Call of Duty 4: Modern Borefare 2 (NSFW)

The good: pretty to look at; solid controls; steady frame rate; online infrastructure is solid.

The bad: pointless campaign; severely unbalanced multiplayer; this has all been done before

The verdict: I really can’t recommend it to anyone, but that being said if someone were to ask me what the best war shooter is Id’ tell them about this game. Again, it’s not that this game is bad; it’s just not for me. For most of the world, this game is a buy, but for me, it’s like watching a puppy freeze to death. An experience that gave me nightmares that I never want to experience again.

Podcast +3!

This episode Not Judas makes his podcast debut and talks with Cool-C and Neutrally Chaotic talk about what he’s playing and his favorite games. We also talk about games that deserve a sequel as well as series that need to die. There is talk about Gitaroo Man, Dragon Age: Origins, Earthbound, Morrowind, Oblivion, Modern Warfare 2, Final Fantasy X and DJ Her0 with a few others mixed in.

Modern Warfare 2: How Many Times Can Duty Call?

The good: the best multiplayer to date including new guns, new perks, and that same addictive leveling up experience from the last game; some cool moments during the campaign; co-op mode is nice icing on the cake; Infinity Ward continues to tweak multiplayer for balance, and expect new content and rebalancing patches in the near future.

The bad: the story in the campaign is stupid, short, and feels contrived (even ignoring the now-infamous airport shoot-em-up scene); multiplayer has a steep learning curve, especially if your team is from the St. Mary’s School for deaf and blind kids; you’ll probably play multiplayer so much that your loved ones will leave you and the only people you can call friends are your clan mates.

The verdict: if you like multiplayer shooters, you should buy. Everyone is going to be playing it until 2012 (which is when the world apparently ends), so you might as well play what your friends are playing, especially since the multiplayer system is superb. However, if you’re not a multiplayer kind of person, this might just be a rent. Play through the (stupid, dumber-than-Tom Clancy-novels) story and the co-op mode and be done with it. Single player lasts only a few hours (honestly, you can beat it in one sitting), so you’ve been warned, single player fans.