Is the picture shows the cover art of Modern Warfare 2? Yes. It is the cover box of the game.
Did you notice any thing special in it?
It is the name tag of the Call of Duty. Yes, in the game case and box art there holds the Call of Duty tag with the Modern Warfare name. This is the fresh and just completed production ready and it is of course waiting to be filled with retail discs.
The Community Manager of Infinity Ward, Robert Bowling (aka FourZero Two) recently revealed the cases of MW2 with box art images to display the Call of Duty brand being present right on the front.
Well! lots of adding and subtracting phase of the brand awareness name tag is over now with this release of cover art. But yeah, may be in future the publisher may slowly wipe out the CoD name.
There has been one more twist in Modern Warfare 2. This time it is regarding the relationship with the Call of Duty. This game will not leave the nest without the name of mom and dad. The reason is unknown. Now it will carry the tag of Call of Duty with it.
The hints which comes to media regarding adding the CoD name with it before the release is simply for brand awareness. Destructoid’s Nick Chester shared a Google Trends chart displaying a rapid drop in focus on Modern Warfare when it was dated. At the same time, few analysts were also saying that MW2 may not be able to stand on its own two feet quite yet.
One more reason is there of adding the Call of Duty name. MW2 is the first real sequel in the long running series of Call of Duty. Infinity Ward has said, “We have focused our attention on Modern Warfare in order to most effectively communicate the fact that this is the first true sequel in the Call of Duty series.”
Well call it as you like it. One thing is assured that this game in the series is going to sell like hotcakes.
Now the offer for Modern Warfare 2 has begun. As the date comes closer, it seems that online sellers are not letting themselves to loose any opportunity of sales of this much awaited game.
The first such offer comes from the Wal-Mart Stores Inc. They have begun offering a free $10 eGift Card with all their advanced purchase of MW2 for Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox360.
This bonus of Walmart.com $10 gift card will be valid online for those customers who pre-purchase the game.
The bundle SKU sells for $59.82.
In the month of June the Microsoft showcased a new of new game titles for the Xbox 360.
The new titles for this year also includes Forza Motorsport 3 and Halo 3: ODST.
In gaming industry “co-op” by default meant two players. Now there is a different story. Things have changed now in multiplayer gaming world. The terminology now is not different.
Infinity Ward even today believes that two players is the sweet spot for cooperative-based gameplay. Recently in an interview the director of communications of the studio, Robert Bowling said that there will be a definite change in the co-op concepts between last year’s CoD:WaW and and the MW2 that is going to be released this November. He further added that in Treyarch’s effort they can participate in four-player campaign co-op, but the new sequel of the Infinity Ward will not be featuring a campaign co-op mode at all.
He also said that in fact there will be something entirely new i.e. a two-player, specially designed Special Ops mode. He mentioned that it is “designed to be replayed over and over again.”
Let me quote Bowling: “Two player seemed to be the magic number for co-op. That’s when it stayed really fun and intense without becoming a clusterf**k of things. We just found that two-players was the most fun.”
Whatever may be happening due to too many people trying to work together in a game. What we expect is great things from the developer.
Recently there was a survey that suggested that the future Call of Duty games may charge a monthly fee. This news was something like a shock to all the fans of CoD series.
The developer of Call of Duty series, Infinity Ward, has assured fans after this news, which was flooded in the media that they won’t be paying for any subscription service in Modern Warfare 2. They said that they have nothing to do with the rumor and it is also implemented with Modern Warfare 2.
This was the message that was posted by Infinity Ward in their official forum:
“This rumor has absolutely nothing to do with Infinity Ward or our games, including Modern Warfare 2. We would never introduce such a system for Modern Warfare 2 so don’t worry. Multiplayer will always be equal and free for everyone as always.”
The advertising agency advises to make the launch of Modern Warfare 2 as the biggest entertainment launch of all time.
The publisher of the game is pressing TBWA, advertising agency, to ensure that this much awaited game’s launch will go down in the annals of recent gaming history as one of the biggest yet.
According to sources, Activision believes that the ad campaign of TBWA that has been planned is on track to realizing its lofty goals of smashing all records that has been set by big-name titles such as Halo 3 and Grand Theft Auto IV.
Chief creative officer of Activision, Brad Jakeman, said, “The strategic objective is not to just run advertising on day one and say ‘Go to a retailer and buy the game,’ but it is to really start building a movement and start broadening the audience for [Modern Warfare 2] beyond a core gamer audience.”
Janco Partners’ Mike Hickey had already indicated that Activision may not have much to worry about. According to him the sales of the game may hit 11 million units in under two months only. He said MW2 could potentially sell through 7.8 million units globally with an estimated retail value of more than $569 million in the first week.
Another footage of Modern Warfare 2 has arrived. This mini-video preview will tell more about what gamers are expecting from the game.
This new video shows more of the snow level in it. It gives some more details about the scale of the game. It seems that this game will be more flexible. Take for example the snowy Kazakhstan level. It will have players walking through a snow storm with a heartbeat detector. They will be locating enemies during one mission.
It also seems that players will move through stealthily or else they would go all out but have everyone alerted to their presence. It will let the gamers to decide about how they play the game.
The new screening technology of the game also makes it for bigger levels than before. It will be set apart from CoD4 by its levels like the mountains, slums, “underwater scuba based levels” and castle settings.
There were many interesting comments on the previous article about the questions of fans answered by the Editor of Modern Warfare 2. One of the comments also asked for more questions that were answered. Here are few of them.
One of the readers of Game Informer asked that will Infinity Ward make playing multiplayer free. He said that he have an Xbox 360 and he is yet to get a Gold membership. To this the Editor replied that Gold membership is necessary to play over Xbox Live as it is with other games. He added that Infinity Ward has always denied the rumors that there will be additional fees to play Modern Warfare 2.
One more interesting question was that will the dismemberment be similar to Call of duty World at War or not. The reply came that similar level of violence is expected to what is present in Infinity Ward’s last game, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.
Somebody even asked whether the Modern Warfare 2 campaign be played with two players. It is not. It is only a single-player game was the reply.
