Will Modern Warfare 2 Live Up to the Hype?

Infinity Ward's Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was arguably the most popular multiplayer gaming experience to be released on consoles and PC's in the last 10 years, and with a touching, adrenaline filled, generally brilliant single player campaign to top it off, some would say it's one of the best games of all time. So it's only natural that there has been many questions, theories and ideas, as well as a massive amount of build up all surrounding the date of 11/10/09 (well, to us Brits that would be 10/11/09), which has been long confirmed as the release date of Infinity Ward's newest game, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

Given their past success rate, it's only natural to assume that Activations' Modern Warfare 2 (Xbox 360, PS3) will be the best gaming experience of all time, particularly with the introduction of the new co-operative mode, Special Operations (or Spec Ops for short) to make the multiplayer experience even more enjoyable, but with only a month left, and knowing so little about the games changes, many have started to ask whether Infinity Ward's newest game can live up to so much hype.

Multiple videos on YouTube, Tweets from Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling (better known as FourZeroTwo for his gamertag), and just a wander around the Official Infinity Ward Forums will give a general outline of the games new and most looked forward to features, such as the new and improved kill-streak system, as well as death-streaks giving the weaker players a bit more of an edge against the guys, such as me, with too much time on their hands.

Controversy arose when a multiplayer video was released that showed 402 being killed by a throwing knife and arms were up in the air when it was discovered that the ability to hold double weapons would be in the game. "The realism from this game has gone", "I love it - I even asked for that to be put in the game", "This game wants to be Halo" were just an overview of a few reactions, minus the cursing of course.

I personally, have chosen to withhold my judgement, crossing off days on my calendar until I finally get to decide whether this game was worth my £70 for the hardened edition. I hope that the amount of changes won't make too much difference to the game play, and that I can continue to count on Activision and Infinity Ward to make sure that I spend an abhorred amount of hours playing with friends from home in the online mode, playing with my housemates in the Spec Ops mode, or in the single player campaign.

Besides Call of Duty Modern Warfare game, Activision has put together several bundles with Night Vision Goggles, Limited Edition extras and even a new Xbox 360 Super Elite MW2 console!

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