The Second Modern Warfare.

There was once a time in my life where I always had money. It used to rack up from Christmas’s and birthdays and I would always have hundreds of dollars just sitting there in my room ready to be spent. I don’t know what I did, I mean it’s not like I saved the money, but I just kept it there so whenever a new game or movie or album or whatever it was that I used to buy came out, I could just go and buy it. I currently have no money, I mean unless you count the pile of five, ten and twenty cent pieces that are on my table in front of me that add up to probably like, seven dollars maybe? I’ll be sure to count it soon but yeah, I am not really keen to spend it anyway, because majority of the coins are five cent pieces and I don’t think that anyone would accept me buying something in five cent pieces.

After Christmas I bought two games, one of them was DJ Hero of which I have already expressed my love for, and the other was the new Call of Duty, Modern Warfare 2. I remember buying the first Modern Warfare on the day that it came out with all the money that I had, it was one of the most amazing games I had ever played. Unlike all of the other Call of Duty games, Modern Warfare wasn’t set in world war two, it was set in the ‘yet to happen and hopefully never will’ world of world war three. I was sad when the second Modern Warfare game came out, I mean I had no money, and not only that but my Xbox was broken so even if I raised enough money to buy the game, I would still need like another two hundred dollars to buy a new Xbox.

Everyone seemed to have the game already and it was almost like I was the only person that didn’t. There were Facebook groups like ‘COD Ruined My Social Life’ and stuff that everyone was joining, people that I didn’t even know played video games but all people that had Modern Warfare 2, and I didn’t. It wasn’t that I didn’t have it, I mean it was, that was where most of the sadness came in, but I hadn’t even played it yet, and that is why I was so happy when I went to Tom Wilkin’s house that day, and he rented it. Starting the single player campaign was great, I mean I would have loved to play it on the hardest mode but Tom didn’t want to, so we ended up playing it on Regular.

There was also another decision to make, but this was a much easier one to make. The game said that there is disturbing or graphic content in the game and it asked if we wanted it removed from the play through. The decision was easier because it was obvious that neither of us had a stomach strong enough to put up with stuff graphic enough to warrant a warning, and by that I mean we said that we didn’t remove it because neither of us are soft. I had an idea what the content that might be considered disturbing might be though, I mean Saf was telling me of a mission where you are a terrorist or something and you wipe out an airport full of civilians, and I can imagine that being disturbing to some people.

When I told this to Tom he was not at all disturbed or less keen to play the game, if anything his keen level raised as mine did just thinking of wiping out an airport as a terrorist, and playing through what the level might look like in my head, all I saw was Saf running around with an AK-47 killing people... I was pumped. As we played through the game, I could see why everyone had already played or bought it, I mean it was amazing. In the first Modern Warfare, there were a few moments where something shockingly unbelievable happened and you were just left in awe, maybe even with your mouth wide open, but in the second one, every mission has like one or two of those moments, to the degree where the game is almost too amazing.

We stopped playing when Andrew got to Tom’s because he wanted to battle us, not take it in turns getting through the single player. Maybe because Andrew is just one of those ‘I am better than you’ kind of guys and he wants to prove it or maybe just because he was really shit and kept dying, so his shots were minutes shorter than ours. Playing the multiplayer was fun, but it was nothing compared to the single player. I didn’t really want to play it any more though, I really wanted to wait until I got it myself and could finish it on Veteran difficulty, the highest and hardest one; so that’s what I did. As I started writing this blog I was still in the main menu from the game, still thinking about how good the ending was, and how amazing it is, just like, no it was too amazing. It was so amazing that the word amazing doesn’t warrant how amazing it was, so I am going to have to use the word incredible, but that doesn’t warrant it either so I am going to have to throw in the word magnificent, so incredibly magnificent... I think that cuts it.