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I am disappointed that there will only be a max of two-player co-op but if you ask me, I still think that Infinity Ward is hiding something and that we will see some type of four-player mode which just may be a zombie mode.

Two-player is the “magic number” for co-op, Infinity Ward has said. The last Call of Duty game, Treyarch’s World at War, featured four-player campaign co-op and a bonus four-player survival Zombie Mode.

Modern Warfare 2, due out worldwide on November 10, won’t have a campaign co-op mode at all. Instead it will have a two-player Special Ops mode, “designed to be replayed over and over again”.

Speaking to VideoGamer.com, Robert Bowling, director of communications/community manager at Infinity Ward, explained the decision, saying it didn’t want to “ruin the story by cramming co-op into it”.

He said: “We don’t do co-op in our story because we’re crafting a very specific experience and we don’t want to ruin that by cramming co-op into it. We take the moments that work really well with co-op, we bring them out and we put them in Special Ops.”

“Story’s all about pacing,” he added. “Sometimes moments get toned down because they don’t fit with the pacing of the experience you’re trying to deliver. There (in Special Ops) it’s all about fun. It’s about playing over and over again, getting a better time – you’ll have a time at the end of it – it’s about challenging a friend going in on co-op and trying to beat it on veteran.”

When asked why Special Ops was limited to two players, not four, Bowling replied: “Two player seemed to be the magic number for co-op. That’s when it stayed really fun and intense without becoming a clusterf**k of things. We just found that two-players was the most fun.”

Source: VideoGamer.com

So my friends and I have played about a good 10 hours so far just with multiplayer. My brother and I beat single player in maybe 2 hours? We ran through it so we could play the Nazi Zombie mode which is pretty cool but not something you could play back to back because it takes a while.

I will start with my multiplayer thoughts. I do not think it is better than Call of Duty 4 because it does not an M4 and it is not modern warfare. That does not mean the game is terrible at all, it is a lot of fun. Treyarch has done a lot to its multiplayer that I wish Infinity Ward would of done or added later on. Such as separate leaderboards, more maps, bigger maps, online stats and much more.

Spawn points are ridiculous too. We can only hope they get fixed. Grenades are not as powerful as they were in CoD4.

Single Player Campaign and Coop is just alright. Not much a story what so ever, CoD4 was much better campaign. Coop works but it is not great. It works just like multiplayer does and picks random levels to play on. Yes, you can vote each map as they are in order to play the levels from beginning (Semper Fi) to the last level (Downfall) but that is a big inconvenience. Most achievement do not count either for playing in coop and are single player online, so that is kind of lame.

Last night’s episode of GameTrailers TV brought straight from the mouth of Treyarch studio head Mark Lamia — Call of Duty: World at War will contain a four-player, co-op zombie (of the Nazi variety) survival mode.

Those who currently aren’t busy scraping pieces of their blown mind off of the wall behind them will probably be interested in a few details Lamia mentioned — the gameplay mode (which is unlocked upon the completion of the single player campaign) will place four players in a central structure, then assail them with wave upon wave of undead national socialists. Throughout the game, players will collect money which can be used to fortify their compound, or purchase new weapons. Also, there will be Nazi zombies.

You can watch a video of this zombie mode in action at the following link.
Chapter Four of last night’s GTTV episode. They talk about the 4 player co-op zombie mode a few minutes into it after the Mirror’s Edge preview.

Source: Joystiq

Here is a new video on the new upcoming Call of Duty game, World at War (#5). This video is available in HD or SD and features the new 2 player co-op.

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