Modern Warfare 2 Free steam weekend!

[Rroff]

The hit detection is actually very good tho laggy, once you get used to it its quite playable with a decent host.

Problem is most hosts are over 80ms (anything over 100ms is quite crappy) anyway compounded by the number of people who don't seem to get good fps with the game or have random programs running in the background interupting now and again make gameplay quite stuttery and jumpy with some hosts even if they have a decent connection.

 

[RobPot]

Downloaded and worked fine for me, not sure I like it as a game tho... Roll on CoD 7!

Got more interesting suddenly when I shot from Lvl 3 to Lvl 70 with one shot - don't seem to remember that happening in earlier games!

 

[Setroc]

Free? They'd have to pay me to play this

 

[platypus]

I presume the 360 version has dedicated servers?

 

[fizzle-187]

This game is bloody terrible I'm glad I avoided this. Just wasted my download time and internet to install this piece of ****!

 

[Rroff]

I presume the 360 version has dedicated servers?

Don't think so - all player hosted AFAIK.

 

[AdladUK]

Got to 90% download on Steam and then the speed seems to be throttled and won't complete

 

[rypt]

wow, MW2 MP sucks.

3 games so far, which included it randomly kicking me out of 1, multiple host changes in the next.
And the kill stream achievements / nukes are so ***

Good job I didn't buy this despite liking SP

 

[ordinaryjoe]

Bah... It's too hard to go unnoticed with UAV, heart beat monitor, enemy air support etc... It can be laggy... Even if it doesn't feel particularly bad ingame, its annoying watching killcam and seeing the enemy shoot you for like... over a second when you died like... first shot... Kill streaks are OP and way too common... Host migration is very common... and why the heck to grenades leave a vapour trail?!?!

Oh... and you can't get in the vehicles

 

[QlimaxUK]

hmm not 'too' bad i guess, now i finally got it working , just had a few games but its still not better then BC2, not going to get this

 

[PapaLazaru]

Waste of my already crap bandwidth.

 

[platypus]

Don't think so - all player hosted AFAIK.

Coo, I was expecting Xbox Live to at least have servers. Thats crap all round then.

 

[Kenai]

Coo, I was expecting Xbox Live to at least have servers. Thats crap all round then.

I think perhaps 5 or 6 games on XBox Live have dedicated servers, pretty much all Live based games are P2P based.

 

[Jabbs]

What a load of crap not in the same league as BC2.

 

[AS_Platinum]

What a load of crap not in the same league as BC2.

Completly agree, I played it for about 15mins yesterday and thought, this is just pap.

 

[CatMangler]

Completly agree, I played it for about 15mins yesterday and thought, this is just pap.

Quoted for the truth, SP might be worth a look but certainly not at full retail price.

Friends who own the full game reckon you get accustomed to the lag, host migration etc but its not for me.

 

[ninefoureight]

Well after playing some of the free weekend i was definately disappointed with iw.net and the lack of control over the games. I however wasi taken with the gameplay and levelling. I will be purchasing it however i also have just acquired a copy of BC2 so it will be an interesting battle to see which wins ;]

Not paying £33 tho!

 

[InkZ]

Single player is awesome, multiplayer just gets pooed on by BC2.

 

[jmc777]

I think I played around 4-5 hours over the weekend and had fun. The game was much better than what I was expecting, but I wouldn't pay the current asking price for it. If they'd chopped 50% off I'd have considered it.

 

[mame]

I think I did the right thing with game and that was buy it on the PS3 along with 7 mates when it was being sold cheap in the supermarkets. I probably play it for 1 maybe 2 hours a week. It's more a case of having a quick 'blast' when I see one of said friends turning their PS3 on over PSN.