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Modern Warfare 2 Doubles Your Shooting Pleasure

6:00PM August 25, 2009 | Brian Ashcraft

In Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, players can use one gun at a time. Modern Warfare 2 is letting players wield two guns at a time. Two in two — geddit?

Infinity Ward blogger FourZeroTwo showed off the feature at a GameCrazy convention, blogging:

I was presenting a singleplayer mission at the GameCrazy show this morning on stage and happened to walk over a body that had Akimbo (dual wield side arm), therefore the icon for the weapon popped up on screen and the room went crazy with chants demanding I pick it up and use it.

So I did.

Happened to be dual Deagles. Now to calm some initial fears of “OMG! Overpowered!”. Akimbo is limited and balanced, just like EVERYTHING in the game. It’s limited to sidearms, harder to aim than standard and you can’t go ADS (aim down sights) since you have a weapon in each hand; Among other balancing techniques, so don’t freak out before you see it in action.

Now you can do something that you’ve already been able to do in other games for years. Hooray?

Modern Warfare 2 Gets Dualies [IGN Thanks, Brandon!]

Comments

  • Mr Waffle

    August 25, 2009 at 9:24 PM

    Wow, just like real special forces! Can’t wait for them to introduce a double-jump powerup…

    • Paingod556

      August 25, 2009 at 9:46 PM

      Meh, even E1 grunts out of basic know how to dual wield. Now if they introduced the back-flipping hatchet attack, then I’d be impressed.

  • plmko

    August 25, 2009 at 10:39 PM

    Meh they just copied this from Killing Floor.

    • CyK

      August 26, 2009 at 9:46 AM

      Uh yeah sure.. I suppose they copied the shooting part too?

  • Blah2

    August 25, 2009 at 10:40 PM

    Just seems unrealistic, nobody does that crap in real life.

    • I Jawsus I

      August 26, 2009 at 1:37 AM

      Lol Realistic what made you even think any of the COD’s are Realistic.

  • HotDamn!

    August 25, 2009 at 11:00 PM

    Maybe if it was Max Payne….

  • Graeme Stacey

    August 26, 2009 at 12:09 AM

    I like to look forward to the future, does this mean Modern Warfare 3 will allow you to wield a THIRD weapon? How would you hold it?

    Don’t be stupid, of course not. But with some luck we’ll be able to throw weapons at people from a distance if they run out of ammo. Because realistically in that situation don’t you think that’s what you would do?

    • DerangedStoat

      August 26, 2009 at 11:15 AM

      Reminds me of the scene from (I think) Saving Private Ryan where they end up throwing their steel helmets at each other before drawing pistols.

      I love the fact that the Desert Eagle is almost better known as a ‘Deagle’ now.

  • Michael Ormando

    August 26, 2009 at 1:10 PM

    they do it in john woo movies a lot haha

  • Jay

    August 26, 2009 at 2:08 PM

    Taking a page from South Park…

    … HALO DID IT!

    And dual-wield isn’t anything marvelous anyway. And it’s probably a perk in multi-player thats unlocked towards the end. I don’t find it necessary for COD anyway.

    It works in Halo, with the weapons & all. But i don’t even use it that often in online.

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