Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 test GPU

Year: 2009
Genres: Action (Shooter) / 3D / 1st Person
Developer: Infinity Ward
Publisher: Activision

System requirements for maximum visual quality recommended by the game websiteGPU:

The minimum

Operating system: Windows XP SP3, Vista®, Windows 7
Processor: Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz
RAM: 2 GB 
Video card: DirectX®9 compatible video adapter with 256 MB RAM Radeon HD 4650 or GeForce GT 9500
DirectX: DirectX®9
Winchester: 11.2 GB free space

Effective

Operating system: Windows XP SP3, Vista®, Windows 7
Processor: Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz
RAM: 2 GB
Video card: DirectX®9 compatible video adapter with 256 MB RAM Radeon HD 2900 Pro or GS GeForce 8800
DirectX: DirectX®9
Winchester: 11.2  GB free space

Optimal

Operating system: Windows XP SP3, Vista®, Windows 7
Processor: Core 2 Duo 2.83 GHz
RAM: 3 GB 
Video card: DirectX®9 compatible video adapter with 512 MB RAM Radeon HD 4850 or GeForce GTX 9800
DirectX: DirectX®9
Winchester: 11.2  GB free space

 

Official description of the game

Continuation of the popular action movie Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, which sold 14 million copies worldwide and was named "Game of the Year 2007" by most gaming publications. The action takes place several years after the events of the first part of the blockbuster. As part of a special anti-terrorism squad under the command of Captain John MacTavish, the player will take part in the most dangerous operations in various corners of the world: in the snowy mountains of Kazakhstan and the slums of Rio de Janeiro, in the sands of Afghanistan and even in the vast expanses of Russia. In breathtaking shootouts and hand-to-hand combat with extremists, the elite squad fighters will use the latest weapons, equipment and technology.

Features:
• New operations. A massive single player campaign that continues the events of the original game.
• Shoulder to shoulder. Co-op mode "Special Operations", which presents a number of scenarios for two participants. As the fighters gain experience, all more complex missions will be revealed to them, both plot-related to the single-player campaign and completely independent.
• against each other. New multiplayer modes, as well as unique abilities and skills available only in online battles.
• At risk to life. Carrying out dangerous missions in extreme conditions: in snowy mountains, lifeless deserts and even under water, players will use all possible modern weapons, the latest equipment and equipment.
• Beautiful action. Spectacular dynamic shootouts and brutal hand-to-hand combat, as spectacular as episodes from the best Hollywood action films.

Review: Playability

So we waited and waited and finally waited... Infinity Ward has long promised, even last year, to present a game project that would have no equal in its content and scale. Already after sending the project to the workshops for printing, the developers themselves admitted that they had embodied a huge number of their ideas and fantasies into the game plot.

And at its stage of development completion Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 they simply do not know what they will be able to implement in the next part. But let's hope that the developers' imagination has not dried up and they will continue to delight us with first-class projects.

Gameplay Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is made at such a high level that it is difficult to tear yourself away from the game from the very beginning to the end: the plot and scenes are very well made, the variety of game locations, spectacular shootouts and game events - all this will not make you doubt for a moment the high-quality execution of the project.

Unlike the previously released military simulators ARMA2 and Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising The game actually conveys the impression of being present in combat and allows you to thoroughly enjoy the gameplay.

Review: Game Graphics

Game graphics in  Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 deserves only praise: very high-quality reproduced locations of various parts of the world, excellent detail, high accuracy of rendering visual effects of military operations.

Compared to its predecessor, the game has an even higher quality picture and in some game moments it seems that it can compete on equal terms with Crysis itself.

I’m very pleased with the cinematic nature of what is happening and the life behavior of the game characters. Physical special effects also did not go overboard and quite truthfully convey to us the realism of what is happening.

Review: Resource-intensive game

We must pay tribute to the developers - despite the gorgeous special effects, the game has quite democratic system requirements: a dual-core processor of the Core 2 Duo level 2.4 GHz and a RAM capacity of 2 gigabytes. Video cards are capable of squeezing out an impressive number of frames that can go off scale over 100 FPS. But there are also places in the game where cards are capable of seriously giving up - it was precisely in this area that we conducted our testing.

All video cards were tested at maximum graphics quality. We tested the lower price segment video cards at a resolution of 1024x768, the mid-range video cards at a resolution of 1280x1024, and the upper price segment video cards at a resolution of 1680x1050. 

Testing at maximum Low End quality settings at 1024x768 resolution

 

Testing at maximum quality settings Midle End at 1280x1024 resolution

 

Testing at maximum High End quality settings at 1680x1050 resolution

Here we see that throughout the entire game, players will be able to feel comfortable on almost all the video cards we tested. Nvidia is ahead, but by a small margin

Conclusion: The game is like the whole series Call of Duty once again raised the shooter genre to a new quality level. The game is simply a must-play.