Evil publisher Activision has laid out its nefarious plan to make Modern Warfare 2 the best selling game of all time. Since Activision routinely sacrifices lambs and children to satisfy bargains with the Old Gods, it will likely get what it wants, too.
"Each year the Call of Duty franchise goes from strength-to-strength," said brand manager and thrall Simon Wells. "We want to propel this year's title to be the biggest selling video game of all time. That may raise some eyebrows, but step back and look at the franchise's trajectory through preceding launches, and this objective starts to look viable."
Not only does the diabolical publisher hope to crush its competition in the gaming sector, Modern Warfare 2 is also expected to beat out all other forms of media too, becoming the hottest entertainment property of the year. According to Wells, MW2 is "competing directly with entertainment propositions outside of the video game space."
With a new Harry Potter film due out this year, expect Daniel Radcliffe to have been killed in a fatal "accident" before the year's end.
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12:20 PM on 04.02.2009
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(2 year old games are not worth $60)
Beating W@W on Veteran is a lot harder than beating CoD 4 on Veteran. I've beat all CoD games on Vet so far and W@W was the biggest pain in the ass. Hang in there, you can do it!
I personally love the first one, sure the online mode was a bit of a grindfest, but it was extremely intense, fast paced and as devilishly addicting. Not to mention wasting entire teams was a favorite pastime of mine. ;)
Not to worry Activision, I will be one of the people who will contribute to it selling like mad.
People who bought or wanted to buy W@W + People who only buy the Infinity Ward CODs = more people who have ever bought a game, ever.
"If you make it, they will play"