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Chapter 562 Magic

Chapter 562 Magic

The time required to complete the entire single-player campaign of "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" is about 6 to 10 hours.

The higher the difficulty.

The longer it takes to complete the game.

However, most players, who play the game for the first time, will not choose the veteran difficulty to torture themselves unless they have a special purpose...

Generally, they will choose the two difficulties of normal and skilled.

On the day of the game's release, the first players who entered the game were basically those who had played the previous game, or those who liked FPS games and had a basic understanding of FPS.

The game itself was very popular and everyone's expectations were high.

Therefore, most players entered the game at about the same time.

When the difficulty, skills, and time to enter the game were similar, the number of players who completed the game

on the night of the game's release

... was really huge.

These players, who had just completed the game, were still in an excited state and had a strong desire to express themselves - after all, "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" can really be said to be a Hollywood blockbuster in the single-player version. Not only was the whole process explosive and refreshing, but it was also full of various reversals and famous scenes.

It was very topical.

If you are a player who has played the game, you probably can't help but say something.

So.

Such a group of players, swarming to the forum, what kind of situation will it cause... you can imagine.

Player communities.

Although each has different tendencies.

But there will always be one or two places where players generally agree that there are many people...

The unlucky ones soon appeared.

"They are just a nest of locusts!"   The person in charge of the forum on duty at

the largest stand-alone related forum in China scratched his hair.   Then, after a pause, he collapsed and said: "It crashed again!"   Next to him.   The technician also looked hopeless.   This word "again"... is well used!   "There is no other way... open another partition." After the person in charge complained, he took a deep breath and gave a solution helplessly.   "Open again?"   The technician was shocked when he heard this: "Now on the forum, the game partition of Linmu Studio is almost as long as half a web page..."   "Then do you have any other way to accommodate these players? At the same time, you must ensure that ordinary players can communicate and discuss other games normally... although there are not many of them now."   The person in charge asked a soul-searching question.   "...Then let's open a partition."   The technician immediately stopped hesitating and started working.   Person in charge: "..."   At 18:21,   the largest stand-alone game forum in China was restored.   A large number of players immediately rushed in.   During this period, the total number of reviews under the store page of "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" has increased to 70,000...   Most of these reviews appeared in a short period of time.   Almost all of them were from players who had completed the game.   You can imagine   how enthusiastic the players are.   The forum, the newly divided Call of Duty partition.   The forum administrator just issued an announcement.   The number of posts began to surge at a rate of ten per second!   Some players, after seeing the announcement, clicked into the special area and could only see a few posts.   But after refreshing.   Wow.   There were three pages of posts.   Refresh again.   There were ten pages.   ... It was so exaggerated!   Countless players vented their emotions on the forum.   Some players who had never been exposed to the "Call of Duty" series but had heard of the game name clicked into the partition with curiosity and were stunned.   It was really terrifying.   This situation lasted for half an hour   before it was relieved.   Because of the constant refreshing, players really couldn't read the posts... They could only stop temporarily and choose to reply to the previous posts.   This move also allowed some excellent posts, or more accurately, posts that could attract the most players' approval, to stand out.   For example.   This one -   [On December 20, I completed the game! ... It was so cool! ! !   To be honest, when I first opened the game, I was still skeptical about this one, because I played the previous game twice. In my opinion, the previous game was already perfect, and the script performance was even more extreme. Except for the shorter process, there was almost no room for correction.   In this case, I really couldn't think of how the sequel could surpass the previous game... I even thought that Linmu Studio probably didn't know.   So my expectation for the new game is very simple - Linmu Studio just needs to make the new game similar to the previous one, the plot script performance should not be too bad, and the process should be longer, then I will buy it.   After all, the previous game... was really good.   But when I played two levels.   I found that I was wrong.   I don't know what a sequel should do to surpass its predecessor, but Linmu Studio knows!

They told me directly through the game, ... just play it the same as the last game!

Really! Too damn good!!

The Phoenix firebase city shows the siege, the top fighters show the power of the best soldiers, then Makarov slaughters the airport, the US-Russia war... the scene is getting bigger and bigger, and the conflict is escalating.

"Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" has shown that it is not inferior to the first game... or even surpasses the first game from the first level!

The atmosphere and tension of the Gulag rescue of Price are even stronger than all the blockbusters this year! Much stronger!

And the fourth to last level "Unfinished Business" pushed my emotions to a climax... My feelings at that time were exactly the same as when I played the nuclear explosion level in the previous game.

And these two levels seem to be in the same vein... A nuclear bomb in the previous game directly killed 30,000 marines, and eventually led to Sheffield's transformation... Turning Sheffield into a crazy revenger in this game, and letting the ghost and cockroach in this game die in frustration.

I believe that many players were shocked by the ending of this level and were speechless.

Me too.

Because it's too abrupt!

But if you think about it carefully, it's not abrupt.

Because the core idea of ​​this game is anti-war, just like Sheldell's transformation and ending - death gave birth to hatred, hatred caused war, and hatred and war made Sheffield die.

But even knowing this.

When I killed Sheffield in the final mission - I still felt incomparable refreshment.

And this may be the charm of this game.

Linmu Studio laid the foundation for the series with its excellent previous works, and then in this game, it was completely full of power! With ups and downs, climaxes and unexpected plots, and blockbuster script performances, all players are shocked and deeply involved.

This game is the pinnacle of FPS games at present! There is no other! At least there is no other at present! And I have a hunch that this game will become a new beginning for the FPS game type in the future. All the producers who make similar games will not be able to get around this hurdle in the next few years!

There is no doubt about this!

Lin Yao really did it.

Linmu Studio really did it.

In the album comment area of ​​the Sizhu Yueting platform, the comment with the highest number of likes said that Lin Yao changed the game, and it might have been a joke.

But after the game was unlocked, anyone who has played the game should know that this is really not a joke.

This time, she really changed the game...】

...

The poster of this post.

He typed nearly a thousand words!

But he posted it shortly after the forum was restored.

It is estimated that when the forum collapsed, he was typing his feelings about playing this game... You can imagine how much he likes the game.

And the reason why this post stands out and becomes the most popular one in the new section

is precisely because many players can empathize with it.

The replies below the post.

They are increasing almost every moment.

"Indeed, the game is so amazing... It's the first time I know about FPS, and it can be achieved to this extent. It's not an exaggeration to say that it has changed the game."

"The rock climbing level, the ice and snow, and the exciting chase are so immersive. I was completely hooked after playing this level. In terms of appeal, it is indeed no worse than the first generation, or even higher!"

"Fuck! I will never forget the level where Xiaoqiang and Ghost were backstabbed! It was so sudden! It really shocked me for a whole year!!"

"Like the OP, I never thought that the sequel would be so amazing... It made my blood boil! Really, this is the first time I've played such an FPS."

"'We are filled with righteous indignation, and we have only one goal, we must kill him'... Price's monologue when he was going to kill Sheffield was so cool. Linmu Studios really understood. The emotions were pushed to the peak at that moment and were released at the moment when the knife flew out in the end."

"It feels like watching a blockbuster movie, a seven-hour blockbuster movie... The whole process of playing the game was like riding a roller coaster, and I was shocked. I guess I will never forget this game in a few years..." "

I agree with the original poster. This is the pinnacle of all FPS games!"

"..."

The replies with high likes

are still serious.

But the new replies below

are a mess .

Keywords such as game, plot, character, Lin Yao, Lin Mu Studio appear repeatedly.

There are all kinds of comments.

This also proves from the side how popular the game "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare" is.

And.

How deep an impression this game has left on the players...

On this day.

The entire gaming circle was stirred up by the game "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2".

...

At the same time.

Lin Mu Studio.

In Lin Yao's office.

"Ms. Mu, that's a teammate, you know it, right?"

"...I know."

"Then why are you shooting!?"

"..."

Lin Yao sat on the chair, hugged Mu Wanqing's waist, looked at her snow-white neck, and was already thinking about where to start.

Mu Wanqing sat on Lin Yao's lap, her face as red as a peach.

After the game was released.

A short period of free time.

Lin Yao thought that she was free anyway, so she started playing the game.

Mu Wanqing was watching her play.

Then,

halfway through,

Lin Yao noticed that Mu Wanqing was quite engrossed in the game, so she suddenly had an idea and asked her to try.

And this test

tested Lin Yao's blood pressure...

Mu Wanqing played FPS with a mouse, but she played it with the feeling of a controller...

The cursor flew around, she shot into the sky, she self-detonated on the spot, and charged like Don Quixote. Various famous scenes were staged one by one...

It could be called a full banquet... Famous   death quotes kept appearing

on the screen.   They had already been rotated.   Lin Yao could recite them all!   She was about to collapse.   "I was aiming at the enemy..."   Mu Wanqing heard what Lin Yao said, and was silent for a long time, and whispered a defense.   "So this is why you shot the bullet into your teammate's head and were killed by the enemy!?"   Lin Yao heard Mu Wanqing's defense, and she was furious, and she grabbed her waist, gritted her teeth, and shook her hard.   Mu Wanqing exclaimed briefly.   A pair of black silk feet wrapped in soft stockings anxiously wanted to wrap around Lin Yao's slender calves to stabilize herself.   But Lin Yao seemed to have really collapsed.   There was no chance for her at all.   Fortunately.   Lin Yao swayed for a while and found she had no strength left…   She stopped and said with a sad face: "Mu Wanqing, my legs are numb and you haven’t even finished a level…"   "…I’m sorry, I’m so bad at it."   Mu Wanqing’s face turned even redder and she said shyly: "How about I not play anymore?"   "No, you have to finish a level! Even just one level!"   Lin Yao immediately refused and said viciously: "Otherwise my legs will be numb in vain!?"   Mu Wanqing: "…"   "Let’s try another way this time! You hold the mouse and I’ll hold your hand. I’m going to make you finish a level today!"   Lin Yao grabbed Mu Wanqing’s soft hand and pressed it directly on the mouse to reopen the level: "I don’t believe you can be this bad!"   "…Actually, this is the normal level of most women playing this kind of game."   Mu Wanqing did not resist either. He   just whispered again, "Rather than saying I'm bad, it's better to say you're weird, you can play so skillfully..."   "This is already the novice difficulty! The lowest difficulty! Is this normal? One level! You haven't even cleared one level!"   Lin Yao's attention was immediately attracted, and she looked away from the screen and stared at Mu Wanqing's profile.   "It's really normal... You see Zhu Nianqiao is not very good at playing this kind of game... And your hands are so beautiful, you don't look like someone who can play this kind of game."   Mu Wanqing nodded gently, turned her back to Lin Yao, and at the same time, she turned her wrist holding the mouse and put her slender fingers into Lin Yao's fingers.   Start to change the subject.   However, Lin Yao's hands are really beautiful.   The fingers are slender and white like jade.   "You can tell your gaming skills by looking at your hands?" Lin Yao laughed. "Then we don't need to play e-sports games anymore. Just compare hands."   "I'm just sighing."   Mu Wanqing held Lin Yao's hand tightly and lifted it to her chest: "By the way, did you paint your nails?"   "No." Lin Yao started chatting with Mu Wanqing.   Her nails were not long, but they were round and full, showing a healthy pink color. They were really beautiful, even attractive.   "Really? That's too beautiful..."   Mu Wanqing held Lin Yao's hand, half raised in the air, and seemed a little tired, so she simply put it on her chest.   "Yours is also very good..."   Lin Yao subconsciously wanted to respond.   But halfway through her words.   She suddenly realized that something was wrong.   "We're playing games! Why are you interrupting! What are you talking about hands! You don't want to play, right? You don't want to pass a level, right? Let go, let go!"   Lin Yao started to shake her hand hard, trying to get rid of Mu Wanqing's hand.   Mu Wanqing couldn't help laughing, and held her hand tightly, just not letting go.   ...   In the end.   Mu Wanqing still failed to complete the game... She   didn't even complete a single level, and she fell directly off Lin Yao's lap.   Lin Yao was interrupted by her and had no intention of continuing to play.   "Next time I play games with you, I'll hit myself to death with a piece of tofu..."   Lin Yao lay on the table, put her hands under the table, gently rubbed her completely numb slender legs, and looked like she had lost all hope in life.   "Sorry..."   Mu Wanqing tidied up her slightly messy hair, and picked up the cup on the table with a guilty conscience: "I'll pour you a glass of water..."   After that   , she walked out quickly, as if she was running away.   She also knew that she did go too far in the end...   Lin Yao watched Mu Wanqing run away, and just when she was about to say something, she disappeared.   "..."

Lin Yao could only retract her gaze, lifted her plump thighs and shook them. After feeling much better, she straightened up and held the mouse again.

The game was turned off.

In fact, Lin Yao would have gone home at this time. The reason

why she stayed until now.

Rather than playing games with Mu Wanqing.

It is better to say that she is waiting for the feedback from players after "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" is unlocked...

The high pre-sale sales of this game is a good thing, but it also represents pressure.

After all, such a high-profile announcement of pre-sale sales can increase players' expectations, but it may also make players' expectations too high, which will backfire...

And this game is really important to Linmu Studio.

It means whether the signboard of a series can stand up.

Lin Yao is also very concerned, so she stayed until so late.

"...Mu Wanqing has ruined the atmosphere."

Lin Yao held the mouse, opened the browser, and clicked on the favorite forum page.

Then.

She paused. She

didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

She felt that she should be more nervous at this time, after all, she was about to see the feedback from players.

But in fact.

She opened the forum, not thinking about the players' feedback at all. Instead, she was thinking about how she would tease Mu Wanqing when she came back with the water.

Never mind.

Lin Yao shook her head with amusement.

Then she directly clicked on the "Call of Duty" section of the forum.

Then.

A whole page of posts with bold red words and the word "精" at the end appeared in front of her.

Lin Yao clicked on one of the posts.

Slowly read it.

Then.

The next one.

And the next one.

Time passed.

Mu Wanqing didn't come back.

Nearly twenty minutes later.

Mu Wanqing pushed the door open with a cup of water.

Lin Yao raised her head.

"I just stopped by the Vaporwave gaming platform department and I have some good news."

Mu Wanqing came to Lin Yao with a cup of water. When she put the cup down, she said with a gentle smile, "The sales of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 have just experienced another explosive growth. A big growth! It's related to the players'..."

Lin Yao smiled at her and answered directly, "It's related to the players' evaluation, right?"

"You know?"

Mu Wanqing turned her head and glanced at the screen in front of Lin Yao.

"Yeah."

Lin Yao took a last look at the post, then stood up, raised her hand, and stretched hard.

"According to the current evaluation, it is estimated that the sales of the game will increase by another two million copies tonight..."

Mu Wanqing looked at Lin Yao's graceful back and was about to say something she didn't know.

But Lin Yao put down her hand, looked out the window, and suddenly interrupted her, "Ms. Mu, it's almost New Year's Day."

"Hmm?" Mu Wanqing was a little surprised.

Lin Yao suddenly turned around, facing the city lights outside the French window, and said with a smile: "We have... ended this year well!"

"..."

Mu Wanqing looked at the smile that was more dazzling than the lights outside the window, and was slightly startled.

"Great!"

Lin Yao looked at Mu Wanqing who was in a daze, took a step forward, opened her arms, hugged Mu Wanqing, and jumped lightly.

Mu Wanqing hugged Lin Yao's slender waist, finally reacted, and smiled softly.

Outside the window.

Night fell.

The lights were just coming on, the lights were colorful, and the clusters were dazzling... It was heart-warming.

...

The same night.

Internet cafe.

The two Hank brothers, after reminiscing about a few special levels for a while, were finally ready to leave.

That is.

When they left.

Their steps were a little strange.

"My dear brother, please help me, my thigh muscles hurt for some reason..."

"My legs hurt too, please help me too..."

"Brother, what do you think? I think the game is really great!"

"Indeed! It was worth the trip."

"Which level impressed you the most?"

"I have important things to do."

"Fuck... I don't want to talk about it."

The girl on duty at the front desk of the Internet cafe was still sitting in her original position.

She looked at the two brothers who were still excited and excited, supporting each other, dragging their numb thighs, and talking passionately while walking out. Their

expressions were weird.

How can you play a game... and make your legs broken?

What game are they playing!

Linmu Studio... Do they have any magic?

The girl on duty held her cheek and watched the two brothers walk away, revealing a curious expression.

They looked really happy...

and outside.

At night,

the Hank brothers walked under the starry sky, talking loudly.

Even if you walked far away,

you could still hear their voices.

...

The next day,

in the same Internet cafe,

the girl on duty went to work as usual.

What happened last night?

What kind of waves did the release of "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" cause, and how excited the players were.

She had no idea.

Her colleagues might know.

But she really didn't know.

For her,

last night was just an ordinary night.

Of course,

it can't be said that she was not affected at all.

The happy smiles of the brothers David and Hank before they left still made her think for a long time.

She couldn't figure out why they could laugh so happily.

But that was all.

As time went by, she slowly forgot about it.

A new day.

Everything was the same.

The girl on duty sat at the front desk of the Internet cafe as usual, waiting for customers.

Time passed slowly.

Soon,

afternoon came.

But there were still not many players coming to the Internet today.

The Internet cafe today was not as lively as yesterday.

This made the girl on duty feel a little bored.

He held his chin up again and looked out the window.

Then.

"Hahaha!"

She heard the happy laughter again.

David and Hank passed by the Internet cafe, just like when they left the Internet cafe yesterday evening.

With excitement and excitement on their faces, they walked forward while talking.

They were not coming to the Internet cafe. They

were just passing by.

The girl on duty held her chin up, and when she noticed them, she immediately stared at the two of them motionlessly.

Until they disappeared at the end of her sight.

She was still looking at the direction they left.

There.

It seemed to be the venue for the Linmu E-sports Festival.

Competition?

The girl on duty at the front desk suddenly remembered this.

Then.

More people passed by the Internet cafe.

They looked different.

But the expressions on their faces were unexpectedly the same - full of happiness.

The girl on duty at the front desk confirmed it now.

It must be Linmu Studio that is going to hold a competition.

"Sure enough... Linmu Studio is magical."

The girl on duty held her chin up, looking at the audience who were walking towards the venue of the E-sports Festival in an endless stream, and suddenly said.

As expected.

Entertainment novels

always have to face such problems.

It is impossible to satisfy everyone. Some like the work, some don't, some like the plot, some don't, some want to see feedback, some want to see the subsequent impact, some find it monotonous, some find it interesting...

Everyone has different psychological expectations.

Everyone has something they want to see.

Maybe this is the shackles.

I'm sorry, I'm not capable enough. I really can't write 58G of game content in 2,000 words, and then think of a point that makes players shout awesome.

I'm too bad.

Just criticize me.

(End of this chapter)