Modern Warfare 2 reveals some of its multiplayer secrets

Posted Sep 16th 2009 5:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: FPS, Multiplayer, Modern Warfare 2

Yes, the single player campaign for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was actually pretty good but Infinity Ward's multiplayer modes and features were the big reason why the 2007 first person shooter was such a huge hit. Now Modern Warfare 2 is less than two months away and this week the development team let some press folks spend a few hours blowing each other up in multiplayer.

Our sister sites GameDaily and Joystiq got some hands-on time with the game this week and offers up their impressions. One of the cool new features is being able to store your killstreaks so you can pick which one of the bonuses you can unleash. That includes the AC-130 gunship that was in the single player campaign in Call of Duty 4. In Modern Warfare 2 you are actually in the gunship over the map killing enemies if you rack up 11 straight kills.

Overall it sound like the multiplayer portion of Modern Warfare 2 will be a refined version of Call of Duty 4's features and the PC version will have support for LAN play (something which nowadays you can't take for granted anymore).

Gallery: Modern Warfare 2

Tags: activision, activision-blizzard, call-of-duty-4, call-of-duty-4-modern-warfare, call-of-duty-modern-warfare-2, infinity-ward, modern-warfare-2

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

does the new call of duty mordern warfare 2 have a muiltplayer campaign plz let me know as soon as possible thanksPosted at 11:08PM on Sep 16th 2009 by michael ivey

It has no cooperative multiplayer, no. As far as I'm aware anyway.Posted at 5:45AM on Sep 17th 2009 by iHavepants {SteamPSN: Arkanti}

It has a "Spec Ops" mode, which are missions that are independent of the story mode, which can be played cooperatively. Posted at 12:17AM on Sep 18th 2009 by Stebo

does it have the names over the heads of players. if it does that sucks bec it give you awayPosted at 1:37AM on Sep 28th 2009 by Doug

the new call of duty does not have enough blood. Thats what we asked for. but INFINITY WARD ONLY PLAYS LIKE THEY GIVE A CRAP. ITS OUR GAME WE WANTED BLOOD. DON'T PRETEND YOUR OUR FRIENDS INFINITY WARD. YOUR JUST GOING TO DO WHAT YOU WANT AND AGAIN TAKE OUR MONEY. IT WOULD NOT BE SO BAD IF YOU DID WHAT WE WANTED BUT YOU DID NOT! THANKS FOR NOTHING. WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO USE ANYTHING IN OUR ENVIRONMENT NOT HAVE DUMPSTERS AND CANS AND LITTLE NOOKS SCATTERED AROUND. WE ARE NOT LAB RAT. GOING THROUGH YOUR MAZE. SCREW THE WEAPONS WE WANTED BLOOD GORE AND TO BE ABLE TO UTILIZE EVERY THING IN THE GAME, NOT JUST WHAT YOU DECIDED TO GIVE US. WHEN IS THE GAME COMPANY GOING TO REALLY LISTEN TO US. 66 DOLLARS LATER WE STILL GOT SCREWED. ALL THE PEOPLE WILL BUY THE GAME AND MAKE THE CO. LOTS OF MONEY AND EVEN SAY ITS THE BEST GAME EVER, BUT IT IS NOT. ITS JUST CALL OF DUTY 4 WITH A FACE LIFT. I HOPE I AM WRONG ABOUT THE BLOOD AND THE SAME CRAP DIFFERENT DAY. I DON'T THINK SO.Posted at 1:51AM on Sep 28th 2009 by Doug

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