With the release of Modern Warfare 2, the Call of Duty franchise has surpassed the $3 billion mark in worldwide sales. Netting over $550 million in its first five days, Modern Warfare 2 smashed all previous box office records and is now the benchmark for future releases.
The Call of Duty franchise has sold over 55 million copies of its games across platforms to date, and that number is only expected to rise with the holiday season upon us.
Even with the criticism leveled against Modern Warfare 2 because of the graphic nature of one of its levels, the game is being hailed by critics and will most definitely be in the running for game of the year.
The games are published and owned by Activision, and the two main developers have been Infinity Ward and Treyarch, but others have had a hand in some of the spin-off and hand-held versions of the games.
Ok anyone let me know if i am talking crazy here. I put a lot of playing time into MW2 and my friend and i have come to a general consensus. The game is Awesome. But at the same time.. absolute shit. The majority of the crap is contributed from the 99% of people who played world at war. Who just camp out the whole round hiding in a corner, If everyone online would stop camping and play the game it should be played it would be decent. Which brings me to my next point. Infinity made this game difficult to play without camping because it is dominated by assault rifles. And they made it hard to run around the map with an assault rifle and still be able to rack up a good game. So you would usually say, use a smg, wrong; Because the people camping in corners with assault rifles will lay your ass out. So there is only one solution. Destroy the xboxs or ps3s of the campers and enjoy the playing time till christmas when all the minis get the game at which point, I suggest, COD4.
This has been well predicted by tech-critiques and game finance-analyzers in the blogosphere, if you’ll look at Modern Warfare II in UK – It currently being played like its the only game in town. Honestly, MW2 II sales go insanely-high, it even beat the record of Grand Theft Auto IV. Hail to MW2.. :D
See how MW II top the charts, a detailed view: http://bit.ly/modern-warfare-in-uk-hell-yeah
You know why everyone camps. They are all trying to get there super high kill streak so they can call in that nuke or C130. The kill streaks are pretty mu8ch the main motivation to camp longer and longer. So until they get their 25 kills in there corner with the riot shield they aint’ moving.
Alot of cash, Jeeze.
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Yea camping seems to be the only way to survive a match and/or rack up some point before getting smashed yourself.
I have played call of duty modern warefare 1 since it came out. All I do is rush (never camp)… and that has not changed since I bought MW2.
I still get 3:1 kill ratio. It is a bit different and will take some getting used to. There is no reason to complain about “campers”. This just means you need to play more or you suck.
Tip: Heartbeat monitor allows you to see where campers are. ;) I’m sure you knew that, and this will be followed up by more excuses and complaints.
Good job Infinity Ward, bounced back from your bunk release World at War!
Infinity Ward didn’t release WaW that would be Treyarch. I agree with your consensus though that it totally sucked (aside from good graphics the AI was way buggy)
dont worry i completely agree with you (aside from infinity ward producing world at war.. dont demean them like that.) I like the game, its not my favorite game in the world but i do like it. And do i suck.. ha yes slighltly as a try to hold on to a 1.3 kd. I just believe that alot of kids need to get their heads out of their asses and realize that the point of the game is not soley to get a nuke. People who can only aachieve a 25 kill streak by hiding in the corner because they think they will become Jesus when they get one. And ill try the heartbeat on my UMP. Which in my opinion is the only gun besides the acr that is good for sprinting around. (lightweight is too much fun)
Ump, acr, scar, ak47 (great power, bad kick), and model 1887s are probably the best run around weapons…. oh and im in the same boat as you, hold on to that 1.3 kd ratio
I don’t have a problem with campers. This is a war game after all. There are ways to counter campers easily, whether it be heartbeat scanners or EVA’s to show enemy position. a frag grenade or semtec takes care of the camper after that.
One complaint I always chuckled at is that snipers camp. They are supposed to camp. Snipers aren’t supposed to go door to door.
You want to avoid campers? Play a mode other than deathmatch, like domination or sabotage. Anyone camping, won’t be helping their team with the task at hand and will lose.
give me Commando on the comodore 64 anyday
MW v1 was incredible and the second is everything I hoped for. What I am excited about is that with this kind of money on the table we are going to see a lot of other companies step their game up. I mean half a billion in less than a week?! That kind of income will attract some serious players…
How long do you think before a new game of this caliber is released every month? I certainly would line up to buy them, I think the demand for good games is far broader and deeper than most companies imagine.
Further, I would buy new maps as fast as they can make them. Activision CEO is on the record saying he wants to charge $100 for MW. I think he will, just in parts. So $60 for the game and then a bunch of $10/$20updates. Good for them, my wallet is waiting to reward them for their hard work…
My god, how much is Kotick paying you?
Infinityward has already said that they are only doing 2 DLC releases and they will most likely be $10.
Still having too much fun with ETQW on my Mac to try this on my PS3.