what's up guys this is M3RKMUS1C and welcome to my honest review of The Modern Warfare 2 campaign
the new Modern Warfare 2 campaign was available a little bit over a week before the full launch of
the game and I streamed the entire campaign live for me personally that was the longest live stream
I've ever done and it was just really hyped so if you guys want to see the entire campaign play
through on the channel I'll have a link in the description below but yes the Modern Warfare 2
campaign was great and it had some incredible moments but there were also a lot of strange
moments and also things that either didn't totally make sense or flow well I am going to be starting
this video by talking about the positives first but I'm also going to be talking about things
that definitely need improving and things that were just straight up bad but most importantly
I do need to let you guys know that I am going to be covering the post-credits scene for the game
as well and if you're trying to avoid spoilers you might want to avoid this video until you've
played the campaign yourself however if you do still want to watch this video I will be giving
spoiler warnings every single time I'm gonna talk about a spoiler so with that being said let's
talk about what is good in the Modern Warfare 2 campaign right off the bat if you pre-order this
game digitally on any platform you can play it a week early before the multiplayer takes
over and Warzone 2 takes over right off the bat I think that is not only a genius move but this
needs to continue moving forward for Call of Duty games I can understand why some people might be
hesitant to care about the Call of Duty campaign because you can usually finish them pretty quickly
and sometimes they're not even all that good but in my opinion the Modern Warfare 2019 campaign was
incredible and the Modern Warfare 2 campaign is really good as well and I think it's worth
pre-ordering the game so that way you can play it early and as I'm sure we can all tell the
game looks amazing I mean graphically the game is stunning and the art direction is fantastic
there's been a lot of discussion about how life like Amsterdam in the Modern Warfare 2 campaign
looks same goes for the characters as well I mean everything is just so real looking and we get to
see a lot of soap and ghosts this time around I also thought that there was a nice balance between
stealth and chaotic missions like Call of Duty 4 which always had this recurring theme of the
US Marines having these over-the-top badass and like loud missions versus the British SAS having
these stealthier more quiet and kind of laid-back missions another thing I noticed while playing the
Modern Warfare 2 campaign especially doing it live is that there is a lot of tension in this camp you
really do feel like there are more consequences for your actions than ever before and you will
be punished for making the wrong moves this game's campaign will require you to adapt and adjust and
while I do find this to be a positive I think it's also a negative but you'll see why later
in the video but I do think that this campaign at least on regular is more difficult than a typical
Call of Duty campaign which I have no problem with but if you're looking to play the Modern
Warfare 2 campaign and you really don't want to have to deal with the game being difficult at all
I would definitely recommend recruit purely if you want to experience the story but if you want some
difficulty in there as well then I think regular is pretty good just know that it will get tough at
times no no I'm just trying to get out of there I also thought that there was a nice contrast
between more linear missions with a set Direction versus missions that are a little more open and
allow for more freedom of choice and I really like the campaign's main menu music theme for Modern
Warfare 2 as well it's a huge nod to the previous Modern Warfare taking that iconic theme but also
blending the cello part from the Piccadilly Circus theme from Modern Warfare 2019 I thought that was
really interesting and while I'm sure there's a lot more positive things I could say about this
game's campaign we're going to be moving on to the things that I found to be just kind of meh things
that could have definitely used some improvement let's talk about the lack of Intel hunting going
after Intel and Call of Duty campaigns is actually one of the most fun things you can do it's
essentially like Easter egg hunting in previous Call of Duty campaigns you would typically be
looking for a laptop which contains Intel and if you collect a certain amount you could also
unlock fun little cheats that you could use in The Campaign which added a lot of fun and replay value
to the campaign the Modern Warfare 2 campaign does not have this but at the same time the Modern
Warfare 2019 campaign didn't have it either now to be fair I don't know if this is something that
Infinity Ward has ever addressed for the currents Modern Warfare reboot games but it's something
that I would like to see come back trying to look for Intel in the Call of Duty campaigns
has always been a fun little side quest it gives you something extra to do and it just feels like
it's missing but yeah let's move on to the story for the Modern Warfare 2 campaign it felt very
different than modern warfare 2019 and it pivots quite a lot from what we experienced in the last
game this was to be expected though I mean it was pretty obvious from the marketing for this
game that things were going to change but at the same time there were some loose ends that needed
did tying from the last Modern Warfare game and we don't get closure on that in this game which
is kind of frustrating we don't fully know what happens to Alex or hadir after the Modern Warfare
campaign and light spoiler in bamboo pharah is literally only in one mission in this campaign
now I will be going into more detail later with some theories about why this is the case but
purely for the sake of this game Modern Warfare 2 it's a little disappointing it would have been
nice to see the story pick up from where it left off but this game's story takes a completely
different direction instead it's not a bad one and infinity war did a pretty good job with some
of the new characters in the game but don't go into the Modern Warfare 2 campaign expecting some
resolution from the previous game if you do you might end up disappointed another thing that was
kind of annoying but not necessarily a full-blown negative was how dragged out some of the missions
were there's basically an all gillied up 2 mission in this game and at first the pacing is great and
it feels like it's going to have the same Vibe as the original Mission but then it kind of turns
into this more open world-esque mission where you can approach breaching buildings differently
but your best bet even on an easier difficulty is using fart grenades to flush the enemies out into
the open so price can just snipe them because the armored enemies are very difficult to deal with
on your own and they are so annoying I don't mind that Infinity Ward is trying to do some different
things with the campaign but all I'm saying is that I don't think that it's possible to top the
original Masterpiece all gillied up but I do feel like they were sort of coming close I just think
that the mission might have needed more Direction instead of kind of changing up the pace and the
flow of how the mission went there was also a really dragged out Convoy Mission which again
started off with some really badass moments but then the game says Pace gets halted to a diseased
hippo begging to be put down it just felt like it took way too damn long for this mission to
end once it got going and it felt like it had to be done in order to Pat out the timing of the
campaign because at least on regular it took about six hours to complete the entire campaign but if
you subtracted this kind of nonsense from the game it probably would have been more like four
to five hours even though that's a pretty short single player compared to other games it's still
a quality campaign but it gets bogged down with filler content that doesn't need to go on for this
long if Infinity Ward or any other Studio decides to implement this kind of gameplay again I just
think it could be done better I don't think it's necessarily terrible but it just needs to feel
more alive and have more variety especially that Convoy Mission man I mean I swear the AI Drive the
trucks more like Tesla's and autopilot than real enemies trying to kill you and knock you off the
road it just didn't really feel right and lastly this isn't necessarily A positive or A negative
for the game but there was an unusual amount of references to the enemies being called squirters
in the campaign I don't think we've ever heard this in a previous Call of Duty single player and
I'm not about to try to Google what a military grade squirter is because we all know that's a
side effect of eating 20 pounds of Taco Bell but yeah there's definitely some iffy and repetitive
dialogue here and there but guys now we're gonna be moving on to the negatives really there weren't
a ton of negatives in this game's campaign in my opinion but I'm not gonna lie I hated the
camera section of the prison break Mission this was a mechanic in the previous Modern Warfare
where you had to guide an assistance around and away from the enemies using cameras even back
then I found the mission tedious unrewarding and unsatisfying it takes the pace of a Call
of Duty campaign experience and it obliterates it harder than gorbani at the beginning of this
campaign now I do understand it's to add some variety some flavor to the game and slow down
the pacing of the game but the game already has a relatively slow pace the new Modern Warfare
2 campaign is one of the more slow and realistic and tactical Cod games I've seen But dragging out
this boring feature from Modern Warfare 2019 and having to guide go supposed to plant four bombs
on enemy Vehicles was honestly just kind of lame imagine if instead of guiding ghost around you
oh I don't know actually just played as him and did everything yourself it was so disappointing
to have to tell ghost where to go only to watch him die because he can't shoot certain enemies
in certain scenarios if you make the wrong move that the game just doesn't see fit ghost will just
stand there and accept his fate which is death I just think the whole camera guiding mechanic
is Goofy and it doesn't add anything significant to the game I can totally understand and see what
Infinity Ward was going for with the all gillied up 2 mission and the Convoy Mission but dragging
out the camera sequence in this game was abysmal I also didn't like how underwhelming the end of
the game was warning warning spoilers Infinity Ward introduced us to a crafting system that
allows you to create makeshift items when soap is stranded and trying to make his way back to
Ghost and the only other time that this crafting system returns is at the very last mission of the
game and it's just tedious and unnecessary and the uselessness of this crafting just leads to
a very unsatisfying ending you spend all of this time trying to craft a prying tool so you can open
a drawer and get a knife so you can do a takedown on an enemy because if you don't there's literally
no other way to kill him trust me I tried die there buddy what does this mean anything to you
I can't I actually can't believe that but even once you figure it out and you finally do it
Hassan still just captures and kills Soap anyway or at least he tried to but instead
you switch your point of view to Ghost and you snipe him and you save the day
yeah the whole lead up to Hassan was just kind of disappointing because you spend multiple missions
trying to hunt him down with no luck your own people get captured and interrogated and by the
end of it all you don't get this crazy satisfying moment like in the original modern warfare games
especially in the original Modern Warfare 2 with the standoff against General Shepard or
Modern Warfare 3 where you fight against Makarov it just pulls you out of the moment and it doesn't
feel like there's consequences for messing up I literally Miss Ed first sniper shot on Hassan
and he still didn't kill soap oh and the lead antagonist of this game really aren't even all
that cool or evil honestly they're kind of just a bunch of campers I mean Sentinels they're either
constantly running away from you or they're hiding somewhere they don't pose an imminent
threat or try to fight back they just sit around waiting to Die the majority of the conflict that
you fight against and feel in the game is against armored enemies but even then the Modern Warfare 2
campaign in my opinion still has a pretty weak climax I mean you don't even get to fight a
juggernaut like you did in the last Modern Warfare campaign and essentially the main villains of the
campaign don't even really feel like boss fights or anything remotely close to that they just kind
of die easily which I really can't deny it's kind of unsatisfying again I like the Modern Warfare
2 campaign but I think there were definitely certain parts of the campaign that could have been
more engaging and kept up to the intensity and tension that I felt in other sections of the game
especially for the key moments of the campaign in my opinion the game started off pretty strong and
it had some great moments here and there but it struggled to maintain that consistency by forcing
us to have to do certain things ultimately killing the flow of the game every so often but guys I
can't deny it this games's final cut scene and post-credits scene is everything I literally just
uploaded the post-credits scene raw to the channel because it is so [ __ ] hype it's like when Marvel
first started doing post-credit scenes for their movies before every single Marvel movie had a
post-credit scene let's talk about the post game for the Modern Warfare 2 campaign warning warning
major Modern Warfare 2 campaign spoilers the end of the Modern Warfare 2 campaign confirms that
General Shepard and Shadow company are the bad guys and that Makarov will be making an appearance
in either a Modern Warfare 2 campaign expansion or Modern Warfare 3. the post-credits scene for
this game is reminiscent of the plane Mission from Modern Warfare 3 but Makarov is essentially
putting together a ghost gun and Infinity Ward may or may not be reintroducing us to another
controversial no Russian Mission now I personally don't mind this at all it's just a video game at
the end of the day and the newer Modern Warfare campaign reboots have done a good job of showing
us why war is terrifying and horrible it's not meant to be glorified it's to serve as a reminder
that war is cruel and deadly and I prefer that a Modern Warfare game demonstrates this versus
serving us up some softball garbage that either isn't realistic or it doesn't make any sense that
being said the most interesting part of this scene is that it either hints at a campaign expansion
or potentially another one or two upcoming modern warfare games the reason I say this is because in
the original Modern Warfare series General Shepard is dead by the second game and Makarov is dead by
the third and so far in this alternate timeline for the Modern Warfare series General Shepard and
Makarov are still both alive and there's also a ton of potential for further developing the
plot surrounding pharah Alex and hadir as well as Shadow company so I'm curious to see if the story
will continue to develop later on in this game or if we will see it continue in Modern Warfare
3 or potentially a modern warfare 4. but that's gonna do it for my review of The Modern Warfare
2 campaign I know it seems a little weird to make a review for just the campaign especially since
it's not much longer than an average Call of Duty campaign and we don't know 100 if we're getting
a campaign expansion but I figured I'd share my thoughts on it with you guys and overall I would
highly recommend playing it and experiencing it for yourself since I can consider it to be one
of the better Call of Duty campaigns and with that being said I really do hope you guys enjoyed this
video If you guys did and you're excited for the Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer and Warzone 2 make
sure to drop a like I'll see you guys later well that's not great that's not great bro
I shot that man twice just like the other guy