Modern Warfare 2 regains Call of Duty prefix

Tehee, he said duty.

That's great

LOL @ the guy who said Zombies and co-op were knew. Zombies and co-op have been done in other games for years and done better, and zombies wre a cheap and sad way for the devs to try something new, Zombies do not even fit with a COD game. Sorry, but if it takes 6 COD games just to see zombies and co-op, well, I rest my case, these games are all the same as the first COD in 2000, but, that's all today's casual mainstream gamer wants.

Well if its sales worries as to why COD makes an appearance on the box then alrighty then. Not that big a deal whether it is there or not if you ask me.

Bungie makes games with stories? Okay. Having sold video games for several years, I would say keeping the CoD prefeix is a fantastic idea for sales. There are a LOT of stupid people out there that would see it, even with the striking box art resemblence, and not have a clue it was a sequel to CoD4. The rest of us get it, but this is to sell to the amazing number or morons out there that can't figure these things out. As a fan, I think it is a bit disappointing...but as a retailer, I can fully understand why its being done.

I though that Treyarch bought the COD name???? And if people honestly don't know Modern Warfare 2 is goona be cool,and they won't buy it then WOW... It's allabout money, but I reallythought they couldn't use the CoD name but all well:)

just release it as multiplayer and leave stories to companies like Valve or Bungie who actually make stories, enough with the terrorist hunts

It's all about the money baby. I personally don't care as long the game rocks.

this is most definitely a money-related decision from Activi$ion, not Infinity Ward. i don't care about the name change but seriously, acti will do just about anything for a little extra $$$.

Good, at least they kept the Call of Duty prefix in it because a lot of people know that Call of Duty games are awesome and if some people just saw Modern Warfare 2, they wouldn't buy it because they wouldn't know if it was a call of duty game to some newcomers. But Call of Duty will always be awesome. The Battlefield series is catching up and I'm starting to like Battlefield more than Call of Duty now.

i wish it was just kept at modern warfare 2 beacuase as soon as cod waw came out i thought that treyarch pretty much destroyed the series and IW needed to seperate from them. im still stoked for this game but i am a little dissapointed

So, I can start calling it Call of Duty IV-2 again?

Im so amazed that some gamers didnt know that Modern Warfare was a Call of Duty game.

LOL at Activision. IW would be better off on their own.

Activision is SO selling this shat with the name. Not to say the game wont be awesome(ITS GONNA PWN TEH NAZI ZOMBEZ[from cod5]), its just that im pretty sure that Activision put the CoD name back on because a lot of people didnt know what the hell it was cuz it didnt have the cod label on it.

Hey justin john they will probably do something like that because in one of the trailers it shows some thing like that where its zooming in to a guy and its all white like the AC-130 mission in cod4

Wait what? Didn't Infinityward say right before E3 that MW2 is not part of the CoD franchise??

It would be nice if you could import some stuff from MW1 so as to not have wasted all that time with character class building... I'm not saying that you automatically get maxed out, but you could get some cool unlockable stuff to start out with for the things you earned the first time around..

s0o0o stoked about this game. Im sure the single player experience will be fun and anxious to see if they do a mission like the AC-130 gunship mission in COD4. I can't wait til they give more info into multiplayer cuz we all know thats where its at!!!

all of my friends didn't know what I was talking about when I said modern warfare 2 is coming out. everyone I know, knows call of duty and all of us name it call of duty 1, 2, 3, etc, and even don't know, remember or not interested in the suffix such as modern warfare, world at war, etc

@ JGoWild, Considering todays economic condition activision should try to earn as much money as possible and they're doing that so is that really something to disrespect them for?

Im just clad I can refer to it as Cod6 now. Instead of saying I'm playing mw2. You can pronounce cod and 4 or 5 or 6 in a conversation but you cant pronounce m and w. mweh2? No thankkks.

It's good It got it back. It may seem petty to some but I refused to buy it unless it was under the Call of Duty franchise. Now I'm safe though so YAY!

Sounds like Infinity Ward didnt have the choice to make an indepenent game from the COD series... Just hope it wasnt a money related reason from Activision.. LOL ...... We all know it was...Activision..I might as well just give you my paycheck each month.......

it didn't really matter to me as long as it still comes out and ppl enjoy it

nice it's call of duty now..modern warfare 2 sounded so plain..now cod id back in and sounds better..this game is going to be kick ass

I'm loosing a lot of respect for Activision day by day. Just look how greedy they are, 20% drop and already changed the name. I wouldn't care if it had the "Call Of Duty" tag or not. If I like the game, I will buy it, no matter what. But activision wants to sell more with the name rather than the game.

Man... I was psyched that they were going to do a new series, give the studio more things to do, now I don't know... I'll buy it, but I want to see something completely different from the studio, perhaps a racer?

AWESOME. So is this CoD 5 or 6 then?

Those 20% must be newbs. CoD in the title didn't change a thing for me, I know who is making it and we all know it is a sequel. I can't wait till this game comes out! WaW didn't cut it for me.

how can you call this game a real sequel and still be so similar to the first.

i don't care if this game has call of duty or not

Cool. Im looking to pick this bad boy up when it drops for the online play.

COD4 online is ruin by frag granades on small maps. I hope MW2 will fix this.

i was expecting this calling it just Modern Warfare 2 sounded to me like calling the new mario galaxy just "Galaxy 2"

Lol. Once I said it's not CoD anymore. Lol. It seems that I was wrong. That was before this was released. It would have been cool that it would have started a new line of games that would be seperate from CoD, but I quess that this is how it should be. It's stupid when people say "CoD42", title Call of Duty 4- 2 would be... would be like Rambo II- First blood part II. CoD: MW2 is better.

The only name change that would make this game sell better was if they called it Call of Booty. Otherwise it don't matter.

Sweet, now people on the forums can stop being d***s and correcting me when I call it COD...

I think that single-player and Splitscreen, because while Online is usually the most fun, some point in the future the game's servers will have been shut down, like for Splinter Cell 3 :(.

yeah they could have spent time remaking the case but the title is not gonna effect the game much people are still gonna say call of duty

Call of Duty: ModernballstothewallsawesomeWarfare 2. Can't wait.

I'll be buying this game IF it has a solid single-player mode. Online is fun for a wee while but single-player is what I buy games for after all.

I could care less whether or not the Call of Duty prefix was ever added, i don't care, I would still see it as a CoD game no matter what and wouldn't make a difference to the game play.

@warmaster670 "Come inside... and have a nice cup of tea"

"but at the same time almost nothing is added which makes it just a repackaged expansion pack of the 1st. This is a FPS so not much to expect." The first CoD had zombies and co-op? oh wait no it didnt.

I'm going to buy the game regardless as long as it remains what everyone expects. They could call the game "Pretty Pink Pony Adventures: Modern Warfare 2" and I would still purchase it as long as it is a good game.

It does look kinda cheap how they just Photoshopped the CoD logo into the already existing art. Beyond that, not a big deal.

Sure you guys don't care about the name, but there are always people who make a little fuss about changes in names for sequels and like to speculate about what it might mean for the future of the franchise, direction of the game, etc... But I just wish I could get my hands on it soon, maybe a Beta, i got into the last 2 :).

Anybody cares.

@DrKill09 COD is a big brand and one that a lot of people know even if they have never played a game. attaching Cod in front just makes the game more recognizable as part of a proven series. also they will no longer be making WWII games, there was an interview with one of the heads of treyarch a while back and he said they werent planning on doing anymore WWII games.