It doesn't sound like the ION is going to be able to handle World of Warcraft, or anything remotely recent...
The bugs definitely bring it down a mark, but I have to judge a product as I see it, not on its potential post-patch. Bottom line: this is a 6 for most people, perhaps an 8 for a very patient RPG enthusiast.
here's a pretty thorough rundown from notebookcheck, with tested games and such:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-9300M-GS.9452.0.html
I'm sort of the instigator for the MW2 discussion. I kept getting angrier while playing through the SP campaign, asking myself "Do they think I'm too stupid to notice the goatse-wide plot holes and inconsistencies here?" The COD series has its silly moments, but has always managed to keep one foot in reality. This one tossed reality out the window, along with a great deal of logic and believability. I just felt like I was either being made fun of or condescended towards, and by the end I'm surprised the stinkeye I was giving it wasn't permanently affixed to my face.
And I couldn't, for the life of me, understand why this storyline was either being outright praised or at the very least being given a free pass, regardless of the multiplayer quality. As I said on the show, had it been any other game by any other developer the SP would have been shit on from all directions. It's an ugly game, cynical and manipulative in the worst ways possible, and it didn't even have the backbone to stand behind its own self-created controversy.
send us a note defending modern warfare 2's campaign -- IF YOU CAN
send us a note defending modern warfare 2's campaign -- IF YOU CAN
Some people just can't handle the truth, I guess. :smug
plot/script worse than Kojima's crap or not
The biggest problem with MGS is the non-gameplay which puts emphasis on a stupid, stupid story. That's not the case here.
I'll also say this-two things grate me to no end when they are in a game. The first is a game that's willfully, intentionally stupid, because gamers are generally pretty smart people who are capable of handling nuance and complexity while playing, and second, games that don't know their place. If MW2 had you in a squad with Captain America fighting giant Russian attack bears with intentional use of B-movie style tropes and a cheeseball script, I would have praised it. Instead I felt that they tried to make the campaign into something that it clearly wasn't. So yeah, it sort of did strike a nerve while playing for me.
You guys will happily defend garbage if it seems to have a premise/theme/setting that you really like (Darkest of Days, Dynasty Warriors, grindy JRPGS).....it just seems like you didn't like the MW2 premise.
've only watched a little bit of 24 but MW2 seemed about as implausible as anything on that show.
in dynasty warriors or jrpgs defense, i would play them if they starred the bratz and the cast of twilight, provided the BATTLES or STATZ were there, respectively. hell, i crap all over jrpg plots/themes every episode
(i have even played starfox games)
MW2 is way worse, though I've only seen plot summaries of the first few seasons of 24. Getting an nuke or a bioweapon into the US by terror groups is entirely plausible, arranging and managing an even limited transatlantic, mostly airbone invasion of the United States in a matter of days (according to the game's timeline!) is impossible, and doing so with the premise that no one saw it coming is patently absurd to the point of "hey let's put in in there and see what we can get away with". I mean, seriously, the logistical equations involved are completely not solvable.yeah but the story mentions that ultranationlists got much more popular and became a legitimate political party after Zakhaev's death so it could be possible that they got into highest parts of the government and military and that the invasion was being planned for a while. It still doesn't make sense but whatever.
I've hated plenty of WWII games, even though I dig WWII history, so premise had nothing to do with it as far as I'm concerned
And, yet again, we've spent just as much time crapping all over other games without the "OW! You hit my tender spot!" or "Uh, um, I think you guys were being unfair..." responses, so MW2 fans must be extra-special-sensitive
Are MW2 fans the new Ninthings?
Seems so.
Shit game, pass, lol Infinity Ward, insert jank screenshot, etc.