 | I completed Modern Warfare 2 in 4 Hours 44 Minutes and 23 seconds – Is that a record? |
| LazySAGamer - November 10th, 2009 at 11:00 am - 1188 Views - 81 Comments |
We often debate how long a game needs to be before it can really be classified as a full game. Well for my review of Modern Warfare 2 I turned the difficulty level onto Recruit and played through the game.
I don’t normally game for longer than 2 hours at a stretch so it did feel like a decent amount of time by the time the awesome credits started to roll but how long had it been?
Thankfully I didn’t need to check the clocks as the game stores the time for you and accordingly I was informed that I completed the game in 4:44:23 which is not very long for a full priced game.
I wasn’t trying to race through it but merely just playing the single player as it came and enjoying the experience fully.
Is under 5 hours to short for a game? Is it excusable seeing as the multiplayer is going to eat years of my life and the spec ops section looks pretty beefy as well?
Have you beaten the game faster than that? Please do let us know what you think.
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November 11, 2009
1:42 am
It may be short, but it is still very challenging on the harder levels. As a person who has many responsibilities, I’m somewhat happy that games are a little shorter. That allows me to finish in a reasonable time and still get stuff done. I bought for multiplayer anyways and the replay value of that alone to me is worth price.
November 11, 2009
4:41 am
yeah, even i’m getting older and have other things to do, but that doesn’t change the fact that you get a greater value with more game to play. Games were born on a single-player scheme, and you can’t just cop-out and say that multiplayer is great and a good value. Multiplayer is still the same stuff over & over again, even if it’s fun. The artistry and effort into a game is it’s story or single-player mode, no matter what kind of game it is.
If a game is multiplayer only, or its multiplayer mode is so good it is the absolute focus (such that nobody ever even WANTS to play the story mode), then you can judge a game solely on its value as a multiplayer game.
November 11, 2009
2:18 am
Does anyone else only see a count of 288 views for this article? I checked the analytics and its actually sitting on around 4500 at the time of writing
November 11, 2009
2:40 am
The counters are broken… I suspected as much before but it has now been confirmed…
Time to try a different approach, maybe a redesign is in order
November 11, 2009
5:07 am
5 hours or under for a £45 game? shit thats bad lol… when i bought Madworld for my Wii (i payed £30 for it with loadz of free stuff lol) it took me around 4-5 hours to complete, hmm just a watse of cash i think, CODMW2 is way overated.
November 11, 2009
8:39 am
5 hour single player
200 hour multiplayer
45 pounds isn’t a bad investment then :)
November 11, 2009
8:59 am
nath… as tacticalambush said – you buy this game for the multiplayer. Don’t get me wrong – I freaking love the campaign (I think i’ve almost finished it) – and wish it were longer, but they have put a ton of effort into the multiplayer.
November 11, 2009
9:50 am
I beat MW2 in a little over 5 hrs on … (wait for it) … veteran. That’s right, that hardest difficulty on a little over 5 hrs. So don’t tell me it’s challenging. It’s not.
November 11, 2009
10:23 am
How did this article make it to 400 degrees on n4g, yet only get 350 reads?
November 11, 2009
10:55 am
The read counter has been broken for a while…
For anyone who cares 1000 degrees on N4G equals about 6000 uniques but most of them drop in and leave again and therefore nothing really to aim for…
We love you locals more
November 11, 2009
11:01 am
Thanks for the response :)
November 11, 2009
11:03 am
Thanks for the response :) I thought maybe it only counted local IP addresses.
As for this game, on PC anyways + 5 hour campaign vs crippled MP + above average retail price = most epic fail of 2009.
I see Dragon Age Origins is selling for R330, now that is value for money.
November 11, 2009
10:55 am
So people who don’t play the MP part of the game has to fork out Over R700 for a game thats about 5Hrs long…
Given the MP is awesome.
But its just the same thing over and over.
Its like playing the SP 2x over to up the play time.
Looking at a game like GTA where the SP is 30hrs+ easy and it has MP.
I’d say the shortest a game should be is around 8hrs.
But like Res5.
It takes 6hrs~ish but took about 4days to complete.
Not one sitting of 4hrs…
November 11, 2009
12:33 pm
That’s just too short for an SP campaign if they sell the game as an SP experience. That’s more like just a prologue or tutorial. I felt Brutal Legend was a cheat at 9 hours.
November 11, 2009
11:57 pm
I beat Killzone 2 in 4 hours 27 minutes and Metal Gear Solid 4 in 4 hours 43 minutes.. No one bought Modern Warfare 2 for the Single Player Captain. Its multi-player will last for hundreds and hundreds of hours..
November 15, 2009
4:48 pm
Well lets not forget the Spec Ops mode.
It’s single or co-op, on or offline.
I think there are around 28 missions or so.
November 17, 2009
9:55 pm
I complete Modern warfare 2 in 12:36:26 on hardend level….
December 6, 2009
8:18 pm
No I completed in 2 hours 12 mins 24.845849573958201 seconds.