Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009)

Military first-person shooter with campaign, co-op missions, and multiplayer

Infinity Ward · Published by Activision · Released Nov 11, 2009

Reviews: Very Positive; 93% of 61K
Recent reviews: Overwhelmingly Positive; 97% of 272 in 30 days
Playing now: 191; right now
Steam Deck: Playable
Last update: Unknown; no patch notes found

What is Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009)?

A military first-person shooter with a single-player campaign, competitive multiplayer matches, and a separate two-player Special Ops mode. The campaign continues directly from Call of Duty 4 as soldiers face a threat that could trigger global collapse; Special Ops consists of timed and objective-based combat missions.

For you if...

+you want a military campaign with a global crisis plot
+you want two-player co-op built around timed objectives
+you enjoy multiplayer loadouts and customizable killstreak rewards

Not for you if...

−you want co-op integrated into the single-player campaign
−you dislike dark military stories about global conflict

What players say

93% of 61,083 reviews are positive · 97% of 272 in the last 30 days

Players most often praise the campaign, its characters, and soundtrack. Their dominant complaint is that online multiplayer has exploitable remote-code-execution vulnerabilities; recent reviewers say a new patch has not fixed them and advise avoiding online play.

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Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) system requirements

As published by the developer.

Minimum

OS: Microsoft Windows XP or Windows Vista (Windows 95/98/ME/2000 are unsupported)
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 3.2 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 3200+ processor or better supported
Graphics: 256 MB NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT or better or ATI Radeon 1600XT or better
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Storage: 12GB of free hard drive space