Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered

For the original game, see Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Developer(s)	Beenox
Publisher(s)	Activision
Release Date	March 31, 2020 (30 days access, PS4 only) April 30, 2020 (Xbox One and Microsoft Windows)
Genre(s)	First-person shooter
Mode(s)	Campaign
Ratings	ESRB: Mature 17+ PEGI: 18 ACB: MA15+
Platforms	PlayStation 4 Xbox One Microsoft Windows
Media	Digital Download

"Relive the epic single-player Campaign from the 2009 blockbuster Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2, remastered for a new generation in true high-definition. The Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 Campaign has been fully remastered with improved textures, animations, physically based rendering, high-dynamic range lighting, and much more."

— Official Description

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered is a remastered version of the singleplayer campaign of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. The game was primarily developed by Beenox.

Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered was released on March 31st, 2020 for PlayStation 4 and is scheduled to release on April 30, 2020 on Xbox One and PC.

Overview

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered only features the campaign of Modern Warfare 2, including the Museum level. The remaster works in a similar way to the remaster of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare sharing the same engine with various enhancements in terms of visual and audio design. Character models are highly realistic and detailed, with some of them having a new character design. The game also features a few tweaked scenes, such as the FSB soldier checking on Pvt. Joseph Allen's body will now knock Allen's rifle aside and Gary "Roach" Sanderson will now grab General Shepherd's arm as the latter picks up the DSM, who sneers at Roach and yanks his arm out of Roach's grasp. The Weapon Inspection feature makes also a comeback. At the start of Team Player, a short cutscene not present in the original game is shown where an PG-7V rocket hits the jeep that Pvt. Allen is riding in, explaining why in the original game he was laying on the ground as soon as the level started. Most weapons now have different reloading animations compared to the orignal guns, along with different sounds when firing, along with most of the weapons being properly modeled after their real-life counterparts. Voice acting in the form of heavy breathing and pained moans and grunts when the player is injured. Other small details include Soap throwing up on the ground near the end of Endgame, and new animations for knifing the dying Shadow Company soldiers in the helicopter wreck, and Price's hat falling off during his fight with Shepherd. Three major easter eggs were added. One being a reference to the "Stealth Clown" joke within the community back in 2009, Yuri being a physical NPC in the infamous No Russian mission, and killing Shepherd at the start of S.S.D.D awards the player with a trophy, making reference to the Time Paradox trophy the player gets for killing Makarov in Modern Warfare Remastered.

Plot

The year is 2016, and despite the efforts of the United States Marine Corps and the Special Air Service, the Ultranationalists seize control of Russia and declare Imran Zakhaev a hero and martyr, erecting a statue of him in the heart of the Red Square. Meanwhile, Vladimir Makarov, one of Zakhaev's former lieutenants, begins a campaign against Europe by committing brutal acts of terrorism over the course of five years. In Afghanistan, U.S. Army Ranger PFC Joseph Allen assists his commanding officer Sgt. Foley in training the local soldiers until he is called to run a training course overseen by Lieutenant General Shepherd, who is recruiting one of the Rangers for a special operation. After completing the course, Allen and the rest of the 75th Ranger Regiment assists in the taking of a city from local OpFor soldiers. Impressed by Allen's abilities, General Shepherd recruits him into "Task Force 141", an elite, multi-national counter-terrorist unit under Shepherd's command. Meanwhile, two other members of 141, Cpt. 'Soap' MacTavish and Sgt. Gary 'Roach' Sanderson infiltrate a Russian airbase in the Tian Shan mountains to retrieve an ACS (Attack Characterization System) module from a downed satellite. During their infiltration, Soap orders Roach to plant explosives to cover their escape, but is compromised while retrieving the ACS. While they are pursued by enemy forces, both men manage to escape with the module.

Allen is later sent on an undercover mission in Russia for the CIA, joining Makarov disguised as terrorist Alexi Borodin in a massacre of civilians at the Zakhaev International Airport in Moscow. While they manage to evade capture by Russian forces, Makarov, aware of Allen's identity, kills him during extraction, leaving his body to spark a war between Russia and the United States of America. Angered by what was believed to be an American-supported terrorist attack, Russia retaliates with a massive surprise invasion on the United States after bypassing its early warning system, revealing that the ACS module MacTavish and Sanderson recovered had already been compromised before its retrieval.

75th Ranger Regiment Sergeant Foley leads his squad, including Cpl. Dunn and Allen's replacement Pvt. James Ramirez, in defense of a suburb in north-eastern Virginia against the enemy Russian paratroopers. During their assault in a Russian occupied suburban neigborhood, Shepard contacts Foley and orders his squad to extract an HVI, claiming that he has intel vital to the war effort. Upon arriving at the HVI's safe house, Sgt. Foley and his squad discover the safe house breached and HVI murdered along with several deceased soldiers bearing odd tattoos. Foley takes notice that the safe room was not forcefully breached as Dunn checks bodies for intel. They later proceed towards a war-torn Washington, D.C., where U.S. forces are fighting the Russians for control of the capital city. Sgt. Foley and his squad proceed to the Russian occupied Capitol building where they are tasked with destroying emplaced AA guns that prevent the Army from evacuating civilians. They later provide air support for U.S. forces onboard a helicopter but are soon shot out of the sky. The squad, running low on ammunition, make a last stand against the Russian Army before a sudden flash halts the their attack.

Meanwhile, Task Force 141 searches for evidence that implicates Makarov as the mastermind behind the airport massacre, as all proof of Makarov's involvement died with Allen. Intelligence leads them to a Favela in Rio de Janeiro, where the team investigates leads on Makarov's contact, weapons dealer Alejandro Rojas. They find out from Rojas that Makarov's worst enemy, known as Prisoner #627, is locked up in a Russian gulag in Petropavlosk. On the orders of Shepherd, the Task Force are sent to infiltrate an oil platform off the coast of Russia in order to rescue several hostages before assaulting the gulag. The Task Force assaults the prison and manages to free 627, who is revealed to be Captain John Price, who was previously captured during Operation Kingfish. Price agrees to aid Soap and Shepherd in tracking down Makarov, with Soap handing the command of the Unit over to Price. While Shepherd believes that they must continue their hunt for Makarov, Price decides that ending the war in America is their first priority. To end it, he temporarily goes rogue, and leads the 141 on a raid of a Russian port, where they gain control of a nuclear submarine. Price uses the submarine to launch a ballistic missile towards Washington D.C. He sets the warhead to detonate in the upper atmosphere, unintentionally destroying the International Space Station and creating an electromagnetic pulse, crippling vehicles and electronic equipment on both sides and giving the Americans a slight advantage.

Back in the United States, Ramirez and his fellow squad mates seek shelter from the disabled aircraft that are now literally falling from the sky, and proceed to the White House after running into Pvt. Vaughn, who tells the squad that Colonel Marshall is assembling whatever forces he can to retake the White House, which is now a stronghold for the Russian Army. After finally meeting Col. Marshall, he orders the squad that taking the White House is their top priority, but they later receive a transmission informing them that the Air Force is preparing to carpet bomb the entire city to deny the Russians a strong foothold. Foley's squad fight their way to the White House and set off flares in the nick of time, aborting the air strike. Flares are lit on the rooftops of other landmarks, signifying that the city is still in American hands. Angered over destruction of the Capital, Foley, Dunn and the rest of the Rangers vow vengeance against the Russians, claiming they will burn Moscow to the ground as they did with D.C.

Narrowing down Makarov's hiding place to two separate locations, Task Force 141 decides to split up. Price and Soap travel to an aircraft bone-yard in Afghanistan, while Roach and Ghost raid Makarov's safe house on the Georgian-Russian border. At the safe house, Roach and his team obtain vital intelligence from Makarov's computer and escape with Makarov's men in pursuit. However, when they reach the extraction point, Shepherd betrays them, retrieving the intelligence and taking it with him, murdering Roach and Ghost and burning their bodies in the process. Price and MacTavish quickly learn of Shepherd's betrayal, though Price states that he wasn't betrayed since he never trusted Shepherd. The duo then manage to escape an already ongoing battle between Shepherd and Makarov's men with Nikolai's help. After contacting Makarov and offering to kill Shepherd for him, Makarov grudgingly reveals Shepherd's location at a mountain base in Afghanistan, codenamed Site Hotel Bravo. Price and MacTavish raid the base in an attempt to take revenge on Shepherd in a suicide mission. During the infiltration, Shepherd tries to escape on a Zodiac motorboat, and a long boat pursuit ensues.

At the climax of the pursuit, Shepherd boards a Pave Low, only for Price to disable it by shooting the helicopter's rotor, causing a crash landing. Price and Soap tumble over a waterfall in the process. After recovering from the fall, a dazed Soap gets up and approaches the crashed Pave Low with only his knife. He sees Shepherd and moves in for the kill. Shepherd counters by slamming Soap onto a destroyed car and stabs him in the chest. Shepherd then proceeds to inform Soap how he "lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye" and proceeds to empty his .44 Magnum, loading two bullets in it - supposedly one for Soap and the other for Price. However, just before Shepherd shoots Soap, Price tackles Shepherd and the two engage each other in a brutal fist fight. While Price manages to hold his own, Shepherd ultimately gets the upper hand, but the heavily wounded Soap is able to pull the knife from his chest and throw it into Shepherd's left eye, killing him.

Price regains consciousness and inspects Soap's wounds as Nikolai arrives in a helicopter to extract them. Nikolai warns them that they will be pursued, but Price insists that Soap receives medical attention. Nikolai mentions that he knows a safe place to go to ("Da, I know a place"), and Soap and Price, now globally wanted criminals, go into hiding.

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Call of Duty® Modern Warfare® 2 Campaign Remastered - Official Trailer

Trivia

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered was first rumored in 2018 after a page for the game appeared on Amazon Italy.
  • A year later, on February 2019, the game was rated by the European PEGI rating board.
  • Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered was rated by the South Korean GRAC rating board in early March 2020 before its release.
  • Furthermore, a leaked trailer for the game showed 2018 as a copyright date for the game.
  • The game was released a day early in Germany on accident, allowing footage of the game to be created earlier than was planned.
• Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered was not released in Russia on PlayStation 4 after a decision made by Sony.