In 2018, the rumor mill was rumbling about a Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Remastered. It made sense. After all, the first game was remastered and, outside of some drama over how it was sold, it seemed to turn out okay and even sell well. But a big difference with the second effort was that the rumors suggested it would only ship with a campaign. The multiplayer, one of the most beloved online shooter experiences ever, would remain a thing of the past. This remaster never emerged, with Activison putting everything behind Black Ops 4 and especially the Blackout mode, but 2019 just might be its year.
As we reported during the last week of February 2019, the Pan European Game Information (PEGI) board published a rating for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Remastered. So like, it totally exists. With a rating emerging in Europe, that probably means we?ll be seeing it sooner, rather than later.
The thing that stands out is the full title, which is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered. To eliminate all confusion, Activision is straight-up indicating what the product is in the name. So it?s real, and unless there?s a separate release that?s multiplayer-only, it?s just the campaign. Now the question is, why"
The answer is obviously logistics. As we saw with the first Modern Warfare Remastered, the structure to maintain the online multiplayer hit a lot of snags along the way. It had problems that needed to be fixed, and the DLC maps were still separate purchases w...