Comments on: Call of Duty – Broadband Warfare 2

By: dan

dan — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:34:54 +0000

I have to say I’m quite enjoying MW2 on my xbox. It’s a polished shooter and the co-op missions are a good bit of fun.

By: Frenetic

Frenetic — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:50:06 +0000

Call of What?

It appears I’m the only person in the world who isn’t obsessed with COD:MW2

You’re not alone! I like a lot of games (been pretty into Borderlands lately myself) but the CoD franchise has never interested me that much.

By: Stodge

Stodge — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:24:43 +0000

You’re not the only one – I don’t have either MW, one or two!

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:35:55 +0000

@warmi The MW2 PC multiplayer experience is exactly that same as the console. Same player limit, same forced match making system, and the same exclusion of mods.

By: stefan

stefan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:39:04 +0000

I cared about the game until my Dragon Age: Origins (on PC) arrived. I have plenty to do in this game and I have even left Uncharted 2 in my rack catching dust for it . I can’t imagine how this game plays with a controller being so mouse and keyborad oriented.

I may still get COD at a later date since I like FPS games in general, generic or not. The presentation of COD:MW2 is just phantastic and the gameplay isn’t to shabby either.

By: warmi

warmi — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:28:22 +0000

FPS shine in multiplayer mode .. that’s the only reason I played COD so much – for me no single player experience, no matter how good or innovative gameplay, comes close to playing against other people.
That’s why I don’t play consoles at all .. there is just nothing there but single player or some crippled version of multiplayer.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:27:10 +0000

Hear hear Nico. I was sucked in with the hype around most of the previous COD’s – same old tedious linear FPS. Not rubbish, but certainly nothing new.

I’m not even looking at this one unless it gets consistent fantabulous votes from users (and I don’t trust magazine reviews anymore either, not since the gash that was Far Cry 2).

By: Nico

Nico — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:51:41 +0000

^
That would’ve made for another great blog post on its own.

You’re not the only person in the world who doesn’t care one bit for COD:MW2. I didn’t know the game was coming out until a couple of days ago and since then I’ve been wondering what all the hype is about. To me, it’s just Generic FPS Game #287631. I’ll believe it when people say it’s a good game, it’s just nothing for me to get psyched about.

By: John

John — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:32:15 +0000

I have to admit I am far more interested in Dragon Age: Origins that Modern Warfare 2, though I’ll probably play around with MW2 once the price comes down a bit on steam (if that ever happens)

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:06:08 +0000

Since I’m not really following the game I don’t care that much in the specific case. But in a general sense it’s just the next step for AAA developers concentrating on consoles rather than the PC, and not seeing any point spending money on PC-specific features. Sad but inevitable – as soon as iD, the former champion of top-end PC development, said they were leading on consoles from now on, the writing was on the wall.

I don’t mind that much though – some like Valve still support the PC well and big developers ignoring the PC leaves some space for indies to make a name. The openness of the PC template is still inexorable in the long term, the business model of creating locked-in, custom and incompatible console hardware will not survive indefinitely – arguably it’s already faltering. Content is king, not platforms. Arguably the co-existence of the many incompatible platforms is the biggest waste of developer time known to man – how many man-hours are wasted on creating / tuning a basically identical looking engine several times that could have been spent on content instead? If you suggested to a Hollywood studio that they should film and edit a movie in 3 different formats at once, they’d tell you to go take a running jump.

It’ll all normalise in the end, technical hurdles are less and less a valid excuse for creating these islands of compatibility. Game developers are almost all cross-platform now, so the platform divisions increasingly serve little purpose (except when devices are genuinely different such as iPhone). I still say it’s a historical anachronism that will eventually evapourate in a puff of common sense. No-one needs 3 ‘primary’ gaming platforms. And the ‘competition’ argument I hear all the time is rubbish – there’s plenty of competition in the market for other devices which use standard media formats (DVD, CD, MP3). As soon as the player hardware becomes indistinguishable – and can you really tell the difference between COD:MW2 on 360 and PS3? – there is simply no reason for there to be more than one content format. The traditional model of content creators subsidising platform holder’s hardware development is all but dead – it just doesn’t make sense any more. Content creators might subsidise delivery & service platforms (like Steam, XBL, PSN), since that is relevant regardless, but not proprietary hardware – that just makes their lives harder.