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"We are the most powerful military force in the history of man", American General Shepherd rumbles in the first line of the game post-tutorial. Modern Warfare 2 is a game about American - and specifically American - interventionism, of which it is blisteringly critical. It's worth retreading (and spoilers for an 11-year-old game here, as a heads up). The story's major beats just hitting a little harder, the brilliance shining a little brighter. But on top of that the game's narrative tricks seem to come into sharper focus, too.
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The impact, now, of emerging midway through the game to a smashed Washington Monument and a White House ablaze, or of breaking free from the Gulag, or creeping through waves of snow, is honestly extraordinary. It took the added sheen of quite stunning photorealism, brought to it by Beenox's surprise remaster - and, more likely, just another replay of the story anyway - to really figure it out. I've always known Modern Warfare 2 to be a mess - a beautiful mess, but still a mess - that's unquestionably fun and smarter than it looks, but still lacking the requisite nuance to land its point. I have struggled to pin down why I love it, some fond nostalgia-tinged memories of multiplayer aside. The parable is obscured by the action, the action is obscured by the parable, and you're left with a nagging sense that this is supposed to mean something, between the lines of the Hoorahs and the Tango Downs, but it's unclear exactly what. They don't mix, at least on the surface, and for many that means neither half of the game really lands.
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The result, certainly when I first played it back in 2009, is oil and water. One is an all-time action classic, thrilling and tense and more than a little ridiculous in its recounting of the heroics of war the other, meanwhile, is a fierce and surprisingly cutting anti-war critique.
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There are two games that live side-by-side in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.