Conclusion

Single Player PROS  Music Variety in map themes Overall "fluid" game experience Special Ops CONS  Constant blood splatter is bloody annoying Short Multiplayer PROS  Easy for beginners to get into CONS  Weapon sounds Constant rewards are annoying (specially the sounds) The online system in general

Silver Award!

As for the final words, let's still keep things separated. First of all there's the single player, and while I myself am an avid multiplayer, the single player still remains the main thing for a great part of the MW2-buyers. As you'd expect then, Infinity Ward has put a lot of effort to the singleplayer aspect of the game and everything works as intended. Getting the installation started took several attempts as there was something wrong with the Steam script, but the game itself offered a good, if a bit short, experience. It's the action-packed, fine polished FPS-game you'd expect. The nags that I have are the constant blood splatter that makes visibility very poor and rather frustrating from time to time and also too many overly epic moments that try to keep the storyline together.