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Modern Warfare 2 - MOTHER EFFING NVGs!!

DolbyDigitalDolbyDigital Registered User regular
edited September 2009 in Games and Technology
Teaser released:
http://modernwarfare2.infinityward.com/

Analyze mode for frame by frame included.

Release date: November 10, 2009.

Notice the lack of "Call of Duty" anywhere?

Know more? Post away, or PM for additions to OP and I will update as I can.

Infinity Ward's Twitter Feed where you can post your "findings" from the teaser, along with #MW2

http://twitter.infinityward.com/

(Old) Trailer available on Live in HD
http://bit.ly/JPruM

New full official trailer in all its glory!
http://zz.gd/235764

Collector's Editions reveal:

http://modernwarfare2.infinityward.com/#/en_US/VIDEO/video1
Hardened edition with tin and art book.
PRESTIGE EDITION: Hardened Edition WITH MOTHER EFFING NIGHT VISION GOGGLES! $150 USD

Unboxing video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMSS12iY1X0&feature=player_embedded

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  • darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    All I ask for this is that rather than relying on narrow 'corridors' and respawning enemies, they open things up and make it a bit more dynamic. Employ some AI coders and let's go to town! I absolutely love the story and atmosphere, the action is brilliant, it just feels a shame to have guys that keep respawning until you hit the next trigger-volume.

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  • BasticleBasticle Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    better have larger MP maps for the PC version this time

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  • EspantaPajaroEspantaPajaro Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    What kind of person doesn't love enemies who never miss ,never end and can kill you faster then you can blink. You are a horrible person and must suck at the game.

    Not really , I actually agree that veteran would be more fun with less instant, cheap deaths.

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  • RookRook Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    If they just get rid of the clown cars, and carry on doing some really fine scripted story sequences then it's all good.

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  • SpoitSpoit *twitch twitch* Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Admittedly, it's technically the CoD4 thread, but MW2 was being discussed (on the thread title on the first page nonetheless) at http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=83904

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  • EspantaPajaroEspantaPajaro Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    He knows , he made both threads. I don't see much of a point in a second one , especially since the first one has been discussing mw2 for awhile now.

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  • Kris_xKKris_xK Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Spoit wrote: »
    Admittedly, it's technically the CoD4 thread, but MW2 was being discussed (on the thread title on the first page nonetheless) at http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=83904

    The irony is that he's the OP in both threads.

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  • SpoitSpoit *twitch twitch* Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    EspantaPajaro wrote: »
    He knows , he made both threads. I don't see much of a point in a second one , especially since the first one has been discussing mw2 for awhile now.

    yeah, egg on my face for not reading, since the reason the other thread is on the first page is cause he was the one to bump it with a link here

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  • DolbyDigitalDolbyDigital Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    The first thread is for CoD4. You can tell because it says so in the title. There was some discussion of MW2 in there, yes, as they are directly related to one another.

    This thread is purely for MW2, in light of all of the new information that is starting to come forward. People looking for information might not pick up on the MW2 details in the CoD4 thread.

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  • DolbyDigitalDolbyDigital Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Trailer in HD available on Live

    http://bit.ly/JPruM

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  • MechanicalMechanical Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Go to the MW site, they've got a whole flash thing with zoom functions and all. Nifty. nthing the groaning about lack of gameplay footage.

    Wonder who this guy is.
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    Also, have some MiG-29.
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    Copypasted notelist of mine.

    -Looks like one of the weapons being carried in the elevator is an M4 Carbine.
    -"No Russian."
    -Man with a trenchcoat once things start getting explode-y.
    -Offshore oil rig.
    -MiG-29s.
    -An area that looks like the interior of either a bus, subway, or an aircraft.
    -Looks like a fortress or castle with the rig.
    -Definitely seeing what look like destroyers in the background. Likely just for speculation, but hey.
    -Looks like someone has a hazmat suit in a few frames.
    -Gives more of the feeling of TERRORISM than warfare. At least it does in my book.

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  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    So, there's no Call of Duty in the title

    Is this a new franchise?

    If so, yessssssss

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  • Lord YodLord Yod Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Crossin my fingers for dedicated servers this time around. Aside from grenade spam that was my only complaint about the last one.

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  • NappuccinoNappuccino Surveyor of Things and Stuff Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Its still the same franchise, just slightly more branched.

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  • Pajama_ManPajama_Man Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Looks like one part of the game will be set in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

    Besides making out the favelas through out the teaser, you can also see the Christ the Redeemer statue at frame 1:24.07 on the upper left corner.

    http://modernwarfare2.infinityward.com/#/?zoom=1&x=314.65&y=96&time=84.04166666666667

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  • KhavallKhavall British ColumbiaRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Olivaw wrote: »
    So, there's no Call of Duty in the title

    Is this a new franchise?

    If so, yessssssss

    I'm thinking maybe Activision wanted to keep the CoD franchise closer to what people think of the CoD franchise, and either not pollute the CoD name with the MW or vice versa. Or both. Perhaps they thought MW undersold because of the CoD name. Perhaps they thought that WaW undersold because people just wanted more MW from CoD, so they decided to split them.

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  • DolbyDigitalDolbyDigital Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Yeah, I think that IW realized that the CoD name is getting sullied with everything that Treyarch keeps releasing. This is a way for IW to keep their greatness that they've built, and protect it.

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  • MechanicalMechanical Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Pajama_Man wrote: »
    Looks like one part of the game will be set in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

    Besides making out the favelas through out the teaser, you can also see the Christ the Redeemer statue at frame 1:24.07 on the upper left corner.

    http://modernwarfare2.infinityward.com/#/?zoom=3&x=120&y=96&time=84.04433333333333

    Nice catch, missed that one. Could be a rather interesting location to use. Anyone figured out what language is being spoken at the terminal?

    Side note, keeping fingers crossed for some arsenal diversity this time around. AKs and ARs are a given, but maybe we'll see some other new ones. Maybe some of the more obscure Russian weapons i.e. the AEK series. One can hope.
    DolbyDigital wrote: »
    Yeah, I think that IW realized that the CoD name is getting sullied with everything that Treyarch keeps releasing. This is a way for IW to keep their greatness that they've built, and protect it.

    You lost me here, Treyarch's already dropped more support than IW has for their title. Besides, they're really not that different.

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  • KhavallKhavall British ColumbiaRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    DolbyDigital wrote: »
    Yeah, I think that IW realized that the CoD name is getting sullied with everything that Treyarch keeps releasing. This is a way for IW to keep their greatness that they've built, and protect it.

    Or, from the "everyone in corporate is dumb" line, maybe they saw World at War undersell what they wanted, and assumed it wasn't because Treyarch had a bad rep, but instead assumed people were skipping the next Call of Duty to get the next Modern Warfare, so their solution was to split the two, so instead of "I'll wait for the next modern warfare" it was "Hey look two different franchises"

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  • KhavallKhavall British ColumbiaRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Mechanical wrote: »
    DolbyDigital wrote: »
    Yeah, I think that IW realized that the CoD name is getting sullied with everything that Treyarch keeps releasing. This is a way for IW to keep their greatness that they've built, and protect it.

    You lost me here, Treyarch's already dropped more support than IW has for their title. Besides, they're really not that different.

    Ever play CoD3?

    EDIT: To clarify, CoD3 was awful. Treyarch majorly fucked it up. With World at War, they did a pretty good job, but they still have the bad rep they created for themselves for releasing the steaming pile of dog shit that was CoD3

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  • MechanicalMechanical Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Khavall wrote: »
    Mechanical wrote: »
    DolbyDigital wrote: »
    Yeah, I think that IW realized that the CoD name is getting sullied with everything that Treyarch keeps releasing. This is a way for IW to keep their greatness that they've built, and protect it.

    You lost me here, Treyarch's already dropped more support than IW has for their title. Besides, they're really not that different.

    Ever play CoD3?

    Yep. I'm one of the few that enjoy it from what I gather. I was also referring to WaW.

    Slight edit: I enjoyed MW. I did not enjoy the limited support it received on the 360 end. Also, for 8 months of dev time, I'd say Treyarch did a pretty good job on CoD3.

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  • The_ScarabThe_Scarab Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    darleysam wrote: »
    All I ask for this is that rather than relying on narrow 'corridors' and respawning enemies, they open things up and make it a bit more dynamic. Employ some AI coders and let's go to town! I absolutely love the story and atmosphere, the action is brilliant, it just feels a shame to have guys that keep respawning until you hit the next trigger-volume.

    The only caveat is that the action and intensity is almost wholly as a result of there being tight corridors and choke spawn points. It is incredibly hard to have one without the other.

    Look at Halo 3. That game is incredibly open and has no areas with respawning enemies. And the level of intensity even on the final trench run is almost pedestrian compared to, say, The Bog.

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  • KhavallKhavall British ColumbiaRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Mechanical wrote: »
    Khavall wrote: »
    Mechanical wrote: »
    DolbyDigital wrote: »
    Yeah, I think that IW realized that the CoD name is getting sullied with everything that Treyarch keeps releasing. This is a way for IW to keep their greatness that they've built, and protect it.

    You lost me here, Treyarch's already dropped more support than IW has for their title. Besides, they're really not that different.

    Ever play CoD3?

    Yep. I'm one of the few that enjoy it from what I gather. I was also referring to WaW.

    See my edit, but World at War still wasn't up there with Modern Warfare, but it was leagues above 3. In fact it was leagues above what it had any right to be, since they also decided to say "Fuck this new setting, we haven't rehashed World War 2 enough yet"

    World at War brings their list of good games up to like..... 2.

    They're still not even close to being IW quality

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  • BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Hey put our "clan list" gamer tags in the OP.

    A PA CoD Clan

    and

    PA CoD4 Clan Edit: It might just be PA CoD4 without the Clan. Aks someone who is near their 360.

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  • MechanicalMechanical Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Khavall wrote: »
    Mechanical wrote: »
    Khavall wrote: »
    Mechanical wrote: »
    DolbyDigital wrote: »
    Yeah, I think that IW realized that the CoD name is getting sullied with everything that Treyarch keeps releasing. This is a way for IW to keep their greatness that they've built, and protect it.

    You lost me here, Treyarch's already dropped more support than IW has for their title. Besides, they're really not that different.

    Ever play CoD3?

    Yep. I'm one of the few that enjoy it from what I gather. I was also referring to WaW.

    See my edit, but World at War still wasn't up there with Modern Warfare, but it was leagues above 3. In fact it was leagues above what it had any right to be, since they also decided to say "Fuck this new setting, we haven't rehashed World War 2 enough yet"

    World at War brings their list of good games up to like..... 2.

    They're still not even close to being IW quality

    I'm pretty sure that they decided to keep WWII before MW was released. I'll quit derailing for now though and nitpick on the trailer instead of the dev fight.

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  • The_ScarabThe_Scarab Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Khavall wrote: »
    Mechanical wrote: »
    Khavall wrote: »
    Mechanical wrote: »
    DolbyDigital wrote: »
    Yeah, I think that IW realized that the CoD name is getting sullied with everything that Treyarch keeps releasing. This is a way for IW to keep their greatness that they've built, and protect it.

    You lost me here, Treyarch's already dropped more support than IW has for their title. Besides, they're really not that different.

    Ever play CoD3?

    Yep. I'm one of the few that enjoy it from what I gather. I was also referring to WaW.

    See my edit, but World at War still wasn't up there with Modern Warfare, but it was leagues above 3. In fact it was leagues above what it had any right to be, since they also decided to say "Fuck this new setting, we haven't rehashed World War 2 enough yet"

    World at War brings their list of good games up to like..... 2.

    They're still not even close to being IW quality

    But that doesn't invalidate their successes. World at War is very good. End of story. The development team they have there at the moment has proven they have talent. Even when using someone elses engine and most of their ideas. I'd argue it would have been easier to fuck up WaW then to do the good job they did do.

    Furthermore, I doubt massively they have dropped the COD branding from MW2. The COD name is huge. There is no reason to drop it. Massive financial gains I'm afraid trump any childish developer rivalry you think exists. Which it does not.

    Edit: This isn't aimed at Khavall by the way.

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  • EspantaPajaroEspantaPajaro Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    The last time I played a game that took place in Brazil slums was Socom 2 . This also reminds me how retarded the premise of that mission was. An all female group of terrorists amazon warriors took over the town. If something like that happened in mw2 it would be hilarious.

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  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Khavall wrote: »
    Olivaw wrote: »
    So, there's no Call of Duty in the title

    Is this a new franchise?

    If so, yessssssss

    I'm thinking maybe Activision wanted to keep the CoD franchise closer to what people think of the CoD franchise, and either not pollute the CoD name with the MW or vice versa. Or both. Perhaps they thought MW undersold because of the CoD name. Perhaps they thought that WaW undersold because people just wanted more MW from CoD, so they decided to split them.

    I don't think anyone thought this

    Ever

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  • BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    The_Scarab wrote: »
    Khavall wrote: »
    Mechanical wrote: »
    Khavall wrote: »
    Mechanical wrote: »
    DolbyDigital wrote: »
    Yeah, I think that IW realized that the CoD name is getting sullied with everything that Treyarch keeps releasing. This is a way for IW to keep their greatness that they've built, and protect it.

    You lost me here, Treyarch's already dropped more support than IW has for their title. Besides, they're really not that different.

    Ever play CoD3?

    Yep. I'm one of the few that enjoy it from what I gather. I was also referring to WaW.

    See my edit, but World at War still wasn't up there with Modern Warfare, but it was leagues above 3. In fact it was leagues above what it had any right to be, since they also decided to say "Fuck this new setting, we haven't rehashed World War 2 enough yet"

    World at War brings their list of good games up to like..... 2.

    They're still not even close to being IW quality

    But that doesn't invalidate their successes. World at War is very good. End of story. The development team they have there at the moment has proven they have talent. Even when using someone elses engine and most of their ideas. I'd argue it would have been easier to fuck up WaW then to do the good job they did do
    Furthermore, I doubt massively they have dropped the COD branding from MW2. The COD name is huge. There is no reason to drop it. Massive financial gains I'm afraid trump any childish developer rivalry you think exists. Which it does not.

    Edit: This isn't aimed at Khavall by the way.


    When did W@W become good? Hell looking just at our threads on both games, CoD4's thread is like on its 6 iteration? and is like 2 years old. And it still dwarfs the W@W thread. Why is that? Cause treyarch made a good game or made a bad follow up to an amazing game?

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  • Fig-DFig-D SoCalRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Burtletoy wrote: »
    The_Scarab wrote: »
    Khavall wrote: »
    Mechanical wrote: »
    Khavall wrote: »
    Mechanical wrote: »
    DolbyDigital wrote: »
    Yeah, I think that IW realized that the CoD name is getting sullied with everything that Treyarch keeps releasing. This is a way for IW to keep their greatness that they've built, and protect it.

    You lost me here, Treyarch's already dropped more support than IW has for their title. Besides, they're really not that different.

    Ever play CoD3?

    Yep. I'm one of the few that enjoy it from what I gather. I was also referring to WaW.

    See my edit, but World at War still wasn't up there with Modern Warfare, but it was leagues above 3. In fact it was leagues above what it had any right to be, since they also decided to say "Fuck this new setting, we haven't rehashed World War 2 enough yet"

    World at War brings their list of good games up to like..... 2.

    They're still not even close to being IW quality

    But that doesn't invalidate their successes. World at War is very good. End of story. The development team they have there at the moment has proven they have talent. Even when using someone elses engine and most of their ideas. I'd argue it would have been easier to fuck up WaW then to do the good job they did do
    Furthermore, I doubt massively they have dropped the COD branding from MW2. The COD name is huge. There is no reason to drop it. Massive financial gains I'm afraid trump any childish developer rivalry you think exists. Which it does not.

    Edit: This isn't aimed at Khavall by the way.


    When did W@W become good? Hell looking just at our threads on both games, CoD4's thread is like on its 6 iteration? and is like 2 years old. And it still dwarfs the W@W thread. Why is that? Cause treyarch made a good game or made a bad follow up to an amazing game?

    They made a "good" follow-up to an "amazing" game.

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  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    I've heard good things about World At War

    Bad things about it's multiplayer though

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  • Kris_xKKris_xK Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Mechanical wrote: »
    DolbyDigital wrote: »
    Yeah, I think that IW realized that the CoD name is getting sullied with everything that Treyarch keeps releasing. This is a way for IW to keep their greatness that they've built, and protect it.

    You lost me here, Treyarch's already dropped more support than IW has for their title. Besides, they're really not that different.

    IMO, W@W was a good game, but fell far below the standard of MW. MW was pretty much perfect. Good weapons, good single player, good maps, good perks. W@W just piggybacked off that, added tanks and replaced the good maps with shitty, broken exploit laden maps.

    In addition, if I'm not mistake fourzerotwo (or whatever that guys handle is) made a post on his blog bashing W@W for ripping them off... which I agree with.

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  • BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    All I've ever heard about its single player mode is that they enemies should get some AI

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  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Seriously though, World at War is basically Modern Warfare only in WWII and with poorer design decisions

    Which, I think, is why it turned out as good as it did

    If you're gonna just copy a game from the ground up, might as well copy one of the best

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  • DarlanDarlan Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Interesting that the trailer seems to be from the perspective of the terrorists. I wonder if they will finally actually switch between sides of the conflict during the perspective shifts instead of showing two different groups of the same side.

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  • GraviijaGraviija Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    If they remove the ridiculous 'enemies respawn until you get to a checkpoint' thing, I'll be down again. I mean, I never played CoD4 online regularly, but the game was awesome.

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  • FireflashFireflash Montreal, QCRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    I think that's how it was in the first CoD, right? Americans -> Russians -> Germans

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  • DolbyDigitalDolbyDigital Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Comments on the lack of "CoD":
    http://www.joystiq.com/2009/03/26/activision-modern-warfare-has-taken-on-a-life-of-its-own/

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  • GihgehlsGihgehls Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Guys MW2 is gonna be awesome.

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  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Gihgehls wrote: »
    Guys MW2 is gonna be awesome.

    Totally

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