Modern Warfare II

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II — Shooting while sliding around the shipping containers

Imagine you’re trying to shoot a bunch of bad guys, but everybody is sliding around back and forth on a ship in stormy seas. On top of that, there are shipping containers on the deck of the cargo ship, and they’re sliding around too and maybe crushing you.

That’s what you’ll get with one of the water-logged levels of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, which debuts on October 28. Activision’s Infinity Ward studio showed the level off today at the Summer Game Fest. It’s called Operation Dark Water.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.