Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Revealed

Activision Blizzard confirms and dates the sequel to the critically-acclaimed shooter.

US, December 3, 2008 - Activision Blizzard has revealed Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, sequel to Infinity Ward's award-winning first-person shooter.

According to MTV Multiplayer, the publisher revealed the game at a Massive Inc. upfront held in Manhattan, NY. These upfront events typically allow publishers to display their games to advertisers.

While little is known of the game, MTV reports that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is coming out sometime this fall.

Good News, seeing as World at War is slightly rubbish, and chock full of bugs and glitches.

Points mean prizes!!!!

Come celebrate the release of the new Variety Map Pack and the Game of the Year Edition during LIVE Fire Weekend 2008, a 72-hour play and win sweepstakes full of games and prizes beginning on Friday, April 18 at 12:01 EDT through Sunday, April 20 at 11:59 EDT.

Hourly prizes will be awarded throughout the weekend, including Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare shirts, Infinity Ward autographed posters and Xbox LIVE® point cards. One Grand Prize winner will also receive an Infinity Ward autographed Xbox 360 Elite console and a limited edition Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare faceplate, among other items.

On Friday, April 18 from 6-9 P.M./EDT, gamers can play with more than a dozen developers from Infinity Ward and then on Saturday night from 9-11 P.M./EDT Mixed Martial Arts phenom Jens "Lil Evil" Pulver will join the online action.

Add these gamertags to your friends list:

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Visit www.xbox.com/livefire for more details on LIVE Fire Weekend 2008 and to register to play. You only have from now through April 17, 2008 to register so sign up now.

See you online!

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"Cheats" on COD4

Cheats are unlocked not by inserting passwords, but by acquiring the thirty Intel Pieces strewn throughout the game. The more of them you collect, the more cheats you can access. On the left are the number of Intel Pieces collected, and on the right are the cheats that are unlocked, with an explanation of what each does.

2 - "CoD Noir" Play the game in black and white.
4 - "Photo-Negative" Game colors become inverted.
6 - "Super Contrast" Game's contrast increases.
8 - "Ragtime Warfare" The game feels like an old silent movie.
10 - "Cluster Bombs" One frag grenade thrown equals five in explosion.
15 - "A Bad Year" Enemies explode into tires when shot.
20 - "Slow-Mo Ability" Game plays at 40% normal speed.
30 - "Infinite Ammo" Just what it says.

Unlockable: Arcade Mode
To unlock Arcade Mode, beat the game once through on any difficulty level. Arcade Mode itself is split into two options - Full Challenge or Level Challenge - that add extra replayability to the game.

Unlockable: Prestige Mode
To unlock Prestige Mode, which is a multiplayer-only mode, you must reach experience level fifty-five. Instead of capping out at level fifty-five, which is the highest level, Prestige Mode allows you to start again from level one. This can be done a total of ten times, giving you ten different icons in in-game lobbies to show your extreme achievement.

Unlockable: New Mission
To play an all-new mission, which is an extra mission after the main quest is completed, beat the game and view the ending credits thereafter. After they've run their course, you will then be given the opportunity to play one last single player mission before all is said and done.

Hint: Intel Pieces
Below is the level distribution list for Intel Pieces, which are enemy laptops full of information strewn throughout the game. There are thirty of them total. The left column is the level in question, while the right column is how many Intel Pieces can be found on that level. Levels with no Intel Pieces are excluded completely.

Level 2 - 2
Level 4 - 2
Level 5 - 3
Level 6 - 2
Level 7 - 2
Level 9 - 3
Level 10 - 2
Level 12 - 2
Level 13 - 3
Level 14 - 2
Level 16 - 2
Level 17 - 1
Level 18 - 2
Level 19 - 2

Hint: Easy Intel
The following works on the mission entitled "Hunted". After fighting your way through a basement (after going underneath a bridge, across a field, et cetera), you'll reemerge outside. A nearby house next to a vending machine and a car should be your target from here. Inside the house, there's a laptop on the table. This is a piece of Intel, and collecting all thirty of them in the game will unlock all of the Cheat options available. If you collect the Laptop, and then head through the nearby checkpoint, it will be permanently acquired on your save file. Kill yourself at this point (a Grenade is an easy way to do so), and backtrack to the house. Collect the Laptop again, go to the checkpoint, kill yourself, and repeat the process. By doing this, you can collect thirty laptops without actually collecting all thirty of them. (unverified)

Favourite COD 4 bit.....

One of my favourite moments in the game!

Christmas Comes early, Thanks Infinity Ward!

YAY! COD4 is out, I spent Saturday playing to to death....still offline, I'll have the broadbean back on next monday. Loved the single player though, quite short but awesome fun! Arcade mode was a nice surprise, found myself spending alot of time on that Saturday night to try and get a few scores done. No doubt my pitiful attempts will be quashed by you all in the coming days!

Hope you're all loving it! Nice to see a load of Green '4's" on the gamercards!

See ya online in a week or so....The Dude.

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Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, a present-day take on the Call of Duty series that some critics regard as both "the best entry yet in the highly successful franchise," and "one of the best war-based shooters ever."

Already facing competition from well-received recent releases like Halo 3 and BioShock, this year's entry in developer Infinity Ward's Call of Duty franchise shoulders an even greater risk, thanks to its shift in setting from World War II to modern-day warfare. Though this significant change could have potentially put the series' quality in jeopardy, the end result earns an average score of 95 out of 100 at Metacritic.com.

Travis Moses at GamePro awards Call of Duty 4 with a score of 5 out of 5 in Fun Factor. "A prolific single-player campaign, full-featured multiplayer, and an intense photorealistic depiction of modern-day war, makes Call of Duty 4 the most solid first-person shooter I have ever played," he claims. "Yes, in my opinion, it's even better than Halo 3, Half-Life 2, and Bioshock. In fact, I'm declaring CoD4 as my choice for the one must-have game of 2007."

"Taking Call of Duty out of the bastardized World War II videogame genre was a genius move on the part of developer Infinity Ward," praises Moses. "The game still retains the trademark Call of Duty style, however, and the two components combine to form a visceral and realistic experience that truly lives up to the high standard set by the original Call of Duty."

Moses emphasizes that Call of Duty 4's single-player campaign length -- a facet that many speculated would be one of the title's problem areas -- should not be a concern. "Rumors had it pegged at five or six hours on the normal difficult, which is more or less accurate," he explains. "But what gets lost in all the noise is the fact that it is an intensely action-packed experience. I played through the game on the Hardened mode, which the developers feel is the most fulfilling setting, and it took me about eight hours."

In Call of Duty 4's defense, Moses asks, "Would you rather play a mediocre game for twenty hours or play an amazing game for eight? I thought so."

"And yet, as compelling as the single-player mode is, it's just the tip of the iceberg," Moses continues, citing the strength of Call of Duty 4's Arcade Mode and various unlockable cheats. "But my favorite mode in CoD4 has to be the multiplayer, which is so deep that it is practically a game in and of itself."

"From the amazing graphics to the intense and compelling single-player campaign to the feature loaded and addictive multiplayer, this game has it all," concludes Moses. "The holiday season will be jammed pack with quality triple-A titles but this is one title I personally recommend you put at the top of your wishlist."

GameZone's Steven Hopper feels that Call of Duty 4 is not just a great sequel, but one of the best of its kind. "To be sure, Call of Duty 4 can be considered the best entry yet in the highly-successful franchise," he assures in his 9.5 out of 10-rated review. "However, the game does so many great things and is executed so well that it could be considered one of the best war-based shooters ever."

Hopper finds that Call of Duty 4 does a few things in particular exceptionally well. "Call of Duty 4’s level design is phenomenal," he writes. "You’ll go through several different areas, like an enemy cargo ship and a destroyed Middle-Eastern city, each with their own unique feel to them."

Call of Duty 4's pacing is also noteworthy, according to Hopper's review. "The gameplay doesn’t stay at a high intensity level throughout, instead breaking up the combat a bit at points. That doesn’t mean that the situations won’t leave you white-knuckled, as these 'slower levels' have you doing anything from trying to take a town in the middle of the night to being a lone sniper in a field with 20 enemies sweeping for you," he explains. "The pacing in CoD 4 is fantastic, and there’s never a dull moment."

Hopper also heaps praise upon Call of Duty 4's equal strength in both single-player and multiplayer, and describes its graphics and sound design as being up to the series' expected standard of quality. "Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is one of those exceedingly rare games that manages to do everything right," he summarizes. "The graphics are fantastic, the gameplay is intense and well-paced, and the multiplayer elements are very deep. In a year filled with triple-A shooters, Call of Duty 4 actually manages to stay ahead of the pack."

GameTap's Jason Allen feels similarly, and rates Call of Duty 4 at 9 out of 10. "If I ever had any doubt that Infinity Ward's Call of Duty 4 would blow my mind, it's now as annihilated as the many enemy militia I met throughout this hardcore first-person shooter," he begins. "Experiencing five minutes of COD4 will immediately turn you into the most dedicated virtual soldier this country's ever seen."

While Allen shares much of the same praise for Call of Duty 4 as other critics, he describes one particular situation that made gameplay especially intense. "The guns on the AC-130 gunship are some of my favorites," he says. "In one mission, you give air support to Soap's squad on the ground, and you're firing down 20mm, 40mm, and 105mm rounds (from the Vulcan, Bofors, and Howitzer cannons, respectively) at the bad guys."

Allen continues: "What's so chilling about this simulation is that because you're so far up, it's hard to tell who the good and bad guys are. The game gives you some help by making all of the good guys flicker with a little light so that you know to avoid them. But I couldn't help but wonder how the real gunners accomplish this in real warfare. On one level you feel all powerful with such an amazing weapon, but on another, you're nervous because you don't want to hit your own guys."

"It's moments like this that make COD4 great," Allen writes. "COD4 grips the imagination and finds a way to impact the player's emotions. And though we've seen a ton of games on similar subject matter, COD4 distinguishes itself with a washed-out gritty look and profound attention to detail."

Thus far, no reviewer has scored Call of Duty 4 below 90 out of 100. There appears to be little question as to whether the title is a great experience in its own right, but critics also assert that as thematically different as it may be from its predecessors, Call of Duty 4 is a sequel worthy of the franchise.

thanks to: www.gamasutra.com

COD4 Multiplayer Beta is here!

Popped home for lunch, surprisingly the 1gb download only took about 20 mins, had a quick pop at a team deathmatch. The game seems really good, reminded me quite a bit of Battlefield 2, only better, and with that unmistakable COD feel! Looking forward to getting right into it, and seeing what's new...

Thank the maker its a better Beta test than the shockingly bad Halo one!

This is one demo that will keep us all occupied for hours!

See ya online

MGB DUDE

They mostly come out at night, mostly....

Check out those night vision bits with the targeting lasers!! Brilliant stuff