In the potentially intimidating world of online shooters, MW2 tries to be friendly, offering bonuses for every notable situation. This is connected to Accolades - end-of-game awards given to those with high kill-to-death ratios, or who've done good at protecting their flag. Now you unlock emblems through a separate achievements system. Now, you don't just get to show off with a badge that proves you've voluntarily given up your top-level soldier 10 times, like some kind of suicidal maniac. The prestige elements have I also been built up.
Level three grants access to all five predefined classes, and level five lets you create five custom classes.Ī class load-out now consists of your unlocked primary and secondary weapon, two pieces of equipment, three of your unlocked perks, and a death streak. For prestige - well, you could trade all your progress for a shiny badge that proves you're awesome.ĭeath streaks give heroic losers the chance to redeem themselves, with health boosts and the ability to steal your killer's class, to see how he was kitted out The unlocks are constant too. In terms of progress, the kill streak awards were instant reward for persistent murder, and the levelling and unlock system provided a compelling wider picture to keep you going. Pie multiplayer side of Modern Warfare was characterised by two things: progress and prestige. Finally there's High Rise, which breaks with the dusty theme and lets you wage war around an office block and on roof-tops. Then there's the dusty expanses of Afghan, with mountainous brown terrain and bunkers providing hiding places and sniping spots. Favela is your dusty shanty town, with tight maze-like roads occasionally opening up into areas filled with burnt-out cars and fizzing pylons. Today, though, it's all about the PvP multiplayer side - with three new maps cycling on the 32 machines. The first shot represents a shrunk-down version of the originals, and the second zoomed-in set is representative of an actual pixel-to-pixel comparison.So far, we've had a glimpse of MW2s single-player campaign, and the Special Ops co-op mode has been showcased briefly. On the consoles, we captured the images directly over HDMI using the Matrox MXO2 Mini and used FRAPs to capture screenshots on the PC. On the PC, we enabled all the highest-quality settings, as well as 4x antialiasing and 8x anisotropic filtering.
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We captured the following shots at 720p across both consoles and the PC to keep everything even. Outside of a few blurry textures on the PlayStation 3, the two console versions look largely the same.
As usual, the PC version of the game looks better, but that's mainly due to higher-resolution textures and the ability to crank up antialiasing and anisotropic filtering settings. We could crank up the resolution and all the high-quality settings with the $160 Radeon HD 5770 and play the game stutter-free. The game runs great on both of the consoles and doesn't require a beast of a computer to run well. It's clear that Infinity Ward spent a lot of time polishing the engine for speed. And with a simultaneous release across the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC, it's definitely worth the effort to see how the game looks on all of them. By: Sarju Shah, GameSpot - Posted on November 13, 2009Ĭall of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is all the rage at the moment.