Modern Warfare 2

Well, that's certainly a tease, but allow me to say:

Fuck. YEAH!!!!

Looks like they dropped the COD moniker?

Excellent news!

You're joking, but I want to go to that.

It's one of the best teasers I've ever seen. Synergy between a really cool property and an original idea.

I can now return to giving a shit about Call of Duty.

Bring it on.

Not unless they get rid of the endlessly respawning enemies.

I need it sooner, i'll be over Killzone before November.

Oh my shit. Goodbye, last third of 2009.

With the leapfrogging every year schedule, what are the chances that this will be the last Infinity Ward COD game on the 360? Fall 2010 is 5 years of Xbox 360. I wouldn't be surprised to see a new console then.

I really hope they up the co-op component in it (what is the correct abbreviation now, MW2, MWF2, CoD4:2?) that seems to be my main factor when deciding whether to buy a video game at the $60 price recently.

Very high possibility of a large co-op component. IW have mentioned before it's one of their only regrets on CoD4.

Sweet, thanks for the info, Bees?!

So does this mean the fighting will take place in public areas? I see firefights in crowded malls making for fantastic set pieces.

All the analysts are saying this console generation is lasting a long time, and I believe it. I think the 360 is really just hitting its stride, and I don't think the hardware is holding back games at all. And they're not going to spend a lot on R&D for a new system right now, especially when the 360 is so strong. I hope we don't get new consoles until at least 2012.

And I'm excited as hell, but don't like the teaser at all.

The big thing to get excited about when a new console was released was A) better graphics and B) new features. We've hit the ceiling (for now at least) when it comes to A, and as far as B goes, what else is there to do that can't be downloaded in a patch? i've heard 10 year cycle for this generation and I believe it as well.

Those arguments re: console lifespan make sense. I happily stand corrected.

Though I have to believe that R&D never stops and has been ongoing since Xbox 1. It might have a smaller budget right now, but they just can't sit on the sidelines for any length of time and hope to survive the competition long-term.

So bring on Undersea Warfare, Mythological Warfare, Cartoon Warfare, etc. on the 360!

I actually just finished Modern Warfare a couple days ago so this is awesome. It was, by far, my favorite Call of Duty.

Hard for me to get excited about games these days considering how little time I have... haven't even played Killzone 2 or Resident Evil 5, they are just sitting in wrapping on my desk.

But this is exciting, Infinity Ward knows their shit.

Oh man, this is going to be great. I hope the rest of you are taking 11.10 off from work, too. RAMPAGE.

It sounds like we'll be killing pseudo-Russians this time.

So I'll have two months to enjoy The Beatles game before I lose all my nights to this. Good to know.

I'm in for some RAMPAGE version 2.0

Just as a side note - this has been announced for a while now. Or at least shareholders and such have known the title and release date for a while...

I love me some COD4, but you guys are blowing big nuts over a lot of nothing. The idea of a shootout in a mall sounds nuts, so count me in, but I'll get more excited when I see some footage.

Dude. It's Infinity Ward. They're batting 1000 for their development career.

This is the kinda shit I'll take on faith.

Exactly. We're going nuts for Infinity Ward. They're the Blizzard of shooters. RAMPAGE!

Early rumor is that players fight neo-Nazis inside a giant worm.

Thinking about it, Modern Warfare is one of the better pure shooters of the past five years, which is cool Infinity is making another, but also sad.

I didn't say that I wasn't going to pick it up. I already started my $10/month MW2 fund.

I would pay good money to play CALL OF DUTY: CAVEMAN MELEE. Using the lastest neanderthal weapons to club a Stegosaurus to death would be awesome. Not historically accurate but still awesome.

Caveman Melee would be pretty awesome. Imagine a huge 64 person caveman multiplayer battle and there are dinosaurs walking all around the map eating people indiscriminately. Level 50 gets you a bow with flaming arrows.

Fixed for anthropological accuracy?

Works for me.

No, don't rub salt into the wound of what could have been (sidetracking for a second)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aisRonTCNCc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qMRc...eature=related

I was upset the day B.C got canned.


(back on topic)

CoD:MW2, it was inevitable.

After getting sent back to world war II after Modern Warfare, color me excited!

New video

Yup, looks great.
Guess they are going all out on this one. Buying ads in the playoffs.

Can't wait to re enact THUNDERBALL!

Looks like more of the same, which is fine by me... Ohh. And at the end, a link to some Beyond Good and Evil 2 footage!

Yep. I'm gonna need a new computer to run this sucker.

That is one goddamn great trailer. I'd see that movie, and I'll definitely play that game.

Isn't that glimpse of Price on the bridge from the original?

It looks great. The shot at the end tracking the rope into the helicopter was tres amusing.

I enjoyed that more than pretty much any film trailer of the last six months. The castle escape and the icepick-to-snowmobile guy bit were fabulous.

Exploding castles? Snowmobile chases? I guess they're ditching the whole dour "War sucks" theme.

I was confused to who is doing to what in the fight sequences but it does look good. The visuals seems to be less gritty (you know, brown-and-stuff...) which also throws me off a little compared to the first MW. Which makes sense if part of the game takes place in Rio de Janeiro.

Yep, that is Price's bridge sequence alright. I remember it well.

That rope and helicopter shot is actually a first person view of your character and team being yanked out of there in an emergency evac. Which makes things even more dramatic.

I don't see too many game trailers with expository voiceovers. Awesome!

That looks amazing. It looks like there could be some timed segments to amp up the gameplay.