The sequel to 2007’s wildly successful first-person-shooter Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 continues the story of American and British soldiers fighting Russian ultra-nationalist forces.
Here's my take on it so far. All of this is just my guess of course
The customized killstreak perks: You will get 1 unlock credit for every prestige. Up to 15 The Helicopter seen at :08 will be flyable. But with the addition of Lock-On Rocket Launchers, no big deal. The AA-12 grenade launcher seen at :08 will be a primary weapon and not a perk. BUZZKILL seen at :17 leads me to believe that there will be more realtime challenges or medals I.E Halo 3 Heartbeat moniter seen at :20 will be a blue perk item since it's not seen on any other weapons. Lock on rocket launcher will help deter vehicle usage a bit more. at :31 in the middle of the screen you can see a + next to a blue box. I cant think of what that's for. Of course the addition of sticky grenades called "Semtex" is awesome! +50 points per kill in FFA? Not sure on that one
If I've missed anything or you spot something new please post. This game is gonna be amazing!!
Yeah I think it looks great, this is one of those games for me that I see that, and I don't bother analyzing it, I barely watch it. I know I'm going to buy that game, and I know I'm going to play it like a madman. However I will say playing inside the helicopters would be awesome. I'm all kinds of excited for this launch.
Thought I'd embed this for those who'd like to watch it
Also to react to your points:
I doubt the killstreak perks will be unlocvked along with prestiege. That would cut off a lot of people from a lot of pretty cool content. From the fact that it says unlocks remaining I'm guessing that instead of having to get to a certian level to get certain items you'll now be able to select which item to unlock instead
I also don't think that the chopper will be flyable but to be fair it does seem strange that it's there with such detail.
The possible AA-12 at 00:24 on the vid i posted seems to be a shotgun. if you look carefully you can see a shell come down from the sky and 402 gets the kill with a plane icon
Also the player with the AA-12 is on the Ranger team
If I were balancing the game I'd put the heartbeat sensor on red dur to the power of being able to see any enemy close to you, but who knows really
From the start of the trailer where the player pulls out a laptop I think it's safe to assume that the player who's using the AC-130 is stuck huddled over the laptop and so cannot defend himself while using it.
UAV recon is still in
The AC-130 seems to have all 3 shot types available to it but also needs to reload.
00:32 FAL with Red Dot Sight
I think that almost all of the explosions in this trailer are actually causd by the AC-130, if you look they're all precended by shells from the sky
@Agent47CSim2: Not necessarily, those were seen in the first teaser as numbers on an elevator.
Anyways, looks quite good. Dunno if anyone else noticed this but it seems they have a lot more destruction in the game; I mean smaller destruction, not buildings being blown apart just things like indoor objects, etc. I appreciate it when a game has that, honestly it makes the weapons feel more powerful when it actually does something to the environment (particularly that for some reason).
Take a look at 402's character at the end of the video. Now if this game is anything like the first one's ,mp the characters will be outfitted according to there environment. Like when in an enclosed area the SAS and spetnaz wear gas masks, but in a large area they wear no gas masks and look different altogether. In the video 402's character is in an office, where in MW he would wear a gas mask, he is dressed for a large outdoor map and has a painted face. Also notice the other characters and the way they look , theres no real pattern. So this makes me think that in MW2 we will finally get customizable characters, something the majority of the COD community has been asking for.
" Take a look at 402's character at the end of the video. Now if this game is anything like the first one's ,mp the characters will be outfitted according to there environment. Like when in an enclosed area the SAS and spetnaz wear gas masks, but in a large area they wear no gas masks and look different altogether. In the video 402's character is in an office, where in MW he would wear a gas mask, he is dressed for a large outdoor map and has a painted face. Also notice the other characters and the way they look , theres no real pattern. So this makes me think that in MW2 we will finally get customizable characters, something the majority of the COD community has been asking for. "
Very nice observation Burns..I never would have caught on to that. Outfit customization would be killer.
i watched the trailer once and noticed all of it. and besides, why the fuck are you going to insult someone for this? you clicked the fucking thread, therefore you were interested in the topic at hand. how about thanking him for analyzing it for you. Giant Bomb's golden rule is DONT BE A DICK!
God I hope there is none of the dumb character customization like in Vegas/Halo 3. I'm not playing a Call of Duty game to play some dumb dress up game so the 9 year olds can ask every thirty seconds on video game forums what my character looks like.
I think the heartbeat monitor may be gun specific. I know that Game Informer talked about the gun in the mountaintop mission, so it may just be that one gun that has it. It may be a weaker rifle to balance it out.
" Unless I'm mistaken, I saw three unique emblems on the bottom-left. It might be a clue as to having some kind of three-team mode. "
Unlikely, there were 4 factions in COD4, just 2 variations on good guys and bad guys.
There could be more than 4 tho this time.
Oh and about the parked heli? Didn't see that, but does the OP seriously reckon you'll be able to get in it and fly off battlefield style? I seriously hope not, I love the smaller firefight feel of COD4, vehicles suck.
Heh, interesting that you posted that screenshot. I always assumed that people were talking about the very similar chopper that enters the shot at 00:31. Maybe the fact that 2 choppers show in in the trailer give a bit of credit to the thought that there might be controllable vehicles in the game.
Man I fucking hope there isn't, one of the worst things about games with vehicles in are people just standing around fighting over vehicles. They just don't add anything to a game like Call of Duty that I think it needs.
i watched the trailer once and noticed all of it. and besides, why the fuck are you going to insult someone for this? you clicked the fucking thread, therefore you were interested in the topic at hand. how about thanking him for analyzing it for you. Giant Bomb's golden rule is DONT BE A DICK! "
Lol..thank you for defending me bro..I really do appreciate it. But Jackel is a long time friend. He was just fuckin around :P
" God I hope there is none of the dumb character customization like in Vegas/Halo 3. I'm not playing a Call of Duty game to play some dumb dress up game so the 9 year olds can ask every thirty seconds on video game forums what my character looks like. "
That would be my problem with it. What I would like is a customization option where you could equip different stuff that pertains to a certain faction. So for a Rangers character you would have US Army crap, and for the terrorists you would have terrorists crap.
" God I hope there is none of the dumb character customization like in Vegas/Halo 3. I'm not playing a Call of Duty game to play some dumb dress up game so the 9 year olds can ask every thirty seconds on video game forums what my character looks like. "
That would be my problem with it. What I would like is a customization option where you could equip different stuff that pertains to a certain faction. So for a Rangers character you would have US Army crap, and for the terrorists you would have terrorists crap. "
I really don't get the point in it at all. It's a FPS; you don't see yourself and it's not like you have time to glance at your enemies, say in your head "that's a cute pair of pants you got on there," and then shoot them.
If there was character customization then each faction wouldn't look different unless you can customize them all which would be dumb. I think they do a good job at making each person different depending on your primary weapon and faction.
" If there was character customization then each faction wouldn't look different unless you can customize them all which would be dumb. I think they do a good job at making each person different depending on your primary weapon and faction. "
The new Socom did something like that, you had to customize two characters. One a seal and the the other a terrorist.
" If there was character customization then each faction wouldn't look different unless you can customize them all which would be dumb. I think they do a good job at making each person different depending on your primary weapon and faction. "
The new Socom did something like that, you had to customize two characters. One a seal and the the other a terrorist. "
Resistance 2 did that too, you made a character for the Humans and a character for the Chimera. I don't know about Resistance because I have not played Resistance online multiplayer.
Hopefully you do unlock stuff for prestige this time around to make it worth playing forever. I like how WAW gives you extra Create-A-Class slots but hopefully there will be more than that in this game.
" Hopefully you do unlock stuff for prestige this time around to make it worth playing forever. I like how WAW gives you extra Create-A-Class slots but hopefully there will be more than that in this game. "
I get why it did nothing in CoD4, because they wanted Prestige Mode to just give you... prestige. But at this point I think they have to give you something for it. And I think because of it you will see a lot less people who stay at 55 (or the new max) without prestigeing.
Do you think instead of adding an extra Create-a-class slot per prestige level like in WaW they could add an extra attachment to your primary gun? I mean an MP5 with RDS and silencer would be awesome!
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