Modern Warfare 2 11/10/2009

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http://www.gametrailers.com/player/47370.html

About time they put in a snow map. Cant wait for this game to come out. November couldnt come any slower.

Pre-order the game @ walmart.com and receive a $10gc.

The community boss referred to an early Twitter post as an example of how feedback has helped shaped the game’s development, which asked fans to ‘name one thing you’d like to see in Modern Warfare 2.’ The result? The snow level shown at E3 earlier this month.

“Cliffhanger is a perfect example,” Bowling told VideoGamer.com. “The level we’ve shown at E3 is a great example of the community feedback. If you look early on at that first question we asked on Twitter, we said what’s one thing you want? Snow maps, bigger levels and new weapons were the top three things you’d see. Cliffhanger incorporates it all. We have a lot of the new weapons. We’ve brought over the attachment system from multiplayer and put it into single-player, so you’re constantly thinking of new variations of weapons, like with red dots and suppressors.”

“And then obviously it’s a massive snow level that incorporates stealth and straight up action and low visibility snow. That’s what people were asking for.”

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Two player is the magic number for MW2 co-op

Infinity Ward community boss Robert Bowling has revealed that Modern Warfare 2’s co-op functionality will be restricted to two players, and will not be linked to the game’s story mode.

Speaking to VideoGamer.com, Bowling explained, "Two player seemed to be the magic number for co-op. That's when it stayed really fun and intense without becoming a clusterf*** of things. We just found that two-players was the most fun.”

"We don't do co-op in our story because we're crafting a very specific experience and we don't want to ruin that by cramming co-op into it. We take the moments that work really well with co-op, we bring them out and we put them in Special Ops."

Bowling went on to describe Special Ops as ‘all about fun,’ with gamers encouraged to clock up multiple playthroughs in order to achieve a better time: “it’s about challenging a friend going in on co-op and trying to beat it on veteran,” he said.

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Modern Warfare 2 consumer awareness suffers decline

A recent OTX survey has revealed consumer awareness for upcoming shooter Modern Warfare 2 has taken a substantial nosedive following Activision's decision to drop the Call of Duty brand from the game’s title.

Research has shown that 40 percent of gamers in the U.S. were familiar with Modern Warfare 2 back when it carried the Call of Duty moniker, though this ultimately dropped to 20 percent after the brand was removed.

OTX’s Nick Williams commented: "Up until the beginning of May, OTX had been tracking the title as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. More specifically, we asked a representative group of gamers in the U.S. whether or not they had heard of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. At that time, approximately 40 per cent of all gamers in the U.S. claimed that they had heard of this title.”

"... the consumer survey, and the awareness levels dropped to 20 per cent. In other words, the Call of Duty brand association essentially doubles the awareness for the game. That is quite a remarkable statistic.”

Regardless, Williams noted that the sequel is still poised to sell like hot cakes: "Despite this dramatic drop in awareness, the purchase intent for Modern Warfare 2 remains very strong," he said.

"The intensity of the purchase intent is particularly impressive, as illustrated by the high levels of Pre-Order Intent, which is the highest of any title currently being tracked."

[Notladstyle]

I agree, dropping the COD title was a stupid thing to do from a profits approach.

But they did it because they realized they fucked up with COD5 and so they are trying to get back to the COD4 goodness without jading users over the COD5 fail.

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Modern Warfare 2 will have collector's edition

GameStop has just put up the order page for Modern Warfare 2, confirming that the game will have a collector's edition.

Joystiq contacted Robert Bowling of Infinity Ward, who said that the very first physical copy of the collector's box is currently undergoing a quality check. When the quality check is done, he's going to make an unboxing video, which will release with more promotional material and updated release info.

Modern Warfare 2 received a lot of positive buzz at E3 this year, including some confident predictions by Activision and industry analysts.

Modern Warfare 2 will sell 11 units million this year, says analyst

Janco Partners analyst Mick Hickey has said that he expects Infinity Ward’s Modern Warfare 2 to generate $338 million in its first day on sale, and become the “largest videogame release of the year” with 11.1 million copies shifted by the end of 2009.

Speaking in an investors note, Hickey commented, “We believe Modern Warfare 2 will likely be the largest video game release for [calendar year] 2009.”

“For the Company’s fiscal Q409 period (Dec. ending), we anticipate the sell through to consumers of 11.1 million units for an estimated retail value of $803 million and sell-in approximating 12.4 million units, for an approximated sales value of $666 million (we assume demand is 90% of supply).”

“We estimate the combined Xbox 360 and PS3 installed base for US and Europe has grown +125% and +200%, respectively since Modern Warfare’s November ’07 release, ushering in a remarkably larger market opportunity for Modern Warfare 2.”

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Call of Duty brand returns to Modern Warfare 2

In a move that could be attributed to fear of brand awareness more than anything else, Activision has apparently decided to rename Modern Warfare 2, with the sequel once again carrying the Call of Duty moniker.

News comes following a twitter post by Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling, which depicts what is presumably an early cover design for the game’s packaging. Sure enough, the name ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’ is displayed on the cover.

Speaking in light of this development, Activision told Kotaku: “Infinity Ward's Modern Warfare 2 is the direct sequel to Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare,” adding, "We have focused our attention on Modern Warfare in order to most effectively communicate the fact that this is the first true sequel in the Call of Duty series. Infinity Ward, the original creators of the Call of Duty franchise, has said from the beginning Modern Warfare 2 resides in the Call of Duty universe. This is reflected in the title's package."

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Modern Warfare 2 prestige edition unboxed

Infinity Ward has uploaded footage of community boss Robert Bowling unboxing the very first copy of the prestige edition of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 for your viewing consumption.

Set to retail for a hefty $80 USD, the prestige edition packs in an art book, a steel book copy of the hotly anticipated shooter, as well as a pair of fully functional night vision goggles among other things (yes, you heard us right). At this point we’ll let Bowling do the talking, so check out the video below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMSS1...layer_embedded

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info on single player & multiplayer modes

SINGLEPLAYER

- The physics on bullets and grenades have become more realistic. Bullets will now ricochet, and grenades will bounce down stairs, or roll down inclines, like they would in real life.

- You can now hold a pistol in one hand, and a knife in the other. In doing so the knife hand supports the gun hand. Knifing will now become even more popular.

- We’re going under water. Why else would they show us a extremely cool, heavily armed SEAL diver?

- We glimpsed a level with the name ‘International Cyber Space Lab’ We aren’t going into space are we? Or was this a abandoned Russian missile base.

- Bullet time will make it’s debut in CodMW2. Hold your horses!, it won’t be FEAR, ramming on yellow if you get into trouble. Bullet time will only occur when the developer wants it to, and will be used more like a dramatic effect during an explosion, allowing you to take out those few extra enemies.
This time around, there will be more innocent bystanders.

MULTIPLAYER

- There will be a number of new modes in multiplayer. More about this will be only made public after E3, but they are modes we aren’t seeing in other games yet. The menu structure from which you start multiplayer sessions, will be changed as well because, and we cite Bowling, “there will be too many extra things, that we want to present in a decent manner”. And oh yes, the music will change too. We know it all to well by now.

- Perks like Martyrdom changed the shooter genre in a pleasant way. Other shooters happily steal the perk system from Infinity Ward, but they don’t care one bit, because in CoDMW2, they will have a number of new perks that will undoubtedly be a pleasant surprise for the community.

- The riot shield will be, for a 100% sure, a perk. Bowling let it slip, that you’ll be able to carry two shields with two guys, and that a third player could, while taking cover behind the two gents, open fire on the enemy. How sick is that?

- Good news for everyone hating on dudes that decide to walk out in the middle of a game. Bowling wouldn’t say how, but he indicated that there would be “options to act on that”. We’ll be keeping him to his word, because if there’s something we hate.

EVERYTHING F’D UP

A big wish of the CoD community was that there’d be more destructible environments in Modern Warfare 2. In the first game, you could penetrate a lot of **** with your bullets, but really strategically destroying a position wasn’t possible. That wish of destruction has been heard. CoDMW2 still is no Red Faction but a whole lot more can be sent to kingdom come. And, in true Infinity Ward fashion, not in a cookie-cutter way. For example, you can blast a fire hydrant, resulting in a huge geyser. It looks awesome, and will obscure part of your vision.

Another nice one is the gas pump of which the hose, when the thing is hit, will bark out a thick jet of fire, like a turning an tumbling dervish. We aren’t sure yet, but we can see both the fire hydrant and the gas station coming back in multiplayer. Resulting in unheard of strategic possibilities.
Furthermore, crates and boxes were riddled, and they really broke into pieces and splinters, that ended up in the air, and floated down to the ground in real time, all accordance to the laws of gravity and wind. Pure eye candy, that unfortunately, you won’t have a lot of time to admire, as the enemy won’t account for sight seeing.

[Bucsfan]

Dude I so can't wait for this game. It's my most eagerly anticipated game in years I think.

[Eluzzionz]

me to..i cant wait to just game honestly..my good comp has been down a month or so ...but cpu should be in this week and i think ill install cod4 for a replay while waitin for this game to come out...really hope it lasts longer then the original as far as game play..

[MianoSM]

The special editions are retarded.

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this game will easily sell 2million and become game of the year. Because of it being the most anticipated game this year, other FPS games like Bioshock 2 & M.A.G. got pushed back till spring 2010 cause sales would be extremly low going up against MW2.

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Modern Warfare 2 Prestige Edition packs eye-opening bonus, costs $150

The practice of making extravagant "Collector's Editions" of video games is as old as gaming itself, but it looks like Activision is about to kick it up a notch. When the anticipated Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is released on November 10, its $150 Prestige Edition will include what's surely the most extravagant bundled bonus ever -- a fully-functioning pair of night-vision goggles.

An Activision community manager made the announcement in a Youtube video, where he unboxes and shows off the goggles, which carry the game's branding. The Prestige Edition also includes a head-shaped display stand for the goggles, an art book, and fancy limited-edition packaging.

Modern Warfare 2's night-vision specs will join a proud tradition of crazy video game pack-ins, including Halo 3's infamous cat helmet, The Sims 3's plumbob-shaped USB drive, and Fallout 3's oversized watch and bobble-head doll, which was featured in the game, too.

It'll retail at $150, and considering that even basic night vision goggles easily run over $100 on their own, it actually sounds like a pretty good deal. All the same, as far as we can determine, it's the most expensive retail video game bundle in history, discounting games that came with their own custom controllers.

So if you're keen to play Modern Warfare 2 (as the follow-up to easily the best game of '07, you should be) and you're keen to spy on your neighbors, you'd better get saving.

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sales heat up for Prestige

Advanced orders for Activision Inc.'s Modern Warfare 2: Prestige Edition heated up at retailer Amazon.com upon availability this week.
On Thurs., the Prestige Xbox 360 SKU held a 750 sales increase to rank as the No. 2 best-selling item at Amazon's Video Games division, while the PS3 version held a 264 percent sales increase to rank at No. 12 in the same period.

The Modern Warfare 2: Prestige Edition includes fully-functional Night Vision Goggles that allow sight in absolute darkness up to 50 feet in black & white or night vision green.

[MianoSM]

Fully functioning NVGs at a price of $150 - Price of the Game - Other garbage in the box = Quality for sure.

I'll be buying it for the PC as soon as it comes out - but I'm not buying into the whole collectors edition nonsense.

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New Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer video

Today we got a first look at the multiplayer for Modern Warfare 2, including customizable Killstreaks. The video shows off multiplayer features like the AC130 Killstreak, Buzzkill, Payback and more.

With so many big titles getting pushed back to 2010, we are certainly excited that Infinity Ward still plans to release Modern Warfare 2 on November 10 of this year

http://www.viddler.com/explore/PSUniverse/videos/402/

[tamparican]

COD4 is sick, i got in way late, so im still @ lvl 36 rite now...but got MW2 on pre...

PSN: ricanwarrior914 if anybody wants to send an add.

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Originally Posted by tamparican

COD4 is sick, i got in way late, so im still @ lvl 36 rite now...but got MW2 on pre...

PSN: ricanwarrior914 if anybody wants to send an add.

im with you mang. i got cod4 when it first came out as a gift and didnt get into it. Got into the cod series only when world at war came out and everyone is talking how cod4 is still way better. so i rebought the game in june so im low level myself. Your rank is higher than mine.

im glad they did away with the AI helicopter. They're annoying. But the new thermal air strike which is controlled by you is bananas.

[TNathe]

Originally Posted by Eluzzionz

me to..i cant wait to just game honestly..my good comp has been down a month or so ...but cpu should be in this week and i think ill install cod4 for a replay while waitin for this game to come out...really hope it lasts longer then the original as far as game play..

umm, the best part about these games is playing online. Put COD4 back on your computer and get your ass in a game

[Decoy_TT]

Who want's to have a lan at my new place when this game is released?

Good way to meet some of ya'll too I think...

If people are interested I'm down to host it.