Modern Warfare 2’ Release Date And Cover Art Revealed In Elaborate Stunt

Activision announced the release date for this year’s Call Of Duty today and revealed the game’s key art via an elaborate stunt.

A massive cargo ship draped with the cover art image docked in the port of Long Beach, revealing the iconic skull-face of Simon ‘Ghost’ Riley along with the game’s title.

That’s quite the expensive, time-consuming reveal. The entire maneuver took 24 hours. I suppose it ties into the game’s campaign and mutliplayer maps in some way, but given how crowded and backed up the ports are these days it must have been a hellish thing to pull off.

The image minus all the shipping containers looks like this:

You can watch the stunt in action in the video below:

Activision also revealed Modern Warfare 2’s release date, which is a bit earlier than usual this year: October 28th, 2022.

It’s not clear whether Warzone 2 will launch at the same time but it seems unlikely, with a release of the free-to-play battle royale further down the road.

Modern Warfare 2 is shaping up to be a pretty big deal, with a completely new co-op mode similar to Escape From Tarkov. The campaign is a direct sequel to 2019’s Modern Warfare.