Your teammates often feel like soldiers recruited from the former Red Army: they just keep advancing no matter what. Especially the behaviour of the AI is a dead giveaway about the age of the game. The same cannot be said about the gameplay. Visually there is nothing to complain about. You can see the times chalked on the blackboard at the entrance to the shooting course, and you will be amazed by the bird-eye perspective of the missile hitting the White House. Thanks to the amazing details the game truly feels a modern production and not a game released 11 years ago.
The engine under the hood of the Call of Duty series was never an extremely demanding one, but this does not take away from the value of the result.
CoD MW2 Campaign remaster runs at 60 fps in 4K on a PS4 Pro console, with no delays in the loading of the textures. The developers are praiseworthy for making the game not just visually attractive, but also as smooth as possible. And the updated visuals makes it worthwhile to revisit them. The very famous missions like the aforementioned “No Russian”, comparable to “One Shot, One Kill” or perhaps “All Ghillied Up” cannot be as dramatic as they were when they first came out, but they are damn close.
Playing Modern Warfare 2 is like being the protagonist of an action movie directed by Michael Bay. If we add the soundtrack composed by Lorne Balfe and Hans Zimmer we get a truly memorable experience, comparable to the Hollywood blockbuster movies made with insane budgets. One of the reasons might be the movie like the original trilogy, which transcends its age and still works like a charm. Some elements are still outdated compared to the latest entries in the franchise, but the remaster looks very impressive and still proves to be fun. Still, we have to admit that Beenox did a pretty good job with Modern Warfare 2, managing to make it feel fresh, even though it will be familiar to those who played the original. What is somewhat surprising that even if the new multiplayer is still going strong, this time around we received just the campaign. Is it still as shocking today? To find out gather your equipment and join Soap, Price, Ghost and the others, who embark on the very same goose chase around the world, but with new looks.Īfter the success registered by the reboot of Modern Warfare, it is no surprise that the second part was dusted down as well. Like the “No Russian” mission in Modern Warfare 2, which managed to stir up quite the controversy. While there might not exist a universal formula to turn this franchise into a yearly blockbuster, no one can deny the memorable moments the series offered us. During this period the different iterations registered various levels of success, changed several settings, experimenting with wars of the past and conflicts of the future, gave us zombie invasions, alienated some of the veteran fans, but also managed to appeal to younger demographics. For almost 20 years now, Call of Duty tries to mix and match different ingredients to nail down a recipe for a truly good shooter.