Modern Warfare 2 regains Call of Duty prefix

the box looks ugly as hell

I guess money is so much important to them. I liked MW 2 only logo, now it looks too crowded.

Infinity Ward made the title in the 1st place and sticks to it.

It was bound to happen :-) ... it's a franchise which is well known by it's COD name

I think this decision will increase sales.......... Many amateur gamers don't know MW 2 is Call of Duty.....

I'm sure it's Activision who cried like babies for not having the Call of Duty name on the game because they knew Infinity Ward will make **** loads of money from that game... so they decided to slap the COD name on it, so they can sell this game under the COD name. Because that would hurt their big egos to have MODERN WARFARE break sales records, more than the previous COD games and kick their asses at the same time.

i'll probs get it since the first was good in both singlepayer and multiplayer aspects i dont think the 'call of duty' prefix really matters...

@lamprey263 Damn you beat me to it, thats just what I was going to say, that the average person doesnt know that Modern warfare 2 is actually part of the Call of duty series. Call of duty = world famous Modern warfare = Molded waffles? who'd be stupid enough to name a shooter that hahaha.

marketting research probably showed people didn't know they were the same series and could increase sales by keeping the prefix

Im not sure if i will get this game, i hate activisions attitude!

Wow, they actually listened to the fans.Well how bout that.Didn't matter much either way to me really.

im only going to playing this game till six days in fallujah comes out

I liked the name Modern Warfare 2 better but who cares the game is still going to rock

this game is look awesome!

i cant wait one of the hotest games this year

Good decision. For the average joe casual gamer, seeing the Call of Duty brand on it is important for actually selling the game.

This game is gonna rule no matter what it's called!

Is this really news?

The game would be awesome no matter what name it has

This doesn't surprise me at all. It's just a marketing move to try to get more money. I really think they don't want to be grouped into the same type of game made by Treyarch but they have to face the facts that "Call of Duty" is an extremely recognized name. Even Infinity Ward is called "Call of Duty 4" more than "modern warfare": Also this will make Treyarchs statement of a CoD 7 make more logical sense (many were calling it that even when MW2 dropped the CoD).

i don't how they looking at the stats and that but it think it just people who just play every cod so they just type in cod and it don't come up or some people going like is this some wanna be game. idc i hope that's not the art of the box i liek the pic that gaming websites got looks ownage lol the one in pic looks boring

sounds iiighht

Well that doesn't change much, except making more Call of Duty games possible. No complaining here.

Haha why did they loose it in the first place?

why dont they keep the front title like the first game??? Looked better, there's like 3 fonts its fugly I like the army dude

Pretty obvious that they wanted to create a new franchise and it didn't catch on like they hoped so they backed off - at least this year. Given how much more prominent Modern Warfare is on the box art, I wager they're setting the stage to try again with the next installment.

Weeelll, I never stopped calling it "That new Call of Duty game" anyhow :P Plus when you play COD, I think people will assume you play Modern Warfare 2 (or somesuch). Even if you don't, people get the general gist of "COD". I hate when someone asks me what games I like, and I don't want to say something like "Red Orchestra", so I end up having to say Halo or COD just to keep from weirding out people.

i LOVE Treyarch

This news makes me yawn with excitement.

thats good news!!

Haze, hahahahahahahahahahahahah.

anybody who thumbs down on my previous comment I approve of it, i personally think its funny lol.

why am I here? why do I care about this game?(I dont honestly). i think haze is better than this game will turn out to be lol hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah.

Glad they added it, now I can call it COD without someone harassing me. And did anyone look at the boxart? The way "Call of Duty" is put on there looks off to me. Also, I think we should all call this COD6, because many people (even though they are wrong) called WaW, 5. So calling this one COD5 would likely cause mass confusion. Technically it's 6th (not counting spinoffs) in the series so I think we should leave it at 6.

It doesn't matter. Even if IW just called it "Modern Warfare 2" and dropped the CoD IP, Activsion would still sell out the name to two-bit developers

lame. modern warfare is superior to other cod games i was happy that had taken of the prefix, after the disgrace, conveyor belt game world at war. oh well not gonna stop me from gettin it.

yay!! i was sad when they said the game wont have call of duty in its title, its such an awesome name. and now im happy!!

I'm glad,I starded playing the CoD series when CoD2 was released and have played every one since(including CoD1 and United Offensive)and it just feels right to have that title still there.I dunno call me nostalgic but without the CoD title it just wouldn't feel the same.

I'm not sick of the COD tag personally. But I think that Infinity Ward should get out while they can if Treyarch is going to copy successful elements from them and steal their engine.

Awesome, now I don't have to see people throw hissy fits when someone uses the cod tag for it, like I have seen for the last couple of months.

Yeah i excepted this. Doesn't really matter. Activision probably did this for name recognition with consumers.

It makes sense.

Still doesn't help it if someone asks you "Wanna play Call of Duty?" and you gotta reply "Which one?"...

more importantly, the game is done already? isn't it supposed to come out in november? i mean i know they hold release dates for ideals times to ge the most bang for their buck, but october and even september marks the start of the christmas game shopping season. you would think if its done, they would try at least a month earlier. or its a suprise to me that they make boxes available before the disks are printed, i kinda assumed boxes and manuals and everything would be printed not very long before the final game is printed.

Wow so 20% of potential buyers dropped when it didn't have the Call Of Duty prefix in it? That's amusing. I don't really care if it didn't. I'm still going to get it! XD

about time

It's just a marketing strategy and imo smart of them. The average customer doesn't follow video games like ppl who frequent GS. Call of Duty is a popular franchise. Although MW2 doesn't follow the original formula it's synonymous with a certain type of gameplay which ppl gravitate towards.

Horrible marketing strategy by dropping it. And casual gamers wouldnt know its a call of duty game if the name isnt on it and they never played a COD game. Theres new people joining the market all the time. At least they are correcting their blunder now

Call of Duty 6 :1/3rd Modern Warfare 4 and 1/8th Which is Really Just the Same Game as Call Of Duty One but With Different Skins and Prettier Graphics. Next game name imo.

Though I see why it is smart for them to keep the COD in the name, I was actually hoping that IW would branch away and we would have 2 separate series going. I guess we could still see that anyway with the 2 developers alternating games, I mean in a sense that is what is happening anyway. Don't know I guess I just perferred the name change as a definitive separation between IW work and Trey.