One thing I never hear people mention is how amazing and intuitive the menus were. Nowadays navigating the menus feels like playing sudoku. Bring back simple menus.

@TheRetroBristolian

7 ай бұрын

Totally agree, I have recently revisited it and the sign of relief at menus you can use! Menu's that actually make logical sense. Compare this to the new MW2 and I can't even work out how to get into the game some days, pop ups for battle passes you seemingly can't get out of, cut scene videos announcing some new season I couldn't care less about. It's all changed and not for the better.

@Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa369

7 ай бұрын

Dude I hate every new games menu. It’s so overwhelming that I just don’t even read 90% of any of what’s on the screen and end up missing out on a lot of shit probably lol

@ARCtrooperblueleader

6 ай бұрын

Beautifully said.

@snotsoad

6 ай бұрын

Agreed! 100%

@p0pimp2004

4 ай бұрын

Yes! It's just way too many options and a lot of them are made to accommodate mouse and keyboard.

Even we as primarily Halo fans, can remember this abesolute gem being instrumental for our childhoods.❤

@MattWaller04

11 ай бұрын

It was the greatest debate in my gaming history. MW2 vs Halo 3

@brodiethegoaty849

11 ай бұрын

​@@MattWaller04 sometimes having both was the only way to live. Epitaph, Rust, Sand Trap Big Team Battle, Underpass, High Rise, Afghan, King of the Hill on Guardian, Demolition on Terminal, Big Team Assault Avalanche, etc.

@wildwildwesyt

11 ай бұрын

@@brodiethegoaty849 Agreed! We were flipping between both in the same night

@MattWaller04

11 ай бұрын

@@brodiethegoaty849 good times, dude. Good times.

@brickson98m

10 ай бұрын

Heck yeah, I played so much Halo Reach (didn’t have a 360 for H3 until after Reach came out, but I’ve played tons of H3 since then) and MW2. My top games until like 2015-2016 were MW2, Halo Reach, BO1, and BO2. I’ve always been a big Halo fan, but CoD was hitting hard there for awhile. Now both series kinda suck compared to back then.

MW2 was the game I played when I needed a break from Halo 3/ODST. I was a High Rise and Afghan DEMON. Between those titles and Battlefield 3, FPS games were in the best position to date. DLC was free and when they did charge for it, it was $9.99-$19.99 at most. Easy investment when you KNEW that the game was balanced and the player base was steadily growing. $70 got you a great game, extra maps and content for something you'd be playing for the next 3 years.

@zachary2010

11 ай бұрын

MW1/WaW/MW2 - Halo 2/3/Reach/ODST - BFBC2/BF3/BF4 era was some god-tier days for FPS titles. The competition led to so much innovation and value per dollar that we have lost over the years as each game series has been catered to serve as many people as possible versus nailing down their genre. Halo to CoD to BattleField gave us nearly the full spectrum from arcade arena shooters to more open map sim-shooters.

@FeedmRice

2 ай бұрын

MW2, Halo 3 & Battlefield 3 were my gems too 😌

MW2 is the peak of console FPS gaming. Nearly every gun is good and fun to use and every single map was incredible. It still has the best kill streak system. The lack of SBMM and no season passes was amazing. We didn’t know how good we had it back then.

@sooperdude22

11 ай бұрын

Battle Passes, Item Shops, and "Skill-Based" matchmaking. The *_Unholy Trinity_* that have made today's video games nothing more than soulless, copy/paste *_cash grabs._*

@tristanmatheny2361

10 ай бұрын

Black Ops 2

@bryanparham4134

10 ай бұрын

I was just replaying it as the servers opened back up and needless to say I miss that. Lack of SBMM and having ACTUAL good games where I can stay with the ppl I just played with, make actual friendships and just an overall good time brings me joy and happiness. I really wish this type of gaming was back and available….

@JohnDoe-iw8je

9 ай бұрын

God i LOVE this game. No other cod comes close before or since.

@protech967

8 ай бұрын

I agree, however battlefield bad company 2, and battlefield 3 were fantastic games too. Huge maps, 64 player servers, destroy shit with tanks, blow tanks up, run people over with tanks, dominate with warplanes, man... The list goes on and on. Battlefield was so much fun and I had so many good memories playing that game.

It was my first COD game. I still play it to this day.

@John-Doe-Yo

11 ай бұрын

How many nukes?

@chvIry

11 ай бұрын

@@John-Doe-Yoenough

@John-Doe-Yo

11 ай бұрын

@@chvIry word

@astrahl

11 ай бұрын

How do you still play? Xbox or what. Hackers and lack of games I’ve heard kill it

@chvIry

11 ай бұрын

@@astrahl iwx

God, i miss this era of gaming 😢

@Leo.de99

10 ай бұрын

It was the greatest it was perfect

@Eddy_Del_Lobo

9 ай бұрын

Nothing came close, nothing

@McKings11

6 ай бұрын

I was playing halo 3 ODST, COD MW2, Left 4 Dead, Gears of War 2, WoW, Counter Strike… what a time to be alive!

@Litfilmz

3 ай бұрын

@@McKings11I agree with everything except csgo, didn’t have a pc back then😂 but man all those games were so freaking awesome

@herzallahaymen5478

2 ай бұрын

Great era for everything football (messi ronaldo at their peak) , movies and games.😢 What a fantastic era

I remember Christmas ‘09 vividly, my Dad bought me all the ‘2’s and Arkham Asylum. Modern Warfare 2, Assassin’s Creed 2, Uncharted 2, Killzone 2, DiRT 2, Saints Row 2, Batman: Arkham Asylum Hours spent and such an amazing variety. They don’t make games like they used to

My most memorable experience from MW2 was the time I sent a friend request to a guy at the top of my team's scoreboard (I was one of those squeaker kids that always sent one to whoever did the best every game). The guy accepted my friend request, and I asked him to teach me how to be better at the game. Surprisingly, he agreed and brought me into a private match. We found each other, stood like 10 feet apart, and he told me to stick a semtex grenade on him. Somehow, while he stood completely still, I missed the semtex stick. He laughed at me and left the game. Good times.

It was fun times. I hadn't planned on getting it. My girlfriend at the time bugged me to buy it. We had played World At War regularly and I was more into the WWII games than anything modern. She persisted and I did end up buying it. I ended up really liking it. Many hours spent playing it. The M4 and the P90 were my favorites.

@_Ghostrider99

Ай бұрын

W girlfriend

The days of noob tubes and toxicty chats with ur mom rants.

@purplepeak8575

11 ай бұрын

A more civilized time.

Man, remember when publishers pushed their limits, innovated and went above and beyond for their fans? Good times…

The midnight launch of MW2 was among the great gaming moments I will ever have. It wasn't hardcore gaming fans in line. It was just regular people around your local area instead. It was a real game to transition the medium to the mainstream. Its multiplayer remains the most addictive game I have ever played.

It was the perfect game. Perfect story, perfect music, almost perfect weapon balance (toobs), perfect MP - will we ever see something like this in our lifetimes again?

In 2008, my dad got out of the army. In 2010 we got this game. It helped him a lot. Not only did I make friends online, but so did he. He bought some turtle beach x12s (not sure if that's right, it was the big sound canceling head set.) That really upped the fun we had. Especially when we got mw3. This Era is top tier gaming. Mw2, mw3, black ops, reach, halo 3... online gaming has gotten really bad. Fortnite was the worst thing for gaming. I have a love hate relationship with nostalgia

I've played games since 1990 and 2009 was a great year, I had MW2 Gears 2 amd halo 3 on rotation constantly

This gave me an idea, it’d be awesome to hear your fans/friends’ nostalgic stories of their first memorable experience in gaming or halo specifically. Just a blast from the past about what made this stuff great to us.

@ayoforyayoo

11 ай бұрын

Me and 3 of my friends in high school would skip class and walk down the street to one if there houses to play MW2 and get high. One of my best memories

@morbidtotty8375

9 ай бұрын

I remember getting MW2 for Christmas in 2009 and thinking I just received one of the best games ever made, I immediately started the campaign and I thought it was so Fucking awesome.

@bigshaxx2446

6 ай бұрын

Got a PS3 along with MW2 for Christmas when I was 11. I remember starting it up the next day and my dad told me there was multi-player (had never played multi-player fps until that point). I remember hopping on and my first game, a match of TDM that was almost finished on Skidrow. I went into the building with the turret and hopped and started shooting. I saw a guy entering the main building and shot him which ended up being the final kill and I remember asking my dad if they really were real people. As the final kill cam began, I begin hearing the opposing players swearing at me for camping the turret in the building. My life would never be the same from that day forward 😂.

Rundown was my first map I played my first ever time I played MW2. That’s crazy. Rundown, Wasteland, and Scrapyard sounds about right lol

Im 22 years old. i was young but this game was my childhood man. Im buying a Xbox one and mw2 just to experience this nostalgia again

@Leo.de99

10 ай бұрын

Dude I’m almost 24 I was like 10 back then 😅 it was the greatest ever I feel you

9:58 oh yeah, “ _friendly_ banter “

This is the greatest game of all time

MW2 gave me some of my favorite memories in gaming and I met some of the coolest people. Everyday I would come home from school and hop on MW2. I will never forget those times.

Love seeing you guys branch out into these kinda video essays, it’s perfect and I love seeing your opinions on these things!!

This was a great video guys, I really enjoyed this different content. MW2 was such a bright spot in many of our lives, a simpler time. I would love to see more!

This was my childhood man this andworld at war plus the og zombies duddddddde then mw3 and black ops ? Golden era for sure in gaming best time as a kid to be online gaming no bs it was so different back then

Scrapyard is one of the first maps I think of when I think about MW2. My friends and I were never online players really. We just did everything in split screen. But man we had some great times on that map, all the maps really. That game was awesome.

I would give ANYTHING to go back to the 360 days

Love year videos guys! This channel is so great. Keep up the good work!

i never played mw2 till last year my first cod game was black ops 1 when i was 10 years old. which was 7 years ago and man I loved that game. I played so much of that game i got all achievements in it. i grinded that multiplayer and zombies so much i have great memories of getting to wave 30 at 2 am on a Saturday night on Kino der Toten and being so tired and happy at the same time me and my friends beat wave 30 and celebrated. then we all died and lost wave 31. we sadly got off after that because we wanted some sleep to wake up at 7 am to go and play some more cod bo1. man call of duty has so much nostalgia in my life. thanks for the video because i did finally play MW2 last year and this video brought back fond memory's of BO1 and MW2. Keep up the great work and keep up making the great videos as always. thanks RS for the memory's. have a good day. :)

Yes... The real time communication was always friendly banter and meeting new teammates 😂

I will never forget the massive row of people on release day, this game truly is legendary

im with you brother.. this game literally changed my life

I’ll never forgot going to the midnight release with my friends. We rushed home, got in a game or two before going to bed since we had school the next day. It was all we could talk about the next day

What a well-written narrative. Great job, guys. This was a fantastic game. Nostalgic now, but truly had one of the best video game stories ever.

I remember that we got this game with my uncle a month after it launched. It blew my mind, I became so attached to it's characters, it was my addiction for the following year, I really couldn't stop playing- and this was one of the two CoD games where I leveled up to any prestige level (the other being Blops 2). It was really a cool sensation to feel that you've grinded so much. It really didn't help that I am in the spectrum, undiagnosed back then, so MW2 was my attachment for the latter part of 2009-early 2010.

this entire era will never be replicated again you just HAD to be there, its like Woodstock except way better

MW2 is, in my opinion, the best CoD.

Well put together man. I was only 9 playing this game and it was so fun man. Will forever cherish the memories

I remember when this game came out. I had just graduated airborne and ranger school and was stationed at fort Stewart ga. Good times

I was older than all my friends and thought it was so cool at the time that MW2 when it first came out was the first M rated game i bought after I turned 17 and didn't need somebody older to buy it.

When i played this games multiplayer it wasnt online it was local splitscreen at my friends house and man that shit was great. So great infact that i bought the game years later to play online. I also played the campaign and the story the emotions the soundtrack was and still is fire if there is a cod which i would love to go back to it is either this or mw3

Best call of duty game ever made and that will ever be made

thank you for taking us down memory lane. MW 2 is amazing!!

Man i wish i could've experienced the multiplayer. The only multiplayer i can experience that is close to this is mw3, I can't find a mw2 match on Xbox.

@Leo.de99

10 ай бұрын

Dude it was crazy back in 2009, it was like a literal warzone, we all flamed us to death Lmao

@caelencarstensen7274

8 ай бұрын

try it now. activision just recently fixed the servers / matchmaking. if not, there is a decent sized active community on pc. / steam.

@ally66699

8 ай бұрын

​@@Leo.de99Fr how crazy it was

I got that nostalgia hit when I saw Jessica Chobot ❤❤❤

"Friendly banter" Is that what we call those lobbies now? xD

MY God! I played the crap out of this game, and it was the last COD game I ever played. Now the are all 100 gig games. Jeez.

I don’t know a single person that called it “cod 6 mw2” it was always just mw2

I play mw2 still on ps3… team death match & FFA are still very alive… it’s not completely hacked like people say… it’s a lie. GET THAT OLD CONSOLE BACK OUT!

I never had Modern Warfare 2. We only had Modern Warfare and Modern Warfare 3 so we were always wondering what happened in the middle. At the end of the 360 lifespan, we got Modern Warfare 2 and I remember loving the Campaign and Spec Ops but I wasn't allowed to play online so I didn't play multiplayer.

@giygas9305

11 ай бұрын

Yeah I didnt really have the ability to play games online until 2019. Have like 1,500 hours in both Halo MCC and Counter Strike.

@presleykeller1374

11 ай бұрын

@@giygas9305 I, too, have a lot of hours in MCC

The OG cods are playable on any xbox platform right now. Series x/s - 360. OG MW2 is booming right now. 💪🏿

Would be a dream to go back to those days.

Honestly it was the only COD where every mode was a perfect vibe. No other COD did I wanna find the hidden intel collectibles in the campaign and do all the goofy trophies. Spec ops gave you the stars in missions to earn not just endless waves of zombies or enemy mercenaries. And of course the multiplayer where they (rare now days) let players run around with random OP junk and it all somehow balanced out instead of catering to crybabies. Cod certainly ain't prioritizing fun anymore even tho I would say its not as bad or boring as people claim.

Best COD game ever.

@Leo.de99

10 ай бұрын

Im torn between this and bo1

@deno8587

9 күн бұрын

@@Leo.de99 i can not decide between mw2, mw3, bo1 and bo2. they were all incredible and I have beautiful memories thinking back to any of them

@Leo.de99

9 күн бұрын

@@deno8587 you are absolutely right

When bo1 first came out, i came home from school and was excited to play it, my brother was home and on my way down the driveway i felt the hood of my moms car and just KNEW it was because she went and picked up bo1 for us. I go inside and sure enough my brother is playing the new cod and after playing it myself.... i was kinda disappointed, i didnt understand how something newer could be missing things from its predecessor, ESPECIALLY something that waw technology related. I told my brother it wasnt that good (hes 8 years older) and he just didnt understand my discontent, and said that theyre basically the same game except a couple different tweaks, and if i like mw2 theres no reason to not like bo1, he just didnt understand that mw2 had some magic behind it. Looking back if i had to be specific, its the combination of the mechanics, class setups, and maps. Since mw2 2009 we have never had maps made in such a way. Secret jump spots, ghost ledges, GREAT power spots on maps. These new cods have invisible walls everywhere, and where there isnt an invisible wall, the jump up is so completely obvious. They r just watered down maps now

Awesome vid, and great exploration away from Halo. In the peak of gaming (late 2000s), I think MW2 still in the king and paved the way for many modern FPS games. This was definitely the peak, and I couldn’t get even get into new cods after this was the standard. Best COD of all time.

MW2 was my first COD. I was 12 at the time and so I didn’t understand any of the political ramifications of the story. As a 22 year old, I now have a better appreciation for that game. I still get on multiplayer on my Series X now and then. “Wolverines!” will always be one of, if not my favorite campaign missions in COD.

Nothing will ever be the same.. this was my all time fav cod. Brb gonna cry

I waited with my mom and friend outside of gamestop till midnight for this game and man, was it worth it

@optimusprime5166

8 ай бұрын

It was worth it lol. Got the words alittle mix up.

vince zapella jason west being fired in March 2010 was a big reason why i skipped lots of cod's after

Has some one that didn't live the hype of the golden age of cod and just got to finish mw2, i love to see the history of the ones who stay up all night just to play it day one.

COD4 was my start. MW2 is my favorite

All Activision had to do in order to win their diminishing fanbase back was to give us a full remaster of MW2's multiplayer to go alongside the Campaign remaster they released several years back. Instead, they are Cease & Desisting fanmade mod projects, shilling severely-overpriced microtransactions, and lashing out at prominent community members for merely saying "Leave children alone."

What i miss is that all the maps feel different and kinda natural even when they weren’t, now most cod maps look like they put it in some random generator where is mashes and regurgitates crappy map. Like throwing grenades into a crowded room and trying to work out who’s body part belongs to after

@jobobby664

10 ай бұрын

Yeah exactly lol there’s no character to any of the new maps that’s why they all get boring after 1 hour no game will ever be like mw2 cause devs don’t listen to customers like they use too

MW2, Halo 3, Black Ops 2. The grratest rotation

Still to today i play this game with friends and family.

this game was so incredible it wiped out the memory of any other cod that came after it for me, they dont even matter.

Perfect is not a word I would use to describe a game that had the javelin glitch for months, and where you have no protection from explosive spam.

@Panzerfanlol

8 ай бұрын

skill issue

Yap, still play it, it has so mouch content, I was amazed when I started playing again, spec ops, survival, multiplayer, campaign, truly beautiful.

This was perfect.

This game is one of those that will always leave a mark on whoever plays it.

Life was much simpler! Miss it dearly

Going to the midnight launch will forever be one of my favorite childhood memories

16:25 you have NO IDEA how long I’ve been looking for that video. I remember thinking it was real and trying to do it throwing grenades at every door I saw

What gets me is that from 2007-2013 seemed like it was a vast majority of people who did this. Everyone would play modern warfare. Go to school, rush home grab a snack and get straight to gaming that is if you got your homework done first, getting online and being able to chat with other people was so unique since Myspace and Facebook were relatively new so you had limited direct quick ways of meeting people. High schoolers would rail this stuff back in 2007-2011 and what seems like it was more common was since the US was still at War with Afghan and Iraq and these games for majority of campaign it was based on Afghan/Iraq terrain villages people and more. With that being said the US Military numbers were extremely strong and I believe that came from alot of these kids playing this games it inspired them. I was too young to really have live chat and all that stuff so nothing I can do there but I experienced it later in life and I caught a bit of that nostalgia feeling. Cool stuff

The lobbys though, learnt a lot about my mum in those lobbys 😂😂

This game is still alive on Xbox I can find tdm don ground war and search and destroy full lobby’s in seconds and this game don’t even have cross play

That was a really good video. Nice.

Bro y’all didn’t need to do this to me today. But thankyou.

Mw2 was gold hands down the most fun I have had in my life wasn't even a good game so broken but impossible not to love

To this day my wife and I play spec ops co-op Estate, Airplane junkyard, hidden snipers when we do gaming Why the gaming industry was on a mission to kill split screen when it only shrunk the player base dramatically.

As a halo fan this i played and liked it alot

bro i unlocked all the spec op missions alone and that shit was so much fun.

great video

Just revisiting the og cod games...the MW trilogy was actually a masterpiece, everyone says "generic FPS shooters" but the mission and level design + pacing in those games is golden,no artsy fartsy FPS till this day matched it,apart from games like dishonored or half life 2 but they are as old + diffy

This was my favorite PS3 game, also my last CoD game, because after this i just didnt like CoD anymore and switched to Battlefield 3. Recently i bought MW3 and going through these old maps again really makes me happy and nostalgic, not the same, but at least its really amusing!! MW2 was the most fantastic call of duty!

Back then it was like Black Friday but only for Mw2

man i forgot how we used to number the old call of duty games. I remember referring to bo1 as cod 7

I was 27 in 2009 and i remember explaining to my dad how successful this game and gta iv were financially. He was appropriately impressed.

Ah, no wonder as a kid I was confused as to whether or not MW2 was a CoD title when I first got it. (Before I got to play it) The Call of Duty text on the case was so small, my little kid brain didn’t even realize it was there. I remember someone asking me if I had CoD and I said no. Then I said I had MW2 though, and they looked at me like I was an idiot. Lol I got MW2 when I first got my Xbox 360 in August of 2010. I played it so much. So many good memories.

They have a pretty good MW2 mod on contractors for VR, super fun and nostalgic playing those maps with OG guns

My first ever and favorite CoD game.

These were the best times of my life in my early 20s playing this

Me and my friends played the crap out of this game! It was the last good COD in my opinion and had such a good campaign.

@unknowngamedev909

11 ай бұрын

bo 2 was the last good cod tbh

I was a freshman in college when MW2 released and was lucky enough to only have one class that day that ended right when gamestop opened. Good day!

Am I the only one who would get the games early? I remember going to a small video game shop that would sell the CoD’s a week before release date and to me that was always so nostalgic to me. Then when my friends got it on release date then wondered how I was already level 70 haha

@giygas9305

11 ай бұрын

Thata sounds extremely illegal

@Delirul

11 ай бұрын

@@giygas9305 Idk but I always bought them 1-2 weeks ahead of time around 2009 and he would charge for the same price at $60

@Delirul

11 ай бұрын

@@giygas9305 Plus, after getting on a week early there were so many lobbies and almost everyone had said that they had also bought it from small game shops. You just had to know the right guy

The voice chat was the best back then.

you should do a video like this for each game.

Friendly banter….Yep 100% very friendly.

Most fun I've ever had gaming, I've even gone back a few times to play multiplayer on the 360 throughout the years and I'm one achievement away from 100% the game...

you seem to have forgotten about noob tubes, one man army, G18 akimbo, last stand and commando knive...