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From the very first Call of Duty to this year’s Modern Warfare 3, read on to find out where your favourite CoD sits on our ranking – and more importantly, which Call of Duty game we consider the all-time greatest. Magicbox Gaming News, December 11, 2009". January 10, 2010. Archived from the original on January 2, 2010 . Retrieved January 10, 2010.I love a spy story, and with Raven‘s first campaign for Call of Duty, the developer tells a masterful one with a few interesting mechanical quirks: trying to solve puzzles in an ’80s safehouse in Berlin is memorable, and shootouts inside locations like a Russian recreation of small town America are some of the best moments Call of Duty has to offer. The campaign is good fun although weirdly paced. You’re hurled between assassinations, invasions and wars throughout history with barely enough time to catch your breath, in a story that rips stuff from Fight Club. It’s not high art, but it does mean a lot of time riding around in Chinooks getting your hands on a variety of ’70s weaponry. a b Ellis, David (November 10, 2009). "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Review (PS3, XBOX360)". 1up.com. Archived from the original on June 28, 2013 . Retrieved January 2, 2017.

The multiplayer was a bizarre experiment from Sledgehammer, a soft reboot of sorts just before Modern Warfare came along. A social area for WW2 has players crowded around the beach at Normandy, as loot boxes fall from the sky to bestow gifts upon players. It would be grotesque if it wasn’t so outright bizarre. It’s still jingoistic. A war crime perpetuated in the real world by American forces has been rewritten to make Russia the baddies, and the franchise still goes all-in on how amazing the unaccountable special forces are, but generally the story is engaging and introduces a likeable cast. As someone who’s played every single Call of Duty campaign and really missed it last year, the new Modern Warfare is exactly the kind of single-player revival I’ve been looking for. It introduces welcome new kinds of gameplay moments while executing familiar ones exceptionally well. Sure, its story may not be as provocative as it seems to want to be, but it reestablishes a strong identity for this 16-year-old franchise with a showcase solo shooter experience. Amidst a growing pile of battle royales and looter shooters that just don’t scratch that same itchy trigger finger, it felt just like old times. - Ryan McCaffrey, October 25, 2019 Score: 8.2 Reilly, Jim (July 29, 2009). "Modern Warfare 2 PC Not Getting Special Editions". IGN. Archived from the original on August 1, 2009 . Retrieved August 1, 2009.Martin, Matt (November 5, 2009). "Activision "not overly concerned" by MW2 PC complaints". Gameindustry.biz. Archived from the original on June 20, 2014 . Retrieved August 5, 2016. Plunkett, Luke (November 11, 2009). "Modern Warfare 2 Selling Just Fine On PC". Kotaku. Archived from the original on August 24, 2016 . Retrieved August 5, 2016.

Sarkar, Samit (October 31, 2016). "Infinity Ward pulls MW2 Hamels video after Internet furor". Destructoid. Archived from the original on March 13, 2016 . Retrieved August 5, 2016. By the end of the game you visit the Battle of the Bulge for some reason (despite the sci-fi setting) and there’s a horde of zombies to defend yourself from. The tonal whiplash and the fact these elements aren’t handled that well puts a dampener on a campaign with solid ideas.Bowling, Robert (July 9, 2009). "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 boxes are ready". Archived from the original on July 14, 2009 . Retrieved July 9, 2009. Famitsu named Modern Warfare 2 as the number one game on the top 10 video games sold in 2009, beating games such as Metal Gear Solid 4, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Halo 3 and Grand Theft Auto IV. [137] It also gave the game a score of 39/40, being one of the few Western games released in Japan to have the same score as Grand Theft Auto IV. [138] In 2011, readers of Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition voted Simon "Ghost" Riley as the 40th-top video game character of all time. [139] Sales and revenue

Edge Online Review". Edge Online. Future US. Archived from the original on November 12, 2009 . Retrieved November 10, 2009. Sarkar, Samit (October 30, 2009). "Cole Hamels: 'Pussies' use random MW2 grenades (Update)". Destructoid. Archived from the original on November 1, 2012 . Retrieved August 4, 2016. WW2‘s biggest issue is that it’s set in…well, you know. The French locales and the WW2 setting make the game feel jaded, but it actually had some fresh ideas, most of them in the campaign. Morgan, Thomas (April 3, 2020). "Modern Warfare 2 Remastered: a campaign classic transitions beautifully to PS4". Eurogamer . Retrieved April 3, 2020.Watters, Chris (November 10, 2009). "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Review for Xbox 360". GameSpot. Archived from the original on November 14, 2009 . Retrieved November 15, 2009. The multiplayer is famous for the sheer variety of completely broken, rage-inducing, combos. Modern Warfare 2 is a game where you can be killed by sentry guns, riot shields, sawn-off twin shotguns or even a throwing knife that has bounced down from a rooftop to kill you instantly – likely just in time for it to be the game-ending killcam, embarrassing you for years as part of someone’s frag video forever more.