Modern Warfare II’s greatest strength is that it doesn’t have a gimmick. And that it doesn’t need one to stand out. All Modern Warfare II needs to be is a great shooter, and here it delivers. It is the Call of Duty experience, deconstructed, reconsidered and obsessively optimised over 15 uninterrupted years of iteration.
I know when I’m playing a Black Ops game because it has offbeat arcade modes and the latest iteration of Nuketown. I know I’m playing a Modern Warfare game because the shooting is so finely tuned that I want to take my Gunsmith build out to dinner. Infinity Ward has officially mastered the instant gratification of aiming down sights and deleting targets.
Reload animations bask in tacticool mastery
That goes a long way, though some of ’s biggest swings like revamped progression and a genre-bending campaign are less elegant. It also suffers from an obtuse UI, fits of crashes, weird bugs and the unexplained absence of basic features like stat tracking. But altogether, it’s a.
