Call of Duty Modern Warfare Reflex (Wii)

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Genre	First Person Shooter
Platform	Nintendo Wii
Release Date	10/11/2009
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THE BIGGEST SHOOTER OF ALL TIME COMES TO Wii
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: Reflex Edition for Wii arms you with an arsenal of advanced and powerful weaponry and transports you to the most dangerous hotspots around the globe to take on a rogue enemy threatening the world. As both a U.S. Marine and British S.A.S soldier fighting through an unfolding story full of twists and turns, use sophisticated technology, superior firepower, and coordinated land and air strikes on a battlefield where speed, accuracy, and communication are essential to victory.

Features:

• SQUADMATE MODE – For the first time, play through the epic campaign of Modern Warfare side-by-side with a friend on a single screen. At any moment, a second Wii Remote can be activated, giving the second player their own aiming crosshair to support their Squadmate with additional firepower.
• UNPARALLELED Wii MULTIPLAYER – The best multiplayer action in gaming comes to Wii with full support for perks, challenges, kill streaks, and customizable classes. All game modes including Team Deathmatch, Free for All, Domination, Sabotage, Headquarters, Search & Destroy, and Arcade Mode are now available. Jump on the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection to dominate opponents online with air strikes and attack helicopter support, unlockable abilities, and sophisticated weaponry.
• AUTHENTIC ADVANCED WEAPONRY – Featuring an arsenal of more than 70 weapons and gear including assault rifles with laser sights, claymore mines, .50 calibre sniper rifles, and M-249 SAW machine guns, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: Reflex has you locked and loaded to accomplish the mission.

Call of Duty Modern Warfare Reflex (Wii) Review

If you’ve been following the Call of Duty series of late you’ll know that the developer alternates each year. Infinity Ward was responsible for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare on the PS3/360 and PC back in 2007, and its sequel COD: Modern Warfare 2 this year. Treyarch developed Call of Duty: World at War between them in 2008. It may not sound like much, but the latter has developed Modern Warfare Reflex for the Wii; it’s a little surprising that this actually happened, seeing as Infinity Ward originally created the game, and the two developers reportedly don’t see eye-to-eye. Still, Activision don’t seem to care about that, and have gone forward with the watered-down port, much to the disgust of Infinity Ward I suspect.

As the name implies Modern Warfare takes place on the battlefield in an unspecified near future. You play as a variety of characters, all soldiers, in an interwoven story following the British 22nd Super Army Soldiers Regiment and the United States Marine Corps 1st Force Recon. If you played COD4 this should sound familiar, as the complete story, and every mission, has been ported over. As it’s been downgraded to a weaker console, however, that means we can compare the game directly to it’s 2007 original. And there in lies the biggest problem with Modern Warfare Reflex Edition.

The multiplayer is where the game really shines. The online experience is largely based on that of World at War, as well as the original COD4. You earn experience points by playing online matches that unlock new weapons and abilities for future matches. The biggest improvement from Treyarch’s last effort is the greater range of online modes available. Beyond the stock standard Free-for-All and Team Deathmatch modes Modern Warfare Reflex introduces objective based games, such as Sabotage, for the first time on Wii. The additional game modes, plus the increased maximum of 10 players per game help to make Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Reflex the best online shooter on the console. No voice chat support, and frame rate issues, hold it back from being in the same league as the original game, but as far as Wii online shooters go you won’t find much better than this.

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is one of the greatest first person shooters of all time. Modern Warfare Reflex stays true to its source material, with every mission, and every mode still available two years later. If you can look past the disappointing visuals, and manage to setup the controls to work Reflex Edition is an enjoyable experience. It’s by far the best online FPS on the console, but too many flaws hold it back. Even if you manage to master the controls there’s still the unforgivable issues of the aim-assist actually making it harder. Then there’s the frame rate. 30FPS in a game of this calibre just isn’t good enough, and it really ruins the experience both online and off. It’s beyond us how a game can be released with frame rate issues this bad. If you can’t get your hands on the original, or the sequel, Modern Warfare Reflex is the same game albeit with a range of issues, and is still the best the Wii has to offer in the Call of Duty series.

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