I don't play on these army games I don't like them and wouldn't know how to play but I watch it's addictive,as what happened last night...

Brilliant!

DB, it was quite exciting actually.  All the assistants were done up in camouflage gear with their face painted, and with that stringy sort of stuff draped over the back of the fixtures.  There was a countdown .. 10, 9, 8, etc.  There was the Manager taking a video of the proceedings, which I managed to evade .. I don't want my picture in the papers   I was surrounded by all these hyped-up teenagers who kept giving me cursory glances and their faces said 'what is this old fogey doing in this queue'.  I stood my ground.  I was the Banker after all. 

DB, I don't play games so I don't know much about it.  But my grandson loves it.  He stayed up all night playing it.  He said earlier that he is very very tired and might go to bed early tonight.  I wonder why?

TS it's because COD is so addictive they could play all day, the headsets block out any noise from elsewhere and you get to chat with your mates online also through it.

£26 in asda and Morrisons. €54.99 over here how the hell does that add up?

Moon, I paid £44.99 for it in Gamestation.  A lot of deals say that you have to exchange another game to get it half price.   Some lads had games with them last night to exchange, so Gamestation have that deal also.

Nine of the lads in my daughters year pulled sickies today to purchase the game!!!As they are 16, they must have either had fake ID to buy it or else have adults(e.g. older siblings) colluding with them

Mazzy, I read a review of the game in the Times on Saturday and it is a very violent game apparently.  It is most suited to those aged over 18.  Some of those lads last night were not 18, but they were accompanied by friends who were over 18.  My grandson is 18 in two weeks time so I didn't mind him having it.  I'm not surprised that lads were taking the day off today to get it.  The atmosphere last night in the queue was electric.  I really enjoyed being among it, even though I didn't look like your typical gamer

Oops! Dunno what i did then

Don't worry DiD, I put my special edition Modern Warfare 2 Night Vision Goggles on to see your post.

DID, the lad in front of me last night was carrying Halo3 to part-exchange it for MW2.  I think it was half-price if you brought back a named game to exchange.  Don't tell your OH though, or maybe you should.  But it would be like swapping one widowmaker for another

Are you in full combat gear as well?

He cracked Halo 3 ages ago, he's now on the ODST one, that I stupidly bought him last month....how dumb can a girl be.....doh!

Tonight Matthew, I am in full nighttime gear .. you know jammies, bed sox, etc.  I thought it would make a nice change from the combat gear I wore last night.

The combat gear I wore last night was to combat the cold .. thick scarf, thick jumper, thick sox, thick gloves, thick soled trainers.  DID, I went into battle last night with the cold, and I won.  I was lovely and cosy 

DID, if it keeps him happy and out of your hair that has to be a bonus situation.  What do they see in these games?  They look a bit boring to me tbh

Lol Twee...same here Tonight...it's so colllllllddddddddddddddddd!

I have no idea what they see in these things Twee He also has it wired up to a kind of TV stand with a built in super woofer thing It's so damn loud and so damn annoying..... He keeps trying to get me to play, he cannot understand how I CAN'T be interested....I'd rather eat my own liver

Awww Twee.

I did the same thing for my son once a couple of years back. Only problem was he was too embarrassed to go in (he may have been a little underage ) and waited in the car.... so there was me ... on my own, surrounded by teenagers and middle aged men who looked like they hadn't been out in the sun for years.

My grandson has his PS3 wired up to my telly, to his PC, and he has taken over my living room.  There are wires everywhere.   The only place I feel safe in my own home is up here in my bedroom away from the boom and noise of the battles.  I could trip over those wires, but he doesn't care.  It's the constant boom that gets me.  I'm sure you know what I mean.  Why do most men love noise and constant action?   And I'm sure they dream of games when they are asleep too.

ducky, you understand the scenario last night then.  I have never seen so many low slung jeans (with undercrackers showing), so many bum-fluff type beards, so many outrageous t-shirts, so much adrenalin, in my whole entire life.  I was surrounded by this crowd of young Turks all addicted to gaming, and this game in particular.  The only comparable situation I was ever in was when I went to see Slade in the 70s. 

When you get to a certain age though ducky, you don't really care.  I loved being in the middle of it all really.  There was a lovely camaraderie.



Your comment about the middle aged men looking like they hadn't been out in the sun for years made me

My 20 year old son queued up at midnight last night to buy it and has spent most of the day playing it.

Yogi, there is something about this game.  They all seem to love it.  I'm not surprised your son has been on it all day.  My grandson was on it all night and is back on it again.  I think that half the fun for him was queueing up last night, and the wonderful camaraderie in the queue itself.

I was listening to Radio 5live in the early hours and the reviewer actually said he couldn't wait to get home to play the game. This was around 3am.

My son has been on his since 12.30pm yesterday except for few hours when I lost the head at 3am and switched it off LOL

I am bumping this back onto the first page for JDcoke ....

Sheep and Cologne, the hype surrounding this game is something else.  My grandson hasn't stopped playing it since he got it.  Sheep, there does come a time when you lose patience with them and just switch off.  They have to go to bed then lol

FFS... now that everyone else has bought it that means I have to get it I feel like im missing out.

MrM, JDcoke told me last week he was counting down the days until it came out and he told me he was going to get it at midnight.  I made the mistake of telling my grandson this, and he jumped on the midnight bandwagon (with me on board lol). 

I seen JDs name on the member's list just now, decided to bump the thread, and he has gone again.  I should have let sleeping dogs lie (at the bottom of page two) 

Ah go on MrM, treat yourself.

I popped into the local sainsbury at 7am , who had it on special offer,
There must have been nearly 20 blokes asking for it, From a distance I could see 2 police, who i thought were controling the line, when I get near , they were actually in the queue for the game, It seems to be sweeping the nation at the moment.

RZB when I went into Asda today, they had sold out.  It was priced at £31 so that would have been worth getting if they had had any left.  I paid £44.99!

So even the Police are into it, and weren't just there for crowd control purposes.

CO(l)D Modern Warfare?

Yep I ended up paying £28, One of the coppers wanted 2 copies, but the offer was limited to one per person

I think its a great game!  An awful lot going on but very good graphics and stuff.  They are getting more and more complicated but it still blows my mind!

You would think the store would have bent the law a bit for the Police, wouldn't you?

You got a good deal there .. I wuz robbed at Gamestation!  Dick Turpin without the mask.

The reviewer in the Times on Saturday said that all the other Games Designers will now have to up their game.  This game has set the barre for the others.

I'd try and get it at Sainsbury, then take it back to game,

To prise it away from him now would be impossible RZB.  It is glued to the end of his fingers

He didn't want to wait so, as a one-off,  I paid the price.  And he was determined to queue at midnight.  Not many stores were open then so I hadn't the choice. Normally I go to Asda for all games as they are really cheap.  I heard Sainsburys and Morrisons were the cheapest and you have proved that by your purchase.  It was £31 in Asda today but they were sold out.  You got a really good deal.