Modern Warfare 2 Drops Call of Duty from Title

Activision's confirmed that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is now plain old Modern Warfare 2.

Who needs Call of Duty anyway, right?

Press release after the break. Apparently CoD4's the best selling FPS of all time. Says so there.

Countdown Begins for the Most-Anticipated Game of the Year

SANTA MONICA, Calif., March 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Prepare for the ultimate invasion! The most anticipated game of the year and the sequel to the best-selling first-person action game of all time*, Infinity Ward's Modern Warfare 2 will strike worldwide on November 10, 2009. Activision Publishing, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI - News) will release the newest installment in the groundbreaking and record-setting follow-up to the 2007 blockbuster, Call of Duty® 4: Modern Warfare(TM), that has sold more than 12 million copies worldwide, to date.

http://www.vg247.com/2009/03/26/gdc-modern-warfare-2-drops-the-call-of-duty-bit/

I like this change, even if all it means is that we won't actually be seeing the Call of Duty name on a game yearly... :)

Yet people will still call it Call of Duty 6. -_-

That seems a little pointless. This could potentially cause some confusion if people aren't aware that the name's been changed. COD is a well known brand, it seems a little strange to drop the name. Silent-Hal

I think this is a good thing. Modern Warfare IS Call of Duty 4. Plus I heard that IW made a deal in which they are the only company that can produce a Call of Duty game with a number on it ever since Treyarch butchered call of Duty with the "3rd" installment. Besides there are a number of Call of Duty games, "Big Red One" for example, that aren't numbered for the sake of being a sequel. All this means is that right now IW is hard at work on CoD 5, since MW2 comes out this year, and I am sure it's close to being done. Hopefully we will get a "Future Warfare" installment...Twould Pwnz.