MW2 features many campaign locations where you can die... a lot...
I returned to the single player campaign I started on my other Xbox 360. By dint of prodigious dying, I got through the sticking point I was at (getting hosed by insurgents from the rooftops before I could take 2 steps from the wrecked Hummvee). I then got stuck in another WTF? section again in Favela for a while before I managed to literally stumble through. I've got the aim assist turned off, in order to use the the mouse and keyboard goodness of the XIM360 adapter, so targeting is all me. There's no "snap-to" except for when I fall down some alley or cliff and break every bone in my virtual body. For players maximizing their suckage, like me, this whole blood spatter thing IW has used to replace the prior red-tinted wounded/dying FOV is a pain in the ass. There are whole sections of the game that I recall only as viscous droplets of my own blood flowing across my (presumably cool) eye protection.
I guess, since I've started the campaign on the other Xbox, I'll try to finish it. But I'm dreading it instead of anticipating it. If I ever want to punish myself by playing the single player campaign, I'll do it on "pussy" mode to see if there's a difference in the sections that I felt were a crank.
I guess, since I've started the campaign on the other Xbox, I'll try to finish it. But I'm dreading it instead of anticipating it. If I ever want to punish myself by playing the single player campaign, I'll do it on "pussy" mode to see if there's a difference in the sections that I felt were a crank.
- The Modern Warfare 2 PC Dedicated Server Petition has exceeded 214,000 sigs. Some PC modders are still looking for a workaround which would allow the use of traditional dedicated servers, console tweaks, and the all-important record function. As reported on BASHandSlash, they're reporting some progress on getting a stand-alone server running.
- The new Modern Warfare 2 PC Post-release Petition is up. The petition basically asks IW to restore some console functions which would allow for formal competitive gameplay with MW2.
- Review Roundup: GiantBomb MW2 video review. GameTrailers.
- GamesRadar has a spoileriffic recap of the CoD4 storyline to prep you for MW2's single player.
- GamaSutra has details on PSN's MW2 launch troubles.
- Activision's CEO Bobby Kotick cashes in $20 million in stock options.
- Destructoid: As reported on CVG, Is Activision embracing more microtransactions for CoD?
- Rumor: TalkXbox speculates that MW's Ghost character could get spin-off MW game. Gamedaily has a similar article on a possible Ghost game.
- Humor: Another lucky MW2 knife throw. (Thanks to Corsair of 2Old2Play.) Death by care package: Death 1; Death 2. Penny Arcade waits on line at a midnight launch. Penny Arcade muses about the intense blogging about MW2. Who needs modern war when you have Modern Warfare 2?
- Interview with Battlefield: Bad Company 2's Gordon Van Dyke.
- Halo 3 Top Kills of the Week from IGN.
- If this job listing news item is accurate, Dead Space 2 looks to have multiplayer for those folks who like 3rd person -- not that there's anything wrong with that.
- A non-politically correct joke, but I LOLed.
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