Successor to the amazing Modern Warfare, MW2 has got people talking by taking 500 million dollars of sales within the first 5 days of its release. For the most part, it's well deserved. Like it's predecessor, it features some intense combat that, in part, takes place on home soil, making for a welcome change of scenery. Throughout the game, the action comes thick and fast, featuring some standout moments such as the aforementioned, highly confrontational airport scene.

Unfortunately, with this greater push towards the blockbuster, it feels like the gameplay has suffered. For instance, whilst a jumping a jet ski across a ravine or scaling a glacier may sound cool, neither present much of a challenge and tend to come off feeling contrived. And whilst we're on that topic, the storyline, despite starting well, quickly starts creating more questions than it answers. Contrary to belief, the length of the campaign isn't too bad (~10hrs), however, I never felt as challenged as I did in the first (possibly because the enemies had less of a tendency to respawn).

So whilst the campaign isn't quite as good as the first's, the game also offers some co-operative challenges and a multiplayer mode that's worth the ticket price alone (if you're into that sort of thing). As a result, there's a lot of fun to be had with this title, just don't expect to mess your trousers in same way you did for the original.