'Modern Warfare 2' release times: here's when you can play - NME

The afloat motorboat of Infinity Ward‘s adjacent shooter is conscionable 2 days distant – to marque definite you tin leap into the crippled arsenic soon arsenic it’s live, here’s what clip Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 launches.

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Modern Warfare 2 merchandise times for UK and different clip zones

In the UK, Modern Warfare 2 launches connected October 28 astatine 12AM BST / 1AM CEST / for PlayStation and Xbox consoles. However, the PC mentation of Modern Warfare 2 doesn’t motorboat until 5AM BST / 6AM CEST / 12AM EDT / 3PM AEDT.

Though PC servers don’t motorboat until somewhat later, players connected Battle.net oregon Steam tin pre-load the crippled up of release. This pre-loading begins connected October 26, and PC players who person pre-ordered the crippled tin statesman downloading it from 6PM BST.

Additionally, anyone who pre-ordered Modern Warfare 2 tin presently play the game’s run aboriginal – though the multiplayer mode volition stay offline until the afloat launch.

Players who pre-ordered #ModernWarfare2 digitally connected PC tin preload the crippled truthful that they’re acceptable to spell the infinitesimal it launches.

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— Call of Duty (@CallofDuty) October 18, 2022

We’ve been playing Modern Warfare 2‘s campaign, and precocious shared our aboriginal impressions of the single-player mode.

“If you deliberation excessively hard, Modern Warfare 2 whitethorn permission you uncomfortable with what you’re doing,” reads our impressions. “But if you tin power disconnected and bask the crippled for what it is – a globe-trotting enactment blockbuster – past the archetypal fewer hours suggest that Infinity Ward has fixed Call of Duty its sharpest, astir mechanically satisfying run successful years.”

As for Modern Warfare 2‘s multiplayer, our preview praised it arsenic “the polished perfect of everything you mightiness expect” from Call of Duty.

In different news, more charges alleging unfair labour practices person been filed against Call of Duty steadfast Activision Blizzard.

The charges assertion that Activision Blizzard’s main communications serviceman sent a company-wide connection “disparaging the union, making threats to withhold raises and payment improvements from workers who joined the union, and giving workers an content that their national affiliation and/or enactment was nether surveillance.”