Highlighting My Enthusiasm

my parents just came back from dinner with my brother and also celebrating my paternal grandmother's birthday. to highlight how enthusiastic i was about it, the first thing i asked my brother when he came back was how the food tasted. I was more interested in what food (and it's tastiness) i was missing then i was about my grandmother.

And to add to , contrasting how i felt about this, last week, my grand godmother, or god grandmother if you're that stuck up about names, celebrated her birthday last week, hers was actually a few days before or after, but she decided to celebrate on a weekend. she called me one week before to tell me about it and i was just "ok can" on the phone, without consulting my brother or my parents. just yess, off the cuff, no questions asked. and just to put a little perspective to that, it was actually 3 days before my math paper. i managed to get out of today's get-together because of my supposed sickness and the fact that i would be "studying".

Speaking of "studying", modern warfare 2 is amazing, except for the ridiculous lag i'm experiencing right now. if you are going to take away dedicated servers, at least have the dignity to put something as competent. anyway the lag right now is so ridiculous i can shoot a few bullets and later see the bullest come back into my magazine.

i'm gong to give my take on the campaign and non-online components, so if you're sensitive to stuff like that, eat some icecream then. anyway, the campaign this time around consists of more missions but they are now smaller in length so it rounds up to about the same time, which is rather to cheap considering that they give the impression of a longer game. but anyway, the shorter missions tend to end and alternate between the different characters, which is fine, except that there are so many friggin characters. At the start, you're using PFC john allen, which you have grown some attachment to, only to find out that he dies at his second mission. that really pissed me off. any sense of connection of the different plotlines between each character's story is quite weak and the short missions don't give enough satisfaction when you finish it. the breach scenes are very cool, although its' not very realistic. there are more variety in the objectives but the fact that a quarter of them rely on "following" the team leader, who usually doesn't move unless you do becomes problematic when you don't know where to go. also, the fact that almost all of the missions end with some kind of (scripted) failure or mishap means that there seems to always be some sort of miraculous "Hollywood" scenario to fix the problem kind of threatens the suspension of disbelief that you are willing to suspend for this game. there are a lot of twists and turns at each corner, so that keeps you at the edge of your seat. the only problem is that it doesn't draw you in at the start like the first Modern Warfare, it's almost as if the first game felt that it had somethig to prove and pulled out all the stops while its' big brother knew that there was going to be people who would be interested and just focused on the big explosions. overall, this is kind of like the Hollywood big budget sequel to the original, complete with over the top explosions. they also keep using the military lingo Oscar Mike alot, which is quite annoying when you don't know what it means, also Hooah, which translates to yes in brutespeak.

the special ops on the other hand is a real piece of work. never before had there been a good fps co-op that allows for split screen. this mode alone is reason enough to buy the game. being a 2 player game mode, it allows for a lot of 2 player tactics and communication which is lacking in most online games. me and my brother took on most of the scenarios in veteran so we ended up dying about 20 times before we finally succeeded. anyway, just believe me when i say it's great.

i'll talk about the multiplayer parts next time, for now i need to go back to actual studying.