Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009)
Worth it · Shooter · 2009
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Length
- 6.6h
- Value
- $3.03/hr
- Reviews
- 89% 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.
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $9.79. That was June 2018. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 10 in the 8 years tracked, about 9 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 9 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 6 percent on value. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 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 28).
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.
Players
190 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) scores 81/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). 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-2-2009The 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 Aug 3, price as of Sep 22.
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