Video Game Research

Call Of duty Modern Warfare 2.

Video Game Research.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is a first person shooter video game for the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. It was announced on February 11, 2009, the game was released worldwide on November 10, 2009. The Original price when the game had first come out was 49.99 pounds. So far 64.92 million copies of the game have been sold.

The game was developed by Infinity Ward an American video game developer. It was also developed by activision another American game developer .Activision was also awarded top US publisher award in 2007.It was also published by activision.

Most reviews show that the game is a brilliant game and people have liked it when it had first came out but now the reviews are negative due to the new call of duty games which have been released. 

Here are the amount of reviews posted on Amazon.

783 Reviews

5 star:		(146)
4 star:		(73)
3 star:		(61)
2 star:		(69)
1 star:		(223)

It was marketed in many different ways. It was promoted on YouTube, TV adverts, billboards and at big events.

Trailers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzwBeDV5IAY

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTDQcggbmh8

Facebook page which now currently has 6.1 million likes and followers . Call of duty modern warfare 2 also has over 3000 videos on YouTube.

The recommended target audience for the game was 18 and over males.

The game was very successful. I think this because of the amount of copies sold worldwide it was one of the most sold games of the year in 2009.Call of duty modern warfare 2 was the most successful game according to the Guinness world of records. Revenue from the first 24 hours of sales was over $401.6 million breaking the record set by Grand Theft Auto IV on April 29, 2008, which was also made available across the same three hardware platforms. Call of duty modern warfare 2 cost 50 million dollars to make and a further 200 million to launch.