Pushsquare.com's Willxcore discusses the difference between Uncharted 2: Among Thieves' critical acclaim and Modern Warfare 2's mass appeal, and why he preffered the former's online play over the latter...

When I played the multiplayer beta for Uncharted 2, I caught myself posing the question on an Internet forum: “Modern What-fare 2?” I was so enthralled with what Naughty Dog had churned out that I felt I would be playing it for months to come, ignoring many of the heavy-hitters that were announced to come out in the months to follow. And so far that has stayed true; I look at my library of games and after considering Assassin’s Creed 2, Dragon Age and even Modern Warfare 2 I go to pop in Uncharted 2, which I’ve already obtained the Platinum trophy in (first game doing so, too). The multiplayer is so addictive, so easy to enjoy, so fluid, I just can’t pull myself away from it. Naughty Dog took every single aspect of the first game and greatly improved upon it. Everything that was awesome was even more awesome, and everything that kind of sucked was eliminated.

I recommended Uncharted 2 to one particular friend of mine — who is always posting about how awesome CoD is — and when he asked what type of game it was, I replied “action/adventure,” he responded with a dull “eh, maybe”. Maybe?! It seems that the average gamer considers themselves to be “hardcore” because they want to play FPS games exclusively and that makes them a “bad-ass”, but really, they don’t know what they’re talking about. But I digress, the real winner this time around is your pal and mine, Nathan Drake, along with Sony and Naughty Dog. If Drake were a real person he would definitely have a smug-as-shit grin on his face about how successful his latest PS3 adventure has been received in the face of the hulking hype-storm that was Modern Warfare 2. He might not have earned a record-breaking boatload of cash, but the quality is there and has been recognized in full effect.

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