Kane & Lynch are top dog

UK Charts Two things of note have occurred in chart land this week. Firstly, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has become the UK’s best selling game ever after 41 weeks on sale. Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training was the previous best selling UK game ever, followed by GTA: San Andreas. Secondly, Square-Enix’s Kane & Lynch …

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Modern scurvy

Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was apparently the most anticipated game of all time, so unsurprisingly it’s also the most illegally downloaded game of 2009 according to BitTorret trackers. The actual figure is rather scary – a massive 4.1 million copies. Think of how much that would be in lost revenue. EA’s The …

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Just do it

UK Charts I’m a gambling man, so I’m not sure why I didn’t put money on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 being Christmas #1. It’s probably because I’d be too embarrassed to walk into Ladbrokes and actually do it. This is what the Christmas top 10 chart looks like, anyway: 1 CALL OF DUTY: …

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Metacritic’s best of 2009

Review aggregator Metacritic has announced its best games of 2009, based on average review scores. Coming convincingly top of the list is Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, with a metascore of 96%. Second and third place is pretty much tied between Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Street Fighter IV, both receiving 94%, with Call …

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Hundreds of thousands – if not millions – of gamers have put a lot of blind faith into Infinite Ward, being happy to place down money on pre-orders going solely on some hype-packed previews. Just imagine how funny it would have been if Infinite Ward had spend the last two years making twiddling their thumbs before churning out something akin to the trashy Army Men games. Activision would probably end up with countless people outside their offices carrying burning Guitar Hero guitars and lobbing DJ Hero decks covered in poo through their window. Hilarous.

ModernWarfare2

The truth though is this: Modern Warfare 2 is genuinely worthy of the hype. It’s brilliant, and the brilliant thing about it is that it’s constantly brilliant – from start to end there isn’t a single dull moment. Levels are a lot bigger than before but no less detailed – the attention to detail is scarily realistic, not just on the environments but also on the character models and weapons. Enemies no longer respawn and are more intelligent – they even jump across roofs to get a clearer shot – and the animation is also close to faultless. Even the sound is worthy of praise, with your allies shouting out enemy locations and passing comment on any skilled shots with a sniper rifle.

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A Call of Duty Beauty

Screw Activision and their £54.99 price tag for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 – here’s a way to get it for only £24.97 at GameStation. They’re currently running an offer to get the anticipated shooter for £4.99 when you trade in two listed games. Many of these are newer releases like Borderlands and Pro …

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The Goggles! They Do Nothing!

Special edition versions of games usually come with something along the lines of a bonus DVD, music CD or figurine. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Prestige Edition will go down in history for being the first game to come with a pair of working night vision goggles. That’s in addition to an art book, …

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