With the release of Modern Warfare 2 just 1 week away I thought I’d announce a few of the features that are new to Modern Warfare, the ones that are really going to change how we play and what the effects might be.
1. Deathstreak bonuses
So you’re either a bit pants or you’re having a bad game, deathstreak bonuses allows you to gain a slight advantage if you die a few times in a row. Options are to take on your previous killer’s class or choose extra health – I think this will encourage what I call revenge killing.
2. Customiseable Killstreaks
This will allow people to rack up very, very high kill streaks and scores – remember those times when the enemy team had 3 helicopters in a row? Well now you could have a number of different kill streaks like that happening against you, all at once! Yay.
3. Secondary weapons that are more than just a pistol
So instead of having a pistol you can use perhaps a machine pistol or a rocket launcher, or even a shotgun? I’m not sure what the choices will be, but it will make everyone that little bit more flexible – oh and watch out for more spawn killing from rockets across the map.
4. Holographic Sights, Thermal Scopes and Heartbeat Sensor Attachments
People are going to know where you are, a lot of the time, you can’t hide, you can’t run. This is gonna be very interesting.
5. Sentry Guns
Basically like claymores, but it can shoot things at a distance – man I’m going to have fun with this one. Expect to be shot a lot, despite enemies being nowhere near.
6. Care Packages
This will no doubt result in attracting enemies right to your location – expect to die lots whilst trying to pick these up, fortunately it will be countered by the elation you will experience in stealing someone else’s AC130. Expect team killing from this 
7. Riot Shields
These are gonna be interesting, shoot those ankles!!!
8. Double up your attachments on primary weapons
A lot of people didn’t rock with the silencer on the M16 in COD4, this was largely down to a hatred for iron sights (lack of skill I’d say) – so expect people to be running around with silencers and red dots a lot more.
9. Tactical Insertion
Throw down a little gizmo and the next time you respawn, that is where you will spawn! I can see people using these to get into some amazing glitches/positions – you have been warned!
10. 25 Kill Streak – Nuclear Missile
Basically kills everyone on the map and results in your team getting an automatic win, booyah!
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Not long now mate, mines arriving tomorrow
I still think that Combat for the Atari 2600 was the real game changer