Modern Warfare II will launch later this year, and although it hasn’t been officially unveiled, we’ve gathered everything we know about the upcoming shooter.
Along with death and taxes, we can always be certain a new Call of Duty game will launch every year — at least for the foreseeable future. The franchise has received annual releases since the launch of Call of Duty 2 in 2005, raking in tons of money for publisher Activision. Unsurprisingly, we’ll get a new Call of Duty game in 2022, and even though it hasn’t been officially unveiled, we do know it’ll be called Modern Warfare II. That’s right, this game will serve as a sequel to 2019’s Modern Warfare, continuing the story, time period, and hopefully beloved mechanics from that game. This isn’t a reboot of 2009’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, but rather, a brand new game — which can get confusing since the naming scheme is similar. Below is everything we know about 2022’s Modern Warfare II, including info about its developer, possible release date, and Warzone integration. Although the new Call of Duty game hasn’t been shown in action, we do know it will launch in 2022. Typically, Call of Duty games launch in November, but considering this new entry will be developed by Infinity Ward, it may release in October, just like Modern Warfare did in 2019. It was clear the previous two entries, Black Ops Cold War and Vanguard, weren’t as positively received — especially compared to Modern Warfare — so the team will likely follow in the footsteps of the 2019 game. Our guess is that Modern Warfare II will launch sometime in the fall of 2022. This will be a sequel to the 2019 game, not a remake of the 2009 title of the same name. Since Modern Warfare 2019 was so successful critically and commercially, it’s a no-brainer Activision will want to follow up with a sequel. On April 28, 2022, Infinity Ward finally announced the game’s name via Twitter, confirming the lengthy list of rumors over the past few months. Since it’s still so early, there isn’t a trailer for Modern Warfare II just yet. Typically, Activision reveals the next COD game in May for release in the fall, but in recent years, the publisher has pushed back the marketing cycle. It wasn’t until August that Call of Duty: Vanguard was officially unveiled, giving only three months of marketing until release. Since Modern Warfare II’s marketing cycle has begun, we’ll likely get our first teaser trailer in the coming months. Many modern games have completely ditched the previous generation of consoles (PlayStation 4 and Xbox One), but don’t expect this to be the case with Modern Warfare II. In looking at previous releases, Activision supported the previous generation for a couple of years after the launch of next-gen consoles. For example, the PS4 and Xbox One launched in 2013, but the Call of Duty series continued on Xbox 360 and PS3 until 2015 with the launch of Black Ops III. With that in mind, Modern Warfare II will probably be the last COD game to launch for PS4 and Xbox One. It will, of course, be available for current-gen PS5 and Xbox Series X/S systems, along with PC. We don’t expect the game to come to Nintendo Switch, as the series hasn’t been on a Nintendo platform in nearly a decade.
