Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009)
BANGER · Shooter · 2009
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $19.99.
- Length
- 6.6h
- Value
- $3.03/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256 MB NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT or better or ATI Radeon 1600XT or better, 12 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The most-anticipated game of the year and the sequel to the best-selling first-person action game of all time, Modern Warfare 2 continues the gripping and heart-racing action as players face off against a new threat dedicated to bringing the world to the brink of collapse.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
June 2015 is where it bottomed out, at $9.79. 88 discounts in the 13 years on record. They run about 25 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. The nearest things to it, Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) ($19.99, scores 81) and Call of Duty® 4: Modern Warfare® (2007) ($19.99, scores 67), are both worse buys on this math.
$32.23 is where it would stop being a BANGER. Today it is $19.99.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 16 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2023 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 5,153 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 6.6 hours; clearing it takes 32, which is 4.9 times the campaign.
The drop-off
72% start to 5% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
399 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
All I need to say is that this game's campaign is really fun. My only grudge with this game is that I tried to 100% it and I can't because of the spec-ops missions where you need 2 players, and unless I am missing something there is no way to splitscreen it or complete those missions as a solo player.
Predator Missile, Chopper Gunner, Tactical Nuke. That's the way it's done. If you want to play the game online now, PLEASE for the love of god install ♥♥♥♥. It'll save your life.
activision released a patch within the last day of me writing this review but unfortunately it doesn't seem to have fixed anything; this game is NOT SAFE to play online. DO NOT PURCHASE this call of duty or any other released before infinite warfare until they've made them safe to play online.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) scores 90/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/10180/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-2-2009The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 10, price as of Sep 24.
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