Activision has made the interesting decision to allow the single player campaign of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 unlock one week early if you pre-order a digital copy off the PS Store. This means you'll get to play it from 20th October 2022, with the full game including multiplayer becoming accessible from 28th October 2022. It'll be the entire campaign from start to finish, but the offer doesn't extend to physical pre-orders. You must ditch the disc to take advantage.
Over on the PlayStation Blog, Infinity Ward describes the campaign as "a state-of-the-art experience that will immerse players in a stunning, action-packed game reality everyone can enjoy". You'll be globe-trotting to the likes of Europe, Asia, and the USA as Task Force 141, with gunfights underwater and high in the air to look forward to.
"With improved graphics built via photogrammetry technology, the Modern Warfare II campaign offers an impressive visual fidelity and will be covering some of the smallest of details, like the water’s physics and graphics, to create the most immersive experience yet."
Further improvements can be sourced from updated shadow systems, which offer "improved lighting to create an even more realistic ambient that will help players fully submerge themselves" in the game. Audio has also been enhanced to make everything more realistic. "Thanks to new engine improvements, this opened new possibilities for better sound capture and new features including real-time mixing and natural limiting to help players focus on the task at hand, dive into the narrative and draw players throughout the missions."
The blog post then reiterates the upcoming multiplayer beta that's available first on PS5, PS4 from 16th September 2022. You'll need to pre-order to gain access, but the pre-release test then opens up for all a week later. At Call of Duty: Next, the full multiplayer reveal will take place alongside details on the next Warzone client.
Has this new information convinced you to pre-order Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2? Bring your plans forward by a week in the comments below.
[source blog.playstation.com]
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Should make it available for everyone that bought mw2019 for ruining it with forced warzone integration I don't trust them not to do the same thing with the sequel so I won't be pre ordering & I'll wait a while to see if it remains the same game that it was at release & by then it will be cheaper anyway
So it's beatable 6.75 days prior to launch? That's awesome of them.
Well that is slightly odd, but knowing somewhere shops or retailers will give it away earlier because of this probably anyway. Some sites do ship early so don't be surprised if people do get them at least a few days earlier.
Enjoy while it lasts. Once MS fully owns Activision this kind of crap will stop.
@Tasuki this isn't just PlayStation this is all platforms I have read online so correct me if I'm wrong but once Microsoft owns Activision they will have their own early releases if they really want too so I doubt it will stop only difference is it will be only on Xbox and maybe PC.
Well at least we can get some early reviews of the campaign to see if it is worth it.
@Tasuki It's on all platforms, its not an exclusive period to PS
@Tasuki I don't enjoy it though.
lol , imagine judging the worth of a COD based on its SP , what is this 2005 ? haha
and don’t say Black ops 4 , that game was terrible all-around , not even black-out could save it when there’s BRs older than it that’s still more popular .
They went from phasing campaign out to using it as an incentive to preorder (and go digital). Gaming!
To provide an opposing opinion to the negativity above (from people who probs hardly play COD), i’m actually really happy about this.
I’ll be getting COD day 1 and the first thing I do every year is play the campaign. Meaning i’m delayed going online with friends.
Now I can beat the campaign early, and be online from launch a week later.
I can wait for normal release day since all I play is casual multiplayer with friends anyway
MW 2019 had me convinced to preorder this is just icing on the cake.
@Jacko11 exactly not only am I hyped for the campaign after how great 2019 was I won’t be behind in the MP
@JSnow2 to be fair they were never phasing the campaigns out it was just black ops 4 was such a ***** show they didn’t have time to do a campaign
@nomither6 well MW 2019 had a great campaign that people really enjoyed so I see why they are doing this
@Tasuki lol tell me you’re joking
@Tasuki They started that trend with COD on the 360.🤪
@JaaackTommyyy i think blackout was better too . treyarch multiplayer is usually better than infinity ward so blackout would be better
Removed - trolling/baiting
@JaaackTommyyy black out to me is still the better BR game forsure . The addition of loadouts the fact that you can come back after you've been killed , the constant mixture of weapons warzone took what actually made BR games interesting and found away to "call of duty" it , Blackout had a really good map decent weapons no respwans cool ways to unlock characters even the few locations with zombies was kind if neat .
@Would_you_kindly Yep. This game looks awesome tbh...was one of the most visually impressive games shown in June...and that sound design, wow.
But...I won't be buying another cod again because of MW2019.
I'll play through these when they hit gamepass. I can wait.
This is the first time in years I’m actually looking forward to play a new CoD game. I can wait for the normal release, though.
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