Frozen nostalgia - Modern Warfare® 2

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I want to start with that metaphor of "frozen nostalgia", since it reflects very well those memories that remain intact in time and when you have a video image or reference to them, somehow they resurface giving us nostalgia for those moments when we really enjoyed video games.

Maximum Risk is one of those missions that mark you in Cod MW2, no doubt if you got to play it at its best I think you remember that icy infiltration that at every moment became more and more epic.

Unfortunately, at that time I didn't have a PC that could run it well despite its low requirements, so I decided to leave it until the time came and here I am sharing with you my experience of it.

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Cover created in Photoshop with screenshots from the video game

I tell you this because right at the beginning of this mission we see Captain “MacTavish” at the edge of a cliff, and at the moment I thought this was a new character, but it's the good Soap the only thing that appears with his real name.

The fact is that he is smoking quietly, which tells me that these situations for him are the daily bread xd.

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The new mechanic of climbing using both mouse clicks was confusing to me at first, so I fell a few times, as everything was so frantic that it is difficult to assimilate what is going on, as from one moment to the next chaos becomes present.

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An ice step fell because of a passing aircraft.

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And after an epic jump that I didn't manage to do, I almost went with Saint Peter to the other world xd, but the experienced Soap managed to save my skin... This moment was so epic that I decided to leave it for the cover!

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After rappelling and getting to the top we stealthily infiltrate the base and I see that there is a state of the art weapon that tells me where the enemies are by their heat or heart rate, something like that haha.

I actually liked this weapon and if I get to see the multiplayer active yet, I would like to use it on my weapons.

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Obviously because of the snowstorm the enemies could not see me, so we were able to enter successfully without being seen.

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At that time, I had the mission to activate c4 for a possible plan B if everything went to hell.

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Soap told me to check all the corners of that shed, but in the blink of an eye we were already surrounded because they found some dead bodies nearby.

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“Plan B” kicked in, and I blew up the planted c4, that served perfectly as a distraction, which tells me that soap is without a doubt a highly skilled soldier for logistics and risky mission planning.

Something interesting is that if we ignore the mission orders to explode the c4 at the right time, Soap will end up riddled by enemies, and you can see all that while we do not hide. I know, this information is useless, but I was intrigued to see what would happen if I disobeyed, all because I am a rebel!

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With a slippery slide in the snow we managed to gain time, although not much, because the enemies are armed with snowmobiles, at that moment I was perplexed.

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Soap as always making things more difficult to steal a motorcycle in motion and here comes that part so innovative for the time, because I guess that in those golden years of this game you would never have seen all this in another video game.

An epic chase started and ended with the evacuation of the two, which leaves me with the question like did two people manage to exterminate an entire base, but I remembered that this is cod and in this world there is no need for an answer for these situations xd.

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I know there are some very chaotic moments, but it makes this game stand out so well, because they took that cinematic formula of the old titles to a splendid way expanding the criteria, personalities of each protagonist and antagonist, thus having unforgettable scenarios that mark you without a doubt.

Now I understand that very well known saying in which many players say they remember with nostalgia those moments when they enjoyed these games as kids, despite not having amazing graphic engines like the current ones, because more than something visually beautiful, these titles had something that the current ones don't and that is: “Soul”.

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The video and screenshots were captured while playing Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2


Requirements to play:

OS: Microsoft Windows XP or Windows Vista.
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 at 3.2 Ghz.
Memory: 1 Gb RAM.
Graphics: nVidia GeForce 6600GT with 256 Mb.
DirectX®: Microsoft DirectX(R) 9.0c.
Hard Disk: 12 Gb of free space.


Translated with: DeepL.com


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This shows a lot of work has been put into making it look snowy. It feels like a movie

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Yeah that's what I love most about this game, seeming like a movie in plot and plot twists, thanks for commenting mate!

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What a great nostalgia with this, the Modern warfare saga is one of my favorites.
Greetings good post

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Thanks for stopping by to read, no doubt the nostalgia that comes when you see these cod images deserves more than one post thanks for the support.

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Of course, my friends and I shared a lot in this game not only in the multiplayer, we loved the campaign and Shephard's twist that left us all surprised... that is never forgotten...

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This is an antagonist that I definitely want to analyze in a post, since he has some motivations to betray his best soldiers like ghost and roach.

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He has his reasons, but I don't justify them to him, hehehe, I wish you success in this publication. 😃

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