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Walkthrough.WalkthroughBasic ControlsLT: AimRT: ShootLB: Special GrenadeRB: GrenadeA: JumpB: Crouch (hold to go prone)X: Reload (hold to pick up weapon)Y: Switch weaponsLS: Move (click to steady aim)RS: Look (click for melee attack)D-PAD: Select equipmentYou'll begin the game as Frost in the U.S. You'll climb out of an overturned jeep, armed with an M4A1 rifle with an adjustable hybrid scope. Your secondary weapon is the XM25 grenade launcher.
Is the MW2 steam server still online? Could it possibly be that Infinity Ward has shut down the Modern Warfare 2 network for playing in lobbies? I know there are alternatives like IW4play (since alterIWnet is down 'cause of IW) call-of-duty-modern-warfare-2. Share improve this question. Edited Sep 14 '12 at 23:01.
Killing 25 enemies with the XM25 will yield the achievement, 'This Is My Boomstick.' Trouble is, you only have 8 shots to start with, though the ammo will be refilled after exiting the jewelry store. This means you'll have to aim for groups of two or more enemies on at least a few occasions, assuming that you don't miss too frequently.To begin, head for the objective marked on your map. A large group of enemy soldiers is holed up on the road ahead, so use your rifle to take them out individually, or use the grenade launcher on those that are clustered together. An enemy vehicle will show up, a good chance to put that launcher to good use. After the vehicle is down, continue to fight your way to the objective until enemy forces are cleared out.Follow your men into the nearby building to flank the enemies. When you reach the upper floor, Sandman will bust open the door.
Enter the room and take out the enemy forces, then when you reach the blue room to the right of the crashed copter, look around for ENEMY INTEL #1. Secure it, then continue with your men back down the stairs on the opposite side. When Sandman opens the door, through your special grenade (the 9-Bang) through the door, then take out the enemy combatants while they're stunned.Head up the stairs into the building, then take out the enemies in the jewelry store from above. This is a good chance to rack up multikills with the XM25, because it will be refilled after this fight anyway. When the enemies are down, descend the stairs. Before you follow your comrades out, collect ENEMY INTEL #2 from one of the counters near the back. After you exit, you will be ordered to use the XM25, which has been refilled.
Take out the enemies as they group together, and advance to their armored vehicles, which you need to use the XM25 to destroy.Follow your allies into the lobby, then look on the table to your left for ENEMY INTEL #3. Now head up to the stock exchange trading floor and fight your way through more enemies. Before you go up the stairs, collect ENEMY INTEL #4 from the trading kiosk close.
Up the stairs, jump over the balcony railing and continue up to reach the catwalks, where you'll be fired upon more enemies on the floor below. Run to the ladder leading up to the roof.Shoot the enemies above before ascending the stairs.
When you reach the top, clear the enemies surrounding the jammer before trying to reach it. As you approach the power supply for the jammer, first look for a folding table with ENEMY INTEL #5, then plant thermite on the jammer. Get a safe distance away, then fire the detonator.The mission isn't over; you still need to be exfiltrated.
If you still have your starting rifle, press LEFT to switch to a sniper scope so you can effectively return fire on the enemies on the opposite building. When given the order to do so, get behind cover and press RIGHT to activate your Predator Missile, then fire it from the sky with RT and hit one of the rooftops with enemies.Now an enemy helicopter will show up. Use the Predator again, and this time aim for the helicopter to shoot it out of the sky. When the helicopter arrives, jump the railing into the copter and take your position at the gun.
Fire on the enemies on the rooftops as you fly over, then when rival copters attack you, shoot them down with the gun. After the final copter goes down, your helicopter will be damaged, but you'll make it out alright.In this sequence, steer the submersible with the right stick and accelerate with the left stick. Simply follow your companions while avoiding any mines. If you get too close to a mine, your sonar will start beeping as a warning and display the location of the mine. Upon reaching your destination, your SDV will power down. When the power comes back on, swim to the destination and plant the mine on the glowing hologram.Once the submarine surfaces, climb up onto it and take out the enemies above.
After one of your allies throws a grenade down into the sub, you can climb down. Head to the soldiers' quarters and take out a few enemies, then look on a bed on the right for ENEMY INTEL #6. Now continue down the stairs to another fight in a flooding chamber.Once you fight your way through the fuel tank room, head up to the catwalks and check the southeast corner of the room for ENEMY INTEL #7. Continue onto the catwalk in the next room and join Sandman in breaching the missile room.
As you breach, time will slow down so that you can shoot all five enemies in this room. When ordered, use the console to launch the missiles on the enemy fleet. Now climb up the escape hatch and jump into the nearby boat.Accelerate the boat with RT and steer with the left stick. Follow the friendly boat while constantly accelerating, and you'll have no trouble. When a ship bumps you from the left, shoot their mines to destroy the enemy ship. Go back to following the friendly boat until the chopper arrives to extract you; then drive yourself right into the helicopter.Now you'll be playing on Soap and Price's team as Yuri, one of their Russian allies. Shoot the enemies down in the courtyard to buy time.
When Price asks for your help, go over to Soap and oblige. Take out the targets in the hallway and descend to the courtyard.As you exit the building, look in an alcove on your immediate right for ENEMY INTEL #8. As you approach the gate ahead, ready a grenade and throw it just as numerous enemy soldiers enter the courtyard. If you killed five or more with the grenade, you'll earn the achievement 'Strike!' Otherwise, you can reload your checkpoint if you are determined to get the achievement.Run outside, but do not shoot the civilians.
As fight the enemies in the street, run into the house on the corner and look for ENEMY INTEL #9 upstairs. Continue following Price until you are forced to detour through a building with civilians. Afterward, enter the building with the weapons cache. On the bottom floor, while Price admires the UGV, collect the ENEMY INTEL #10 on the barrel to the left of it.Use the UGV console to take control of it. You can fire bullets with RT and grenades with RB, but save the grenades for taking down helicopters. If you take down all five helicopters using only grenades, you'll get the achievement, 'What Goes Up.'
Start by shooting down the first helicopter with a few grenades, then use the turret to eliminate the soldiers. Continue plowing through the soldiers with your bullets to reach the new two choppers, which will strafe to make lining up your grenade shots a bit more difficult.
Proceed and finish off the next two choppers, and the UGV will be destroyed by a drone shortly afterward.When you emerge from the console room, look for a slide in the playground to your left with ENEMY INTEL #11 atop it. After collecting this last piece of intel, follow the same path the UGV took, but though you'll take an unexpected fall. Steer your slide down the mountain away from obstacles to land safely (-ish) in the water. Your evac helicopter will promptly show up to rescue you.New role: you are now a Russian FSO agent named Andrei, and you are accompanying the Russian president on a plane. Follow him through the halls to the meeting room, where you must stand in the corner. When the enemy breaches the door, kill them and grab a better weapon. When you enter the next room, the plane will encounter turbulence and you will temporarily be in a zero-G state.
If you manage to kill all five enemies in this short stretch of time, you'll earn the secret achievement, 'Flight Attendant.' After the fight, go down the stairs and head straight forward into the kitchen area, then collect ENEMY INTEL #12 on your right.Now turn around and fight your way through the enemies behind the stairs. Fight through the halls until you reach the room where Alena is being held captive. Kill the abductors and reunite the president with his daughter.
As you try to clear the next area, the part of the plane with the enemies will break off entirely. Then you'll crash.When you regain consciousness, follow your commander out of the plane.
After you jump over a log and see an explosion, ENEMY INTEL #13 will be right in front of you. After collecting it, follow the commander some more to an enemy unit near the president's location. Take down wave after wave of these enemies, then once the ones coming from the forest are cleared out, run into the forest and collect the president. Open the helicopter door for a surprise.You'll be playing as Yuri again.
Once you, Price, and Soap emerge from the swamp, follow them. Crouch behind the ledge with Soap until the enemy passes.
Silently take out the enemies in the destroyed village, and proceed through the door opened by Price. You'll reach a group of enemies with a hostage; take them out and save him.On the path ahead, hide in the grass until Price tells you to move, then follow him to the spot in the grass where he warns you to go prone as more enemies pass. When he says 'all clear,' follow him to hide in the next house. When the next group passes, go out and help Price snipe the guards on the bridge.
Take down one, and he'll snipe the other before he can react.Continue following Price until you reach a sniper tower. Climb the ladder and take out the guard with a stealthy knife attack. Now you'll need to cover Price and Soap. The first group will come from down the road ahead; snipe the one in the back, then the leader. Another two will come along, so repeat the same technique to avoid detection.
In the distance, three enemies will come along, and for just a moment they'll be lined up so you can kill all three with one bullet.After Soap and Price advance and breach the factory, enemies will attack. You can now descend the ladder and go through the town yourself. Make sure to stop in the room Soap and Price entered to collect ENEMY INTEL #14. Push down the street, fighting more enemies, then look on the left for a house you can enter, containing ENEMY INTEL #15 Continue following Price up a ladder, then drop down into another fight.Take out the truck gunner and use the machine gun to take out the other truck and the surrounding enemies. Price will shout the direction of the incoming forces, alerting you to their positions. Most can be eliminated by shooting nearby explosives. When Price shouts something about incoming mortar fire, you will be thrown from the truck.
Follow Soap and stay right behind him to avoid the mortar shells.When you climb up on the rooftops, you'll fall through one of the roofs. Shoot the enemy inside before he can melee you. Shoot the other enemy on the path ahead and run to Price. Fight a few more enemies, and then follow Price's order to head up to the opposite roof and man the mortar.There's an achievement for completing this part using just four mortars ('For Whom the Shell Tolls'), so try not to miss. Wait for the first truck to stop, then align the range indicator and shoot it with the mortar. There will be two more trucks (again, wait for them to stop), then one final target to shoot.
After taking out all four targets, follow Price some more.Fight your way through the town until you reach the church. Inside, directly ahead of you, collect ENEMY INTEL #16. Now exit the church through a side door. A dog will attack your face; shoot the other two guys with your handgun before the dog can kill you.You'll now be playing as Sgt. Burns in the SAS. Follow your men into the building; they will stealth kill the guards automatically.
Afterward, you'll proceed into an alley where you'll have to shoot the two approaching guards. Afterward, enter the building on the left at the end of the alley to collect ENEMY INTEL #17. Across the street, your allies will breach the door to the next building.Upstairs, Wallcroft will kill the first guard, then tell you to go on ahead. Game to learn english alphabet. Clear the next room with your squadmates, then proceed up to the next floor, where two enemies will be sniped.
Jump through the glass ahead onto a roof, then slide down into a firefight. Clear this area, but instead of opening the truck doors, search for the stairs leading up to the catwalk above the truck. A room that can be entered from here contains ENEMY INTEL #18. Now head down and open the doors.You will be attacked and surrounded by enemies, but you have a helicopter on your side. Fight your way through scores of enemies until the remaining forces escape through the subway.
When this happens, go jump into the back of the indicated vehicle to pursue them. Fire at the enemies on the train when you are able, and wait for the helicopter to regroup with you. Eventually, the train will crash.After the crash, you'll be at Westminister Station.
Fight the enemies to progress until you reach the top of the first elevator. Here, look behind the counter on the right for ENEMY INTEL #19. Ascend the next elevator and fight one more group of enemies, then meet with your backup. Head up the stairs and take your place in the blockade on the street. Fire on the incoming truck to topple it.You'll briefly be in control of a man with a camera. Keep up with the woman and child during the scene. When the girl approaches the truck, the mission will shortly be over.You'll now be Frost again, starting with a grenade launcher attachment on your M4A1, and a rocket launcher as your secondary weapon.
After you land on the beach, follow your men across the beach. When you come up off the beach, head for the crashed plane on your right, eliminating light enemy forces in the way. In the front half of the plane is ENEMY INTEL #20. Afterward, head back to where your squad is and continue in toward the mainland.Fight your way through the streets to make way for the tanks.
When you reach enemy tanks, your own tanks will likely take care of them for you (though you are welcome to use your grenades here). At the end of the road, where you have to turn left, look in a walled-off corner for ENEMY INTEL #21. Following this, follow the tank to a barricade, where it will stop.Get in the tank's turret and begin shooting enemies, only to be stopped in your tracks by a helicopter.
Shoot the enemies down the street to progress to the parking garage. After crashing through the wall, you'll meet up with another friendly tank and the two of you will clear out the garage. After the tank falls, get out of the tank and continue on foot.Take out the next group as you proceed out onto the street. Head into the building on the right for cover and fight through the enemies inside. Once you're told that the rooftop is clear, continue back out onto the street until you have to enter a building on the right with cubicles.
As you enter, check the cubicle on your right for ENEMY INTEL #22. If you've collected all intel thus far, you'll earn the 'Informant' achievement.Head upstairs and breach the door. Shoot the enemy on the left who's running to melee you, then take out the guy on the right holding a pistol before he can execute one of the hostages. Exit onto the terrace and exfiltrate the Vice President.
So the time has come and gone and both Activision and DICE has produced their biggest titles for 2011. In the midst of everything that was promised, delivered and experienced here is a breakdown for the non-informed.For a hardcore COD fan myself, I was extremely excited about the new, improved and follow up on the Modern Warfare series and to shove it to my BF friends on how awesome the game is. But for this to happen I had to play both games and give it a fair review on both before going down boldly with my arguments. So the time arrived, got my game face on, as whilst installing Modern Warfare 3 on my machine, eagerly and hoping for the best, then 5 hours later I hit the “Exit Game” option to rather watch the late night news. What happened in those intense hours and what made me take such a drastic move, we first need to delve into the history quickly.Years on end COD titles has been top sellers and enjoyed on both campaign and multiplayer modes. Activision has grown from strength to strength with each of the titles, painting our minds with colourful pictures and made us go to sleep with smiles on our faces. Then along came that evil monster in the closet to the pc platforms, with a nametag called IWNet-monster.
It’s got big teeth and likes to feast on smaller pipelined players and leave them with lag and no will to continue playing. And down went the online frenzy, with fear of getting caught by the monster, but don’t fear was Activision’s response with Call of Duty: Black Ops. A refreshing new approach, and boy, did it cure the monsters hold on us.
So months went by, rAge came and went, anticipation sets in for the new hype called MW3. Nice videos hit the interwebz and everyone (COD fans) sees a glimmer of what the future will look like.
Rumours make it around about Dedicated Servers, and we think, ah yes, they’ve listened; new rumours and more spoilers came and went. And I thought, you know what, let me not get influenced beforehand.Finally got the game installed, and started it up through my steam client. The interface and intro seems promising, though there are similarities to MW2, but hey it looks workable. In the end it’s the experience and not the look and feel, right?
So what was I looking forward to and what did MW3 have to deliver for me?1. Campaign Mode2. MultiplayerSo far so good.So there I was kicking off the Campaign on Veteran mode. Few minutes into the first 6 missions and I quickly realise but hey, this is way too easy, sure I die, but common, previous titles was really hard and unpredicted AI everywhere.
Ok, so I continue a bit more. Incredible cinematic set pieces along the way, graphics are well tweaked, pity about the old engine though. The original Modern Warfare campaign was superior though. This time round it would probably take the average gamer 4-6 hours to finish the campaign and overall gets 8/10 rating by myself. So I thought, let me give the online multiplayer a bash, knowingly that the Dedicated Servers for pc platforms are Unranked only, which sort of sucks for public plays, but will be like PROMOD servers in competitive play.
What does the public get, that evil monster we thought got zapped and sent back to the bowls of darkness and sealed with all the powers of WoW players online? But it seems, someone kept the reviving kit close by and ‘surprisingly’ from the abyss it was set free on humanity again.So sitting in a Lobby waiting, I continue thinking, waiting.
The head on battle between two major titles, exciting times. Not to go into all the specifics regarding Battlefield 3, as I'm sure by now, everyone has seen, read and heard how great the game is, even with the server side bugs, being addressed constantly.
Recently the BF3 R8 server patch was deployed giving it that sneaky face grin “we still have the lead on the community”. Sure, pre-sales point to MW3 to being the winner, but what did you get for your money, a MW2 patch?In a recent discussion with current 2nd Division Black OPS winners clan SiB, member Jacobus Conradie D3tained had the following to say (bear in mind he himself is/was to the core, a COD fan):' Pushing for a new game every year and loosing developers will of course cause problems like this. If EA were to push DICE to have a new BF every year I doubt they will have a shiny new engine every year. Will probably end up just like COD.
BF will not survive year by year with new paint. Engine problems. On the other hand the COD formula has been successful for years. Little bit of new paint every year but the basics stay the same.
Why change the dynamics of game play if its spot on? And of course this year round with BF3 there is actually a GOOD alternative to COD for COD playerswhich there weren’t for years. This has been working for COD until.now.This time around they ran out of paint and actually produced an expansion pack. Not enough was changed to make this a NEW game and the main reason why I am not getting MW3.
I haven’t played it yet but from what I’m seeing and hearing from buddies it’s a big no go. There is in fact nothing wrong with a game being like the previous release with the right amount of changes and mixing. AgainWhy change a good engine in your car and not just paint it another colour? Picture a mythical BF4 release next year?
How much will it really be different from BF3? The only reason BF2 and BF3 differs so much is because of development time. In the end for me I go year by year and what it’s going to cost me. BF/BC and COD is 2 different genres games but if we have to put them up against each other for 2011 BF3 is far more worth for your money. BF finally has a good engine in their car.will they start doing the same?Paint, paint, paint.”Waiting.Multiplayer; a few refreshing modes was introduced which made it a bit more fair game to all, which was previously only rewarding one type of player. Yes, the most style is to go for kills - what else are the guns for? - but this method caters to more individual play styles and evens things out much more. A couple of good multiplayer game modes have been introduced including 'Kill Confirmed' and 'Team Defender'.
The former is similar to the traditional Team Deathmatch but every player has a dog tag that is dropped on death. You pick up dog tags to gain personal experience points and points for your team. The interesting element here is that you can pick up your teammates' dog tags to deny the opposition the points. Now this I just had to play first. Multiplayer maps include: Alpha, Alps, Bootleg, Bravo, Brooklyn, Carbon, Coast, Dome, Exchange, Hardhat, Interchange, Lambeth, Meteora, Mogadishu, Paris, Plaza 2, Radar, Seatown, Underground, Village.Finally all players were matched, and readying up for action. The new Kill Confirmed mode activated, ready to go and make a name for myself on the public domain.
2 seconds into the game, IWNet shows me who is the monster king, and reminds me of why I shouldn’t have gone online and why the COD pc gamers hate IWNet. Guess we can either thank Telkom for our bad infrastructure again or blame it on our salaries not being able to afford that 20Mb line to handle this lagging system. So I started joining on my mates who were all local players on a public server, and my little ping marker still shows red like fire. Maybe a little bit of orange. Let me give it the benefit of the doubt, and test my line, fire up a http download, 420kb easy in seconds, run a ping test, fire up BF3, and in seconds server ping of 11ms – 16ms, no hassles no fuss.After some time rubbery around, and I was owning like a boss, but everyone else is complaining, guess I was the HOST that round, and everyone quitted on my game. So left alone one the server and disappointed again. This is NOT as fun as Black Ops online play.
Don’t get me wrong, the Multiplayer has some brilliant new tactics and developments, which makes it fun and interesting, especially the new weapons customization levels and killstreak layout. The dedicated Servers did give some healing to my nightmare, but it’s just not enough, who plays unranked publicly anyways?Overall for many gamers, this is the most important part, and the studios behind the title will have to make some major changes.
There’s a revamped point-streak system, ‘Strike Packages’, new modes such as ‘ Kill Confirmed’, new weapons, equipment and perks. If the ‘monster’ was kept in the darkness this would have been their best titles as yet, but for now, my online experience gives this a solid 5/10.There is already a new 2012 version of Call of Duty on its way, confirmed by Activision CEO Bobby Kotick in a statement accompanying the publisher's quarterly report: ' As we focus on 2012, we have a strong product pipeline which features a minimum of two highly-anticipated new titles from Blizzard Entertainment, including Diablo III, and a new Call of Duty game from Activision Publishing,'Why do I seem surprised? There’s always been a new title every 1.5 years since the start of COD in 2003. Maybe it’s the times that has changed and the competitive nature of the has increased at a overwhelming pace, and developers, companies and the big chiefs upstairs all need to get on, or stay off.Last but not least is Special Ops, a series of short and objective-based missions that have a new game mode called 'Survival'.
The beauty of Special Ops is that you have the option to play co-operatively locally or online, or can just play solo. There are 16 missions to work your way through, with a ranking system that allows more weapons, air support and gear armouries available as you level up. Survival mode is best played in co-op with a friend, or even an online stranger, but is still good fun in solo. You have fight waves of enemy forces that increase in both number and difficulty as you progress. As you play you earn 'cash' that can be spent on upgrading weapons, ammo and air support.Spec Ops modes include:1. Survival - Carbon, Dome, Radar, Seatown, Village2.
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Mission - Civilian Rescue, Flood the Market, Invisible Threat, Little Bro’s, Out of Africa, No Fly Zone, Wing Man. The game looks and plays better than some of its predecessors and even though I was expecting more, I did get some sort of satisfaction of playing MW3. Multiplayer has had the most new development with a significant increase in the level of customisation, and it's always good to see new weapons, rewards and modes. Special Ops rounds off the offering and the new Survival mode provides more fun.
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I haven’t seen any zombies running around yet, though.