Experience Ruining Co-Op Dropped From Modern Warfare 2 Campaign

[Shawn Zipay]

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.

“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 shitty 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.

[AlecJ32]

Re: Experience Ruining Co-Op Dropped From Modern Warfare 2 Campaign

I was actually considering buying this game, but uhh....I think I'll pass now.

[ZanderArch]

Re: Experience Ruining Co-Op Dropped From Modern Warfare 2 Campaign

That's total BS and they know it.

So what if it wasn't super immerse with two players? That's why you have single player. You don't remove FULL CO-OP just because it doesn't work with your immersion goal. Might as well not do MULTIPLAYER because bunny hopping idiots with grenade launchers is really immersion breaking too.

Co-op would have been STUPID AWESOME FUN regardless. At least they left some of it in with Spec Ops.

[AlecJ32]

Re: Experience Ruining Co-Op Dropped From Modern Warfare 2 Campaign

That's total BS and they know it.

So what if it wasn't super immerse with two players? That's why you have single player. You don't remove FULL CO-OP just because it doesn't work with your immersion goal. Might as well not do MULTIPLAYER because bunny hopping idiots with grenade launchers is really immersion breaking too.

Co-op would have been STUPID AWESOME FUN regardless. At least they left some of it in with Spec Ops.

Not to mention, from the sounds of it a good portion of work for the coop was already done.

It sounds to me like somebody at IW decided "Wait a minute, we'll sell a crap-load of copies whether we have coop or not. We should just save money by scrapping the coop idea. We'll make up some garbage excuse so that the fan-base doesn't get upset."