After Modern Warfare 2 sold millions of copies worldwide, people acutely raised the question: Will there ever be a game that can beat the brainchild of Infinity Ward? Who else can do something equally interesting, dynamic and beautiful? And just a month later a new blockbuster was found.

Everyone looked in the direction of Battlefield: Bad Company 2. This new series will keep alive the World War II for at least a few scenes before it is transited into the present day.

Such details, along with accounts of power-drill attacks, appeared in the ESRB’s M-rating justification. Bad Company 2 is not a competitor of Modern Warfare 2 as they are of almost different genres.

In Call of Duty you can single or double occupancy with one another, enough to run, shoot and putting opponents in batches. But Battlefield is purely a command fighter, where it is hard to kill, where alone you can not do anything, and where you want a well-oiled team to survive.

It is tough to say and also no one is saying that Halo: Reach will be better than Modern Warfare 2, but here is a reason for saying it, if anyone says. What it is believed that the Halo: Reach game will not be suffering the same pitfalls that has made MW2 almost non-playable. The main reason is that Halo: Reach will be a better gaming experience, if not a better game.

When the first MW was about to be launched, IW released a huge public beta. Everywhere gamers instantly fell in love with the game.
After this, in the sequence, IW decided that MW2 did not need any beta testing by the average gamer.

We can’t say that a beta would have prevented what we are seeing of MW2 today, but we can at least say that there was no beta and there is lots of problems.

Conclude yourself. Halo: Reach is going to have massive beta testing, for both single player as well as for multiplayer modes.

Mass Effect 2 will be releasing on January 26 by BioWare and Electronic Arts in North America and after just 3 days of its release there, it will be hitting the Europe market on the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and on the PC.

The developer and its team points out quickly that the next game in the trilogy will be fixing up all the error that was wrong with the previous release such as the planetary exploration phase and also the inventory.

Now it seems, after watching the creation of such element of the new Mass Effect, that the team has drawn couple of inspirations from Modern Warfare 2, though publisher Activision and Infinity Ward is a rival to them.

Producer of BioWare Adrien Cho told to the media, “Look at Modern Warfare 2 – it looks great on the shooting side. Why not incorporate some of the mechanics of that with the RPG elements of our games?”

Adrien Cho have the believe that the lines that separates at present the videogame genres will be more blurred. He added further, “I see the hybridisation going further. Not just RPG games using features from other genres but the other way round too. So many games now have RPG features such as personalisation, customisation and XP.”

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has been recognised for in-game scripts quality and storytelling by WGA, the Writers Guild of America.

It has been shortlisted for the WGA Videogame Writing Award. The winner will be announced on February 20, 2010.

The dialogue of Modern Warfare 2 was written by a large team that was led by Jesse Stern.

According to the guild, the WGA Videogame Writing Award is designed to honour the “writers as a major creative force in today’s burgeoning gaming industry”.

The figures that were published this week by the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association revealed that MW2 was the best-selling title of 2010.

Modern Warfare 2 and the Hollywood movie Avatar have one thing in common and that is both have pulled in sales of over 1 billion dollars.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was the biggest entertainment release in the history of video game industry and Avatar movie has steadily pulled in millions per week.

Now it seems that games and movies both compete with each other for audiences’ attention and also for entertainment dollars.

We have seen that the release of GTA IV and Halo 3 led to a decline in theater attendance because millions of gamers stayed at home. The release of MW2 outpaced that of any Harry Potter book and also any movie in the history of entertainment industry in terms of sales in one week.

With the mark of 1billion sales of MW2 and Avatar each, it is nowhere evident of competing films and games.

Avatar is a stunning experience and it is also the second-highest grossing film in the history. Modern Warfare 2 topped the sales of the year NPD report revealed, though it was just released two months ago.

HE month of December last year witness as the best sales month yet for video games. The top seller of the season, Modern Warfare 2, reached a sale figure of $1 billion. Not to forget that the game was released on November 10.

Compared to the December of 2008, the game console sales rose 4 percent. According to the data revealed, Nintendo dominated console sales by selling 3.81 million Wiis and 3.31 million DSes. In the PlayStation 3 it was sold just 1.36 million units and the Xbox 360 is at 1.31 million.

Within five days of its launch, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 moved 2.75 million copies on the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3. When this figure is assuming then the sales of Modern Warfare 2 didn’t make up the difference.

The best part of all these to know is that the gaming industry didn’t fare as well overall in 2009 as it did in 2008. Experts say that the recession period may also have made things a little rough in 2009. It is understood that the gamers are feeling more confident.

Due to IW’s lack of distribution control or penalties for early release, Gamestops are forced to make a deal with Activision to also release their stock to compete with smaller mom and pop shops.

With all the latest questions regarding IW’s competency with regards to leaked game footage and XBOX piracy, is this the latest of what we can expect of the game? 

PC gamers are already sceptical of the game in regards to a total lack of PC support (MW2=console port) so this lazy attempt of distribution control could be a warning shot of  how lazy game development is.  We will see in the next couple of days as the game is released to everyone and the critics and fanboys start to post their comments.  I for one look forward to stating my opinion.

Modern Warfare 2 will ship with the full suite from Steam.  All PC versions of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 will come complete with the Valve toolset, providing gamers with auto-updating, anti-cheat technology, Steam Achievements, and the recently introduced Steam Cloud.

     “Steamworks will make it possible for us to have a closer connection to our fans, and enable us to support our community much more than ever before,” said Robert Bowling, creative strategist, Infinity Ward. “Steam is the hands down leader in offering a community focused experience on PC and the inclusion of Steamworks has allowed us to deliver the most feature-rich PC version to ever come from Infinity Ward, which at the end of the day will mean the most to our fans.”

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 for PC will include 50 Steam Achievements, enticing players to train a local militia and be “Back in the Saddle” or infiltrate the snowy mountain side base and earn the “Cold Shoulder.” Fans may access the game from any computer. And through Steam Cloud, multiplayer game progress will be stored persistently and travel with the player.

“Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 may be one of the biggest releases in video game history,” said Gabe Newell, president and co-founder of Valve. “Having a game as significant as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 using the suite of back-end services in Steamworks is a signal to us that we’re making the right kinds of choices for triple-A developers like Infinity Ward.”

  There is a saying, “Never forget where you came from.”  In 2003 IW introduced the first installment of the best selling video games of all time. 

 Since then it seems IW has forgotten it’s roots.  In Modern Warfare 2 IW plans on taking away one of the options that made the series so successful on the PC.  If you look at the box art this game was made for “PC” only.  What I am referring to is “dedicated servers.”    For those unaware of what these are.  They are servers rented from a third party company for hosting your clans (normally) game.  It has the game mode you like ie; hardcore and the settings you prefer ie; no nades.  You can also install third party mods developed by gamers who are gifted with the ability to code and design.

IW is apparently taking all this away with the new IW.net interface they have developed for this game.  What is unclear is if they will provide the servers or if it will be left up to the individual gamers who want to start a server from there home.  The latter of course is flawed as it depends completely on the individuals connection, not to mention the fairness of having “0″ ping.  Every computer has a different CPU, and driving a server is very CPU dependent.  Most comps can only accommodate maybe 16 players smoothly, and this is a BIG maybe.  This of course is unacceptable to the PC community.

I tried to reach Mr. Bowling to clarify some technical aspects of this new system via  Twitter.  Apparently he is to busy or unwilling to his job as a “community manager” to respond to the “community.”  As of press time,  IW has not even given us a PC spec 

not to mention a video or something showcasing this new system.  As the title proclaims IW, you need to remember where you came from and who paid your bills.  “The Community”

After Robert Bowling’s announcement, that MW2 will have no dedicated server support, I have tried to digest the possibilities.

As we know, The merger of Activision and Blizzard has created the largest gaming company on the planet.  The buyout of IW and Treyarch has assured them a winning franchise in the COD series.  World of Warcraft uses the IW.Net servers to run the game and as we know, it makes millions in subscriptions.  I am under the assumption that MW2 will run on these servers as well.  P2P will not work for PC gaming and IW knows this.  IW will be able to control the content of the game as well as any updates that it will of course need.  This will bring more casual players into the fold, as clans believe it or not make up a small minority in the community.

The introduction of Steam into the mix assures the future implementation of a complete down-loadable format.  The future on this is inevitable as companies look to cut manufacturing costs.  Steams “VAC” (Valve Anti-cheat) system is in my opinion more easily implemented as Punkbuster has to many problems with crashing the game and not allowing people to even log into the game.  Will all this flow smoothly on release day?  If you believe that I have some great ocean front property I will sell you in Arizona.  However once the bugs are ironed out, I believe (if implemented properly) can be very good for the PC community.  Just think about global stats and achievements, no PB headaches and no need to update the game yourself.  However, if not set up right, this will be Activision’s biggest blunder yet and stockholders will want some-body’s head.