Shows such as "Sleeper Cell," movies like "Traitor," and even Replay Studios' Velvet Assassin, which forced players through the horrors of the Warsaw Ghetto, aptly demonstrated far more poignant moments of sacrifice and self-doubt than MW2's controversial scene. After the first Modern Warfare gave us a believable monster and turned the plot into an international detective story with bullets galore, MW2's villain comes off as Nuclear Man to its predecessor's ultranationalist Superman. One particularly chilling and controversial scene, trussed with plenty of warning alongside the option not to play through it, ultimately suffers when the story fails to carry it. Setting a victimized superpower on the path to war quickly turns what could have been an interesting play on current events into a ridiculously bizarre list of excuses in failing to use a brain.
It takes place five years after the events of the first game, but you wouldn't know it with how little the story tells you. I found it best to think of MW2 as a set of individual missions, since the broken story is utterly shell-shocked by the action. Knowing what they are capable of only makes MW2's story that much more confusing, especially considering that the talent behind it was responsible for the first Modern Warfare. Infinity Ward had deftly juggled Allied and Soviet viewpoints within its Call of Duty franchise, and Modern Warfare set the stage for a Tom Clancy-esque, post-Cold War conflict. No one buys an FPS for the story, but developers such as Valve and Monolith often disprove that adage. The hype gripping its sequel has elevated expectations to an extremely high level, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has perhaps done one better by not dropping the ball … but first, the bad news. Infinity Ward's daring vision for the original Call of Duty: Modern Warfare dramatically shifted it from the battlefields of World War II and into the headlines of the real world.
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