Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II features good water simulations.

Infinity Ward: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II characters will have story arcs in campaign

Activision Blizzard’s Infinity Ward studio took the wraps off Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II today, and I had a front-seat view of the presentation at a briefing in Los Angeles last week. The creators hope the campaign game’s story and characters will hold the attention of fans before they head off to multiplayer.

The game is a sequel to the reboot from 2019, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II. Infinity Ward is one of nine studios working on the game, and we got to talk with Infinity Ward leaders at the event. They showed multiple missions in the single-player campaign, briefed us on the characters, and answered a lot of questions. We’ll talk about multiplayer later, but we got some answers on that front. This game won’t have any Zombies, as an FYI.

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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.