This will be the last "Call of Duty" post I’ll make for a while, but this news is too significant to overlook. In the first 24 hours after its release, "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" has made $310M in North America and the UK alone, making it the most successful launch for any entertainment product in history, and by a huge margin at that. For a point of reference, previous 24 hour records were held by SPIDER-MAN 3, the last "Harry Potter" book, and most notably "Halo 3," which boasted the former best one-day sales total of $170M, a number which COD has since dropped a tactical nuke on.
Granted yes, games cost $60 whereas movies cost $10, but this kind of event signifies a long-time coming shift toward video games becoming perhaps the dominant entertainment force in the world. It’s impossible for corporations and those in the media to see numbers like this, and not think that video games are an avenue they need to start taking seriously.
As for the actual game itself? For all its hype, I do believe the game lives up to it. The single player campaign is like living a five hour movie, and contains some moments which are quite literally breathtaking and will stay with me just as much as many classic film scenes have.
I know a lot of you have picked up the title by now, what are your thoughts on "Modern Warfare 2"?
Extra Tidbit:
My mouth was open for literally the entire airport level.
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3:10PM on 11/13/2009
the SP is OKAY, it would be next to impossi...
the SP is OKAY, it would be next to impossible to make that a real movie. the budget to create that in live action would have to be fucking insane.
I love the multiplayer though, and i was level 55 gold cross prestige in COD4 lol okay time to go play it some more.
and yes i agree i've been saying it for years, videogames have more to offer in terms of entertainment than do movies and books. It has story, music, action all that stuff PLUS INCREDIBLY ENGAGING INTERACTIVITY