Wow! I have heard all the arguments against buying the game and protesting IW/Activision for publishing the game in its PC form. I am not going to argue that there needs to be some work done on the dedicated servers, but otherwise the game is fine.

Now it is not some masterpiece of on-line play like ArmA (bias there!), but it is a whole lot of fun that has a lot of positives that out weight most of the negatives. But as always it is not for everyone and some will be totally against it which is fine.

The negatives are pretty much all well covered in the countless threads here are TG, but to simply recap a couple of the major ones I saw:

1. No dedicated server. It would be nice I TG could host a dedicated server.
   
2. The campaign pretty much blows. It was easy to begin with, you really feel like you are running an obstacle course versus some wide open game that allows for freedom of movement. It really doesn’t let you fail, it seems pretty straight forward.
   
3. No admin tools. I haven’t had any issues personally, but eventually there will be clowns that need to be removed from a game.
   
4. Steam. I hate Steam more than I do IW. Steam should have a master list of servers, by game type mode, of all the servers running. That is the case for most Steam Games.

Here are some of the positives I have seen:

1. Leveling is addicting. There are so many options that are opened up at certain levels, so it becomes “one more round” in an effort to get the next weapon of item unlocked.
   
2. Maybe because it is new or it is on Steam, but I have seen no blatant cheating. That is not to say that it may become more prevalent once more people play it.
   
3. Hardcore Mode is spot on. I have seen plenty of games try to achieve what MW2 did with that option of play.
   
4. The “challenges” really balance out the game play. If you have not seen them, they are basically rewards you get for X amount of things like knife kills while using a certain perk. This does seem to allow for newer players to jump on using a no scope, because each level creates a new weapon that is vanilla.
   
5. It is not a sniper fest. Snipers have their role in this game, but only on certain maps at best. The games to balance itself out by rewarding users of SMGs and pistols in more close quarter combat maps.
   
6. Ping matching. It matches pings for me really well and I haven’t had any real lag. People say the moving of a host is a issue, for me it is maybe 5 seconds before I am back in game at the exact spot I left.

Now overall, it is a playable game. It runs smooth and looks great. The sounds are awesome and add to the overall fun. I am not a fan of certain modes of play, but others rock, but at least you have a choice. My overall assessment of it is it should be a $30 game not a $60. So take that for what it is worth….