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Before you get all riled up, Star Wars fans, take note: no, it will not. Of course not! But what better way to illustrate just how HUGE the Call of Duty franchise might be in the next couple of years? Both have sold ridiculously high unit counts, and if the below story is true: both are being stretched across every thinkable medium.

You heard about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2's opening day records. Today, Activision boasts that their new favorite poster child has completely destroyed every previously held first-five-day record, not only in video game sales but box office sales as well. Titles like Grand Theft Auto IV, The Dark Knight, and the Harry Potter film series have been named as having fallen to the new entertainment giant.

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As you well know, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has dropped into the homes of more than 4.7 million people, shattering sales records and scoring completely in the green on metadata sites. But how does the co-op stack up? Read our review.

We've been big fans of Call of Duty: World at War's Zombie mode since it was released.  We've always said, time and time again, that the four player co-op game should have had a stand alone release on the Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network.  While we're still waiting for that day, we do have the next best thing - a portable iPhone/iPod Touch version with included ONLINE and local cooperative play.

Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies includes three control options including dual stick, tilt and swipe look.  It's not the most ideal method of playing, but it appears to work.  As we've said there's built in online matchmaking included for four player, though there's no way to communicate with your teammates.  

Only one map is included, which looks to be based off the original Nacht der Untoten map in the full game.  Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies it out now for the iPhone/iPod touch and will set you back $9.99.

Get it on: 

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"Watch me hit this unsuspecting dude with No Matchmaking... Kapow! Heh."
 

Ah, Modern Warfare 2. The epitome of all that is unfair. Take a perfectly good formula, gimp it, insult the consumers...and then sit back and laugh as you sell 4.7 million copies in one day. Watch Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare crash the PlayStation Network in 2007, and then act surprised when it happens again in 2009. Tout your campaign as being so important that it can't support the interference of multiplayer co-op players, then copy/paste the same missions to a side mode called Special Ops...and furthermore encourage players to skip an integral plot point via the most controversial playable scene this year.

Okay, you get the point. Too many great minds in one place seems to have caused quite the tangle at Infinity Ward, but at least the gameplay remains intact. Our review is coming next week, so I'll save the rest of the soap box speech until then.

In the meantime, tell us what you think of Special Ops. Do you like the mission variety? Is it smooth online? And more importantly: are you ready for Spec Ops DLC? According to Infinity Ward, future extra co-op missions are a distinct possibility. What do you think?

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PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 owners can get their four player co-op zombie on this week for half the price in Call of Duty: World at War.  All three map packs are 50% off this week.  That gets you the three co-op maps:  Der Riese, Shi No Numa, and Verruckt - quite the bargain.  Oh sure, you also get almost a dozen other multiplayer maps, but you want to kill zombies.  We know it.

So while everyone else is playing the Left 4 Dead 2 demo today because you didn't preorder, you won't feel completely left out.  You'll still do your part to find back the impending zombie horde.  360 owners and queue their download here, PS3 owners hit up the PlayStation store.

This, plus crosshairs, please.
 

Among the many Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 rumors that we've sifted through in the last several months, the prospect of an optional third-person perspective has only come up once that I remember, and not in a plausible context. In the opinion of a last-gen SOCOM and Star Wars Battlefront fan, the option to swap to third-person in a Modern Warfare game would be a pretty great addition.

Now, it seems, a video and screenshot have surfaced that bring credibility to once-scorned rumor: Modern Warfare 2 appears to support the third-person perspective during private matches.

UPDATE: Joystiq grabbed an interview snippet wherein the third-person camera was confirmed by Robert Bowling, but only for certain playlists and private matches so far. Here's hoping this option is extended to hosts of private co-op rooms as well.

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Activision and Valve have announced a partnership that requires Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 to utilize Valve's Steamworks platform.  This means any version of the game, both retail and digital, will require Valve's Steam application to be installed.

The good news is the game will support some advanced Steam features like achievements and Steam Cloud, which will save your settings and progress so that you can access it from any computer you play on.  No need to bring your saved games with you!  

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Like Gears of War 2 and HAWX before it, Modern Warfare 2 will allow players to each choose their own respective difficulty in the game's co-op mode.  Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling announced the feature via his Twitter account.  

"Awesome #MW2 feature I've fallen in love with while on tour," said Bowling,  "[The] ability to play on a different difficulty than your coop partner in SpecOps."  This should be good news for co-op players as it allows a lot of flexibility when looking for partners to play with.  

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Right now Amazon is running a deal on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 where pre-orders get $20 in credit to be used towards future video game purchases.  That essentially makes the price of the game $40 on all three platforms; PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

This appears to only apply to the normal and Hardened versions of the game, but not the Prestige Edition which comes with the night vision goggles.  Amazon is also offering release date delivery for the title which is free for Prime members and around  $5 for everyone else. 

Modern Warfare 2 will contain a 2 player online and split-screen co-op mode called Spec Ops which contains 23 unique cooperative missions.  The game releases on November 10th and you can find all of our coverage on the game right here.

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Ah, the rumor mill is turning early today!

E4G quoted the Official PlayStation Magazine yesterday - specifically the "Secret Games" section - wherein it was deduced from several sources that three major sequels are being developed for a 2010 release.

First to bat was Killzone 3, supposedly "deep in development", according to an industry insider. Maybe this explains why co-op was twice considered as an add-on for Killzone 2, then dropped for good...we can only hope that the considerations have carried over to any new projects that may be in the works.

The other two titles rumored to be under way are Resistance 3 and a Call of Duty: World at War sequel, both with high possibilities for co-op. The former claim is supported by a prop billboard caught on the set of the movie Battle: Los Angeles, currently filming. The latter has significantly less credibility, thanks to an earlier report that the next Call of Duty title by Treyarch would feature the Vietnam conflict.

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