| September 17 2009 |
Giant Bomb Multiplayer Interview
This is THE interview we've all been waiting for. It confirms so much cool new Modern Warfare 2 features... Plus, it's over 15 minutes long! Giant Bomb has got some good questions and Robert '402' Bowling is not afraid to talk himself. Interview with Robert BowlingWarning; The video is 15min long and around 180MB in filesize, which shouldn't be a problem since you can start watching right when it started downloading a little.
WeaponsThe weapons have been upgraded in many ways. Not just the amount of weapons available, but also in the way to use them. Infinity Ward added new weapon classes as well as new weapons for the already existing classes. It's still point and shoot (d'oh), but you can now choose to suppress your sniper rifle or an (let's say) automatic shotgun. Instead of the traditional side-arm slot, there are now now primary weapons and second weapons. These secondary weapons can be a number of different things e.g a shotgun, a launcher, a machine pistol. EquipmentThe frag grenade now falls into an equipment category. This equipment slot can be customized to hold one of a number of items which greatly change the gameplay we were used to uptil now. One of which is the throwing knife, with this you will not be equipped with a grenade. After throwing the knife you can pick it back up and use it again. Other equipment that you can use in the Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer mode is a Semtex grenade, ablast shield and tactical insertion. With this last one you can throw a flare on a spot you want to respawn, which could be well behind enemy lines. After you die you will spawn from that exact spot. With all this choice to change things to your own liking, it will probably mean Modern Warfare 2 will not be the "nadefest" that most hated Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare for. Kill Streak AwardsIt will be your choice how to set up your own kill streak awards. You're free to choose three of your liking, whether these are the first three (short kill streaks, 3 / 4 / 5 kills) or three high ranking kill streaks (for the pros, 9, 11, up to 15 kill streaks).
Death Streak AwardsYes, you will be awarded when you die 4 or 5 times in a row. Death streaks are for the less advanced player who is having trouble getting kills and is repeatedly dying without getting a kill. The death streaks give the player an advantage to try and help them to get kills once they have died a certain amount of times without getting a kill.
CallsignsThese are personalized by the player, and they represent the rank of the player, and the type of player that they are, for example if a player gets a lot of knife kills he will unlock a picture to customise his call sign, to show off his skill in this area. Add-ons are unlocked for numerous different things and can then be displayed by the player to be seen by others. “Another element for making players famous” LevelingThe ranking as been completely redone, new level cap of 70. Tweaked amount of points for kills,capturing objectives and points for doing specific things e.g taking down a helicopter. You are now rewarded for more than just getting kills and doing objectives, There are now rewards for prestiging, and also there are still things to unlock even when you have pretiged fully, “new elements to prestige”. Swamped with emailNO idea how Robert Bowling does keep track of his email because we're swamped right now, we can only imagine how his email box must be at the point of exploding... If you have send us an email, please don't be mad if we haven't replied yet. We're still hoping to do so in the coming days but there is so much work to be done here on this website that we haven't found the time do so. Thank you for contact us with all the compliments, news submits and random questions! They are all MUCH appreciated! |
