Lono, Rothbart and Pacman, amongst others have stated their opinion that the No Russian (See: Terrorist) level was pointless and was put into the game for pure shock value.

While I disagree with them, I see where they are coming from because frankly, Infinity Ward wussed out.

I won't sit here and give you some BS about advancing games as art, because it's exactly that: BS. However, it was important to the narrative to the game. If the game had simply told you, "An...

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So some friends and I went to Midnight Launch. Nothing unusual about that. Except for the raffle to win stuff like signed cover art, a copy of the game, a prestiege edition of the game, the free pizza/burritos/drinks.

Oh and the guy from the NRA showing off guns. Yeah, you read that correctly.



That one right there, that looks like the infamous M4 from the first game, is a Remington...

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So I tried it. It's kinda cool, truth be told, except for one part.

The part where it's a giant ****ing shill to get you to play ODST.

I like the stories, I like the waypoint and achievement tracking, I LOVE the avatar rewards. However, of the 11 rewards, only 1 is obtainable by doing anything other than playing ODST and getting specific achievements.

You get Spark 343 as an avatar prop for signing into Waypoint. The rest are all locked as mentioned above....

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Picked this up on a whim, it's fun but extremely repetitive. The padding via the territory missions was a mistake, especially since it feels mandatory unless you want severe aggravation when walking around and you get jumped by entire mobs of enemies.

The AI also feels very cheap during fights. I -am- playing on Hard but it still seems like a bit much to get chain-juggled by the AI so you go from full health to dead and there is nothing you can do about it. I've also been chained...

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Wondering if you should get Demon's Souls? I'll let two stats speak for me and answer your question.

Play time on one character (Helrato Vorshung, say hi if you see me around): 57:48. That's hours:minutes. On one character. To beat the game once. Without even getting close to everything.

Deaths: 29, though I lost count around 20 so it could be even higher.

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