Advertising has reached a new level. I don't feel great about this.

Print media desperately grabbing for relevancy by selling out to a lowest common denominator blockbuster. This is gross.

Time was hardly a respectable rag but this pretty much cements their status.

@Klarion18 said:

Pretty sad to see Time magazine doing this.

Why? Time has no prestige to it. They pandered to the audience by calling "you" the "person of the year". They're as ridiculously bought and sold in and out like every other mass media entity.

Time is in financial ruin, so they sold out for some desperately needed money.

@Yanngc33 said:

I'd love to get my hands on one of these posters

This is probably the coolest pre-order bonus ever.

How this could possibly bother someone is beyond me.  Oh wait it's COD...no wonder.  Keyboard warriors...continue your miserable existence.

i rather like the poster. i have that hanging on my wall VS the standard MW3 cover. side note. why is this news now? i mean i got the post like a month ago. did it take Time this long to comment or are people now just figuring out it was a pre-order bonus?

I've had this for over 2 months... this is news?

Enough real people are dying in conflicts around the world as it is, without the need to make a fake cover of Time Magazine advertising global conflicts.

Not interested in anything relating to CoD!

I'd like to see The Onion's take...

Sure, why not.

Severely disinterested in MW3, but this is kind of cool.

MW3 does not take place in 2030.

If the game is set in 2030 it's a sixteen year jump from when Modern Warfare 2 ends? Weird. I'd love one of those covers but I don't have a GameStop nearby, nor do I have a pre-order. My thought is to just get a really nice, high-end scan and have that professionally printed or something.

WW3 :0

great stuff, maybe they can get the new yorker to make a funny comic about it too?

I paid 2.50 deposit for this game to get the poster.  I'm not even going to refund the deposit now I'm getting Skyrim instead, as I thought the poster was worth it!

This is pretty old stuff. I've had this poster for several weeks now. Got it at GameStop when I pre-ordered the game for my dad.

WERE FAMOUS 
 http://blog.games.yahoo.com/blog/770-time-magazine-defends-call-of-duty-promo

 “I like the concept of Time being a related brand of something that’s happening in 2030,”

that's actually pretty meh. theres war all over the us, and it just says "the world stands on the brink"....  
 
i could think of a much more urgent and terrible looking cover