Tester Leaks First Modern Warfare 2 Details - UPDATED

[Keane Ng]

Tester Leaks First Modern Warfare 2 Details - UPDATED

A play tester at Infinity Ward has leaked what may or may not be a features list for the upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

The list, which was copied by a NeoGAF poster before it was taken down, reveals a number of details about both the campaign mode and multiplayer. On the single-player front, the game will once again return to the Middle East at some point, feature the US Marines and possibly the Canadian military, considering the inclusion of a Canadian rifle. The campaign will also have its own weapons and "army tags," which are supposedly similar to the skulls in Halo.

As for multiplayer, vehicles will be added, a good number of weapons will return as well as several new ones, and all the old favorite gametypes will return as well, with hardcore mode variations. Two new gametypes will make their debut, including a CTF-type mode as well as "search and destroy" mode where "you try to kill a specified enemy." Helicopters, air strikes and UAV return as well. And snipers will not have silencers in multiplayer. Also mentioned is a World at War-esque Zombie mode.

The tester, who posted the list on Infinity Ward's suggestions [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/89827-Infinity-Ward-Taking-Suggestions-For-Modern-Warfare-2] page, was subsequently banned and we presume given ample punishment for his misdeeds.

The fact that the tester was banned and the list taken down has led some people to presume that the list is indeed the real deal. Infinity Ward, however, could just be punishing him for posting a fake list that's pretending to be a real one and being a jerk like that. Or - and I wouldn't put it past them with the amount of subtly-un-subtle teasing they've been doing for this game - this could just be some sort of meta-fake-out to keep us all guessing and talking about Modern Warfare 2, which technically hasn't even been announced yet.

You can see the full list, which contains quite a bit more info that I've mentioned above, here [http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=354128].

UPDATE: Infinity Ward has shot down [http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=209815] these rumors, saying that the list "didn't come from anyone who has access to our internal builds and indeed contains several features that are already in CoD4 such as grass camo for snipers. In short, it's BS." Well, just because they're in CoD4 doesn't mean they can't be in Modern Warfare 2.

Oh well, it was fun while it lasted. Sorry to get your hopes up Canadians.


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[Lord_Panzer]

Yaaaaa Canada! *goes off to eat a maple tree*

I'm sure a lot of people are going to shun the inclusion of vehicles in multiplayer, but really, Battlefield did it successfully from the beginning, why can't CoD?

And the prospect of now being able to kill what one can imagine being Arab zombies is... intriguing.


Edit: BLAST! They'd better deliver, though. My hopes will not be raised for naught, I tell you!

 

[Keane Ng]

Don't jump to conclusions yet, Canucks.

 

[Brokkr]

I simply can't wait for this to come out. I love CoD 4. I think that the added game modes would work pretty well.

 

[ssgt splatter]

a zombie mode in modern warfare 2??? oh boy, i'd like to see how that one plays out. I hated the zombie mode in WaW because the zombies soaked up so much damage and could move too fast. on top of that the weapons seemed to be underpowered in the zombie mode i.e. 3 shotgun shells at point blank to kill just one.

 

[SomeBritishDude]

Ooooooohhhh....interesting!

This is an apsolute buy. CoD4 is one of the best shooters I've ever played, and I'm really excited for this one. Vehicals and Zombies?! Fuck yeah!

 

[WingedFortress]

I'd be happy to play as the Canadian military.
Like, really happy. There should be more effort to keep us from playing as the US marines all the time.

 

[jimduckie]

as long as infinity ward puts ww2 to bed enough with ww2 the us won ,as for canada having a rifle in cod mw2 i know they use the same as the us but i believe it's the british version , as for cod mw2 lets hope they have a mode with no bombers or the pain in butt choppers they don't fly that low or come to help that fast , and maybe they could add open unlimited battles with no time limit just like reality ,and more online players as for those who play cod mw NO CAMPERS if ya stop for more than 30 seconds BOOOM! your dead

 

[uppitycracker]

hmm vehicles in modern warfare 2.... all i can think is "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO". COD was never a series that took well to vehicles, and in my opinion it should stay that way with infinity wards development. The rest sounds good though.

 

[Cpt. Red]

I am somewhat reluctant to believe some of these points.
First of all why would they add the Canadian C8 when the the M4 is almost identical(the only differences I know of are only very minor visual details).
Also I think its odd that they would remove the G36C, G3 and P90 as they are quite popular weapons in CoD4.
There was some more but Im tired... Good night...

 

[uppitycracker]

wooooot, hopefully this is the last we'll ever hear of vehicles being in an IF developed game.

 

[L.B. Jeffries]

I was wondering about this. I'm pretty sure play testers are shown a video of a naked gamer being whipped and tortured followed by a caption that reads: "Loose Lips Sink Games"

 

[brtshstel]

Personally speaking, I'm struggling to hold in my feces. I'm shitting my pants in excitement.

 

[RedDiablo]

Really Canadians? That makes me proud that my country is in a CoD game!

 

[Fire Daemon]

Really Canadians? That makes me proud that my country is in a CoD game!

They were in CoD3. Yes thats right, the worst of them all mwhahahaha.

In the beginning CoD4 had a CTF game type but that was taken from the original build, it seems likely that a CTF game type will be put in this game.

Canadians seems like a likely choice for factions. My bet is that they are in a different part of Iraq and play a different role in the war. We'll see what happens in CoD4 through their perspective. Maybe there will be a mission where you play as a man in a radiation suit exploring the remains of the capital after the nuke goes off, maybe you'll find the body of the American soldier from the first?

No silencers on the snipers makes sense. The guys at CoD4 said that snipers will never get a silencer many times.

Vehicles in Multiplayer sounds a bit strange. IW (402 actually) said around the release of CoD4 that there was originally to be vehicles in Multiplayer but they this didn't happen because open, vehicle suited maps, didn't fit the style of gameplayer CoD4 was going for. I would imagine that in CoD6 only some maps will have vehicles and these will probably be tanks. MP wont be like Halo, a variety of vehicles will not suite the gametypes.

Taking the p90 out seems likely. While popular it had horrible OP problems straight from the start.

Snipers didn't have grass camo in CoD4 multiplayer but the fans really wanted it. Isn't that surprising that they put that it.

I wonder how many CoD4 maps come back. I would prefer none of them because I've played them all to death. I'm guessing Vacant, Crash and maybe an open map, Overgrown maybe?

Killcam save feature is another thing that the fans asked for, seems likely.

Hmmm I'd say that the list is legit. Even if it hasn't come from a play testers mouth I'd say that most of those things will be in MW2.

 

[kamikazebobby]

Am happy that there may be vehicles in MW2 most are not....but if like me you fell in love with Call of Duty after playing base assault (united offensive) then you can understand the excitement...BRING BACK BASE ASSAULT!!!....and anyway all you whiners who are dissing MW2 because there will be vehicles in it....STOP WHINGING AND DONT PLAY IT!!!!....as mentioned there will be lots of different gametypes for you to play!!1