well this is a rather odd turn of events... it seems that MW2 will have third person playlists. some leaked game play videos completely confirm this. doubt i will ever play this mode, well i'll try it, but i'm more into FPS. it's good there's a variety now i guess. 

•  team deathmatch
• free-for-all
• domination
• ground war
• sabotage
• HQ Pro
• Search and destroy
• capture the flag
• demolition
• 3rd person team deathmatch
• hardcore team deathmatch
• hardcore Search and destroy
• cage match 3rd person

cage match 3rd person? wrestlin'?

Third person cam looks pretty bad. I wonder why they don't just have all the "playlists" (wtf btw?) playable in first or third person though rather than just choose some of them to be available and some to not be available. Not that I'll ever use it if I get this game. The same for hardcore mode, why are some modes available for play like that and some aren't? Weird.

 I wonder why they don't just have all the "playlists" (wtf btw?) playable in first or third person

I didn't mean (and didn't say?) to mix players playing in first with players playing in third, that would obviously give too many advantages to the latter as they could see around corners without exposing themselves among other things. I just meant to have basically double the normal playlists with all the different modes also playable in 3rd person, rather than only choose the deathmatch and cage match modes to add in third person. For example, sabotage 3rd person, domination 3rd person, etc, on top of everything else.

I dont think that will be a popular playlist, if anything they should have made that a multi player option

Interesting.......

i would love that. it would make playing hardcore search and destroy just like socom and thats fucking awesome.  
 
also, these videos are of a map i havent seen. and they look excellent, very complex.  
 
edit: i noticed Demolition in the list, thats like the most popular socom mode. this is starting to sound better and better.  
 
i remember way back when they cancelled a cod4 3rd person game, looks like infinity ward has been wanting to do this for a while

im surprised this thread is mad popular yet, well it is late. but yeah this is big news this is a huge feature

That's strange.

I wonder if single player will have this and if so how much

That just looks like a 3rd person spectator mode from COD4 but zoomed out a bit.

Fuck yes

I generally don't like 3rd person shooters, but as long as they haven't sacrificed any of the quality of control for the first person mode, I couldn't care less. I trust in IW to make a great game, and even though this doesn't sound like something I would have wanted, i'm sure they wouldn't have done it if it unbalanced the game.

It could be interesting in a specialized game mode.

its probably a debug command that players WONT be able to use

" I wonder if single player will have this and if so how much "

" its probably a debug command that players WONT be able to use "

Can the game actually get ANY MORE noob friendly?  Hey, let's make all the weapon do the same exact damage.  Let's just give you a big blinking arrow above your third person head about 10 seconds before someone is coming from behind you. 
 
Fucking Hell, man.

ITT: we love the casual turn of events

Wha??? This is confusing news.

"Can the game actually get ANY MORE noob friendly?  Hey, let's make all the weapon do the same exact damage.  Let's just give you a big blinking arrow above your third person head about 10 seconds before someone is coming from behind you.  Fucking Hell, man. "

"   Hey, let's make all the weapon do the same exact damage. "

" @jakob187 said:

"   Hey, let's make all the weapon do the same exact damage. "

Whoa is this true? Just did a search, admittedly not a very thorough one, and I couldn't find anything confirming this. I really hope this isn't true. "

Are we sure this isn't a replay feature? It sure as hell looks like one.

But I thought IW said MW2 doesn't need gimmicks to sell?

" That just looks like a 3rd person spectator mode from COD4 but zoomed out a bit. "

Well, that certainly looks weird.  At first I thought it was just spectator mode until I actually saw him look down the sights.

Don't know if I'll want to play it like this, but it's certainly an interesting development.

I wonder how long it takes for the videos to get taken down ?

The third-person stuff doesn't look finished at all. Maybe it's just some kind of weird thing they're experimenting with on the playlists that'll be cut by the time the game actually launches? You know, since they can update playlists on the fly and all.

" The third-person stuff doesn't look finished at all. Maybe it's just some kind of weird thing they're experimenting with on the playlists that'll be cut by the time the game actually launches? You know, since they can update playlists on the fly and all. "

" @Lights_Up_The_Shaft said:

" That just looks like a 3rd person spectator mode from COD4 but zoomed out a bit. "

Yeah, that's what I thought. "

" @jakob187 said:

"Can the game actually get ANY MORE noob friendly?  Hey, let's make all the weapon do the same exact damage.  Let's just give you a big blinking arrow above your third person head about 10 seconds before someone is coming from behind you.  Fucking Hell, man. "

You've never played SOCOM. Being able to ee a few cm behind you doesn't help at all. "

My main point was that everyones playing the same way, and the only way I could see people complaining about this view is that you couldn't sneak up on people - why is why I made that comment.

" But I thought IW said MW2 doesn't need gimmicks to sell? "

It doesnt exactly look finished...as easy as it is to get in a third person view on an unfinished game, or even PC game for that matter on the engine, Im not taking this for any kind of proof that it exists at all yet. Not that I care if it does, I would never play it.

So yeah its official. 

 Modern Warfare 2 will feature third-person mode for playlists

I really don't think this is real...

" @Lights_Up_The_Shaft said:

" That just looks like a 3rd person spectator mode from COD4 but zoomed out a bit. "

Yeah, that's what I thought. "

Confirmed again by Robert Bowling (FourZeroTwo) via Twitter:
 

 " http://bit.ly/3KGy8k - Yes there's a leaked video. Yes it confirms a new Playlist type in #MW2 & yes it's why I recommend a media blackout. "

Since when did YouTube have country restrictions? I can't even see the bloody video.

It's an interesting turn of events but I see it being played the few first few weeks (maybe days) of release and then people ignore it and go back to the regular types.

Ha, it's kinda cool that they put it in there, it's even cooler how it's a separate playlist and not mixed in with everyone else.

Meh. That doesn't really matter to me, I prefer playing my games in FPS. The unfinished animations look really weird.

Making that a general multiplayer option is a horrid idea. The difference between playing in 3rd person versus 1st person is distinct and they do NOT belong in the same game type together.