Co-op was once planned for the Modern Warfare 2 campaign mode. No really, it was! However Infinity Ward scrapped the idea after it "ruined the experience" of the game's campaign. Don't take my word for it, let Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling tell you.
The "officially" not delayed Modern Warfare 2 is slated for release on November 10 on the Xbox 360, PS3, and PC... hopefully.
"We did it early on; that’s what Spec Ops started out as, as co-op through story," said Bowling when asked why Campaign co-op didn’t make the final game.
"But it really broke the cinematic experience, took the immersion out of it, out of the story and the pacing and everything we’d spent so long crafting. It just ruined the experience we were aiming for, so we took it out, kept the single-player for that one player intact and polished it."
"But then there were moments that were really fun with two players, so we took those moments and put them in Spec Ops," he added.
"So you can play moments directly taken from the single-player, in Spec Ops, but it’s polished towards those two players so the experience is pure. You really get the best of both worlds: you get the moments that were fun, but the moments that were ****ty we took out."
"But it really broke the cinematic experience, took the immersion out of it, out of the story and the pacing and everything we’d spent so long crafting. It just ruined the experience we were aiming for, so we took it out, kept the single-player for that one player intact and polished it."
"But then there were moments that were really fun with two players, so we took those moments and put them in Spec Ops," he added.
"So you can play moments directly taken from the single-player, in Spec Ops, but it’s polished towards those two players so the experience is pure. You really get the best of both worlds: you get the moments that were fun, but the moments that were ****ty we took out."
The "officially" not delayed Modern Warfare 2 is slated for release on November 10 on the Xbox 360, PS3, and PC... hopefully.
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