Opinions over Time: Modern Warfare 2 (Final Thoughts)

Well I finished Modern Warfare 2 a week or two ago, but never wrote up my final impressions. That was largely due to the fact that writing three articles about a six hour game is a bad idea. That and everyone and their grandmother had already bought MW2 by that point anyway. If you must know, MW2 was an intense, almost over the top romp through an interesting yet incoherent war. It did all the cool first person tricks MW1 did, but better. Still, the whole thing felt lacking in the impactful department. Aside from the “No Russian” level, nothing in the game really resonated with me about the horrors of war. MW1 did that fairly regularly, while still maintaining a healthy dose of epic.

Opinions over Time doesn’t work for this game though because it’s too short. I mean I guess you could say at first I didn’t like how much of a cluster fuck the first level was, then I was impressed by some of the themes Infinity Ward dealt with, but ended up enjoying the game solely for its presentation and overall epicness. As you can see that’s not really worth three articles. I just summed it up pretty comprehensively in one sentence. It might be considered a run-on by elementary school teacher standards, but I think my point still stands.

What we ended up with was a middle post almost exclusively about the “No Russian” level and a final thoughts post about how redundant this whole exercise has been. I don’t think the whole feature is totally worthless, but upon further reflection most games don’t result in a huge range of opinions. Generally I find games to be either consistent in their quality, or they start off slow and end up great. The latter type leads to at two articles I suppose, but not really three.

Well whatever, I’ll finish up the Assassin’s Creed 2 final impressions once I finally finish that game and hold off on trying this feature again until I play either a really lengthy game like FFXIII or maybe if one just screams out to me as being well suited to the format. Or maybe I’ll just call it a failed experiment and cut my losses. See yah next time!