Modern Warfare 2's launch beat all previous first-and five-day entertainment industry box office, book and video game sell-through records*:
The largest reported five-day opening worldwide box office gross figures, held by Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ($394 million)
The largest reported five-day opening domestic box office gross figures, held by The Dark Knight ($203.8 million)
The largest reported five-day worldwide video game sales record, previously held by Grand Theft Auto IV (6 million units, $500 million)
The largest reported opening first-day domestic box office gross figures, held by The Dark Knight ($66.4 million)
The largest reported first-day book sales in dollars, held by Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows ($220 million)
The largest reported first-day worldwide video game sales record, previously held by Grand Theft Auto IV (3.6 million units, $310 million)
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Any one have / played it yet? thoughts? is the lack of dedicated servers for PC as bad as many are saying?

The campaign is awesome, you've got to play it. The multiplayer is also good. Theres a dedicated server hack out, which can do LAN play, but I haven't tried it. Theres a video out with someone using a form of wall hack. The multi is much better than the original Modern Warfare, some neat perks and kill streak rewards.

Yeah I have heard nothing but good things. Someone told me 'It's by far a complete new level of gaming'. I told him he was a dick. Although I haven't tried it I didn't really want to take his advice as he is really into the Sims and games like that.

Its things like this http://www.playfire.com/a/forum/call-of-...read/57824 that really have me worried, various no clip hacks and aim bots were supposedly up the day the game was released

MattyD.As Wrote:Yeah I have heard nothing but good things. Someone told me 'It's by far a complete new level of gaming'. I told him he was a dick. Although I haven't tried it I didn't really want to take his advice as he is really into the Sims and games like that.

I really don't understand what a 'new level of gaming' is supposed to mean. Is it that just this one time the game was easy enough for a Sims player to get past the very first single-player level? (That's usually the training part)

I really don't want to install this game on my PC. It is becoming some sort of ancient relic. An archaeological specimen, so to speak. Some kind of pre-historic fossil of sorts.
I think it's approaching the age whereby it becomes old enough to increase in value, though I would imagine it's nowhere near as bad as some of the Jurassic period dust traces that some of the others who use these forums might have.

Quote: I really don't understand what a 'new level of gaming' is supposed to mean. Is it that just this one time the game was easy enough for a Sims player to get past the very first single-player level? (That's usually the training part)

I really don't want to install this game on my PC. It is becoming some sort of ancient relic. An archaeological specimen, so to speak. Some kind of pre-historic fossil of sorts.
I think it's approaching the age whereby it becomes old enough to increase in value, though I would imagine it's nowhere near as bad as some of the Jurassic period dust traces that some of the others who use these forums might have.

Exactly. I have heard really good things though.

The same reason why I won't get this game also (besides being broke). I still have my computer that I brought to the very first Lytton LAN I went to. Not too many problems though. Only a CPU fan problem recently which I managed to fix. All the tools in the world won't fix my computer to run a game like that though