I'm embarrassed to admit it, but when I bought this game, I didn't accurately read the label, and thought it was Modern Warfare 2. I am, however, not sorry I made that mistake, because Modern Warfare was the best FPS I have ever played.
I have one more thing to get off my chest, I'm sick of the usual way of reviewing things, so I'm going to devote the next two parts of the review to what Modern Warfare did right, and what it did wrong.
The following facts are everything that made me love Modern Warfare. The story mode wasn't pathetic. In most war games I have played, the developers focused most of their time on the multiplayer mode, and since I can't play online due to my pathetic internet service, I have been stuck with a story mode that measures up to banging your head against a wall every time somebody yelled "give me some covering fire!" or, "Tango down!" So the story mode is fun, it's long enough to satisfy, and short enough so it doesn't get aggravating. Second, you feel like you form a bond with some of the characters, that way, when one of them dies, you actually get mad, charge the enemy, and get yourself killed. Third and finally, the controls are simple, and you don't ever superglue yourself to a wall when you only want to take cover. In many shooters, you press a button to take cover, and your character promptly welds himself to the nearest wall. In Modern Warfare, you just crouch behind a box, or a chest high wall, or just stand behind a door, AND IT WORKS! It still doesn't hold a candle to the cover system in Call of Juarez, but it's better than the cover system in Uncharted, and Fracture. These two games represent both extremes in shooter cover. In Uncharted, when you take cover, you weld, duct tape, superglue, and tie yourself to a wall. In Fracture, there is no cover.
Now for what Modern Warfare did wrong. First, the main character, "Soap" MacTavish, is a silent protagonist. That alone would only be a minor offense, but then the game tries to get you to care about Soap, and you don't, I cared more about the support characters, because they had personalities. Second, I couldn't understand the plot. I said the story mode was fun in the previous paragraph, but I didn't say I knew what was going on. The ultimate goal was simple, you point the gun at terrorists, press R1, and the terrorists die, but the first few levels were a haze of bullets, Russians, and people talking about nuclear missiles that where on a boat? Or were they in mexico? No, I got it, they were being transported into new york by being smuggled with the circus.
So at the end of this review, If you haven't bought Modern Warfare, you should, and as soon as I can, I'm going to buy the sequel. This game is a gem among a field of bad FPS's, and No one can convince me otherwise. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go smack around an informant that was going to tell me about the release of Blues Brothers 3.
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