The original Modern Warfare 2 will always be legendary (MW2 Retrospective) 

One thing I never hear people mention is how amazing and intuitive the menus were. Nowadays navigating the menus feels like playing sudoku. Bring back simple menus.

Even we as primarily Halo fans, can remember this abesolute gem being instrumental for our childhoods.❤

MW2 was the game I played when I needed a break from Halo 3/ODST. I was a High Rise and Afghan DEMON. Between those titles and Battlefield 3, FPS games were in the best position to date. DLC was free and when they did charge for it, it was $9.99-$19.99 at most. Easy investment when you KNEW that the game was balanced and the player base was steadily growing. $70 got you a great game, extra maps and content for something you'd be playing for the next 3 years.

It was my first COD game. I still play it to this day.

God, i miss this era of gaming 😢

I remember Christmas ‘09 vividly, my Dad bought me all the ‘2’s and Arkham Asylum. Modern Warfare 2, Assassin’s Creed 2, Uncharted 2, Killzone 2, DiRT 2, Saints Row 2, Batman: Arkham Asylum Hours spent and such an amazing variety. They don’t make games like they used to

MW2 is the peak of console FPS gaming. Nearly every gun is good and fun to use and every single map was incredible. It still has the best kill streak system. The lack of SBMM and no season passes was amazing. We didn’t know how good we had it back then.

Man, remember when publishers pushed their limits, innovated and went above and beyond for their fans? Good times…

It was fun times. I hadn't planned on getting it. My girlfriend at the time bugged me to buy it. We had played World At War regularly and I was more into the WWII games than anything modern. She persisted and I did end up buying it. I ended up really liking it. Many hours spent playing it. The M4 and the P90 were my favorites.

My most memorable experience from MW2 was the time I sent a friend request to a guy at the top of my team's scoreboard (I was one of those squeaker kids that always sent one to whoever did the best every game). The guy accepted my friend request, and I asked him to teach me how to be better at the game. Surprisingly, he agreed and brought me into a private match. We found each other, stood like 10 feet apart, and he told me to stick a semtex grenade on him. Somehow, while he stood completely still, I missed the semtex stick. He laughed at me and left the game. Good times.

The midnight launch of MW2 was among the great gaming moments I will ever have. It wasn't hardcore gaming fans in line. It was just regular people around your local area instead. It was a real game to transition the medium to the mainstream. Its multiplayer remains the most addictive game I have ever played.

The days of noob tubes and toxicty chats with ur mom rants.

This gave me an idea, it’d be awesome to hear your fans/friends’ nostalgic stories of their first memorable experience in gaming or halo specifically. Just a blast from the past about what made this stuff great to us.

In 2008, my dad got out of the army. In 2010 we got this game. It helped him a lot. Not only did I make friends online, but so did he. He bought some turtle beach x12s (not sure if that's right, it was the big sound canceling head set.) That really upped the fun we had. Especially when we got mw3. This Era is top tier gaming. Mw2, mw3, black ops, reach, halo 3... online gaming has gotten really bad. Fortnite was the worst thing for gaming. I have a love hate relationship with nostalgia

This is the greatest game of all time

i never played mw2 till last year my first cod game was black ops 1 when i was 10 years old. which was 7 years ago and man I loved that game. I played so much of that game i got all achievements in it. i grinded that multiplayer and zombies so much i have great memories of getting to wave 30 at 2 am on a Saturday night on Kino der Toten and being so tired and happy at the same time me and my friends beat wave 30 and celebrated. then we all died and lost wave 31. we sadly got off after that because we wanted some sleep to wake up at 7 am to go and play some more cod bo1. man call of duty has so much nostalgia in my life. thanks for the video because i did finally play MW2 last year and this video brought back fond memory's of BO1 and MW2. Keep up the great work and keep up making the great videos as always. thanks RS for the memory's. have a good day. :)

Love seeing you guys branch out into these kinda video essays, it’s perfect and I love seeing your opinions on these things!!

This was a great video guys, I really enjoyed this different content. MW2 was such a bright spot in many of our lives, a simpler time. I would love to see more!

I will never forget the massive row of people on release day, this game truly is legendary

Love year videos guys! This channel is so great. Keep up the good work!

Every now & then I come back to watch videos like this about this game. It was the summer going into high school when this game was coming out for me. The Xbox days with my boys are some of the best memories of my entire life man. Endless laughs, endless stories, endless fun. There’s probably more memories I forget than remember. Life is precious, some of those friends are gone. We never get special days back, even if they don’t feel special in the moment. I wish I relished in the moment of these days a little more. God bless everyone, this game is the GOAT.

I would give ANYTHING to go back to the 360 days

I've played games since 1990 and 2009 was a great year, I had MW2 Gears 2 amd halo 3 on rotation constantly

What a well-written narrative. Great job, guys. This was a fantastic game. Nostalgic now, but truly had one of the best video game stories ever.

Im 22 years old. i was young but this game was my childhood man. Im buying a Xbox one and mw2 just to experience this nostalgia again

I’ll never forgot going to the midnight release with my friends. We rushed home, got in a game or two before going to bed since we had school the next day. It was all we could talk about the next day

Rundown was my first map I played my first ever time I played MW2. That’s crazy. Rundown, Wasteland, and Scrapyard sounds about right lol

Well put together man. I was only 9 playing this game and it was so fun man. Will forever cherish the memories

MW2 gave me some of my favorite memories in gaming and I met some of the coolest people. Everyday I would come home from school and hop on MW2. I will never forget those times.

It was the perfect game. Perfect story, perfect music, almost perfect weapon balance (toobs), perfect MP - will we ever see something like this in our lifetimes again?

I remember that we got this game with my uncle a month after it launched. It blew my mind, I became so attached to it's characters, it was my addiction for the following year, I really couldn't stop playing- and this was one of the two CoD games where I leveled up to any prestige level (the other being Blops 2). It was really a cool sensation to feel that you've grinded so much. It really didn't help that I am in the spectrum, undiagnosed back then, so MW2 was my attachment for the latter part of 2009-early 2010.

thank you for taking us down memory lane. MW 2 is amazing!!

9:58 oh yeah, “ _friendly_ banter “

im with you brother.. this game literally changed my life

World at War is criminally underrated. Amazing campaign mode, awesome multilayer and the dawn of zombies. One of the best iterations of Call of Duty

I play mw2 still on ps3… team death match & FFA are still very alive… it’s not completely hacked like people say… it’s a lie. GET THAT OLD CONSOLE BACK OUT!

Man i wish i could've experienced the multiplayer. The only multiplayer i can experience that is close to this is mw3, I can't find a mw2 match on Xbox.

This was my childhood man this andworld at war plus the og zombies duddddddde then mw3 and black ops ? Golden era for sure in gaming best time as a kid to be online gaming no bs it was so different back then

When i played this games multiplayer it wasnt online it was local splitscreen at my friends house and man that shit was great. So great infact that i bought the game years later to play online. I also played the campaign and the story the emotions the soundtrack was and still is fire if there is a cod which i would love to go back to it is either this or mw3

this entire era will never be replicated again you just HAD to be there, its like Woodstock except way better

I was older than all my friends and thought it was so cool at the time that MW2 when it first came out was the first M rated game i bought after I turned 17 and didn't need somebody older to buy it.

I remember when this game came out. I had just graduated airborne and ranger school and was stationed at fort Stewart ga. Good times

Going to the midnight launch will forever be one of my favorite childhood memories

Reading the back of a new game on your way home was iconic

The OG cods are playable on any xbox platform right now. Series x/s - 360. OG MW2 is booming right now. 💪🏿

I got that nostalgia hit when I saw Jessica Chobot ❤❤❤

Bro y’all didn’t need to do this to me today. But thankyou.

Awesome vid, and great exploration away from Halo. In the peak of gaming (late 2000s), I think MW2 still in the king and paved the way for many modern FPS games. This was definitely the peak, and I couldn’t get even get into new cods after this was the standard. Best COD of all time.

"Friendly banter" Is that what we call those lobbies now? xD

That was a really good video. Nice.

Has some one that didn't live the hype of the golden age of cod and just got to finish mw2, i love to see the history of the ones who stay up all night just to play it day one.

Scrapyard is one of the first maps I think of when I think about MW2. My friends and I were never online players really. We just did everything in split screen. But man we had some great times on that map, all the maps really. That game was awesome.

I waited with my mom and friend outside of gamestop till midnight for this game and man, was it worth it

Best COD game ever.

Yes... The real time communication was always friendly banter and meeting new teammates 😂

1:33 “Leaving a mark on your teenage years” bruh I was in elementary school 😭

Nothing will ever be the same.. this was my all time fav cod. Brb gonna cry

This was perfect.

This game is one of those that will always leave a mark on whoever plays it.

I never had Modern Warfare 2. We only had Modern Warfare and Modern Warfare 3 so we were always wondering what happened in the middle. At the end of the 360 lifespan, we got Modern Warfare 2 and I remember loving the Campaign and Spec Ops but I wasn't allowed to play online so I didn't play multiplayer.

Honestly it was the only COD where every mode was a perfect vibe. No other COD did I wanna find the hidden intel collectibles in the campaign and do all the goofy trophies. Spec ops gave you the stars in missions to earn not just endless waves of zombies or enemy mercenaries. And of course the multiplayer where they (rare now days) let players run around with random OP junk and it all somehow balanced out instead of catering to crybabies. Cod certainly ain't prioritizing fun anymore even tho I would say its not as bad or boring as people claim.

bro i unlocked all the spec op missions alone and that shit was so much fun.

The lobbys though, learnt a lot about my mum in those lobbys 😂😂

What i miss is that all the maps feel different and kinda natural even when they weren’t, now most cod maps look like they put it in some random generator where is mashes and regurgitates crappy map. Like throwing grenades into a crowded room and trying to work out who’s body part belongs to after

I remember buying this when I had no clue what call of duty was it just looked good, I had no idea that it would be the greatest game in the franchise history

Best call of duty game ever made and that will ever be made

MY God! I played the crap out of this game, and it was the last COD game I ever played. Now the are all 100 gig games. Jeez.

MW2 was my first COD. I was 12 at the time and so I didn’t understand any of the political ramifications of the story. As a 22 year old, I now have a better appreciation for that game. I still get on multiplayer on my Series X now and then. “Wolverines!” will always be one of, if not my favorite campaign missions in COD.

great video

Yap, still play it, it has so mouch content, I was amazed when I started playing again, spec ops, survival, multiplayer, campaign, truly beautiful.

Whoever wrote this script needs to chill with the adjectives

What gets me is that from 2007-2013 seemed like it was a vast majority of people who did this. Everyone would play modern warfare. Go to school, rush home grab a snack and get straight to gaming that is if you got your homework done first, getting online and being able to chat with other people was so unique since Myspace and Facebook were relatively new so you had limited direct quick ways of meeting people. High schoolers would rail this stuff back in 2007-2011 and what seems like it was more common was since the US was still at War with Afghan and Iraq and these games for majority of campaign it was based on Afghan/Iraq terrain villages people and more. With that being said the US Military numbers were extremely strong and I believe that came from alot of these kids playing this games it inspired them. I was too young to really have live chat and all that stuff so nothing I can do there but I experienced it later in life and I caught a bit of that nostalgia feeling. Cool stuff

Still to today i play this game with friends and family.

Perfect is not a word I would use to describe a game that had the javelin glitch for months, and where you have no protection from explosive spam.

When bo1 first came out, i came home from school and was excited to play it, my brother was home and on my way down the driveway i felt the hood of my moms car and just KNEW it was because she went and picked up bo1 for us. I go inside and sure enough my brother is playing the new cod and after playing it myself.... i was kinda disappointed, i didnt understand how something newer could be missing things from its predecessor, ESPECIALLY something that waw technology related. I told my brother it wasnt that good (hes 8 years older) and he just didnt understand my discontent, and said that theyre basically the same game except a couple different tweaks, and if i like mw2 theres no reason to not like bo1, he just didnt understand that mw2 had some magic behind it. Looking back if i had to be specific, its the combination of the mechanics, class setups, and maps. Since mw2 2009 we have never had maps made in such a way. Secret jump spots, ghost ledges, GREAT power spots on maps. These new cods have invisible walls everywhere, and where there isnt an invisible wall, the jump up is so completely obvious. They r just watered down maps now

this game was so incredible it wiped out the memory of any other cod that came after it for me, they dont even matter.

These were the best times of my life in my early 20s playing this

you seem to have forgotten about noob tubes, one man army, G18 akimbo, last stand and commando knive...

I don’t know a single person that called it “cod 6 mw2” it was always just mw2

They have a pretty good MW2 mod on contractors for VR, super fun and nostalgic playing those maps with OG guns

Would be a dream to go back to those days.

Ah, no wonder as a kid I was confused as to whether or not MW2 was a CoD title when I first got it. (Before I got to play it) The Call of Duty text on the case was so small, my little kid brain didn’t even realize it was there. I remember someone asking me if I had CoD and I said no. Then I said I had MW2 though, and they looked at me like I was an idiot. Lol I got MW2 when I first got my Xbox 360 in August of 2010. I played it so much. So many good memories.

This game is still alive on Xbox I can find tdm don ground war and search and destroy full lobby’s in seconds and this game don’t even have cross play

you should do a video like this for each game.

16:25 you have NO IDEA how long I’ve been looking for that video. I remember thinking it was real and trying to do it throwing grenades at every door I saw

last question. please someone make a video about c4 ratio instead of powder propellant... could this explode the rated pressure volume due to high rates of expansion compared to powdered. and would there be a possibility to send a whole compression based explosive round..

Life was much simpler! Miss it dearly

I was 27 in 2009 and i remember explaining to my dad how successful this game and gta iv were financially. He was appropriately impressed.

I stood in line for the midnight launch.😊

Just starting the video, im wondering if he is going to talk about them putting in aggressive code in the game to brick older xbox 360 units

MW2 is, in my opinion, the best CoD.

Mw2 was gold hands down the most fun I have had in my life wasn't even a good game so broken but impossible not to love

Cute script XD I can't honestly take it too seriously but I get what you're going for and it's fun. Even as someone who now feels pretty old as I grew up more in the time of looking forward to HL2 in high school than MW2 this still brought me back. Cheers.

I was a freshman in college when MW2 released and was lucky enough to only have one class that day that ended right when gamestop opened. Good day!

The perfect game which now has several follow ups that are not even close.

All Activision had to do in order to win their diminishing fanbase back was to give us a full remaster of MW2's multiplayer to go alongside the Campaign remaster they released several years back. Instead, they are Cease & Desisting fanmade mod projects, shilling severely-overpriced microtransactions, and lashing out at prominent community members for merely saying "Leave children alone."

vince zapella jason west being fired in March 2010 was a big reason why i skipped lots of cod's after

Nostalgia get in here! 🎉❤

i cried while watching this video

MW2, Halo 3, Black Ops 2. The grratest rotation