[Multiplatform] Modern Warfare 2. 50 THOUSAND RUSSES USED TO CHEAT HERE.

Not much is known right now, other than it's a sequel to the brilliant CoD4: Modern Warfare and that it now has a release date: Novermber 10th. [ source ]

It also has a trailer:

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Not only did the first Modern Warfare feature an excellent single player campaign, but it also introduced a fantastic mulitplayer mode and great features which have yet to have been bettered. Maybe Infinity Ward can bring a new take to multiplayer to the table again with MW2. Any which way, colour me excited.

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Interestingly, it looks like they may be dropping the Call of Duty part of the name and just calling it Modern Warfare 2:

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Aside from, uh, gameplay footage, the one thing that was deemed conspicuously absent from Modern Warfare 2's explosive teaser trailer was the Call of Duty branding. Whether developer Infinity Ward is still debating the nested sequel's final title or simply hopes to distinguish its next FPS from the other 37 Call of Duty games on shelves is up for speculation, but it's hard to argue the independent prestige that lies behind Call of Duty 4's "Modern Warfare."

Update: Activision has just officially announced the November 10th arrival of "Modern Warfare 2" -- sans "Call of Duty."

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Yeah, it was Combat not Warfare for Battlefield. Speaking of warfare, any particular reason you've misspelled it in the new title there Shin?

To be honest, I have no real opinion about the change of name, as it's all about the actual game to be honest and this definitely has the potential to be one of the best of the year. I am curious to find out more about the story/setting, as the whole airport aspect of the teaser has me wondering if there might be a touch of Clancy-esque anti-terrorist action going on inside a terminal or something.

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Yeah, I really wouldn't worry about playing CoD4 for the story, I doubt it'll be relevant/important to MW2. That said, it is an ace game and well worth playing through, even if you just rent it for a weekend or something and blast through on the normal setting.

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Originally Posted by Firefly

I must disagree with Terminus and OmagnusPrime (and, incidentally, agree with a couple of folks in the abovecited thread): story matters

If you took my point to be 'story doesn't matter', then you took it wrong my friend. My point, quite simply, was that the story of Modern Warfare 1 probably doesn't matter to the story of Modern Warfare 2. In other words, I doubt it will be necessary to have played MW1 in order to follow the story of MW2.

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Originally Posted by Tokubetsu

Having clan support wouldn't be a bad thing...at all.

Also, given the first game had a form of clan support with the ability to have clan tags, I don't really think it'd be that surprising if some form of clan support appears in MW2.

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What the fuck? No really, what the god damn fuck? Can Activision refrain from making some ridiculous piece of shit plastic edition to go with their games?

The steelbook looks nice enough though, that said nowhere is showing it available for ordering yet.

FELIPE NO

See I am getting the Batman Arkham Asylum collector's edition, more for the book than the batarang (though that is cool), but through discounts and what-not I'm not paying more than a few quid over the standard game price. This though, with night vision goggles, is probably going to be ludicrously expensive. Plus looking at the video, they looked pretty damn cheap and tacky. I actually was really surprised when he said they were functional NVGs.

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Seems the Prestige Edition has a price:

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Activision UK hasn't been able to give us a price for the Modern Warfare 2 "Prestige Edition" yet, but over in the US Infinity Ward has said that it will have a suggested retail price of USD 149.

Also according to the Infinity Ward Twitter, the vanilla steelbook edition will retail for USD 79.

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I'm still planning to go for the steelbook version, provided it's a sensible price, but the Prestige thing can get bent.

Also Shin, you're forgetting how well World at War sold despite it being a sub-par rip off of CoD4. That sold bucket loads, and a proper sequel to CoD4 is probably going to do very well. In fact, the biggest wall to sales might end up being Activision's greed and their desire to up the price because they think they can get away with it (which sadly they probably can).

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Not being funny mate, but Call of Duty 4 has only just started dropping in price, and is currently going for just under £30, which is only £10 down on retail. Considering that game has now been out for getting on 2 years, I'm pretty sure Modern Warfare 2 is not going to be £30 after five days.

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For really popular games, like CoD4, I've heard it's difficult to come by many used copies, but if you've got someone in your area who buys shit, plays it and returns it quickly then that's good for you I guess. That said, most used copies of recent releases I've ever seen have been just shy of the actual game's price, or in some cases the same thing.

I'm sure that they do say they've got used copies of games, but I don't actually shop in stores all that much, I tend to get most stuff online where I have cheaper prices, online cashback and discount codes.

I agree that the game will probably be going for £40 before too long, but I would fully expect it to stay at that price point for a long, long time. Especially since that's happened with CoD4.

Anyways, I have quite a bit of loyality points built up so I'm not really going to be paying much, if anything for MW2.

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Nice. I doubt I'll be that lucky, but if I am then I'll be quids in.

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Prestige Edition is going to cost £120 in the UK. Not that I was thinking of buying it before, but no fucking chance.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Gunship appears to be for a killstreak of 11. Customisable killstreak rewards sounds awesome, and this is looking slick as hell. Count me in:

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What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Yeah, Modern Warfare 1 was ridiculously well balanced in terms of weapons. All the later unlocks gave you were alternate options and opened up more styles of play, it was never about giving you the best guns. Some people would, perhaps, bitch that the P90 was too powerful, but stick it up against someone who knew how to use an MP5 (a gun available from the start) and the MP5 would always come out on top. Skills will rave about the M16, and rightly so, as it's an ace gun that's also available from the start.

Personally I found the unlocking thing really worked well in MW1, it meant you're not overwhelmed with options, it builds in a reward system for playinig through the MP and avoided the need for any retarded MP achievements which really do screw with the way people play games. I'm really looking forward to this.

FELIPE NO

OK, so the game hits tomorrow, though some people (myself included) might be getting their hands on the game early. My copy just arrived at work, so I know what I'll be doing this evening. If you see me on and I perhaps ignore any party invites then you'll know why.

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I'm planning to play through the single player first, though I might dabble in the multiplayer, certainly if a few other people are up for giving it a go.

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Once I get back from work today (still more hours than I'd like to go) I'll be around for the rest of the week for playing time. Feel free to hit me up if you want to play. I'm really down for giving Spec Ops mode a go, though given how much fun I was having with the MP last night I'm down for doing more of that.

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And there was me thinking you might have been making a post saying how awesome Special Ops mode is (because you know, it is).

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We've already started playing online, so yeah, chunks of the crew will definitely be around today and throughout the rest of the week.

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Originally Posted by Terminus

Where is my Mile High Club, IW?

It's called Special Ops mode. Literally. That mode was born out of the idea behind the Mile High Club post-credits mission from MW1, and it's quite and excellent mode too.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Tails

It was certainly less bullshit than MW1 (save for Favela, which was all bullshit, kinda like the TV station level in the first game).

The Favela was the only point where I thought it felt like the infinite spawning enemies BS of old because I killed so many guys in that level and there always seemed to be a truck load more around every corner. In the end I used a ton of flashbangs to blind a mass group of guys by the route out of the favela and run past them.

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A bit of both from my understanding Blah. They wanted to provide some form of co-op, but said that trying to fit it into the main single-player game didn't make sense, and plus they wanted to expand upon the Mile High Club idea. It's possible that it came out of the desire to add co-op more than it did the MHC stuff, but my point remains, that Spec Ops mode is what Term is after for his MHC kick.

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Originally Posted by Tails

e: Actually now that I think about it the whole Burger Town mission would have pissed me off significantly as well had I not changed difficulties.

Eh, the Burger Town stuff was pretty easy I thought, no real issues with it at all. The number of issues I had with having to re-do sections was when I thought I'd cleared an area, would go to proceed only to be one-shot-fucked from some guy hiding somewhere random.

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Response to some of russ's spoilered points, again don't read if you've not finished the game:

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No russ, you're right, a lot of the campaign's plot made little to no sense. As you say Makarov seems to be entirely forgotten about in the end, as we just go after the General dude who betrayed you for seemingly no reason what-so-ever (seriously, what was that all about?). And the whole nuke thing was a massive WTF. The campaign was fun and as you say a good number of "holy shit awesome" moments (I loved the raid on the gulag as well as those bits you mentioned), but it seems that MW2 lost the original game's slim grasp on reality and went completely over the top.

Also, the more I think about it the more the airport scene, which really didn't bother me a great deal, seems entirely unnecessary. They could have just made some sort of cut-scene showing how that all ended up and Makarov framing the US in order to start a conflict. Though I don't entirely buy that the Russian government would be that quick to just accept that a bunch of American dudes would rock up into an airport, shoot the place to shit and start a war. I mean, what? Surely a cleverer plan would have been something more like what Price did at the sub-base and launch a nuke over Russia leaving some sort of trail to hint it was America's doing.

I think the big problem IW has here is that with the airport scene it implies that actually want people to take their story and the reality of war/terrorism vaguely seriously, but they've thrown one semi-serious/controversial/attention-seeking scene in amongst a lot of "Hoorah" over the top spectacle that wouldn't be out of place in a big summer blockbuster. Fun game, but not anything to be taken at all seriously.

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