![]() I've always known Modern Warfare 2 to be a mess - a beautiful mess, but still a mess - that's unquestionably fun and smarter than it looks, but still lacking the requisite nuance to land its point. I have struggled to pin down why I love it, some fond nostalgia-tinged memories of multiplayer aside. The parable is obscured by the action, the action is obscured by the parable, and you're left with a nagging sense that this is supposed to mean something, between the lines of the Hoorahs and the Tango Downs, but it's unclear exactly what. ![]() ![]() They don't mix, at least on the surface, and for many that means neither half of the game really lands. The result, certainly when I first played it back in 2009, is oil and water. ![]() One is an all-time action classic, thrilling and tense and more than a little ridiculous in its recounting of the heroics of war the other, meanwhile, is a fierce and surprisingly cutting anti-war critique. There are two games that live side-by-side in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
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