First off, special thanks to kupp02 from the Infinity Ward forums who posted the link.
  
Click here for the full review. 

Here's an excerpt:  
   If you told me three months ago (that) we would be suggesting PC gamers (to) hold off on buying Modern Warfare 2 I would have thought you're crazy. But if you are buying this game mainly for multiplayer - especially if you're contemplating serious competitive play at a high level - that's exactly what we're saying.  

Why else would you buy it but for the multiplayer, mainly considering the short length of the campaign?

If you don't have 4 bars, prepare for lag. It's hilarious and frustrating at the same time.

It's like preparing for the onslaught of rubber banding. Imagine that. 

Big Pond's Game Arena: the pinnacle of games journalism

" Big Pond's Game Arena: the pinnacle of games journalism "

" @Hannibal said:

" Big Pond's Game Arena: the pinnacle of games journalism "

I'm just curious, are you being sarcastic? "

" Why else would you buy it but for the multiplayer, mainly considering the short length of the campaign? "

" @Destroyeron said:

" Why else would you buy it but for the multiplayer, mainly considering the short length of the campaign? "

about how long is the campaign?  I mean, I haven't even beat the first yet and I don't really care. I guess I really went straight to the multiplayer.... "

@MajorMediocre:    
Well, Hannibal was probably giving that as a compliment but he may also be mocking the review. He hasn't answered my question yet.
 
@Demyx: 
A lot of reviews and people who played through the game say that it's roughly 5 hours, which to me is an okay length in the context of it being a shooter and also in the story its trying to convey. Its better to have a shorter, more focused campaign than to have a drawn out one.  
 
I've played through the first game and after reading the reviews about the game being short, I decided to play it on Veteran...and yes, it was my first play through. I finished it (including the Mile High Club Epilogue) and it took me longer than 5 hours obviously but due to the game's length it was very, very, very satisfying despite the amount of frustration I had to go through.

" @Demyx said:

" @Destroyeron said:

" Why else would you buy it but for the multiplayer, mainly considering the short length of the campaign? "

about how long is the campaign?  I mean, I haven't even beat the first yet and I don't really care. I guess I really went straight to the multiplayer.... "

I played it through yesterday evening on one sitting. "

" @Kblt said:

" @Demyx said:

" @Destroyeron said:

" Why else would you buy it but for the multiplayer, mainly considering the short length of the campaign? "

about how long is the campaign?  I mean, I haven't even beat the first yet and I don't really care. I guess I really went straight to the multiplayer.... "

I played it through yesterday evening on one sitting. "

On normal or hardened? You played on the PC, right? Did you try the multiplayer yet? "

" @Kblt: Man, thats pretty fucked up. What region do you live in though? I'm sure almost everyone - or if not, then EVERYONE - who is playing on the PC version overseas is gonna have a fudged up time with multiplayer. "

" @GaspoweR said:

" @Hannibal said:

" Big Pond's Game Arena: the pinnacle of games journalism "

I'm just curious, are you being sarcastic? "

He cleverly mocked the reviewer because he had the balls to review the true nature of the game. "

 Kbit, what's the "true nature" of the game? "

" @Hannibal said:

 Kbit, what's the "true nature" of the game? "

That the MP is broken. I have first-hand experience. I thought that the SP would compensate somehow but it was very short(and no, don't say that I should've played on harder difficulty, because it should be made longer to begin with). "

" @Kblt said:

" @Hannibal said:

 Kbit, what's the "true nature" of the game? "

That the MP is broken. I have first-hand experience. I thought that the SP would compensate somehow but it was very short(and no, don't say that I should've played on harder difficulty, because it should be made longer to begin with). "

It didn't look broken in the quick look... "

" its a multiplayer game for most gamers that care about dedicated servers, i spent about 4 hours running through the first campaign on hardend(first play through) then 7 hours on veteran( fuck the carousel level)  after that i must of spent 100+ hours in the multiplayer  this game seems too around 5-6 hours on normal/hardened and 10ish on veteran from what everyons saying on the interwebz I havent played through the whole campaign but im 4 hours in and it seems too be wraping up. haven't finished the campaign since ive been playing cod 4 multiplayer and dragonage since like the review said im geting connected too random people halfway around the world. sweden too the eastern coast of america is a 300+ delay.  The main diffrence betwen a xbox/ps3 and a pc is there is a finite amount of resources on the consoles, it will take 80% of the console cpu too run the game then maybee 10% for xbox live, blades, XMB, voice chat, etc etc. that leaves 10% of the cpu too do the network code. On a pc you have stronger cpus, but also alot more shit that can run in the background. from statistics im pulling out of my ass too prove a point; 50% too run the game, 10% for the OS, 2% running msn messenger/AIM/icq/whatever, 9% running vent, 5% running winamp or 20% if ur dumb enough too use itunes and 1% if your cleaver enough too use foobar 2000. then add up the millions of other programs that could be running in the back ground(automatic updates, antiviruses, firewalls, torrent programs, DC++, unclosed browsers) all of theese take up processing power and means you dont know how much power each and every player will have too run the network codes thus making 9v9 not posible for EVERY pc player - thats what you got dedeicated servers for they run the OS and then the dedicated server giving enough power too calculate everything for 64 players and since you hire the servers from a company that specialise in that kind of ting you'll have it across a 100/100 line too make the ping far less than over a residential xx/1 line that most people will have acess too "

Hehe, I actually had a host a few moments ago that had torrents up.
 
Shit, I actually got a kill in the hilarious lag-induced bugginess.

I don't know why the PC netcode should be so much worse than the 360 net play.  Maybe it's the much smaller community which means less local players.

It works great for me, I have a pretty bad dsl connection (1.5 down .5 up) and average pings of ~100 on dedicated servers in all games, and i've had absolutely zero lag issues up to rank 28. No hackers either. The one thing i was worried about was the lag, and it's not an issue, so I couldn't be happier.
 
 
PS: Australian reviewers has lag issues, nobody surprised.

" @Kblt: Ey man. Any updates on the multiplayer so far?  "

ha pretty funny. i wish there were dedicated servers for this game. maybe if it did then i would get it for the PC. there is also no console, one thing i've wanted to do was fly through the entire game.