Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare II

[Dio]

Return it under the Distance Selling Regulations?

[HGFB]

I'm going to if Amazon don't cough up a partial refund. I can wait another couple of days.

[chub]

What happened to their Pre-Order Price Guarantee? If it dropped to £32 after you ordered it, you should have paid only that.

Amazon.co.uk's price for not-yet-released items sometimes changes between the time the item is listed for sale and the time it is released and dispatched. Whenever you pre-order a book, CD, video, DVD, software or video game, the price you will pay will be the lowest price offered by Amazon.co.uk between the time you place your order and up to and including the release date. Pre-order Price Guarantee applies only to items displaying the Pre-order Price Guarantee offer ("Offer") message on their product detail pages. Items that do not display the Offer message do not qualify, regardless of the nature of the items.

So was it one of those items where it doesn't apply?

[Orangy Tang]

£26? Blimey, I feel a fool for preordering really.

Now £32 at Amazon UK

Fucking Amazon charged us preorder customers £43.99 and the customer service line told me a preorder is a reservation at a specific price. Scathing complaints email sent. I think I'll leave mine shrinkwrapped for now and see what Amazon do. They'll have some very annoyed customers I suspect.

I think customer service have got the wrong end of the stick there, Amazon have always refunded me the difference if the price drops after I've pre-ordered it - for example they refunded me a whole 2p for Borderlands last week.

I'd sit tight and you'll probably find an auto refund for the difference go through in the next couple of days.

[HGFB]

They changed the price after the game was released. I think that's what the service rep was trying to get across. I'm sure I'll get my refund. As you say Amazon are pretty good about that and this has the potential to be pretty embarassing if they don't.

*Edit* Aha!

If your order enters the dispatch process before the release date and the price is subsequently lowered on or before the release date, we will automatically refund your payment card for the difference between the price you were charged and the release-date price. If you paid by cheque the refund amount will be automatically placed in your Amazon.co.uk account for future purchases. If you would prefer to receive the refund by cheque, please contact Customer Service.

Sorted.

[The Captain]

Got the 360 version after queuing an age at Gayme at midnight... I was insanely tired and partially inebriated when I got back home but couldn't help putting it on for an hour or three.

From what I've seen, the single-player is ridiculously entertaining, ramping up the Hollywood bombast of the first game into a dizzying, tense and astonishing thrill ride. The 'controversial' level (you'll know it when you get there) actually made me feel tearful and sick - in a brilliantly orchestrated way. That a game that focuses on violence can turn the tables so horribly is quite a feat. Erk. Going to start the game again today now I can focus properly.

On a side note - the acting. IW are clearly Mass Effect fanboys, as there's Steve Barr who played Wrex as a guy called Shepherd, and Keith David crops up a staff sergeant, which is great. And the voice they give Soap from the first game is spot on - he's everything you'd expect.

Dipping a toe into multiplayer was exactly as I wanted it to be - like I was just starting out on a massive and very, very fulfilling journey. If anything, from what I've seem IW have done an even more thorough job of the multiplayer than the single player game, in terms of intensity, streamlining and content. It will undoubtedly rule Live for another two years notwithstanding whatever poxiness Treyarch treat us to next Christmas. Everything feels slicker and more immediate than COD4 - and we all know tht was no slouch.

Can't wait to play some more today. So far it more than lives up to expectations....

[Bod]

Enjoying it so far.

[Ratsoap]

Predator missiles are awesome in multiplayer.

[benedictw]

I come inside earlier - just to install the game to HD, honest - and I find theres 9 people on my friends list, all skiving off work, all playing MW2. Bastards!

[teamonkey]

I'm hearing a lot of complaints. The general feeling I'm getting is the the single player is far too short and the multiplayer is far too biased towards those who can pull off killstreaks.

[Jimmy T. @]

£26? Blimey, I feel a fool for preordering really.

Now £32 at Amazon UK

Fucking Amazon charged us preorder customers £43.99 and the customer service line told me a preorder is a reservation at a specific price. Scathing complaints email sent. I think I'll leave mine shrinkwrapped for now and see what Amazon do. They'll have some very annoyed customers I suspect.

At least you got yours. I preordered from them months ago and chose Prime delivery and it still hasn't arrived yet. I'm choosing right now to be amused at their incompetence, and the payoff is that there's some delicious whining going on about it on the Amazon forums right now, but I could be getting stabby (and whiny) if it's still not here by this time tomorrow.

[Flabio]

I'm hearing a lot of complaints. The general feeling I'm getting is the the single player is far too short and the multiplayer is far too biased towards those who can pull off killstreaks.

It's probably the most hyped game of this generation, so a backlash of some sort is pretty much inevitable.

Not too many reviews are going GTA4 style 10/10 crazy with it though.

[Subz]

I'm hearing a lot of complaints. The general feeling I'm getting is the the single player is far too short and the multiplayer is far too biased towards those who can pull off killstreaks.

Complaints by morons no doubt.

How do you define short ?

If you get 6 - 10 hours out of a game that is excellent - is that not preferable to one that is long and plodding and badly executed.

I for one do not mind short games , if I feel that I have got my money's worth out of it. As for the multiplayer - it is FAR too early to make statements about it after a few days play. Kill streaks are easy to counter - kill the person on the streak.

[Jimaroid]

I'm a little frustrated with the single player but to be perfectly honest I did exactly the same with CoD4: starting it on Hardened difficulty. I'm going to start it again on an easier difficulty and love it, no doubt.

But... I honestly don't think the first hour of the game is as good as CoD4 regardless of the difficulty. Let's face it, It was always going to be really hard to beat the SAS training, cargo ship and intro setup from the previous outing and the trash talking marines training level and first mission is tedious, irrelevant and done to death.

I (completely irrationally) dislike the fact that Soap's missions are done under the CIA monicker. Where's the SAS Winged Dagger? Not anywhere I've seen yet and that's made me a little sad.

There's *tonnes* left to love but so far I'm left thinking I expected too much from it. I was expecting an 11/10 game and got a 9. Err, Doh?

[Muttley]

Hmmm, not convinced so far. Started what appears to be the first mission, something about a bridge and haven't got a fucking clue what I'm supposed to be doing.

I think I'll go play the L4D2 demo instead...