MW2 - Leaked Footage & Info

Today is one huge MW2 leak-fest it seems. Portions of the October PSM3 magazine (PS3 gaming mag from the UK), specifically the article Shock and Awe have hit the CoD forums bringing with it new information about the game.

Rob Bowling (Director of Communications / Community Manager) provides an explanation of the customizable killstreak, from the article: ...You can have a three killstreak or a fifteen killstreak if you want, so something like the AC-130 is one of the highest killstreaks you can select."

Therefore, you can choose your killstreak reward! Noobie players might not want to set killstreak awards so high, as they might not ever get them. Instead, they can set smaller killstreak targets, leaving the better players with the ability to achieve more powerful rewards for uber-fragging.

1. "...in an early viewing of MW2 your eagle-eyed correspondent noticed a level in the build labeled 'International Space Station'...we're taking bets on the first level being space-bound and dealing with a spy satellite falling to earth, providing the context for the early mountain-top Cliffhanger level."

2. "...the rumor-mill has it that the Chernobyl radiation-ravaged ghost town will be making a grand re-appearance - although whether that will be in the main game or simply in cherry-picked moments dished up for the new Special Ops mode is as yet unknown"

3. MW2 Locales:

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1."...five Special Ops missions will be open to you when you first boot up the game and you'll earn stars as you complete each one - with three on offer for the completion of the hardest difficulty, two for the middling one and a measly one should you plump for a simpler experience. Once the stars start pouring in further mission bands will open themselves up to you, going form the five-level strata of Alpha (easy), Bravo, Charlie and Delta all the way to the summit of Echo's three level escapade...Contained with these will be the aforementioned Elimination mode and a few snowmobile timed trials, but also scenes in which you and your buddy must fend off wave after wave of enemies with well-placed claymore mines and sniper rifles in the fashion of CoD4's Pripyat finale."

2. "...another whispered game style...will have one player high above in an AC-130 gunship taking out buildings and infantry with bleak monochrome visuals and inhuman battle-chatter, while the other dashes around a more explosive battlefield.

3. "...Spec Ops is not just a cut/paste affair...We were shown a map taken from the campaign, a network of houses in hilly Russian woodland with a farmstead surrounded by solar panels at the foot of the incline. here ghillie-suited snipers lay camoflaged at the perimeter, while Spec Ops-only bad guys called Juggernauts lumbered through the level coated in body armour that only the most powerful of weapons can pierce. Whether you prepare for a siege in one of the arms-filled houses or take on your foes in open countryside is up to you...Improved AI means that each bout will be noticeably different to your last.

4. The article describes an "Elimination" mission played in Rio's Favela level. You are tasked with taking out 40 AI militamen.

"...the AI...are far in advance of Call of Duty 4 - they're far less tied to cover and much more liable to take advantage of the level's cut-throughs and side-alleys to sneak behind you."

5. Grenade physics have been added. Nades now roll around after they have been tossed and can even back up towards you if they have been tossed straight up.

"...in an early viewing of MW2 your eagle-eyed correspondent noticed a level in the build labeled 'International Space Station'...we're taking bets on the first level being space-bound and dealing with a spy satellite falling to earth, providing the context for the early mountain-top Cliffhanger level."

"...the rumor-mill has it that the Chernobyl radiation-ravaged ghost town will be making a grand re-appearance - although whether that will be in the main game or simply in cherry-picked moments dished up for the new Special Ops mode is as yet unknown"

3 Leaked Gameplay Footages

• A shaky video of MW2 Gameplay showing favela-style run'n'gun. It's done in that video verite' style I know all the folks with Parkinson's love - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FuwFT4p5hA&fmt=18
  
• The next is split screen co-op play. Trouble viewing it? Squint and tilt your head a bit...that's it! - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWhx77Jk7p0&fmt=18
  
• Modern Warfare 2 - GamesCom 2009 footage in HD - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUc8izn3xmQ&fmt=22