In a total departure from my aversion to the COD series of games...I bought Modern warfare since the return of the John Price character from the only game in the series I actually liked intrigued me...back in the days when COD had a single player campaign and a bit of story.
After a couple of hours in, I certainly don't regret forking out for it...the single player campaign and story is pretty damned good.
As a soldier, I tend to notice the glaring errors when video games try to imitate military operations since the stories and characters tend to be written from a slightly skewed civilian perspective. Soldiers think and act very differently in live fire situations than most folk would ever believe. The average Joe can't just pick up a weapon, don some snazzy body armour and be a soldier, there's years of very hard training involved in the simplest of team tasks, our litany always is...train hard, fight easy.. You're foremost a team member and the rest of the team rely on you doing your job being part of that team...the buddy-buddy system. You may look like a soldier wearing your fancy gear, but acting like one is a whole different ballgame...
There are plenty of minor nit-picks in Modern warfare from a soldier's perspective, but at least the other NPC characters in your team move and react like soldiers which is half the battle from my point of view. The tactics and reactions are decidedly American of course...but your NPC team mates are almost believable none the less. The story line is close to home too...besides casting the Russians as the archetypal bad guys during their invasion of Afghanistan...which is strictly a recent American affectation. Believe me, from an Afghani perspective, the British were a lot worse and out did the Russians in the brutality stakes by several orders of magnitude a hundred years earlier. As an Afghani village elder once told me. "We remember Helmand."
I'll never touch the online fragfest mode of course but it's nice to have a decent length and immersive story mode to play....
Worth a look just for the single player campaign. It's immersive, very brutal in it's depictions of current warfare and very well written.
After a couple of hours in, I certainly don't regret forking out for it...the single player campaign and story is pretty damned good.
As a soldier, I tend to notice the glaring errors when video games try to imitate military operations since the stories and characters tend to be written from a slightly skewed civilian perspective. Soldiers think and act very differently in live fire situations than most folk would ever believe. The average Joe can't just pick up a weapon, don some snazzy body armour and be a soldier, there's years of very hard training involved in the simplest of team tasks, our litany always is...train hard, fight easy.. You're foremost a team member and the rest of the team rely on you doing your job being part of that team...the buddy-buddy system. You may look like a soldier wearing your fancy gear, but acting like one is a whole different ballgame...
There are plenty of minor nit-picks in Modern warfare from a soldier's perspective, but at least the other NPC characters in your team move and react like soldiers which is half the battle from my point of view. The tactics and reactions are decidedly American of course...but your NPC team mates are almost believable none the less. The story line is close to home too...besides casting the Russians as the archetypal bad guys during their invasion of Afghanistan...which is strictly a recent American affectation. Believe me, from an Afghani perspective, the British were a lot worse and out did the Russians in the brutality stakes by several orders of magnitude a hundred years earlier. As an Afghani village elder once told me. "We remember Helmand."
I'll never touch the online fragfest mode of course but it's nice to have a decent length and immersive story mode to play....
Worth a look just for the single player campaign. It's immersive, very brutal in it's depictions of current warfare and very well written.
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