Modern Warfare 2: Where Was Your Significant Other Last Night?
Posted on Nov 10, 2009 by Lori in 360, PS3
We walked up Bay to check out the Best Buy launch, and we were greeted by a mad queue of hardcore fans. By mad, I mean myriad; by hardcore, I mean in uniform. And (please take this in the context that I am a married woman) I love me a man in uniform.
Dave: Wait a second—I’ve never worn a uniform in my life…
Lori: We should get that taken care of ASAP…
Instead of a big rig, the Xbox folks had a tent set up outside where the kids could play and, for the intrepidly intrepid (of which I was not one), there was the opportunity for some belly-lying toy-gun-shootin’ action to showcase the new spec-ops features in this new instance of the Call of Duty franchise.
The most awesome part, perhaps, was the fact that there was a pair of night-vision goggles from the Prestige edition that we got to fool around with. True, they’re not as good as the real thing but, dude, them things is sexy. Just look at that pic. (Gas mask not included, but certainly an interesting option…)
After we got our fill, we thought we’d hit the Future Shop to complete our hat trick of MW2 goodness. There, I saw the cutest little kid out front bogarting one of the PS3s out front (and likely kicking some serious ass) and all I could think of, in my old age, was “Christ. It’s 11:30. Where is your mother?”
Okay, so you’re probably wondering what the whole stupid point was of this whole stupid post besides, of course, that we took some pretty pictures and had a bit of fun. Did I end up buying it?
Well, at the time I started writing this (and after seeing the gameplay first-hand), I thought that maybe I should spend some time with Dave before I lost him (and the big TV in the living room) for an inordinate amount of time. However, I later found myself at the nearby game store, behind a child not much older than the one in the above photo. Bills in hand, he approached the clerk and asked about the availability of any copies of MW2 they had in stock.
“I can’t sell that to you, kid,” the clerk replied before looking up at me. “Oh, I’m sorry—are you his mom?”
FML.
Dave: Having completed the single-player aspect of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, I’ll be posting some impressions for those interested—but until then, here’s the short version (to be read in your best “caveman” voice): Modern Warfare good.
All photos by Andrew Spearin. For full-sized versions of these and other great MW2 launch-night photos, click on any of the thumbnails or, better yet, check out Andrew Spearin’s photo essay on Gamasutra.
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