LOL, but a good story goes a long way. By the end of MoH, I didnt really give a shit about the characters, but with MW2, I did.
Tbh, I'm not defending MOH here, but its just worth stating that in COD MW2, I didn't care a bit about the characters. I did in MW though, in the 2nd though, they opted too much for the cheap cheesy hollywood twist, which ended up in nearly everyone I was interested in, dead.
Its like they took bits from every cheap B movie blockbuster and said, here, we want a fight in the white house. We want the General to be a collaborator with the ruskies (I forgot the story though, maybe I'm wrong here). We want a classic run & gun in the favellas.
That said, whilst MW2 was forgettable, MW was great, even though it was still highly scripted. It seems they cared back then. Anyways, it was good for 2007, not good anymore.