Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009)
Worth it · Shooter · 2009
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99. Price from Oct 20.
- Cost per hour▼
- $3.03/hr
- ReviewsA
- 89% of 11,789
- Critics
- 86 players 3 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 5% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour
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Time and effort
- Main story
- 6.6h
- To 100%
- 31.2h 4.7x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 10 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $9.79 June 2018
- Sale every
- 64d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 165 now
- Recent reviews
- 89% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 16% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 82% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $9.79. That was June 2018. Across all 10 discounts in the 8 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 9 weeks apart.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 5 percent. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) ($19.99, scores 90) beats it on value, while it beats Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® ($59.99, scores 29).
More about Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009)
None of the 399 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 213 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
6.6 hours to finish it, 31 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.7 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
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About the game
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.
Minimum specs
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.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) scores 81/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. Price last read Oct 20. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/10190/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-2-2009Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Oct 20. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.