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MW2 was an absolute phenomenon. It is what made Call of Duty what it is today. I was in college when both MW 1 and 2 came out. I knew no one else that had the f

MW2 was an absolute phenomenon. It is what made Call of Duty what it is today. I was in college when both MW 1 and 2 came out. I knew no one else that had the first MW, but literally every single friend of mine had MW2. Was this inevitable or was it the marketing? I think they knew they had a hit on their hands and spent the money to make it a phenomenon. It paid off.

hajile 4y ago
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was the best selling game of 2007 and sold over 16M copies. All the future games were just derivatives of what was a fairly genre-defining game. The game’s campaign is generally regarded as the best the series ever had. It moved away from the very popular world war or sci-fi games that dominated while striking close to home for the post-9/11 generations of gamers who were impacted by the ramped-up wars going on in the Middle East. The multiplayer for the rest of the series was especially derivative of cod4 as it has basically been a few extra weapons and exorbitant “win more” kill streaks.
- etempleton 4y ago
  And MW2 and the next few iterations sold nearly double that amount selling close to 30m each. It is fair to say MW2 is when it reached the height of relevance. And while MW was a revelation the multiplayer was perfected in MW2(MW1 had map balance issues). MW2 also introduced the underrated Spec Ops co-op mode.
  - hajile 4y ago
    Statistica puts CoD 4 at 20M units, MW2 at 25M units, and MW3 at 31M units [0]. You must also consider the environment. 2009 was a FPS deadzone. There was MW2, World at War, Resident Evil 5, Left 4 Dead 2, and Borderlands. 2007 had a TON of superb titles including CoD 4, Halo 3, Crysis, Bioshock, Half Life 2/TF2/Portal (Orange Box), S.T.A.L.K.E.R, Quake Wars, and probably a couple I'm forgetting. Given that difference, MW2 sales being just 20% higher is not that great. The worst aspect of console CoD 4 and MW2 was grenade spam and the second worst issue was win more killstreaks. Both of these vastly outran any map issues. The only bad map I can recall was the one with all the shipping containers, but that was because it was miniscule. I used to play a LOT of hardcore search and destroy (with perk, grenade launcher, and killstreak limits -- yay custom PC servers). I don't remember any situation where having fast reflexes wasn't by far the most important thing along with hitting the max FPS (140 FPS?) so you could jump farther (I can't remember if this was fixed in MW2). Maybe it was different for other people though. [0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/321374/global-all-time-unit-sales-call-of-duty-games/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/321374/global-all-time-u...

hajile 4y ago

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was the best selling game of 2007 and sold over 16M copies. All the future games were just derivatives of what was a fairly genre-defining game. The game’s campaign is generally regarded as the best the series ever had. It moved away from the very popular world war or sci-fi games that dominated while striking close to home for the post-9/11 generations of gamers who were impacted by the ramped-up wars going on in the Middle East. The multiplayer for the rest of the series was especially derivative of cod4 as it has basically been a few extra weapons and exorbitant “win more” kill streaks.

etempleton 4y ago
And MW2 and the next few iterations sold nearly double that amount selling close to 30m each. It is fair to say MW2 is when it reached the height of relevance. And while MW was a revelation the multiplayer was perfected in MW2(MW1 had map balance issues). MW2 also introduced the underrated Spec Ops co-op mode.
- hajile 4y ago
  Statistica puts CoD 4 at 20M units, MW2 at 25M units, and MW3 at 31M units [0]. You must also consider the environment. 2009 was a FPS deadzone. There was MW2, World at War, Resident Evil 5, Left 4 Dead 2, and Borderlands. 2007 had a TON of superb titles including CoD 4, Halo 3, Crysis, Bioshock, Half Life 2/TF2/Portal (Orange Box), S.T.A.L.K.E.R, Quake Wars, and probably a couple I'm forgetting. Given that difference, MW2 sales being just 20% higher is not that great. The worst aspect of console CoD 4 and MW2 was grenade spam and the second worst issue was win more killstreaks. Both of these vastly outran any map issues. The only bad map I can recall was the one with all the shipping containers, but that was because it was miniscule. I used to play a LOT of hardcore search and destroy (with perk, grenade launcher, and killstreak limits -- yay custom PC servers). I don't remember any situation where having fast reflexes wasn't by far the most important thing along with hitting the max FPS (140 FPS?) so you could jump farther (I can't remember if this was fixed in MW2). Maybe it was different for other people though. [0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/321374/global-all-time-unit-sales-call-of-duty-games/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/321374/global-all-time-u...