There is no question that the anticipation surrounding Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 would be nowhere near as high if it wasn’t for the success of its predecessor. In November 2007, Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare garnered both critical acclaim and commercial success to become one of the biggest first-person shooters ever released.
The game is still just a popular today, being spotted regularly in the upper echelons of the charts and remaining one of the most played online games on Xbox 360 and PS3. In the two years since it first arrived on shelves, Modern Warfare has received more than 50 combined Editors’ Choice and Game of the Year Awards.
As its successor is poised to take seize its crown, Activision proves Call Of Duty 4 still has plenty of fight left in it with Modern Warfare: Reflex for Wii.
The release brings the original Modern Warfare to Nintendo console gamers for the first time, spreading the title’s influence yet further.
The entire single-player campaign, heralded as one of the best in the genre, has been recreated on Wii, as gamers follow the events surrounding US and SAS forces in a split storyline that features plenty of twists and turns. Wii owners will be able to experience the same tense battles as their counterparts on other formats, although they will do so in a whole new way.
REFLEX-OLOGY
Developer Treyarch has drawn on its experience with last year’s Call Of Duty: World At War and created a motion-based control scheme that is ideally suited to first-person shooters, giving players more precision
than ever before.
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In a similar move to that of Sega’s summer hit The Conduit, Reflex also allows a huge level of customisation over the control setup and sensitivity, enabling hardcore shooter fans to tweak the game to suit their own style and preferences.
Also recreated relatively unscathed is the hugely popular multiplayer mode. Gamers can engage in a variety
of scenarios, including Search & Destory, Domination and Free-for-all. These are playable both locally and online, with the latter catering for up to ten players – an improvement over World At War’s eight.
The Wii version also features an exclusive co-operative setting, known as Squadmate mode.
This allows two players to work through the single-player campaign together, with one playing as normal and the other aiming the Wii Zapper or Wii Remote at any enemies the first has missed – similar to an on-rails shooter.
Wii owners that have yet to try Modern Warfare now have the ideal opportunity to do so, while Call Of Duty 4 veterans will find the revamped controls and Squadmate mode a fresh challenge.
MOBILISED
Don’t be fooled into thinking the DS has been left out of all the Modern Warfare action. Also arriving on November 10th is Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare: Mobilised, developed specifically for the dual-screened wonder.
Once again brought to Nintendo’s handheld by n-Space, which handled the impressive portable offerings of Call Of Duty 4 and World At War, Mobilised boasts its own storyline that fits seamlessly into the Modern Warfare universe.
The DS’ unique functionality is used to great effect, with the touch screen granting gamers a good level of precision over their aim and the Wi-Fi and wireless connections enabling multiplayer battles.
