Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Release Date Announced - IGN

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Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 will be released this October.

In a new Tweet from the official Call of Duty Twitter account, the studio announced Modern Warfare 2 will be released on October 28. In addition, the over-the-top video clip gave a sneak peak at some of the characters and potentially the cover art for the upcoming sequel.

Not content with a simple cover reveal and release date, Activision revealed the key art for Modern Warfare 2 by putting an oversized version of the image on a shipping boat and having it docked to combine into the full image.

The key art features an operator with a skull mask. But unlike the grim and gray look of the first Modern Warfare reboot, Modern Warfare 2 is going for a neon green look. Check out the full key art below.

Credit: Activision Blizzard
Credit: Activision Blizzard

Activision Blizzard officially announced Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 earlier this year. The annual franchise will be handled by Infinity Ward this year and will be a sequel to the 2019 reboot. Early details say that Modern Warfare 2 will center around U.S. special forces fighting the Colombian drug cartel.

This could also be the last annual Call of Duty game as it was reported that 2023's Call of Duty game will be released in 2024 and that the series may no longer be an annual franchise following Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard.

However, reports also suggest that Activision Blizzard is committed to keeping the next three Call of Duty games multiplatform.

Every IGN Call of Duty Review

<a href="http://www.ign.com/articles/2003/10/28/call-of-duty-review">Reviewed by: Dan Adams</a><br> Date:October 28, 2003<br> Many of the ideas found in Call of Duty may have been seen first in other titles, but have been honed down to a fine point in this one. If you're looking for a thrill ride that gives you heart problems, makes your ears flap for joy, and brings you as close to a World War II experience as you're likely to get right now (or would ever really want to get), this is your game. View 57 Images <a href="http://www.ign.com/articles/2004/09/14/call-of-duty-united-offensive-review">Reviewed by: Tom McNamara</a><br> Date: September 14, 2004<br> United Offensive represents some the best of what a heavily scripted game can do. It probably also represents the most that can be squeezed out of the venerable Quake III engine. The first mission of the British campaign has you manning bomber turrets, and you've probably seen the screenshots and video clips by now: it's gorgeous. They've really outdone themselves. Still, in apparently attempting to trump the original in drama, they too often end up pummeling the player with an avalanche of combat targets. If you dug Call of Duty, you'll dig United Offensive, but get comfortable with the Quicksave and Quickload keys. <a href="http://www.ign.com/articles/2004/11/16/call-of-duty-finest-hour">Reviewed by: Hillary Goldstein</a><br> Date: November 16, 2004<br> Call of Duty: Finest Hour has been "consolized" and turned from a somewhat challenging and often intense PC first-person shooter into a bland, run-and-gun console pop-gun game. It's certainly not bad and is enjoyable throughout, but it just doesn't excel in a single area. The brilliant concept of following three individual stories of the Allied campaign against the Nazis has been watered down with too many perspectives and no cohesive or interesting story. I cared nothing for any of the characters and felt like I was just going through the motions the entire game. A lack of checkpoints in the majority of levels is questionable and sometimes frustrating. Finest Hour had the pedigree to become the finest console World War II game, but in the end fails to bring any spark or intensity to a story about courage and sacrifice.<a href="http://www.ign.com/articles/2005/11/16/call-of-duty-2-3">Reviewed by: Douglass C. Perry</a><br> Date: November 16, 2005<br> Call of Duty 2 rises above the competitors with an intense attention to the minutiae that grips onto you and doesn't let go. In my humble opinion, this is the best Xbox 360 launch title, hands-down. <a href="http://www.ign.com/articles/2005/10/25/call-of-duty-2-4">Reviewed by Tom Mcnamara</a><br>October 25, 2005<br>Call of Duty is part of a proud, if tired, subgenre of shooters, and once again it manages to rise above the weariness of the material to find something not only fresh but visceral and immediate. It looks great, it sounds awesome, and it provides both meaty single-player and multiplayer.

Be sure to check out our review of the 2019 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare here.

Matt T.M. Kim is IGN's News Editor. You can reach him @lawoftd.

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