Modern Warfare 2's Campaign Is Surprisingly Good
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0:00 Intro & Opening Remarks
02:10 Story & Characters
05:51 The Campaign Part 1
12:21 The Campaign Part 2 (Spoilers)
18:22 Critique
20:31 Closing Remarks
22:27 Amazingly Awesome Patrons - Hry
One thing I liked is how Alejandro Vargas spoke Spanish at realistic points in the story. Most games who have characters from other nationalities barely speak their native tongue on-screen for the sake of the player understanding them and not needing subtitles.
But he speaks Spanish entirely when it's just him and his own comrades. He only uses English when he's talking to the other 141 members.
That's some good attention to detail.
Honestly, feels refreshing after playing through games like Forza Horizon 5 or Assassin's Creed, where the foreign language cast dives in and out of their native tongue at random moments.
This is definitely needed. I hate how characters in the MW reboot, Cold War, and Vanguard campaigns all spoke English when no English speakers were around. Completely throws off the immersion.
Alejandro was great. Ended up being my favorite character in this game.
I understand your point of view, but this is a FPS game. you can't look down for subtitles and shoot enemy at the same time.
I wish there was an option to disable subtitles for all dialogue except Spanish. It would be perfect.
I do wish more Campaigns would be like the Shadow Company mission with just another grunt like Dipaolo. We're getting saturated with elite operative type team narratives that I start to miss the times of MoH and COD where you're a participant to the overarching plot rather than spearheading it. That's what I think made MW2 so engaging by playing as Allen and Ramirez because there's a nice contrast between a guy stopping a nuke launch to a guy covering the evac of troops/civilians from the Washington Monument.
Yeah that section and the gunship missions where you play as an unnamed PMC gunner really made me yearn for more
This is what's COD's been missing ever since COD Ghosts but no people want only lame ass tactikewl superheroes with cringy quips like its a marvel movie
@@Wazam I miss being the lowly grunt :(
THANK YOU!!! I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS COMMENT FOR SO LONG, FINALLY SOMEONE GETS ME everything u just said was PERFECT🤝🤝 I love the special forces missions but what made MW2 (2009) so special was the US Army rangers missions and the whole DC phase. This game felt more like a Black Ops game rather than MW.
@@RiBA__ I love the Wolverines mission because the soldiers would actually make callouts to eachother. "Davis - foot soldiers at Tacos to Go!" I tried my best to keep the NPCs alive
One thing I love is that the OG MW2 really does reflect the bombastic michael bay military action movies of the early 2000s and 90s into one, where the current ones reflect the ones from the 2010 onwards, like as you said Narcos, Sicario, Jack Ryan and Zero Dark Thirty
Funny that you mentioned Bay. I always seen similarity between 1 and 2 parts of OG Modern Warfare and Bay Transformers. First MW and Transformers were released in 2007, and their sequels came two years later. In each case, sequel was just more of the same, trying to outdone the original in terms of action, explosions etc. In each case i prefer the first part :)
I’m almost positive there were shades of Lone Survivor in that Las Almas mission where you have to retreat downhill as you’re being chased by the Mexican Army.
I would describe MWII as a less cool and more grounded MW2
Someone had pointed out the tonal shift in another video, where you went from being a ww2 or ww3 army grunt to being a highly specialized murder weapon. I honestly prefer the "tacticool" approach but with the gameplay of earlier entries.
@@KreepKarnage It would have been better if they have better scripting of the missions.
The attention to detail is something sorely missed in other cod titles. It rewards you for taking your time and watching for little things. Really pushed you towards taking your time and exploring a bit more. Great game, felt like the campaign was one of the best since the golden era.
It's better then the "Golden era" if we're talking about just the campaigns. I went back and played the OG Modern Warfare trilogy and Black Ops 1 & 2 and honestly Black Ops 1 was the best of the older campaigns.
@@hughjass69933 Agreed. I recently replayed the original MW2 and BO2, while fun they are over the top Michael Bay shit. So much action characters take the back seat. Likemin the original MW2 Ghost was just "The cool guy with a mask" he really did 't have any character development at all.
Nah, original’s 100x better
I played BO1, the story was alright I guess, I wasnt really paying attention, the GAMEPLAY, it was meh, not bad but not great, the characters were great tho
I can't believe out of all of the campaigns IGN gave extremely good reviews for COD, they gave this one a 6 out of 10. To me this was an 8.5 or 9 out of 10 and definitely one of the best they've ever made.
ign was finally right once
@@johndodo2062 Nah, feels like they misplaced the score. 6 should be a Black Ops 4 or WWII
@@0uttaS1TE black ops 4 didn’t have a campaign so a 6 out of 10 for that games campaign is a little generous. It should be a 0 for black ops 4.
A 9? you are joking right? the ai and the whole shitty designed chase mission,the awful crafting that they use in the last mission again for the SECOND time, with that joke of an ending, a 9? then what would you rate OG MW 1 2 3 or BO 1 2 or even COD 2? 13s and 14??
I mean IGN really loves COD
For some reason this and MW2019's campaign scratches an itch no other game can, like a properly engrossing special forces game that feels realistic but really isn't. I don't know how to describe it, it's properly badass, and insanely beautiful. As a previous comment said too, Vargas speaking in Spanish when he's with his Spanish partner was brilliant, it added to the immersion.
Yeah it's weird. Both are games that are super immersive at many moments but if you think about it, you can't really call neither of them realistic, because they're not. Really hard to get this balance right.
Might also want to look into the modern ghost recon games. Same "action realism" idea there too
@@jfv2312 I think both 2019 and MW 2 feel like they belong in the same genre of "pseudo-realistic" special forces /spy media like the Bourne franchise and anything with Tom Clancy's name on it.
On the surface the attention to realistic detail is really good, but the people and events/action sequences fall well within "fantastic reality" (eg. someone actually jumping between cars, mowing down platoons of soldiers etc.).
It´s the perfect middle spot. It doesn´t get to Arma levels of realism or Michael Bay levels of action, it´s that sweet spot
This explains the itch you’re talking about:
czcams.com/video/2EXjRrTzTgQ/video.html
I just love the chemistry between the Characters and its great that they didnt escalate everything like they did in the old games. It gives everything a more realistic and grounded approach. Had so much fun playing the campaign and cant wait to get into the MP part.
You probably already know this but don't reply to that it's a bot
@@jackomo1387 Can we just take a moment to appreciate all the work you put into this comment?
multiplayer is a dumpster fire, don't play it
After my friends played/watched each other play this campaign it was a very easy sell to get the lads to watch Sicario, felt like a perfect shot/chaser
As a huge fan of Sicario, this campaign was absolutely perfect for me.
It’s cool to draw some parallels between the two, without MW just feeling like a rip off
@@0jutai MW2022 gave me Sicario, GTA, Mad Max, first Far Cry and few other games or movies vibes....in a good way, not feeling like a rip off, but drawing inspiration to prove you can still inject something new in this kind of stories.
No one has ever ever described how i felt about call of duty so well then you did in that intro.
I felt the exact same way.
Yeah yeah we get it don't like cod you ain't nothing fucking special puto
@@thatonefpsgamer1339 Did you just call me a steamed rice cake ?
@@thatonefpsgamer1339 Your reading comprehension needs work. Dude never shared an opinion on CoD, just said he agrees with Gman's intro. Which if you watched, wasn't a CoD hate-fest.
@@thebarbaryghostsf yeah no his whole comment history is holier then thou so yeah. But keep trying to win online arguments someone will love your reddit ass one day
I don't know if you're going to mention this but this campaign reminds me of Titanfall 2, with each mission featuring a new gameplay element to keep track of, beyond the set pieces.
Also I like the character dynamics. The jury's still out on Ghost's redesign but I like his characterization here moreso than the original, mostly because it has more room to breathe. Same with Soap, Gaz and even Laswell. They even have dialogue options, not to affect the story but to further allow for building character, just like TF|2
I agree i feel like ghost in og mw was a wasted potential i remember more soap and price because they did memorable stuff and we know there background i think Chernov is a more interesting character than og ghost
Comparing this shit to Titanfall 2 is an insult.
Ghost has his og mask so it’s all good
@@saibot1246 tbf Chernov is a really underrated character
@@S3mj0n I mean, is it, tho? I feel it's high praise. They finally understand why old IW (which is now Respawn) worked
I prefer in-engine cutscenes myself. Even though they are of a higher quality than the gameplay. I feel that full motion video cutscenes would be even more jarring when it transitions to the gameplay.
I prefer them to live action as well, although real time rendered cut scenes are always the best in my opinion. Doesn't take you out of the game at all and you don't have to deal with the over-compressed low res mess that we usually get with per-rendered or live action cut scenes. I also really can't wrap my head around what they were thinking with the insane film grain in the cut scenes. Looked like an early phone camera.
The campaign feels like a combination of COD4 and MW2 with some of the fat trimmed off, feels really grounded and honestly I love it.
The stealth and crafting was really tedious and killed the pacing for me, but the campaign was good.
@@hughjass69933 fax, i hated the "Alone" mission that shit kills replayability
@@amarson2322 so you just want every mission to be the same?
@@sgtroach1510 You can have stealth that isn't tedious and ubfun.
@@amarson2322 Hated it the first time, blazed through it the second time, honestly not that bad once you get thr hang of the system. All they need to do is fix the ai and we are all good.
There's a minute detail in mw2 reboot in which if you aim your weapons on your allies , the character will put his weapon down to avoid flagging his mates .
A lot of special forces guys who played the 2019 MW complained about that. Glad IW listened.
Theres also a new feature for pistols taking the phrase "switching to your sidearm is faster than reloading" to a new level.
When you have a long gun equipped and switch to a pistol your character wont put your long gun away, he only rests it on his body and pulls out his pistol one handed.
Which is pretty cool.
@@awacsrazgriz967 This sidearm switching feature is a perk that you apply to your pistol so unfortunately it's not there 100% of the time. It's still very cool that it's in the game though and it saved my ass a lot in the multiplayer beta.
@@mhm5020 Oh really? I havent played MP yet but if its a perk thats kinda unfortunate.
Id love to have that all the time.
@@awacsrazgriz967 Yeah, I've heard that it's a weapon perk unfortunately. Though I guess that means we just gotta hope we don't need to level the gun up to 20 or something just to unlock it.
They took a page out of Treyarch's playbook and let the character relationships play out. The banter between Price, Laswell and Gaz, the jokes between Ghost and Soap, Valeria vs Alejandro - it worked much better than MW2 2009.
I wish we could’ve seen a bit more of it though. The group was all together for like 2 missions only. We need task force 141 together for a full game so I’m hoping we get that with mw3
So COD is a cringy MCU movie or lame ass superhero show now trying to be funny or "quirky" for the masses?
@@Wazam Not at all. The humor isn't over the top or at the expense of the immersion. It's actually really funny with how subtle it is and is great comic relief
@@Wazam
You don't even need to reply to any of the things they say
@@Wazam you've gotta be lobotomized or at least have some degree of brain damage to think MW2's banter's anything close to late-stage MCU.
One of my Favourite Cod Campaigns since the golden age. The banter between ghost and soap was top notch
The argument with live action and motion capture, I personally feel you still want to be within the game. Instead of just jumping to a movie or snippet , it helps you stay grounded within the game
I loved the campaign and love how they reintegrate not only characters but also some patterns in the level design that are very much a more mature depiction of the favelas and desert missions in MW2 (2009) truly a superior CoD when it comes to presentation in story mode. I still love the steroid inducing action from 09’ but this was definitely refreshing.
But it still lacked in plot
What is you talking about? Story development was SUBPAR AT BEST. Y'all smoking??
@@plasma_mb3 I'm pretty sure these people only played the original when it was remastered and gobbled up the other trash COD made since after COD Ghosts.
@Will Literally American born and yet I can still see through all this façade.
The original mw2s plot made no sense either if you actually stop and think about it. The plot can only happen because the world doesn't operate as it logically would. Both have problems.
Beating Alone on Veteran feels like beating a harder mission on Grounded in TLOU. Hit and run, booby trapping bodies, diving to prone underneath things, and picking off enemies one by one all with things you crafted around the environment and sneaky weapons you looted from safes really REALLY makes me yearn for more immersive guerilla stealth gameplay.
The final sequence with the armored heavies was a blast. Learning their patrol patterns, and luring them into buildings filled with traps, and picking off stragglers with takedowns and molotovs is such an experience. I recommend everyone at least try that mission on Vet or Realistic.
Hell try doing the gunless achievement while also on veteran, its hell
they tried too much to be like TLOU w that mission
I absolutely love the fact you make all the people smile in the thumbnail, I don't know if you do it on purpose or not but all these horribly sad and miserable people smiling is kinda nice to look at
i dont know how you could enjoy this campaign without enjoying the last mw. absolute cinematic experiences
It’s good to hear that the campaign is good, that’s usually my favourite part. I might not even really get into the multiplayer
I would wait for a sale in that case. 70 dollars for 5 hours is WAY too much when you could pay 40 dollars for Modern Warfare Remastered - the best campaign in the COD franchise. I bought MWII full price because I know the multiplayer is something I'm going to sink a lot of time into.
I would still check out the new invasion mode. Its going to be a massive TDM mode with vehicles that is both PvE and PvP. If you are looking for a more casual expericence ala Battlefield
@@mickha..8013 reported.
I might give the tarkov mode a try.
@@FreshTillDeath56 i was on the verge of buying the game cuz im a massive fan of the history, rather than being a fan of the game itself (i dont play much shooters) , but honestly, paying US 80 just for the campaing isnt a smart choice. I already have the 2019 one (US40) and i dont play MP.
MW2 was when I checked out of the series, but I'll be damned if this doesn't look dope.
So you checked out at quite possibly one of the best times in xbox lobby history???
Not even MW3
The last mission was incredibly anti climatic in terms of pacing - The fact the last segment is a stealth segment really slowed the game down for me, which almost makes me hope that the campaign dlc is true because it feels to me like they cut the campaign short.
I couldn't get over how Soap somehow managed to loose all of his weapons for a second time during the final mission. In Alone I could kinda forgive it but there? How?
Did you ever play Cold War's campaign? I'd highly recommend it if you liked this one, the story is really good and the gameplay variety is second to none, so many good missions. It's done completely by Raven too as opposed to Treyarch. It's kind of short but definitely worth playing.
No
Agreed, Cold War was the most refreshing CoD campaign I played in the past decade. Wayy better than MW19, which was still good, but comparatively a one track rollercoaster.
@@winlover37 Defintely not. Cold War had good moments but felt like a generic COD campaign. MW2019 was so much more immersive, the story was better, the characters are great, and the gunplay was way more fun.
Honestly, Cold War is meh (my opinion). It's a generic game at best, it really doesn't make sense that a villain like Perseus is only in the game for 4 scenes in game. Some things in the campaign are memorable, such as the mission where you're undercover and returning to Mt. Yamantau, but thats really about it. Campaign wise its a massive step backwards... in my opinion.
@@hughjass69933 Hard disagree, which is fine no hate. MW19 was fun, the presentation is incredible, but it was pretty forgettable for me. It tried way too hard to be shocking and outside of a few good set pieces it was just mind numbing shooty shooty. Which is fine, but not enough to make me want to play it again.
Cold War had its dull moments but I really enjoyed the exploration in Lubyanka and the Vietnam sequence. Also really enjoyed the world building and puzzle solving in the hub world. It's an RPG Lite, but way more interesting. Maybe I just like the theme more?
Didn't realise that this was the review I've been waiting for. Thanks GMan.
@@mickha..8013 thanks. How do you delete someone else's comment?
@@michaelbiljon8249 just report them
It’s all we can do
Personally, for someone who never played the old CoD games the 2019 release being more story driven made me super interested in the whole series. And just loved that this release had such a fantastic story as well. Felt like watching a movie and playing parts of it!
Highly also recommend you play the old school Black Ops, BO2, WAW, MW, MW2, and MW3 campaigns. All good in there own right!
I personally I fell in love with the storytelling from OG MW, and I have played every campaign since then (except Black Ops 4, of course.) I loved MW2019’s story because it felt way more grounded than the previous space opera style campaigns (which weren’t bad, but I feel COD is best when it has a seat in reality,) so MW2 keeping that grounding and still managing to evolve the story with Soap, Ghost, and Alejandro is such a pleasant surprise.
After Vanguard went off the rails I was terrified they’d ruin what MW2019 built; but I am so glad that they didn’t. You should absolutely play the classics listed in the comment above me; Black Ops 1 and 2 are amazing experiences on their own.
@@Jay_Z. Yeah, I went back and played all of them after I first played MW 2019, just to get the full experience and story of all characters! Loved it!
@@neabby Very nice! 👏
"Fantastic story" lmaooo
I love you keeping in mistakes / outtakes in the review, makes me laugh every time, and love every video so much more!
Plus as well it shows that even the best people can make mistakes.
i never liked COD but i always enjoy your sense of humor and style
Hope you're ready for co-op, they have a team set to focus on it so it's not gonna be dropped in a few seasons.
I like how the only way to really get back "up to speed" in the stealth mission is to find that adrenaline
I haven't played a cod campaign since MW3 and decided to get back into it to relive my xbox cod lobby days and honestly loved it.
But beating it on Realism was some of the most painful times I've ever had gaming only because of those assholes with armor.
Overall really liked it and can't wait to get into the MP in the larger player count modes.
Yeah those armored units are a pain in the ass if you dont have a sniper rifle or explosives.
Having to dump whole mags into them while you yourself die in 1-2 shots is nuts.
I’ll admit I wasn’t expecting you enjoying this game campaign
Thought he'd have torn it to shreds too.
@@justgunsolid like Synthetic Man lmao
@@mozambiquehere5903 Literally next in the recommend with this vid first time I saw. Haven't watched it. I kinda understand people got different tastes and this one seems to be a bit more polarizing.
@@justgunsolid He tends to be a hit and miss with me.
THANK YOU. I thought I was going fucking crazy cause normally with Gman I'm all ears but dude these people are lying to themselves. This campaign sucked hands down I don't even really care to finish it. Between the aggravating armored units, bullshit mission fails, absolutely useless teammates and cringy as fuck dialog this game feels like it was written by a middle schooler. The flow of the missions are way off mark too and the immersion breaking moments (such as the CIA chick literally saying "THESE CARTEL GUYS" right infront of two cartel guys hanging out in the third mission) just make it worse. The original campaign knew what it was and what it wanted to be, MW2 thinks it's a realistic tactical game but it's not it just looks and sounds like one.
Thanks for the review. I really appreciate that you've been keeping some of the bloopers in the video to lighten the mood. Also glad there's a CoD campaign I can be excited for once I finally get my hands on a next gen console.
HYPE You uploaded it! Thank you again!
Yep, the campaign is definitely a return to form for the series. Loved (almost) every minute of it. It's great to see that they're keeping the single player campaign alive, as it's something I've always enjoyed in the series.
Really loved the banter and conversations in this game. Just a couple of sections dragged on too long and the amount of visual bugs surprised me but I don’t regret playing it at all.
Awesome vid Gman!
It's absolutely awesome, finished it twice already on regular and realistic, I love how tactical this one feels, an easy 8.5/9 out of 10 for me!
I doubt jumping on those trucks on that mission chasing the AQ convoy holding Laswell hostage was anything close to "tactical". Its a fun change of pace though.
Shooting the cinematics in live action would be far more expensive.
You have to not only hire the VA's as actors (which costs more) but hire the background actors, staff for filming, people for firearm safety, stunt doubles, etc.
Waaaaaaayyyy more costly then using the rendered models they already have
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exactly , if live action was cheaper they would have done that, also its far more time consuming. The game has a full length film runtime in cinematics. It would literally be like shooting a hollywood movie. When old gen gets dropped completely in terms of support (meaning at the end of this gen) there will be no difference between cinematics and gameplay.
Thank you for adding the Narcos theme! I was definitely getting those vibes while playing through this.
Every year I get these things in Gamefly, play the campaign in one evening, send it back and forget the game ever existed. Call of Duty 2 was the last game in the series that made me replay it an insane amount of times. Glad to hear they have another good campaign this year. Nice review too! And never stop sharing your bloopers with us. I love that self deprecating humor.
I really enjoyed this campaign, Vargas was awesome, graves was interesting the writing A+. My biggest gripe is the armoured enemies they took alot of bullets
played through the story on hardened difficulty. was pretty good and the voice acting was really well done.
You rock my dude!! Thank you for the great work!
I finished the campaign on Veteran on my 2nd play-through last night. Although it was a little stressful, I thought it was a good enough challenge.
The campaign itself, I thought was pretty great. I liked the addition of Alejandro and his squad of Los Vaqueros of the Mexican Special Forces. Las Almas felt like I was in Ghost Recon Wildlands to an extent, which is hopefully an complement. Soap and Ghost felt like they were solid lads in this game as well. I can’t wait for the full release this Friday so I can try out the multiplayer, I enjoyed the beta.
Great video! Personally, I feel like the writers had a safe play this time around with the story; Lots of instances that had me biting my nails, only to kind of be disappointed that the tension led nowhere? Take for instance, the first mission following Alejandro, or the New Amsterdam mission. They definitely took the time to show off mechanics and new elements of gameplay that they've introduced. Take the concealing weapon mechanic, or the CIA injector-thingy-mabob. Now, both these missions, have a tiny tension point.
At both points, there's an air of tension that there could be serious consequence for action, or inaction. Yet, instead of allowing these things, you sooner find yourself at a game-over screen, reloading the next checkpoint, as opposed to having your jaw drop, and everything that you think you knew swept from the table.
You're best off comparing the reboot trilogy to the original, like you would compare the new Star Wars with the original trilogy. It has it's moments, it makes sure to include fan-service for those that remember or who'd played the original, but never does it come close to a No Russian. There are no twists like Loose Ends. There is no knife twirling in your 2v1 Rust match like Endgame. No 50,000 people, no 30,000 gone in the blink of an eye. Just a safe story, something to tell your kids about. The action heroes who save the day.
Sad, really. Never do I expect a story like Disco Elysium out of something like Call of Duty, but-- The spirit was there, once, where'd it end up going? Maybe it's just nostalgia, maybe the industry is lacking innovators, not sure. I just know this left me wanting more, with so many different chances for them to have done so.
They are saving those high tension moments for MW3. I'm sure that in the last game they are going to include the No Russian mission, the bombings, and even more shit that results in lots of casualties and a very angry Cpt. Price
That opening line was one of the funniest things I've heard in a while. Very, very nice one, @Gman.
10:43 Funny thing is there is a snakecam option in some of the levels. In the mission Recon by Fire when you are clearing out the buildings, if you look at the bottom of a door there is a prompt to use a snakecam. its crazy how many little things activision is including in these games
0:13 so god damn accurate
Not gonna lie, I’m still burnt out on CoD since MW3. My first CoD was World at War, and I remember getting it just for the zombies mode, but I actually really enjoyed the campaign and the multiplayer. I liked it so much that I even picked up MW2 when it came out, and that was probably my favorite in the franchise. The campaign was epic, and I prestiged at least like 3 or 4 times (and then I did the same in Black Ops)
I think I beat mw3, but I barely remember it, (you get to play as a dog for some parts, if I remember correctly) and I played a fair bit of the multiplayer, the survival mode thing was pretty interesting, but at the end of it, I was all Call of Dutied out. I skipped black ops 2, and whatever else until CoD: Ghosts came out, and I thought maybe I’d want to play it. So I bought it, and played it for all of maybe 3 or 4 hours. Ever since I have not wanted to play a CoD game.
Doom2016 and shooters like it have been my favorites since then.
Your reviews have grown so much bro.
Im happy to have been a part since the beginning. Hope you continue to grow and stay relevant bro!
About the NVG point (spent a lot of time under PVS-31's in the marines):
NVG tubes are mounted to your helmet and then reach about three to four inches off the helmet. Not only that, but NVG's project a very flat image, messaging with your depth perception, making even lining up with an optic extremely difficult. So, yeah, you rely almost entirely on IR lasers to shoot at night. Fortunately, you can see those things and engage with reasonable accuracy for quite a ways.
Up close yeah, but most eotechs have NvG mode right?
@@eduardosalgado1518 they do but it sucks. Also, the issue with awkwardly trying to get your tubes into position behind the sight is a million times more awkward than just using your laser (we used what are called AN/PEQ-15's).
Have to say I enjoyed the campaign alot, I especially enjoyed the more grounded gameplay and feel of the game. Yeah there's a few over the top moments in the game but it's nothing like it was in the originals. Graphics is another high light their really good to the point I had to remind myself this is a call of duty game, the attention to detail on the guns, animations, textures lighting etc all top notch here, though there is some technical problems with graphics sometimes like popin and LOD but those are mostly nip picks if I'm honest.
The COD 2019 was absolutely fantastic, especially the penultimate mission where you're essentially left to your own devices. Huge Splinter Cell vibes. Absolutely brilliant!
yeah ive also seen bugs in that last mission one server rack wasnt there i couldny see or walk through it but npcs could and shots passed right through it was also perfectly possitioned just outside the door
I agree with the cinematics! The character models look great but the uncanny valley is present without a doubt. I love the comparison to sicario and zero dark thirty- fits the vibe
Loved the campaign. Easily one of the best in years. The more grounded approach and variety of missions really makes CoD feels extremely fresh. Props to IW.
Grounded? You are hanging head down from a helicopter firing at bad guys on a truck with a glock.
@@S3mj0n Compared to most previous CODs this far more grounded. Even going back the original MW2
@@S3mj0n for one part of the campaign. Every other section of the campaign is incredibly grounded and feels super realistic. Have you played it?
@@wilhelmhause3510 He’s a low IQ troll
@@wilhelmhause3510 yes I have. 2 times. Once on hardened and once on realistic
Even if it's an "outdated design", I find any concept of a final boss in a CoD game an extremely welcome addition.
Pretty much every CoD campaign ends in an extremely anti-climatic way, with you just walking through a corridor and the game ending (peaking at BOPs 2 with you falling through a collapsing floor and falling literally over the main antagonist).
So even if its just a tank with a huge health bar, that's already better than the alternative. Even if it's frustrating, hey come on, it's the last battle in the game, it's testing all your skills and reflexes you developed through the game, it's supposed to be extra challenging.
The problem I have with these WMReboots is 2019 like BO4 was jerrie rigged to buggernet both with stupid large file sizes taking a huge chunk of disk space to install the game with no secondary installation options or the means to play the story campaign as an offline standalone experience like the previous COD games sold on Steam. If activision want to earn back the trust of their old time fans then they should released 2019 as a bonus pack alongside MW2022 at around £35-40 then I'd seriously reconsider taking the steel padlock off my wallet. But when it comes to activision it seems misdeeds & empty promises speak louder than action. I agree well thought out Boss fights should be a common stable within COD even SOF12 and (it pains me to admit even Payback) all had boss fights in em, though the 1st has objectively the best final Boss battle against a dude an iron man suit. As for the file size there's no reason for COD to be over 40gb even with its MP mode Warzone & all that other shit the vault edition & upgrade that costs three times the price of the the base game and it makes me shake my head in utter disgust. How do tell when a multi bijillion $ game studio is nothing but spineless criminal front...when they're caught red handed for trying steal artwork from an indy studio yes activision stole artwork for promotional material for 2019 from the devs of Black Powder, Red Earth.
I can agree that how you find Menendez in BO2 isn't the most creative way, however given that at least the ending has like 4 variants makes it way better.
Tho I don't mind a proper boss fight in COD
@@arshiaaghaei From what I've seen of the many campaign walkthroughs this new COD feels like an overplayed mexican soap opera with dumb shit characters like Alejandro & his stupid rat haircut, But I'm Not Dead Yet Ghost w his stupid halloween mask & my grud how activision fucked up Farah ( who I liked in CODMW2019 better campaign too) by making her eyeballs bug out of her face like that insufferable mansplaining wetnurse activist from Wolfenstein New Colossus & what in the name of all things badass did they do with the original gravel voice, cigar chomping war junkie Major Sheppard cus this nu egghead's as interesting as faded wallpaper. And those mini juggernauts are bullet wasting lil shits.
@@marcuskahn3783 Haven't played MW2 yet, can't comment. My comment was about BO2, a game I played fully
@@arshiaaghaei The campaign for BO2 had an incredible intro with The Independent Angolan Conflict, The Soviet Afghan Invasion & Operation Just Cause until the Cold War missions got swapped out for this futuristic super-soldier crap 3rd way into the game.
Man one of the aspects I love the most about your videos is your always so positive and fair. Love your videos gman.
Damn, that's one hell of a throwback Gman. Soooo many good memories with first and second MW.
The sneaking mission was so frustrating on realism. Took me a entire night just for that mission. My whole body hurt from how tense I was and holding my breath. The bugs I've seen too. The one where you can't crouch I found you can fix by sprinting and diving. It worked for me at least
I think the campaign was horrible. It was full of game breaking bugs, annoying gameplay mechanics and the story was awful. There was a point where we had to chase a major terrorist leader for over three hours and when we finally captured him, they just told us that he have diplomatic immunity and we have to let him go... At that point I think I got a brainrot.
The highlight of the entire campaign when we controlled Dipaolo, that mission was a pure adrenaline rush... Too bad it only lasted like 2 minutes.
I really wanted to like this campaign and while I didn’t absolutely love the campaign from 2019, it was better than I thought it would be and better than any campaign for many years. So after 2019 came out and you had missions like clean the house and the wolfs den, I was like oh they are probably going to see how well those missions did and they’re going to make an entire campaign like that that is completely bad ass. Instead, it just absolutely sucked. Lots of sneaking around and crafting things, lots of missions where I barely get to kill anyone yet I’m handed lots of guns, a jumbled mess of a story that didn’t really make much sense, graphics that were worse than 2019, and a practical tutorial for Warzone 2. I could go on but you get the picture. Why do they always do this to us? Why do they have to make some thing better after years of junk and then immediately screw it up when they try and do a sequel? Why does everyone suck all the time these days? Video games and the video game market is already a desert to begin with so when they give us an oasis why does it have to turn out to be a goddamn Mirage?
its actually really funny to see your experience and take away was the exact opposite of mine LOL glad you enjoyed it
The reason you can’t look down certain sights under night vision is because of the way the goggles focus, if something is too close, it’ll appear blurry.
I'm always about 5-10 yrs behind, so I can get the games cheap.
This will be fun for me in 2027+
This campaign was shocking. 2019 was fantastic and this campaign really did not hold up anywhere near.
Pleasantly surprised to hear this
Those moments of corner to corner combat were the best in the game and really showcased the gunplay. I wish there were more of those, as much as I appreciated the change of pace missions like “Alone” (a mission I did not like tbh) I was. Left wanting more of those tense gunfights
I've seen those complaints about that amazing looking Amsterdam mission. Imagine putting your heart and soul, all your experience, talent and passion into crafting something this amazing and then have people disregard it just because "it's call of duty lmao". People on Twitter are so fcking cringe...
Right? They really did not have to go all out with the details that they did. Halo Infinite and Battlefield 2042 were the only mainstream FPS games that they were up against and I feel they destroyed them in the graphics and details department.
People like you complain when others have an opinion but then say bs like “people are allowed to have an opinion” when you say something others don’t agree with 🤡
@@thetrashcanman7537 Cool. Let me know when you aquired a functional brain so you can come up with a point that actually makes sense. Nice touch of adding that clown emoji for yourself tho.
Lmfaoo they deleted this idiots comment , opinions are opinions 🤡
Modern Warfare (2019) campaign was much better. I thought the MW2 (2022) campaign was mid
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9:08 I love love LOVE that you put Pchooly in this lol.
I love the really great looking cenimatics, Live action is a copout and brings you out the game more then the uncanny valley.
I didn't love it but I enjoyed alot of the sniping missions. Some missions were dragging like the ac130 mission or the cartel missions 6.5/10
The best missions were the ones in Mexico honestly.
@@JoshJr98 Nah, because we would be stuck with more of the tedious stealth and crafting gameplay that honestly ruined the pacing.
We'll never get a video game based spinoff of the movie Sicario, but this one comes close. And that's the best compliment I can give for the campaign
Me who just play through the OG trilogy in the kast few days this brought a tear to my eye.... Happy tears.
How the fuck can somebody praise this game?
Hopefully that end game teaser cutscene means there will be a level reimagining that level in the original MW. That was a pretty cool one.
17:59 glad to know I'm not the only one who was audibly excited to see Nikolai make a small cameo.
Man they made Shepard's voice actor be the Overlord radio guy from the original MW2. I can't say it's not appropriate but his voice doesn't feel the same without the radio static effect.
I'll never be able to forget those sound bytes going "Hunter 2-1 Actual this is Overlord shoot some bad guys or whatever"
Great take, highly agree with your thoughts on this!
Did we play the same game?
My favorite part was when captain price said to his team "it's ghosting time!" And ghosted the enemy's tank truly one of the cod games of all time
Edit: this is actually what happens in the campaign
CZcams commenters resisting the urge to make a "My favorite part was when [someone] said 'It's [insert character name or other subject title]ing time!', truly one of the [thing] of all time"
Morbius memes are about as original as Disney remakes. That's NOT a compliment
This joke format is definitely run its course.
@@darthcinema4262 it sounds like a bad joke but it's a bit funnier when you know the context behind it this is literally what happens in the game captain price says to the team " we are not 141 but we are a team ghost team" and then they all wear ghost masks
05:52 Thank you for mentioning the variety of mechanics in MW2022, as so far, I rarely see people give credit for IW's effort in it. Yeah, the point of a shooter game is to shoot the enemies, but in the campaign, the AI is not that smart, so it doesn't give me that satisfaction like I get when taking down an actual player in the multiplayer. So in many previous COD campaigns, as the game reached its end, I found the AI shooting gameplay loop started to get tedious since that was what I had been doing from mission to mission. So mixing up the gameplay in MW2022 with the driving, sneaking in the Cartel's vila, survival crafting, and guiding Ghost through the prison keeps the game fresh. Yes, I do agree with the criticism that IW's implementation of these mechanics is lackluster, the driving mission goes on longer than it should and the switching to survival crafting kills the tension in what is supposed to be the climactic ending battle. But in the end, despite the flaws, I still appreciate the amount of effort the devs put into the campaign.
Just to see the old dudes from Back to the Future Part III 7:33 makes this video deserving of a commendation. Bravo Gman, bravo.
I think the “Alone” mission on Veteran will be one of those things people remember for a long time
Did the achievement for not firing a single gun on veteran, some real heart pounding shit
Nah it’ll be forgotten in a few months 🗑
If u liked the campaign, your standards are pretty low. Each to his own i guess
This dude is an industry shill. He can not be taken seriously.
20:52 same here . cod 1+2 campaign is fun I will never forget (i even used to play this custom map server where you play in big kitchen) . world at war is the last great ww2 game imo . and the original modern warfare series still hold great now a days .
Edit: cod 4 is the most chilling take on modern conflict ( at least for me)
I first timed the campaign on Veteran. Did the same with MW2019, only on Realistic (same thing, but this time that was locked until completion). It's a great experience, in my eyes. Makes you careful. Makes you pace yourself. Sure, there are moments where you feel cheated out of it, but you also feel the 'bad luck' of real war. You don't often get a fair fight. Nor do your enemies.
If this campaign is good for you, you're really should played Black Ops Cold War for really good cod canpaign.
Honestly, after WaW, probably my favourite campaign in the series. It was genuinely incredible. I haven’t had so much fun in w COD game since BO2
LMAO!!! The way that soldier gets point blank domed THROUGH his helmet. @ 8:10
Those stealth missions with armored death squads on Veteran difficulty was a nightmare.
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Man hands down the best part about the campaign was the small little charecter interactions , EXPICALLY Gost and Soap
I'm shocked how much they characterised those two. It's a good buddy cop pairing, with their opposing personalities. Reminds me of Connor and Hank from Detroit in a way
@@0uttaS1TE yoo what's Detroit. Dum Gen z 😅 i guess
@@repawn3610 Oh sorry. I mean, Detroit Become Human. The story isn't great imo but the arc of two of the characters, Hank and Connor is fantastic. And you ain't dumb, I was too vague.
@@0uttaS1TE oooh yeah . That game was really really good which path did you choose
Nope! Not gonna spoil myself.
bro the campaign is literally out right now go play it
@@thecattermat dude. Cod Mw2 dosen't come out until oct 28
You can play the campaign if you pre-order it.
@@anon3631 I bought it physically not digitally. Game stop and Inkslasher's last video said u can't play the campaign if u bought it physically.
@@anon3631 and yes I pre-order it too.
1:34 I come home after school and check your channel every day. I love you bro
Man, this campaign looks amazing and action packed! When you played that Narcos music, that was awesome, especially when they get to the US Mexico border. It’s also pretty amazing how they notched up the gameplay every now and then to keep your mind sharp as well. I’m gonna look into buying this because like you, I also played these games for the campaign and the execution and results of the older games at times felt all over the place. Almost like they’re wasn’t any time to breathe or take things in. Finally good luck if you play the multiplayer because it’s just sheer chaos as well as the trolls and hackers.
I replayed the campaign recently on veteran and oh man, reliving all the detail is really nice, they did a really good job with this game overall
Idk why, but I hated the campaign.
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Same felt like a lot of ghost and it just wasn’t it I fw the mp tho
Loved that metal slug reference
Verdansk TV tropes broke it down its scary as hell when you realise that there was an operational nuke on the map and its eventually used.