My Knife!

Last week I wrote about Dragon Age: Origins and today I’ll move on to what else is taking up my waking time, (other than that stupid thing called ‘work’), Call of Duty: MW2.  The main draw of this game is the multiplayer mode. They really succeeded in just making everything better. The weapon set you can unlock is nothing less than awesomeness. They even made the regular old run-of-the-mill melee knife cool, but not without it’s drawbacks of course. But as if being able to throw your knife for an instant kill wasn’t cool enough, you can unlock the Tactical Knife which, combined with Marathon, Light Weight, and Commando Perks, makes you a knife wielding speed demon.

Sort of like this but also with a .44 Magnum, Uzi, Frag grenade, and two flash bangs.

Also the sniper guns can be upgraded to have a silencer attachment, which sounds cool (makes it seem like you’re some silent assassin for hire),  but I’m not sure how effective that is, since laying low and being patient has never really been my thing. Even kill streaks are customizable. Nothing says fun like watching blinking white lights that are your enemies running for their lives as you rain down absolute destruction from your remote controlled AC-130.  The prestige mode is still around for those of you who are masochists with some sort of Sisyphus Complex. Allegedly, there is some sort of bonus for going prestige, but it better be damn good for me to give up everything I worked for. 

I should mention that single player campaign mode is just as awesome as it was in the first installment of Modern Warfare. In fact, so awesome that the director of the game is going Hollywood. If you haven’t played it, go play it NOW. Once you do, you will come to realize that ‘Soap’ MacTavish is one bad ass motherfucker with a mohawk.

-Rom