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Okay so maybe we’re just a little excited over here at SOS about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 but can you blame us? Think back to the first game’s release, how well it did, how well it continued to do into the next year even when game sales were slagging. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare was rocking up the charts and pulling in the cash. And well … it was and still is one of the best FPS war games ever made.

So what’s doing as fans and hardcore COD gamers get ready to snap up Infinity Ward’s and Activision’s latest installment, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2? (COD:MW2)

Over in the Xbox Live marketplace you can now download the full game of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and they’ve set up a whole section of Live dedicated to all things MW2. It would seem they’re excited too. Retailer Gamestop has posted a list of every store in the country that will have a midnight opening to sell the game.

But wait there’s more!

They’re offering a sweepstakes that is sure to please any gamer willing to take the time to enter. It’s called surprize attack (get it — sur-prize attack? Wargame… Bueller, Bueller).  Anyway, if you pre-order Modern Warfare 2, you can play for your chance to win a Hummer H2, Polaris snowmobile, Ducati motorcycle and tons of other cool prizes inspired by the game. That’s right, you can win stuff you see in the game (assumedly not any of the weapons — that would be crazy and wrong)

Best Buy is also following suit with a listing of all their midnight opening stores as well but all they have in the way of cool stuff is a $10 gift card. For no apparent reason, they’re still pushing a Tekken 6 sweepstakes. They are though selling all the various versions of MW2.

Oh and the release calendar for next week has COD:MW2’s biggest competition as –  people not having money to buy any version of the game. As far as other games, it’s not that there aren’t other games being released, it’s just no one cares. No surprise that Left for Dead 2 wisely releases the following week otherwise it probably would have been left for dead on the shelves.

So there you have it, all the hullabaloo you can cram into four days is being crammed. Thankfully we haven’t seen the marketing machine’s ugly head pop up offering us things like Modern Warfare themed energy drinks, keychains and messenger bags. No this time around the excitement is thoroughly justified, the hype is set at the proper level and as we mentioned before, it would be amazing if after all this we don’t get what we’ve been eagerly waiting for.

If you happen to see a post next week that looks like the ramblings of a crazy person gushing with love and admiration about a videogame, you won’t need to guess what it’s about.

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