Seems like the kind of thing loyal fans would find a workaround for.

For those who don't know, this game is essentially a "best of" game combining parts of Modern Warfare 1 & 2, and Black Ops, with better graphics and remixed levels, that's free to play except you have to pay for weapon loadouts like grips and muzzles. It's only meant to be sold in China.

The two biggest problems, unlike say making a Japanese PSN account for Vita games, is that the Chinese gov't may kill you for proxy-ing into their systems, and two, the latency in playing people that far away to begin with combined with the imherent latency involved in faking your location... The game just wouldn't be playable.

However maybe someone can crack together an offline mode that bypasses the checks, and build something like that old PC alternative to Xbox Live for games like Halo Combat Evolved.

Never even heard of it until right now. I don't think Call of Duty's most loyal fans are the types to know about VPNs and proxies.

Looks hella neat.

I know there's no interest in this(on top of bringing a old topic back from the dead) but I found this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxO6eWCXECI. Basically a how-to video to get COD Online up and running. Now I'm not done downloading the game so I guess I can update with some impressions when it's finished. Now that its in open beta and its easier to get into, I'd love to hear what Jeff has to say about this seeing as it's the greatest hits of the COD games and he has dabbled with oversees games like PSO 2. Also seeing that COD is dead on PC this could be the shot in the arm that it needs.

I would try this if it came out over here. Hacking up a fake Chinese account and playing with a high ping doesn't seem too enticing though.