Modern Warfare II gets Battlefield vibe with massive Invasion and Ground War battles
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Sometimes when you’re part of a really massive online battle, you can find that rare moment and place on the map where everybody in the game makes the mistake of ignoring you. You get a chance to shoot fish in a barrel and you wonder if everyone else is a bot.
I had that feeling this weekend as I had a chance to play the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II multiplayer beta on the PC, as I had my best round ever. Last week, I played enough to level up to the first 15 levels on the PlayStation 5 beta. And this week, I earned another 15 levels, maxing out at level 30 on the PC/Xbox beta. My accounts are linked so I was able to continue leveling up from the PS5 to the PC.
During all of those hours of play, I had one round where I got into a state of flow and slaughtered the enemy. It was in the Sa’id map in the Ground War mode, where 32 human players square off against 32 human players in massive maps. I managed to get 42 kills and suffer only seven deaths. I had some good Killstreaks and a number of triple kills. This never happens, in case you’re wondering if I’m actually good. But this is what Call of Duty players live for, a chance to be the hero and whoop the other side. The good thing about this particular map is that it is set up in a way that enables this to happen.
I played the game on Falcon Northwest computer with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card and a 12-core AMD Ryzen 9 processor. It’s not the most powerful machine anymore but the graphics of the game looked pretty awesome to me.
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