Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2

Overview

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is a 2009 first-person shooter developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision. It is the sixth game in the Call of Duty series and the direct sequel to Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. It was released worldwide on November 10, 2009, for Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

The campaign follows Task Force 141, a multinational special forces unit commanded by Captain Soap MacTavish, as it hunts Vladimir Makarov, leader of the Russian Ultranationalist party, while United States Army Rangers defend the Washington, D.C. area from a Russian invasion. The main playable characters are Sergeant Gary 'Roach' Sanderson of the 141 and Private James Ramirez of the Army Rangers, with MacTavish becoming playable later in the campaign.

There are three modes. Campaign is single player, with eighteen levels joined by one plot, four difficulties and replayable levels. Spec Ops has twenty-three extra levels that can be played alone or with a partner, in five tiers that unlock as you earn stars. Multiplayer has team and deathmatch game types on many maps, with killstreaks, deathstreaks, experience points, levels, and unlockable weapons and perks.

Development began in 2008, when the game was still known as Call of Duty 6. It uses the IW 4.0 engine, an improved version of the one used for Call of Duty 4. Activision officially announced the game on February 11, 2009. Unlike Call of Duty 4 and World at War, it had no public multiplayer beta and was tested in an internal beta. Infinity Ward did not make a Wii version.

The cast includes Kevin McKidd as Soap MacTavish, Craig Fairbrass as Ghost and Billy Murray as Captain Price, with Barry Pepper, Keith David and Glenn Morshower also in the cast. The rapper 50 Cent voices squad members in Special Ops and multiplayer. Hans Zimmer wrote the main theme and Lorne Balfe wrote the rest of the score. The soundtrack came out on June 1, 2010.

It shipped in four retail versions on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3: Standard, Hardened, Veteran and Prestige. The Hardened Edition adds a steel book case, an art book and a code for Call of Duty Classic. The Prestige Edition adds working night vision goggles and a stand shaped like Soap's head. Two multiplayer map packs followed in 2010, each with five maps, called Stimulus Package and Resurgence Package, and both came to Xbox 360 first.

Reviews were very strong, with universal acclaim in the critic averages for the console versions. Critics praised the campaign, Spec Ops and multiplayer and criticised the short campaign and the lack of new ideas. The airport level No Russian drew wide controversy, and the game was censored in some international versions. The level was removed from the Russian version.

Activision reported about 4.7 million copies sold in the US and UK in the first 24 hours, with about 310 million US dollars in first day sales in those two countries. In 2013 lifetime sales were put at 22.7 million. The campaign was remastered in 2020 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Windows, without multiplayer or Spec Ops.

Official trailer

Modern Warfare 2 Worldwide Reveal Trailer (Official HD), InfinityWard. Watch on YouTube

Gameplay

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 CAMPAIGN GAMEPLAY (Xbox 360) FULL GAME Walkthrough (No Commentary), Infamy. Watch on YouTube

Screenshots

Game details

Genres

First-person shooter

Developer

Infinity Ward

Publisher

Activision

Series

Call of Duty

Engine

IW 4.0

Composers

Lorne Balfe, Hans Zimmer (main theme)

Designers

Todd Alderman, Steve Fukuda, Mackey McCandlish, Zied Rieke

Writers

Jesse Stern

Producers

Mark Rubin

Directors

Jason West

Modes

Single player

Yes

Local multiplayer

2 (Spec Ops)

Online multiplayer

Yes

Release dates

Editions

Buy this game

Disc IDs

The serial printed on the disc and the case. It tells you which region a copy is from.

Achievements

Achievements50 (1,000G)

1000G possibleYes

Total

50

Gamerscore

1000

Online note

The list is campaign and Special Ops only; no multiplayer achievements (Engadget list). Spec Ops has 23 missions in five groups, with one to three stars each by difficulty, and the star achievements such as Hotel Bravo (4 stars) and Charlie On Our Six (8 stars) build on them.

DLC has trophies

No

DLC note

The Stimulus and Resurgence map packs are multiplayer maps; no DLC achievements are listed, so the total stays at 50 for 1000G.

Trophy list shared with other versions

No

Other versions

The 2026 Campaign Remastered has its own 50 achievements for 1000G and no Spec Ops or online achievements, so Remastered guides do not apply to this disc.

Gamerscore, base game

1000

Grind

• The Price of War (90G): the campaign on Hardened or Veteran
• Spec Ops stars across 23 missions, with Veteran clears needed for the top star tiers

• Back in the Saddle Help train the local militia. 15G 93.25% of players
• Danger Close Get hand picked for Shepherd's elite squad. 15G 89.94% of players
• Cold Shoulder Infiltrate the snowy mountain side base. 15G 87.55% of players
• Tag 'em and bag 'em Find Rojas in the Favelas. 15G 82.41% of players
• Royale with Cheese Defend Burger Town. 15G 79.86% of players
• Soap on a Rope Storm the gulag. 15G 74.01% of players
• Desperate Times Execute the plan to help the Americans. 15G 72.29% of players
• Whiskey Hotel Take back Whiskey Hotel. 15G 71.39% of players
• The Pawn Assault Makarov's safe house. 15G 70.55% of players
• Out of the Frying Pan… Complete the mission in the airplane graveyard. 15G 70.16% of players
• For the Record Complete the Single Player campaign on any difficulty. 35G 69.59% of players
• The Price of War Complete the single player campaign on Hardened or Veteran Difficulty. 90G 31.69% of players
• First Day of School Complete 'S.S.D.D' and 'Team Player' on Veteran Difficulty. 25G 37.47% of players
• Black Diamond Complete 'Cliffhanger' on Veteran Difficulty. 25G 37.16% of players
• Turistas Complete 'Takedown' and 'The Hornet's Nest' on Veteran Difficulty. 25G 30.23% of players
• Red Dawn Complete 'Wolverines!' and 'Exodus' on Veteran Difficulty. 25G 29.26% of players
• Prisoner #627 Complete 'The Only Easy Day... Was Yesterday' and 'The Gulag' on Veteran Difficulty. 25G 28.66% of players
• Ends Justify the Means Complete 'Contingency' on Veteran Difficulty 25G 28.14% of players
• Homecoming Complete 'Of Their Own Accord', 'Second Sun', and 'Whiskey Hotel' on Veteran Difficulty. 25G 27.48% of players
• Queen takes Rook Complete 'Loose Ends' and 'The Enemy of My Enemy' on Veteran Difficulty. 25G 26.63% of players
• Off the Grid Complete 'Just Like Old Times' and 'Endgame' on Veteran Difficulty. 25G 27.1% of players
• Pit Boss Run The Pit in 'S.S.D.D' and finish with a final time under 30 seconds. 10G 23.89% of players
• Ghost Plant the C4 in 'Cliffhanger' without alerting or injuring anyone in the blizzard. 10G 25.28% of players
• Colonel Sanderson Kill 7 chickens in under 10 seconds in 'The Hornet's Nest'. 10G 35.12% of players
• Gold Star Earn 1 star in Special Ops. 20G 86.98% of players
• Hotel Bravo Earn 4 stars in Special Ops. 20G 74.69% of players
• Charlie On Our Six Earn 8 stars in Special Ops. 20G 67.73% of players
• It Goes to Eleven Earn at least 1 star in 11 different Special Op missions. 20G 48.82% of players
• Operational Asset Earn all 3 stars in at least 5 different Special Op missions. 20G 39.68% of players
• Blackjack Earn 21 stars in Special Ops. 20G 45.67% of players
• Honor Roll Earn at least 1 star in each Special Op mission. 20G 15.47% of players
• Operative Earn all 3 stars in at least 10 different Special Op missions. 30G 29.33% of players
• Specialist Earn 30 stars in Special Ops. 30G 35.97% of players
• Professional Earn all 3 stars in at least 15 different Special Op missions. 30G 21.02% of players
• Star 69 Earn 69 stars in Special Ops. 90G 12.36% of players
• Downed but Not Out Kill 4 enemies in a row while downed in Special Ops. 10G 23.77% of players
• I'm the Juggernaut… Kill a Juggernaut in Special Ops. 10G 53.55% of players
• Ten plus foot-mobiles Kill at least 10 enemies with one Predator missile in Single Player or Special Ops. 10G 83% of players
• Unnecessary Roughness Use a riot shield to beat down an enemy in Single Player or Special Ops. 10G 72.64% of players
• Knock-knock Kill 4 enemies with 4 shots during a slow-mo breach in Single Player or Special Ops. 10G 45.36% of players
• Some Like it Hot Kill 6 enemies in a row using a thermal weapon in Single Player or Special Ops. 10G 79.17% of players
• Two Birds with One Stone Kill 2 enemies with a single bullet in Single Player or Special Ops. 10G 95.12% of players
• The Road Less Traveled Collect 22 enemy intel items. 10G 19.84% of players
• Leave No Stone Unturned Collect 45 enemy intel items. 10G 16.06% of players
• Drive By Kill 20 enemies in a row while driving a vehicle in Single Player or Special Ops. 10G 32.37% of players
• The Harder They Fall Kill 2 rappelling enemies in a row before they land on their feet in Single Player or Special Ops. 10G 68.74% of players
• Desperado Kill 5 enemies in a row using 5 different weapons or attachments in Single Player or Special Ops. 10G 48.53% of players
• Look Ma Two Hands Kill 10 enemies in a row using akimbo weapons in Single Player or Special Ops. 10G 39.61% of players
• No Rest For the Wary Knife an enemy without him ever knowing you were there in Single Player or Special Ops. 10G 61.48% of players
• Three-some Kill at least 3 enemies with a single shot from a grenade launcher in Single Player or Special Ops. 10G 92.05% of players

Space and patches

Space needed8.02 GB

Update patchTitle updates 1 to 9

The title updates on record for this game.

DLC

Two five-map packs came out in 2010 and both came to Xbox 360 first. Both are still sold on the Xbox store for the backward compatible version on Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S.

Items

Name	Date	Adds	Obtainable today	Price
Stimulus Package	2010-03-30	Five maps: Crash and Overgrown (remakes from Call of Duty 4) plus Bailout, Storm and Salvage, and two game modes	yes	US$14.99
Resurgence Package	2010-06-03	Five maps: Strike and Vacant (remakes from Call of Duty 4) plus Carnival, Trailer Park and Fuel	yes	US$14.99
Call of Duty Classic	2009-12-02	An HD version of the first Call of Duty. A code came in the Hardened and Prestige editions	no

Playable today

Playable offline todayYes

The campaign and Special Ops play offline from the disc, online multiplayer still runs over Xbox Live, and both map packs are still sold.

Online

Online servers runningYes

Plays offlineYes

Online multiplayer and online Special Ops run over Xbox Live, and no shutdown has been announced.

Services

Service	Status	Shutdown date
Online multiplayer over Xbox Live	running	None announced

Reception

Aggregates

Outlet	Platform	Score	Scale	Reviews
Metacritic	Xbox 360	94	100	100

Critics

Outlet	Score	Scale
Game Informer	9.75	10
GameSpot	9	10
IGN	9.5	10
Famitsu	39	40
Destructoid	9.5	10
GamesRadar	10	10
The Guardian	5	5
The Daily Telegraph	10	10

Staff and cast

Staff

Role	Name
Director	Jason West
Producer	Mark Rubin
Writer	Jesse Stern
Designer	Todd Alderman
Designer	Steve Fukuda
Designer	Mackey McCandlish
Designer	Zied Rieke
Artist	Richard Kriegler
Composer	Lorne Balfe
Main theme composer	Hans Zimmer

Cast

Character	Actor
Captain John 'Soap' MacTavish	Kevin McKidd
Lt Simon 'Ghost' Riley	Craig Fairbrass
Captain Price	Billy Murray
Squad members (Special Ops and multiplayer)	50 Cent

Notes for collectors

• The Hardened and Prestige editions came with a cut level called Roadkill in the art book, and an International Space Station level was found in the game code.
• The Prestige Edition goggles need five AA batteries.
• The airport level No Russian was censored in some international versions and removed from the Russian version. Players can skip it with no penalty.
• The Stimulus Package was out on Xbox 360 on March 30, 2010, about a month before PlayStation 3 and PC. The Resurgence Package came to Xbox 360 on June 3, 2010, a month before the other platforms.
• After the Xbox 360 version became playable on Xbox One in August 2018, it climbed from rank 321 to number 8 in US monthly sales.
• Downed but Not Out is a Spec Ops achievement, so the full 1,000 gamerscore needs a second player.

Credits

Publisher

Activision

Developer

Infinity Ward

Director

Jason West

Released

2009-11-10

Age rating

M (Mature)

Disc ID

41560817

Region

US

Time to beat

about 6.5 hours

Copies in the shop

• Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2 (XBOX 360) CA$14.99