The single player section of Modern Warfare 2 follows on from the original Modern Warfare (Call of Duty 4) and is set 5 years afterwards. It starts with a couple simple unrelated Afghanistan tutorial missions, but quickly  moves deep into the action with the most controversial mission of all time, No Russian (killing innocent Russian civilians at an airport for an undercover terrorist attack). From there, the campaign action quickly increases through the rest of the missions to make an amazing blur of action filled game play with twists and turns, before ending on a cliff-hanger ending.

The only valid complaint about the single player is its dire length, which can be anywhere from 2-6 hours based on how much you fail the missions, which creates need for more. However, a second batch of non-story related missions is available, with a much longer play time, and, with co-op mode enabled, through either split screen system link or online (through either Xbox Live, or PlayStation Network). This mode is extremely fun, with some challenging missions, all based around campaign maps, such as racing snowmobiles, stealth missions and wave defence missions and makes up for the campaigns short length and low replay value.
Finally, we move onto the main and most important section, the multiplayer. The multiplayer mode on recent Call of Duty  games has been widely acclaimed by players, and creates a large portion of the replay value of the game, as it provides extremely fun first person shooter game play, with an extremely well designed role playing game levelling system, to create an addictive online experience.
When you start playing the multiplayer mode, you have access to just 3 pre built classes, and as you level up by killing enemies and doing experience challenges (such as killing 5 enemy players while crouched) you unlock the ability to create your own classes, and unlock better guns to better customize those classes, as well as kill streak rewards, which will give you a special weapon to use when you reach a certain amount of kills in a row (such as 5 kills in a row rewarding your with a remote controlled missile fired from above) This system is famed for the innovative “prestige system” where when you reach the maximum level (70) you have the option to start again at level one on the next prestige to show your skills by proving you can do it all again.

Graphics: 8
Game play: 9.5
Story: 8
Replay Value: 10
Overall: 9.5/10

In conclusion, Modern Warfare 2 is an excellent war game, which fans of the Call of Duty series will definitely enjoy, and I would recommend anyone outside of the fan base of Call of Duty also give it a go, as it a great game for online play.

Written by Andrew  “Toycat” Adams