Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II — Shooting while sliding around the shipping containers

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Imagine you’re trying to shoot a bunch of bad guys, but everybody is sliding around back and forth on a ship in stormy seas. On top of that, there are shipping containers on the deck of the cargo ship, and they’re sliding around too and maybe crushing you.

That’s what you’ll get with one of the water-logged levels of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, which debuts on October 28. Activision’s Infinity Ward studio showed the level off today at the Summer Game Fest.

This demo started off with some stealth on board an oil rig. They took out a bunch of folks, then hopped aboard a boat and crashed it into a ship. Then the strike team boarded the ship where the high seas are taking over.

One of the other innovations in the game is moving cover in the form of freight containers aboard a big ship. The ship is on rocky seas, and the containers roll across the surface of a big ship and an oil rig in the ocean. You have to try to move and shoot and outmaneuver enemies all while the iron containers are trying to crush you. You can go with the flow or hop up on top of the containers to get a vertical advantage on nearby enemies, but someone at a distance can take you down.

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While Infinity Ward tried not to fix what wasn’t broken with the original 2019 Modern Warfare game, it did show off small innovations like this that could make the gameplay better. Water