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“Whoops, didn’t mean to reveal that aspect of the game…okay, I did.”
Robert Bowling, also known on his Twitter account as “fourzerotwo” has posted on his Twitter profile regarding dual weilding in Modern Warfare 2.
The update on his profile says: “Just walked off stage. Crowd was amazing, went insane chanting ‘pick it up!’ when I stumbled over Dual-wield Deagles. lol – Akimbo confirmed”
Now, it’s obvious to me that Infinity Ward did this intentionally to create some attention, but it’s reassuring that Infinity Ward are revealing more about their game, in order to give fans a better view of what the game really has to offer.
So, what can we expect, will it just be the Desert eagles that can be dual-wielded, or every pistol?
To view the post on his Twitter, click HERE.
To view Robert Bowling’s Twitter account, click HERE.
UPDATE:
Robeert Bowling has written on his blog site regarding the accusations of “over powered” weapons:
“I was presenting a singleplayer mission at the GameCrazy show this morning on stage and happened to walk over a body that had Akimbo (dual wield side arm), therefore the icon for the weapon popped up on screen and the room went crazy with chants demanding I pick it up and use it.
So I did.
Happened to be dual Deagles. Now to calm some initial fears of “OMG! Overpowered!”. Akimbo is limited and balanced, just like EVERYTHING in the game. It’s limited to sidearms, harder to aim than standard and you can’t go ADS (aim down sights) since you have a weapon in each hand; Among other balancing techniques, so don’t freak out before you see it in action.”
Article from Gamersyndrome.com
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What do you guys think?
Do you like the idea of dual wielding?
I personally think this is a great idea; giving fans what they want.
Considering Deagles are 2 hit kills, with 7 bullets in each magazine and are pretty easy to rapid fire I reckon this could easily be abused by the same people who use “noob tubes”, juggernaut and/or frag x3 in cod4. Oh well it still sounds awesome hopefully the recoil will be increased so it’s not too overpowered. BTW I’m not certain but I’m pretty sure the picture you used is from Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising which although is also based on Modern War, has a much more tactical, squad based and “sim” feel compared to MW2.
Tobi, what are you talking about?
?? What didn’t make sense oh and check this out http://kotaku.com/5344941/its-now-legal-to-sell-adult-games-to-minors-in-the-uk
” I changed the picture”, is what I was trying to make imply.
I’m severely disappointed. Dual wielding pistols is not only near impossible, it’s definitively not something you’d see any ‘top-secret special command force’ like the one the characters are apart of in Modern Warfare two. To be frank, it’s just stupid. I know COD was never meant to be realistic (farthest war game from it), but still, I expect dual wielding DEs to have some serious kickback.
My thoughts exactly.
Like Tobi said, if it does come out, I hope they put some serious recoil on it, or else not only will people will modified controllers be ruining our game, but also I’m thinking that an easy way around recoil is to simply crouch whenever you see an enemy.
But, seeing how Infinity Ward made the RPG the most in- accurate weapon, they might tweak it fairly.
Hey cmon, James Bond could duel wield Ak-47s in Goldeneye for N64, two desert eagles should be a piece of cake!
Just to inform everyone, Robert Bowling has responded to the accusations about how fans fear how over powered this feature might be, read the bottom of the news post.
Thanks for the update. I wish he went into more detail about how accurate dual wielding would be, but it’s enough. This info should’ve been in the here since the beggining though so there wouldn’t have been people like me going “ZOMG WTF?!?!!1!?”
True.
I guess Infinity Ward wasn’t expecting such a quiz over the announcement.