A few impressions of Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer...

Valve was hosting a free weekend for Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer, so I decided to give it a try. A few impressions:

1. Matchmaking takes a little longer than I would like. It is certainly slower than simply double-clicking on a traditional server and joining it.

2. The game runs fine, but every two to three minutes, I would get a terrible lag spike (and I am playing on a 20 megabit connection here at the university, so I know it is nothing on my end).

3. Gameplay-wise, it is very fast-paced, run and gun style shooter. Slower than Unreal Tournament, about as fast as Counter-Strike, but still slower than say, Battlefield: Bad Company 2. In comparison with games like CS and BFBC2, I found it more easy than usual to rack up kills in MW2. Or, perhaps I was simply having a lucky day today...

Overall, this game is not worth purchasing at its current price point... save your monies, stick with Counter-Strike Source, or buy some newer multiplayer games like BFBC2!

Finally got it running after having to re-download and install it 3 times last night. There's no way I could play this after seeing BC2.

Did you run across many cheaters? I hear there's alot of them.

Did you run across many cheaters? I hear there's alot of them.

BluePaw-

I think you can get more enjoyment out of combat arms, and not even pay anything.

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Did you run across many cheaters? I hear there's alot of them.

Jamex1987

Yeah, i realise that, but people say that there's a cheat in nearly every server they go in when playing MW2.

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Did you run across many cheaters? I hear there's alot of them.

Yeah, i realise that, but people say that there's a cheat in nearly every server they go in when playing MW2.

I haven't come across any cheaters so far.. the multiplayer is solid, nothing too impressive. I overall like it, but it doesn't make me want to buy it

I was about to fall asleep the first round. It's horribly boring.

It was very good of them to put this up for a free weekend so we can see what we're missing.... Nothing.

Back to BC2 for me. :D

MW2 is a lot more fast-paced than BC2... there's hardly any travel time in the maps, and everyone dies in a few hits. Anyway, I found the multiplayer to be quite addictive... people can list MW2's problems, but at the end of the day its a very fun game. I don't play it much now since I have BC2, but I don't regret spending money on the game.

MW2 is a lot more fast-paced than BC2... there's hardly any travel time in the maps, and everyone dies in a few hits. Anyway, I found the multiplayer to be quite addictive... people can list MW2's problems, but at the end of the day its a very fun game. I don't play it much now since I have BC2, but I don't regret spending money on the game.

MyopicCanadian

I agree. But then again, there is CSS and the gungame mod, which is comparable to what MW2 offers.

MW2 is a lot more fast-paced than BC2... there's hardly any travel time in the maps, and everyone dies in a few hits. Anyway, I found the multiplayer to be quite addictive... people can list MW2's problems, but at the end of the day its a very fun game. I don't play it much now since I have BC2, but I don't regret spending money on the game.

MyopicCanadian

Compared to BC 2 MW 2 feels like you're disabled.

I tried it as well. So far I think it is actually pretty fun. Of course I've only played about two hours so far. :P The only thing that I kind of don't like, is that it feels like it goes to fast. Like people run around like headless chickens. I know there are faster games out there, but something about it feels weird to me this time around. I don't think I will be plopping down $50 on this. Although from hearing people on these forums, maybe I should plop it down on Battlefield: Bad Company 2.

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Did you run across many cheaters? I hear there's alot of them.

Jamex1987

But at least BC2 has punkbuster and admins for insta bans. I've been playing mp fps for a long time and MW2 has the most cheaters by far. Alot of cheaters are wall hacks so they're harder to notice.

Theirs a lot of hate towards IW/Activision so a lot of people cheat just to prove what a failure of a system matchmaking is.

Its decent but not nearly as good as BC2 imo

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MW2 is a lot more fast-paced than BC2... there's hardly any travel time in the maps, and everyone dies in a few hits. Anyway, I found the multiplayer to be quite addictive... people can list MW2's problems, but at the end of the day its a very fun game. I don't play it much now since I have BC2, but I don't regret spending money on the game.

DanielDust

Compared to BC 2 MW 2 feels like you're disabled.

1. Huge spikes of lag, I got literally like a second or two of latency at one point.

2. Host transfer USUALLY fails

3. campers... everywhere.

4. Glitchy, I am Level 70 for no reason at all... It sorta just happened

5. Maps feel significantly less crowded than CoD4- in a bad way.

6. Hackers, I saw a couple.

I enjoyed my stay in mw2, it's a good game to jump into if you have 30 minutes to spare because you can count on the game only lasting 10 minutes. That's what I remember it being good for, just a game I can rebound to just to kill some time.