It's literally only a few days away, and in celebration, Infinity Ward have debuted their official launch trailer for arguably the year's most anticipated release, Modern Warfare 2.

With all the hubbub surrounding elements such as a lack of dedicated servers, the seemingly controversial airport/terrorist sequence (which isn't actually as bad as the 'interwebz' would have you believe), and seeing America burning in flames - MW2 certainly has garnered more attention than even IW probably thought it would get. But there's no denying the quality of what's at-hand, and today's trailer demonstrates this in spades. The big secret reveal here: Space! Seriously, look out for the space bit.

Check it out here.

I'm seriously gagging for this...

I'm not. Given clan wars via Promod were the only thing I played COD for, this setup is going to seriously suck.

The hardon I had for this game has gone flaccid. I will wait for community feedback. GG infinity ward. Why become slaves to the conslol market??

the year's most anticipated release

thats been said about a number of games this year..

Summary

No Demo
No Dedicated server
9v9 biggest game
No Leaning
No Mod tools
Peer to Peer, host migration 5 second delay
25 kill streak Nuke ends game
No Console or console commands

it's failed before it even started

holy fuck that looks awesome, did anyone else spot the first person space scene ?

FUCK YES.

also that music track would have cost a metric crap load

pfft fags, the single player side of this game will be sick, cod4 was fucking awesome single player i must have finished it at least 10 times.. i hardly played online anyway.

that track is "till i collapse" by eminem, release years ago

Graphics look good, but I'm unmoved regarding heavy in-game scriptage/cutscenes that they try to pass off as 'realism'. Just seems like every other game?

Also they should have suppressed the vocals in the song. Eminem talking about himself has nothing to do with "modern warfare".

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LOL @ eminem track in a game trailer, wasn't too bad tbh.

Game looks epic :D

i hardly played online anyway.

it always amazes me that people buy multiplayer games and never go online. I remember the COH producers stating a statistic that something like 75% of buyers never played online. just played the single player then comp stomps.

They might have butchered MP for PC gamers but meh i'll be getting this on the 360 either way. Single player is gonna be hype.

At least they didn't water down the gore like they did with L4D2. Talk about an act of softcock.

i take it theres no ps3 version coming?

There will be a PS3 version.

I hope everyone enjoys migrating hosts, people dropping and no one replacing the slot, massive drag on your shots, and adjusting your sensitivity through a sideways scroll bar in the options lulz. At least it still has assault rifle zoom and sprint buttons.

At least they didn't water down the gore like they did with L4D2. Talk about an act of softcock.

It only lacks gore if you are a noob.

and adjusting your sensitivity through a sideways scroll bar in the options lulz.

Hahah holy shit I didn't even think of that. You're gonna have to put up with whatever slim options they give you for mouse sensitivity. So if you can only set it in 4 different spots on the scale it is tough shit if you can't get it right. Just like the FOV as well.

Wow... 25 Kill Streak Nuke ends the game... didn't know that. This really IS shit! :S

no dedicated servers

Yeah, I'm buying this anyway, the single player will be awesome and I don't think multiplayer is going to end up being the disastrous mess its being made out to be. Even if its not perfect, it'll still be good for some fun.

Yeah, yeah, I know I'm supposed to take a stand and not support companies pulling this sort of shit by not buying their game, but its going to sell millions of copies on console anyway so its not like a few hardcore PC gamers boycotting it are going to make a difference. I'm sure those 20,000 signatures or whatever they got on their online petition for dedicated servers is really going to make Infinity Ward/Activision care while they're selling 2 million copies on console. I figure why punish myself by denying myself some awesome gaming?

Amen to that.

Khel sold us all out. DAMN YOU.

but its going to sell millions of copies on console anyway so its not like a few hardcore PC gamers boycotting it are going to make a difference.

Pretty much. The people who know/care about the lack of dedicated servers in cod6 would be ant sized compared to the shit loads of console noobs lined up at EB Games.

Similar to the L4D2 boycott group. Got people talking about the game, maybe get a few haters over to IW-HQ to brainwash them into fanboys like valve did :)

Yeah, I'm buying this anyway, the single player will be awesome

I hope you feel guilty for making the baby jesus cry!

if only 90% of my hardon for this game wasn't for the multiplayer, it wouldn't be so flaccid now

Your gf must be disappointed with you pave.

And just in case you respond to that with "yeah but your mum isn't", too late for that now it doesn't count.

Single player is actually average. After playing through I was rather let down. The console feel really does flow through in single player. Most of the game I was simply spraying and praying, no strategic spots to sit out and work my way through the missions. I felt disconnected from the game due to the feeling that I was being pushed through it. Don’t get me wrong tho the intensity of having the story reamed down your throat in single player is “fun”.

Multiplayer. Worst part was the new latency system in multiplayer. First 15 mins was a shit fight to find a server I could join that didn’t have a ”red light" latency. When I did find a server I got lag spikes roughly every 5 seconds, shots were delayed by roughly 1 second. Forget the days of 16, 32 and 64 player games, they are long gone! When I tried to host a game all I got was problem after problem after problem with port forwarding. The shear amount of ports that are required to be forwarded through the router is incredible. From the look of the ports that are required to be forwarded it seems if your hosting an online game anyone else on your internet connection won’t be able to join in. (I am yet to test this). This whole requirement of being a network engineer in order to host a clan match is not sitting well with me. The whole point that was made by IW taking away the dedicated servers was to “make it more simple” [fourzerotwo]. It is NOT simpler. Let’s see, a server browser vs portforwarding and firewall configuration. What a joke.

I just wandered over to IW to see if I could get some support, it seems they are now getting smashed with support requests from PC users (see below).

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