shoes of Private Joseph Allen, whose career progression sees him cleaning latrines and training Afghan grunts to shoot, before being promoted to undercover work with the mysterious international terrorist Vladimir Makarov. It’s not just the locales you also take the perspective of a variety of allied special forces soldiers. And while this isn’t exactly the most original setting, MW2 does at least win points for the variety of locales you get to murder through, with the game flinging the player through aircraft boneyards and explosive-rigged oil platforms. Unlike some other Call of Duty games, which take place in countries like Totallymadeupstan and Fictionstralia, Modern Warfare 2 is set during a lover’s tiff between the US and Russia. You’re just going through the motions, grinding until you hit the welcome relief of the rolling credits. It does everything in its power to make the story feel utterly irrelevant to the carnage being wrought by your hands. The irony of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is that it seeks to set out a conspiratorial, Fredrick Forsyth-style backdrop, but instead gives you the kind of meandering, chest-thumpingly jingoistic dollar-store narrative you’d expect from a Dolph Lundgren VHS.
Instead, you’re left to chew over a wildly disconnected story that awkwardly jerks you across disparate narratives, as you shoot and maim yourself to. But the remastered version of Modern Warfare 2 has no such saving grace. And the game-buying public has always been content to look the other way, thanks to the various well-received multiplayer modes. Traditionally, Call of Duty titles has suffered one major Achilles heel: a weak campaign mode. Sure, it’d certainly dampen the suspense, but at least it’d elevate the feeling that you are doing something for some concrete reason. I almost wish Infinity Ward did something similar when it remastered Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.Ĭrouch down. Put down the Special Brew, it’s ten in the morning. TheGamingRevolution, a well-know leaker, recently published a video going over the subject.Do you remember the old Colin McRae Rally games? Do you remember how your co-pilot would pepper your ear every five seconds with instructions? Go right. This may not matter in the future, however, as a leaker has stated that the company is actively testing the multiplayer mode. Releasing the remastered multiplayer would split this base quite significantly. The publisher’s explanation also made sense, as the player base is united on Modern Warfare with cross-play enabled. Of course, this looked to be false when Activision only made the Campaign available. Leaks from multiple sources stated that the title would launch sometime in 2020, but they didn’t provide a date at the time. Prior to the Campaign’s release, the rumor was that Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer remastered was in the works. Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer coming after all? The thing is, this may have not been entirely true, according to a recent leak from TheGamingRevolution. Activision chose not to release the multiplayer mode due to fears of splitting up the player base. However, in the back of many player’s minds was the distant memory of Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer.