July 10 2009

Special Ops video material

Modern Warfare 2 Special ops video material

We put it all together after a big tip by B-Fresh4; the Special Ops video material was there all along and we all missed it...

Hostile charging with knife at friendlies in Special OpsB-Fresh4 mailed us about our video analysis (screenshots) of the official promo trailer, he mentioned that the next image wasn't a friendly charging an enemy with a knife but actually the opposite. It's all going very fast at this point of the promo trailer (or scroll down) but B-Fresh4 pointed out there were two Delta Force soldiers squatting waiting for the charges to blow the door.....wait, where did we hear that before? Yep, Robert Bowling confirmed breach charges for Special Ops in the Cynamite interview (again, scroll down). We confirmed what B-Fresh4 was talking about by going through it frame by frame while making screenshots for you guys, of course.

Special Ops

For those a bit hazy on what we're talking about, specops (short for...) is a new gametype in Modern Warfare 2 that can be played separate of the single player campaign. When choosing "Special Ops" from the main menu you will be able to play certain unlocked parts by playing the singleplayer campaign in a way much like the last "Mile High Club" epilogue in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. You will be given specific objectives in fast paced and difficult to complete missions. This is Infinity Ward's idea of implementing the much requested co-op mode into the game. That's right, specops can be played split-screen co-op, though nothing has been said about co-op over Internet or even if it'll be possible to do specops alone...

Special Ops video analysis

  1. Hostages and warehouse packed with C-4 explosives
  2. two is magic number in mw2 special ops
  3. Breach in progress, c4 exploding
  4. Big fireball while breaching in Modern Warfare 2 Special Ops
  5. Delta force ready to enter
  6. Camera pans towards door opening
  7. Camera pans towards door opening a bit more
  8. Camera entering breached room of warehouse
  9. C4 and chaos after breach
  10. Enemy charging with knife on the right
  11. 4 enemies spotted, clear room
  12. models not finished, holding knife weird
  13. enemy holding knife, flashbang, smoke grenade

As you can see if you hover the image with your mouse, there is a clear image of the US flag the arm of the soldier. Delta Force is one of America's primary counter-terrorist units and since DF has been been confirmed in other interviews it's a pretty no-brainer.

Modern Warfare 2 promo trailer

Screenshots above are taken at exactly one minute in:



Modern Warfare 2 Cynamite interview with Robert Bowling

Around 06:15:

There are new mechanics like breaching that you might have seen in Special Ops where you breach through a wall and once you blow your way threw and you make your way in you go into slow-motion so you can, you know, assess the situation.

 

 

Prestige Edition

Just a little heads up:

Robert Bowling @ twitter

In final design meeting for the Modern Warfare 2 Prestige Edition (CE). Filming unboxing video of what it contains this weekend! #MW2