Review | Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2: campaign remastered

Almost eleven years have passed since the launch of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (released for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC), the best-selling and at the same time criticized title of Activision's successful shooter saga. Surprisingly a few days ago it was announced a remastered version of the campaign single player, released only the following day.

The return of a campaign that made FPS history

I replayed the campaign in two afternoons and I must admit that I was thrilled to take on the role of Soap, Price and company again. This is the second chapter of one of the medium's best written contemporary war stories that offers unexpected and never banal twists.

From a purely playful point of view, the experience remained identical but it can be said that she has aged very well. The 18 missions present in the three acts manage to alternate exciting action sequences with more peaceful and tactical moments. An ideal example is the raid on the snow-covered Russian base, which begins in stealth and ends with a frenzied chase on snowmobiles.

At this lap the online multiplayer component has not been revived and honestly it doesn't surprise us. Considering that just a few months ago the Modern Warfare reboot came out with an ever-expanding multy, it would have been senseless and confusing to propose such a mode.

In reverse I would have liked to review the Spec-Ops to play cooperatively with other players locally, and unfortunately these are absent too. In short, as the title suggests, it is a transposition of the single-player campaign only.

The only substantial change concerns the technical sector: I study Beenox has made a series of improvements to the character models and environments with high resolution textures, a new lighting system and shaders and more refined animations. On PlayStation 4 PRO (console on which I tested the title) the game supports 1620p and almost always runs smoothly at 60 fps.

Overall this is a good technical upgrade, slightly lower than that made by Raven Software for the first Modern Warfare Remastered but still valid and able to bring the title to current generation standards. Recommended both to those who already loved it a decade ago and to novices.