We all know that the meaning of “co-op” in the gaming industry is two players. But with Modern Warfare 2 it is a different story. For them the terminology is different.

For the developer of MW2 the two players is the sweet spot for cooperative-based gameplay. In a recent interview, Robert Bowling, the director of communications of the studio said that in the concept of “co-op” between last year’s Call of Duty: World at War and this years Modern Warfare 2, there will be a definite change.

Bowling further added that they can participate in 4-player campaign co-op, but the new sequel will not be featuring a campaign “co-op” mode. He further said that there is something new as a whole i.e. a two-player, specially designed Special Ops mode. Not forgetting to mention, the game is “designed to be replayed over and over again.”

Let me quote Robert 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.”

The last post on this blog got few interesting comments. The post carried few questions that were asked by the fans of Modern Warfare 2 on Game Informer magazine. The questions were answered by the Editor of the game. Here are few more interesting questions which you all might have asked.

One of the fans of Modern Warfare 2 asked that whether Infinity Ward will make playing multiplayer free. The fan said that he is having an Xbox 360 and but not a Gold membership. So, will he be able to play the game. The Editor replied to this question that Gold membership is necessary to play over Xbox Live as it is with other games. He also said that Infinity Ward has in the past denied about the rumors that there will be additional fees to play Modern Warfare 2.

There was one more interesting question. It was that will the dismemberment be similar to CoD:WaW or not. The reply from the Editor was that similar level of violence is expected to what is present in Infinity Ward’s last game, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.

One of them even asked whether the MW2 campaign be played with two players. The answer came as NO. The editor said that it is only a single-player game.

It has been quite common for the Call of Duty games to get being released on Nintendo’s Wii platform. But there an exception for Modern Warfare… and odd exception too. It left something of a hole between Call of Duty 3 and World at War.

Of late It seems that Modern Warfare 2 may continue this trend of Call of Duty on Nintendo Wii. It was announced that the MW2 will only be releasing on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 games platforms. However, Amazon.co.uk seems show otherwise. It has listed a version of the title for the Wii hardware as well. It may be an interesting news for the fans of MW2.

Of course… but, the reality is as under.

It may be an error on the UK branch of Amazon’s part because they are the only one that seems to show the title, in addition to the fact that they still show the “Call of Duty” name attached, which the sequel has dropped.

Meanwhile it is well known that Activision sometimes tends to release its games on many platforms and as many as there may be the possibilities.

Well! Let us all wait for the release and see where this goes.

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So as many of you know I uninstalled World at War last month and never really thought twice about it until my friend called me a few days ago to tell me they released the new map pack. So against my gut feeling I went ahead and re-installed the game.

The first thing I noticed was that I had to start again, from rank 1. Why is that, exactly? Aren’t our stats stored server side? Or are they stored locally? I could have sworn they were stored server side which would beg the question why do we have to re-rank up when it’s re-installed? Shouldn’t it automatically give us our rank back when we connect to their server? Furthermore, I *SHOULD* be on my 3rd prestige but Treyarch purged a ton of accounts without explanation about a month after release, you guys remember that? Yea, I signed on one day and all of my rank/stats were POOF gone. There were like 10 gazillionbillion threads about it on the official Call of Duty forums. Treyarch, to my knowledge, never gave any explanation or apology. It would have been nice to at leats get an apology like “Hey, we had some server errors and the  75 hours of playtime you had has disappeared, you’re going to have to start again, sorry.”. No apology, no explanation. F you too, Treyarch.

So I digress, last night I played COD5 for the first time in a really long time and I must say it wasn’t bad, the new maps are pretty cool too. It seems they fixed the terrible  browser issues. I didn’t notice if they fixed the bug where nades stick in the trees when you throw them, did they finally fix that bug?

Oh, they also fixed the custom maps issue, before any custom map you wanted to play on it could only download at like 12KB per second so it would take 20min+ to download a custom map. Also, unlike IW, they don’t have the browser set to automatically filter custom servers which is really cool. IW kind of shit on the custom servers and community by doing that. Granted it’s easy to tell the browser to show all servers but there are a lot of noobs out there who have no clue.

Anyhow, back to my profile trouble, last night I played up to rank 8 and went to bed, today I got on and I was rank 1 again. I assumed it was just the server I was on tonight, must have been one of those custom servers with custom ranks, right? Wrong.  After playing S&D today for about 20min, up to rank 4, I wanted to change my graphic settings so I exited the game and when I re-started it I was back to rank 1 again with the settings back to how they were before I had just changed them. So now it was pretty clear that not only was it not saving my rank and stats, it’s failing to save the control and graphic settings as well.

I just really don’t know WTF is wrong with this game, how can you F up so bad? It’s just terrible coding, I really don’t know what else to say. There seem to be bugs and crashes everytime I turn around and it literally makes the game un-playable. I finally uninstalled the game again tonight for the last time, there is just no winning with World at War. I wash my hands, I am done! The IW coded Call of Duty 6 will be out in no time, until it’s out I’ll play my trusty COD4.

P.S. Hey, IW, hows about some screens already? You’re F’ing killing us here with the lack of details and info

I can’t put into words how happy I am that IW is doing Call of Duty 6. I hope Activision has learned a lesson form all of this. Call of uty 4 was an epically successful game, why they snatched the dev rights away from IW and gave them to Treyarch after such a huge hit is beyond me. Treyarch even got to use IW’s game engine and they STILL managed to F’d it up, I mean wow.

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One of the big complaints from people about WaW was the crap guns and I tend to agree. CustomCOD has released a skin pack. I assume this only changes the texture and not the actual power or performance of the weapon? I can’t test them myself because I quit/uninstalled CoD5 and went back to 4.

Here are the weapons that he converted for Nazi Zombie:

-USP .45
-Desert Eagle
-Mini-Uzi
-MP5
-P90
-AK47
-M16
-G36C
-M14
-G3

-M82A Barrett .50 cal
-Dragunov
-Frag grenade
-M4M203 (M4 with grenade launcher)
-Winchester 1200
-M1014
-M249
-RPD
-M60
-M4
-RPG-7

Also, apparently this is only for zombie mode, not sure why they made it for zombie mode only, but here is the download link: Download Nazi Zombie Modern Weapons

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