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Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2: Release date and everything you need to know about MW2

June 09, 2022

We're coming into the part of the year when rumours about the next Call of Duty go into overdrive. Vanguard came out as normal in late 2021, and we now know that Modern Warfare 2 is going to be next in line.

We've gathered all of the key details on the game for you right here, so read on to find out everything you need to know about the next COD.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 release date and trailer

We now know when Modern Warfare 2 will be out - it releases on 28 October 2022. It's being developed mainly by Infinity Ward, but there are apparently 10 more studios working in support capacities on the game, although this sort of resource-sharing is nothing new for the series.

We've finally now got a first trailer for the game, too, after Infinity War unveiled the game's logo in late April 2022 and followed up with its release date in late May.

You can watch the reveal trailer above to get a first look at the game's campaign, spanning a few locations and looking like an explosive ride.

It had been heavily rumoured that 2022's COD would be a sequel to 2019's Modern Warfare, and that it would most likely stick a "2" on the end of that game's title to again bring back nostalgic memories of the original Modern Warfare 2.

In February 2022 that was officially confirmed, after an unusual move for the franchise - Infinity Ward gave members of the media a briefing on its plans not just for Modern Warfare 2 but also a new iteration of Warzone that will drop with it. You can read the key details in a community update that it published afterwards.

Looking further forward, we've even seen indications that the game after this one will be a return to the Black Ops series, suggesting a familiar rotation of titles is spinning up. However, a bombshell report from Bloomberg had indicated that it will not release in 2023, leaving Modern Warfare 2 with a full two-year cycle of support to enjoy.

That's big news for both the franchise and the game, since no title has got a full two years without a new competitor in over a decade. It'll be interesting to see what plans Infinity Ward can cook up to keep it fresh for that long.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 platforms

Call of Duty normally comes out on every single platform that can run it, to maximise sales, but everything changed in January 2021 when Xbox announced that it was buying Activision, the series' publisher.

The news sent shockwaves through the community since it threatened the possibility that Call of Duty might become an exclusive series to Xbox hardware on console somewhere down the line. While that's possible eventually, it won't affect Modern Warfare 2.

The game will release before the deal is completed, and existing contracts with PlayStation means that at least the next main COD to come out in 2023 should also appear on PS4 and PS5. Microsoft has also stated that it intends to keep the franchise on PlayStation once those deals run out.

For now, we know that Modern Warfare 2 is coming out on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One and PC - including a return to Steam for the first time in years.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 story and setting

Allegedly codenamed internally as Project Cortez, the game will feature a single-player campaign that's rumoured to take place during the American-led War on Drugs in South America, something that the first trailer hasn't really confirmed or dispelled. 

According to further reporting by Tom Henderson, the game will be even grittier than Modern Warfare 2019, which already leant further into realism than Call of Duty has for a while, with missions like Clean House featuring realistic room clearances and night vision.

Infinity Ward has been working on the game since it released Modern Warfare, giving it a healthy three-year cycle during which to innovate, and the campaign will accordingly see some nice additions like real narrative choices and guns that might sometimes jam to really put you up the creek without a paddle.

The story should see Captain Price's Task Force 141 taking the fight to Colombia's cartels in undercover missions that won't be as militarised, instead focussing on stealth and incisiveness. We know that key characters like Captain Price and Gaz will be back, alongside returning faces from the original games in the form of Soap and Ghost, after Infinity Ward confirmed their appearances in May 2022, and you can see them all in that first trailer, too.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 gameplay

There will obviously be a significant amount of continuity from the last Modern Warfare when it comes to gameplay for the next game from Infinity Ward, but that still leaves room for some improvements and additions.

We still expect it to feature a low time-to-kill, making it fairly hardcore as shooters go, but will be interested to see if it embraces some of the technical advances made by Vanguard in the meantime.

For example, the WW2 shooter features much more destructibility in maps and environments, as well as an expanded weapon mounting system that lets you move around more while still getting weapon control bonuses.

We think the latter will probably stay, but we're not sure about the environmental design, given how much cleaner and less cluttered many of Modern Warfare's maps are compared to other Call of Duty titles. Infinity Ward says that MW2's maps are actually smaller on average than MW2019's, which bodes well.

The developer has been working hard on AI to make your opponents more realistic, which sounds intriguing, and we'll also get a new version of Gunsmith to let us tinker with our guns in extreme detail. This reportedly includes sliders to adjust the weight distribution of your gun's barrel - quite some level of granularity!

Swimming is apparently going to be a much more common part of gameplay, with shooting underwater possible for some guns, while there are more vehicles than ever featuring more realistic damage and permanent husks when they're destroyed.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - Warzone 2.0

After the messy integration of Black Ops Cold War into Warzone, with a recycled map and unbalanced weapons, Activision seems to be aware that it has to stick the landing better when it comes to new COD titles getting mixed into its free-to-play sensation.

Vanguard brought an all-new map with it, Caldera, taking the fight into the Pacific arena and finally bringing a new location to the table and, from the sounds of it, Modern Warfare 2 will seek to make that an annual change.

According to its community briefing and subsequent information, Infinity Ward is building a new Warzone experience from the ground up with Modern Warfare 2, on a new engine that all COD games will share moving forward to avoid similar teething problems between their ecosystems.

The game will have a new map, alongside a new sandbox mode that we haven't heard much more about, and Infinity Ward sounds confident that it's going to shake up the Battle Royale genre again with this new reimagining of Warzone.

Activision has said in recent job adverts that it sees the next step for the COD franchise as transitioning it into its "2.0" state, and that means more connectivity between titles, it would seem.

That's likely to be a good sign for fans of the games, which are only going to get more investment moving forward.

In May 2022 we got a fairly big leak of information about how Warzone 2 might change from the game as it exists now, corroborated by multiple leakers. Headline changes include loadout drops that are locked inside enemy positions and therefore harder to obtain, and a new inventory system that will limit how much you can carry.

Some of the tweaks sound familiar from Blackout, COD's first true battle royale, while the addition of a true firing range for weapon and build testing will be hugely welcome for those who like to swap up their guns fairly often.

We also know that the MW2 tweaks like more swimming and better vehicles will have a huge impact on Warzone's gameplay.

More importantly, still, we now know that the game will reset everyone's progress in terms of skins, gun unlocks and levelling, starting from the beginning once more as a breath of fresh air. To ensure this doesn't annoy anyone, Warzone, as it stands, will still carry on with all the existing guns and skins.



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