Using two developing teams, Activision is able to deliver every year a new game for the popular Call of Duty franchise. This year Infinity Ward (original creators of the franchise) is ready to give us the second Modern Warfare experience. There has been such big fuzz around this game the whole year, and the selling results were predictable. But no one could actually guess that Modern Warfare 2 would break the selling record in the first 24 hours from the worldwide release. But does the game really value what the marketing results tell us and does the game stand for a true Modern Warfare sequel? We'll see.

The new game begins 5 years after the events in Modern Warfare where Zakhaev's lieutenant, Vladimir Makarov, has taken the lead on the biggest terrorist organization and plans to conquer USA. The story is predictable but has a blurry progression due to excessive use of different parallel perspectives and lacks of any distinct continuation between the events. I cannot deny the fast paced action from start till the end of the game, but the story suffers from this point of view. Most of you will overlook these details because of the cinematic scenario and lively level design used to create probably the most authentic war experience. Again you will play with several characters, each of them playing an important role in the following events of the story. Iconic figures like Captain Price and 'Soap' will come back in this sequel to settle a new military conflict once and for all.

Cinematic experience is definitely what the single player campaign is all about. There is no way you can deny the hard work it has been put in order to obtain that dramatic feeling that only a blockbuster movie can deliver. Maybe there is no other game out there to equal the unique Pripyat mission from Modern Warfare, but the sequel delivers enough crucial and shocking moments in each level to create a lifetime experience. Taking advantage of some known actors (such as Barry Pepper, Keith David, Glenn Morshower, to name only a few) to record the voices of the main characters but also featuring a soundtrack specially composed by Hans Zimmer and having direct support from Navy Seal's specialists regarding military tactics, Modern Warfare 2 is a game worth playing and can be considered almost equal to its first part in terms of quality.