Someone snagged an early copy of Modern Warfare 2 in France on the PS3 and streamed it on the internet. If it’s real, the game appears to feature third-person mode. If it’s not real, then it won’t. Easy as that.
Check out the crummy quality clip below and judge for yourself. We are contacting the developer and will update if we get a comment on this issue.
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Justin Robson
Monday, October 26, 2009 at 10:33 PMEhhh, looks like a multiplayer spectator cam? I dunno… if it is real, why would they bother with third person?
Hayden
Monday, October 26, 2009 at 10:40 PMadds appeal to the TPS fans of Gears and other over the shoulder shooters, adds another level of spatial awareness I guess some people will like. I bet not everyone will use it though, FPS is just cooler :P
Doug Sherry
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 12:17 AMIt’s not spectator cam, at one point you can see them going to the menu to switch load-outs.
Andrew – I can see the cross hair in the video.
Andrew
Monday, October 26, 2009 at 10:50 PMIt could just be the low quality, mixed with watching it on mu iPod touch, but I can’t see any crosshairs. I think it’d be very interesting playing it with no idea where you’re aiming…
Methinks this is fake.
Ben Routledge
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 12:12 AMYeah there are cross hairs, he seems to run around with a flamethrower of sorts for a bit, whick makes them really big, later he’s gunning out the window and as he moves through the dark arches you can see the cross hairs clearly.
alinos
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 12:21 AM1 min in theres corss hairs they just dont show the Xhair the whole time
Ben Harring-Harris
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 1:45 AMTheres a cross hair there, its quite large in scope but focuses in when you aim.
Seems to be true with the game mode ‘reveal’.
I love TPS so cant wait to try it out.
Andrew Barras
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 4:06 PMOh yeah, now that I’m on my desktop, i can see the light (or in this case, crosshairs..)
My bad.
Andrew
Monday, October 26, 2009 at 11:32 PMyou can see the cross hairs at 0:56 to 1:01 seconds, just after he climbs the ladder you see them on the wall. interesting none the less, doubt it though.
Cedwa13
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 2:04 AMI think this is just a spectator view. It would be easier to watch what was going on this way.
And Andrew there are crosshairs they are just very hard to see most the time.
Matt
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 2:33 AMno there is crosshairs, remember they move out whilst moving and its hard to see with the bad quality but they are there, kinda hard to say its fake though, looks like the guy playing caught it on webcam and uploaded it (see computer monitor reflection centre screen at the bottom)plus it would be hard to fake the XMB and the display messages coming up along with game menus. i still cant believe this guy is taunting us by playing it 2 weeks early,
it reminds me of Uncharted 2 but without the cover system
Jay
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 9:49 AMprobably just another thing they seemed to have taken from the halo books. whats going on with that dual-wielding again??
S1n8ste7
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 10:24 AMIt’s funny how these rumors and videos always feature a shaky cam. Doesn’t anyone own a decent digital camera these days.
mount-eerie
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 11:26 AMVideo is now down due to copyright infringement
It seems strange that they’d not tell anyone it featured TPS gameplay. It could potentially be a selling point (and Lord knows that games needs more of them).