Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II — Preview of underwater stealth at the Amsterdam docks
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Infinity Ward showed off a new underwater stealth warfare level of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II at the Summer Game Fest.
The level from the single-player campaign depicts a mission involving stealth instead of run-and-gun fighting. In this second mission in the campaign, TaskForce 141 leader Captain John Price goes into the water in a lake with a fellow operative in Amsterdam. They start in a boat and then dive into the water when they get close to some bad guys.
Price’s team is infiltrating with knives instead of guns in an attempt to stay quiet, said John O’Hara, game director at Infinity Ward, at a press event where we also saw the level. The fictional terrorist group Al-Qatala has been using ports in Europe to smuggle weapons and TaskForce 141 is trying to disrupt it.
As the player, you take control and swim under water. You can go up to a guard and jump out of the water, pull the guard down, and stab the guard with a knife. With luck, other guards won’t notice. This happened for a while in our demo until some guards saw a takedown. They started reacting and the TaskForce 141 soldiers shot them with silenced weapons.
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But at some point, the whole network of guards was alerted and the soldiers had to dive underwater. You could look upward and see the enemies on the dock and swim around them to sneak up from behind. You could also shoot
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