Call of duty MW2:

MW2

A game that has been played with since 2009, a game that provides a lot of fun for everyone and provides massive entertainment. Single player, Spec Ops and of course the part that makes every COD game very popular the amazing Multiplayer. MW2 may be the best COD (Call Of Duty) Game out there and might actually be the best game out there but other people may disagree with that. But to me MW2 is defenitly the best game that i have ever played and never fails to impress me everytime i go on it. There may be people that use a gun attachment that other people dont agree with for example the UMP45 or the Grenede launcher that some people use a lot in a game with One Man Army that gives them unlimited ammo when ever they use it but that is how some people like to enjoy there experience on MW2 and they did pay just as much money as you and deserve to play the game how they want to as is is that players game not your game and that is what you have to know when you do play with a player that likes to use a different gun or attachment than you to not shout at them and if it annoys you so much then leave the game and go into a different one you dont need to start a fight with them. What i am trying to say is that MW2 is an amazing game if you dont start a fight and not get angry and start to play it a bit more and give it a chance also use different guns and see if that makes it more fun

WWE 12

The SmackDown series remained the dominant force in pro wrestling gaming for over a decade. While challengers like TNA and Lucha Libre tried, only one thing could dethrone SD: the game makers themselves. This year publisher THQ dumped the brand to replace it with WWE 12. However, even with the new name and image, things aren't quite as different as some might hope, but we aren't that bothered by it.



he most welcome and obvious update was to the in-ring action, which is where SmackDown had gotten the most stale. The new game gave the devs a chance to alter things, though the control scheme is more like a positive regression. The grapple stick is gone, replaced by a single face button command just like striking. It's something many WWE diehards had been missing and it works so much better.

The core combat is on the upswing overall, as a new physics and graphics engine are noticeably better than last year. The general speed of the game and pace of the matches have been improved too, as the recovery time from damage has been greatly decreased. SD's pacing feels pretty slow by comparison, with WWE 12 matches feeling more competitive than ever.

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The wrestling has subtler improvements too. The momentum meter only increases now, no more frustratingly losing your progress to a Signature or getting so low in a momentum hole there's no coming back. The contact between the wrestlers is realer too, with the new physics engine getting rid of many of the more robotic transitions. As far as the core combat goes, it's some of the best in series history, though if you liked the arcadiness of WWE All-Stars, the extra dose of reality might not be as welcoming.

For wrestling traditionalists, the idea of leaving it all in the ring is important, but WWE fans and former SmackDown devotees know sports entertainment is much more than that. What's outside it matters just as much, and WWE 12's feature set can't be beat (it just isn't very new).

Over many years SmackDown built up a huge amount of features. One of our favorites was the single player campaign Road to WrestleMania. It's back and this year's is the best yet with a cohesive story that spans three separate superstars, Sheamus, Triple H and for the first time ever a created superstar. Each story flows into the next and covers a much bigger timeframe than Royal Rumble to Mania. Road is a better than ever, as is the standard season mode WWE Universe, which is more cohesive and customizable than before.

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The improvement in solo play extends to the very personal experience of content creation, as all the creator modes from SD are back too. Create-a-Superstar, Create-a-Finisher and Create-a-Story return and are incrementally improved from last year. There's also the long-awaited Create-an-Arena which allows you to customize where you perform about as much as you can change things in the other modes. And the online contact community where you can share it all is still there too.

However, while we appreciate the return and refinement of all these previous features, they do make WWE 12 feel less fresh and more like a slight upgrade. It would have been foolish to throw out all the great tools built over the years for SmackDown, but THQ had a real chance to change things up in WWE 12, and the alterations to the actual wrestling isn't enough to earn its new name.


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Even if it doesn't revolutionize wrestling games, WWE 12 is the best wrassler around and mixes things up enough to not feel stale. It owes much to SmackDown, but everything it borrows is still great, just slightly used. If you wanted a completely new wrestling experience, wait for the next challenger to WWE to give it a shot (and probably fail). In the meantime, THQ will just keep delivering the same dependably great package.

Call of duty W@W:

War, as Fallout 3 so famously puts it, never changes. While the weapons and tactics may differ, it's still about chaos and fear and the overwhelming of the senses as adrenaline surges through your veins. That's a hard experience to capture on a screen, but the Call of Duty series comes close thanks to its constant redefinition of what "11" is in terms of intensity for first-person shooters. Last year's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare delivered an awesome and varied single-player experience that was matched with an even better multiplayer suite, and it made for some really big shoes for Call of Duty: World at War to fill.

If you've been living in Antarctica the past year and haven't heard, then yes, World at War returns back to the series' World War II roots. This has caused no end of grumbling from fans of Modern Warfare's contemporary setting, as well as the fact that this installment was done by Treyarch, a sister-studio to Call of Duty-creator Infinity Ward. Treyarch did the somewhat-maligned Call of Duty 3, but the studio looks to atone for that by delivering a game with an impressive amount of content. There's a solid single-player campaign, co-op play, a huge multiplayer suite, and even a fun, silly mode featuring zombies.


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It certainly helps that World at War focuses on the less popularized theaters of World War II. Instead of serving up Normandy and D-Day for what would have been the umpteenth time for World War II shooters, the game covers the island hopping campaign in the Pacific as well as the Red Army's reversal of the tide at Stalingrad all the way to the Fall of Berlin. This provides some interesting new battlefields set on sun-bleached coral atolls in the Pacific. You will see some more familiar spots with the bombed-out cities and farmlands ofthe Eastern Front missions, but it's still well done.

War tends to be a savage affair, but the Pacific and the Eastern Front were especially so. In the game, Japanese soldiers swarm out of the brush, erupting out of spider holes to charge straight at you in an attempt to run you through with their bayonets. They'll play dead and wait for you to walk into the middle of a trap. Though set outdoors, it feels like close-quarters combat much of the time. Meanwhile, the Russian Front is full of merciless moments; there's plenty of gunning down of wounded and unarmed soldiers by both sides, and sometimes you're asked to pull the trigger yourself.

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War is hell. Again.
This remains a Call of Duty game through and through. What that means is that the action is fast and fluid, as well as rigidly scripted. The success of the franchise proves that there's a vast audience for that, and this won't change anyone's mind. Enemy soldiers and your computer-controlled teammates respawn endlessly until you advance far enough to hit the triggers to make them stop reappearing. Then you advance to the next firefight and repeat the process over again. The thing is, you're far too busy shooting and ducking and dying to really notice much of the time. The sense of immersion is pretty complete.

There are plenty of deafening, large-scale set-piece battles, but there's also variation to change things up. Case in point is the PBY mission, where you man the guns on a Navy aircraft. At first glance, this seems to be a mirror to the Spectre Gunship mission in Modern Warfare; in both missions you rain fire down from above. But the Spectre Gunship mission has a cold detachment to it; those tiny blips on the screen that are human beings die from a foe that they cannot see and fight back against. In World at War's PBY mission, you're in the midst of a raging air and sea battle, taking damage and fighting for your life. Or there's a sniper mission to whack a German general that doesn't quite have the cat-and-mouse feeling of Modern Warfare's sniper level.

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The campaign does suffer a bit due to its broad scope; the narrative skips over months at a time, showcasing the major battles of the war. The result is that the sense of story doesn't seem as strong as it did in Modern Warfare. It probably doesn't help that we all know how the war eventually turned out; Modern Warfare had the advantage of a fictionalized story with plenty of shocking twists and turns.