{"id":9475,"date":"2022-11-03T11:35:44","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T11:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/03\/players-are-so-sick-of-modern-warfare-2s-ui-that-theyre-dreaming-up-alternatives\/"},"modified":"2022-11-03T11:35:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T11:35:44","slug":"players-are-so-sick-of-modern-warfare-2s-ui-that-theyre-dreaming-up-alternatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/03\/players-are-so-sick-of-modern-warfare-2s-ui-that-theyre-dreaming-up-alternatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Players are so sick of Modern Warfare 2’s UI that they’re dreaming up alternatives"},"content":{"rendered":"

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is, for the most part, a pretty solid game. The guns feel good, the multiplayer is lively, and the Geneva Convention violations are rendered in eye-popping 4K HDR. But players still have a few complaints: not least of which is the game’s weird, almost iPad-like UI design for its menus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In fact, players in MW2 have gotten so tired of navigating the game’s various interfaces that they’ve started feverishly imagining new ones. Players are taking on the camo menu<\/a>, the create a class UI<\/a>, and the main menu<\/a>. But my favourite\u2014originally spotted by GamesRadar<\/a>\u2014is this one from Reddit user InterventX<\/a>. Like da Vinci at his drawing board, InterventX has imagineered an alternative UI for MW2 that trades out the labyrinth of big, touchscreen-esque buttons for a sleek, efficient, and parseable menu system.<\/p>\n

this_is_what_i_wish_the_ui_would_look_like_made<\/a> from r\/ModernWarfareII<\/a><\/p>\n

The concept chucks out MW2’s current motley of variants for a cut-down and readable set of options. In place of the cascading system of filters and Netflix-style carousels, you just have familiar and simple options that even the COD-averse could easily grasp.<\/p>\n

It’s so immensely preferable to the current UI\u2014and so remarkably similar to the UI already present in COD: Warzone\u2014that it’s a real mystery as to why Infinity Ward took such a hard left-turn with the real UI design in MW2. Perhaps the studio will respond to the outcry that MW2’s UI has generated and tidy things up a little.<\/p>\n

MW2 has been making big waves since it released a little under a week ago. Players have already come up with cunning exploits to amass mountains of XP<\/a>, there’s a fast-developing meta surrounding the optimal number of gun attachments<\/a>, and one player was so incensed by a ban that he turned up at Activision’s offices<\/a> to “speak to an employee,” which is wildly out of line.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[#item_image]Players are so sick of Modern Warfare 2’s UI that they’re dreaming up alternatives<\/p>\n

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is, for the most part, a pretty solid game. The guns feel good, the multiplayer is lively, and the Geneva Convention violations are rendered in eye-popping 4K HDR. But players still have a few complaints: not least of which is the game’s weird, almost iPad-like UI design for its menus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In fact, players in MW2 have gotten so tired of navigating the game’s various interfaces that they’ve started feverishly imagining new ones. Players are taking on the camo menu<\/a>, the create a class UI<\/a>, and the main menu<\/a>. But my favourite\u2014originally spotted by GamesRadar<\/a>\u2014is this one from Reddit user InterventX<\/a>. Like da Vinci at his drawing board, InterventX has imagineered an alternative UI for MW2 that trades out the labyrinth of big, touchscreen-esque buttons for a sleek, efficient, and parseable menu system.<\/p>\n

this_is_what_i_wish_the_ui_would_look_like_made<\/a> from r\/ModernWarfareII<\/a><\/p>\n

The concept chucks out MW2’s current motley of variants for a cut-down and readable set of options. In place of the cascading system of filters and Netflix-style carousels, you just have familiar and simple options that even the COD-averse could easily grasp.<\/p>\n

It’s so immensely preferable to the current UI\u2014and so remarkably similar to the UI already present in COD: Warzone\u2014that it’s a real mystery as to why Infinity Ward took such a hard left-turn with the real UI design in MW2. Perhaps the studio will respond to the outcry that MW2’s UI has generated and tidy things up a little.<\/p>\n

MW2 has been making big waves since it released a little under a week ago. Players have already come up with cunning exploits to amass mountains of XP<\/a>, there’s a fast-developing meta surrounding the optimal number of gun attachments<\/a>, and one player was so incensed by a ban that he turned up at Activision’s offices<\/a> to “speak to an employee,” which is wildly out of line.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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