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Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) cover art

Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009)

Infinity Ward · Activision · 2009-11-11

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Action

Franchise: Call of Duty · Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Dec 10, 2009 (PlayStation 3), Nov 11, 2009 (Mac), Nov 10, 2009 (Xbox 360), Nov 10, 2009 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The most-anticipated game of the year and the sequel to the best-selling first-person action game of all time, Modern Warfare 2 continues the gripping and heart-racing action as players face off against a new threat dedicated to bringing the world to the brink of collapse.

Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) is an Action game released in 2009, priced at $19.99, with an estimated 5,000,000 .. 10,000,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (93% of 61052 reviews).

210
playing now
93%
positive of 61k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
5,000,000–10,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
85/100
critic score (10 outlets, IGDB)
82/100
IGDB user rating (1558 ratings)
9h
to beat · rushed 11h · completionist 11h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

210 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 10:00 UTC (census sample)

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is a 2009 first-person shooter game developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision. It is the sixth installment in the Call of Duty series and the direct sequel to Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. It was released worldwide on November 10, 2009, for Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. A separate version for the Nintendo DS, titled Modern Warfare: Mobilized, was also released on the same day. A version for OS X was developed by Aspyr and released in May 2014, and the Xbox 360 version was made backward compatible for the Xbox One in 2018.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 210 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 1,819 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~227/week).
  • · Review velocity up 4% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 2% of 27,536 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.4M–4.9M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 61,182 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.61 at Nuuvem (2016-06-17) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 11 of 21 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
58358320182026Week of 2018-03-01: 192 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 120 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 100 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 136 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 139 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 87 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 141 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 327 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 121 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 116 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 124 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 107 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 380 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 413 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 110 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 518 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 325 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 248 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 157 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 271 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 424 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 367 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 240 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 248 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 218 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 229 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 249 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 296 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 257 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 282 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 270 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 250 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 275 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 484 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 280 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 232 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 319 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 292 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 208 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 318 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 312 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 387 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 304 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 304 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 413 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 303 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 373 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 371 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 288 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 320 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 300 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 583 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 462 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 462 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 432 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 372 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 296 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 383 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 67 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 354 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 478 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 402 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 439 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 387 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 412 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 270 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 279 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 213 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 225 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 238 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 234 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 256 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 242 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 246 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 92 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 176 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 169 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 183 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 199 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 223 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 205 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 216 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 201 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 151 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 213 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 224 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 205 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 141 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 176 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 195 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 234 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 257 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 200 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 239 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 168 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 263 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 196 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 229 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 182 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 262 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2026-10-01: 3 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

5111572026-09-14 19:00 — 493 players2026-09-16 04:00 — 264 players2026-09-17 11:00 — 307 players2026-09-18 19:00 — 483 players2026-09-20 02:00 — 276 players2026-09-21 10:00 — 228 players2026-09-22 17:00 — 414 players2026-09-24 01:00 — 225 players2026-09-25 08:00 — 245 players2026-09-26 16:00 — 432 players2026-09-27 23:00 — 304 players2026-09-29 07:00 — 168 players2026-09-30 14:00 — 307 players2026-10-01 22:00 — 255 players2026-10-03 05:00 — 201 players2026-10-04 14:00 — 448 players2026-10-05 21:00 — 293 players2026-10-07 05:00 — 157 players2026-10-08 12:00 — 269 players2026-10-09 20:00 — 399 players2026-10-11 03:00 — 274 players2026-10-12 11:00 — 201 players2026-10-13 18:00 — 405 players2026-10-14 10:00 — 210 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1.2k299Jul 2012Aug 2026Jul 2012 — avg 1,157 · peak 2,021Dec 2012 — avg 1,025 · peak 2,231May 2013 — avg 625 · peak 1,262Oct 2013 — avg 639 · peak 1,402Mar 2014 — avg 561 · peak 1,210Aug 2014 — avg 608 · peak 1,414Jan 2015 — avg 673 · peak 1,481Jun 2015 — avg 533 · peak 1,070Nov 2015 — avg 598 · peak 1,354Apr 2016 — avg 618 · peak 1,511Sep 2016 — avg 622 · peak 1,396Feb 2017 — avg 585 · peak 1,143Jul 2017 — avg 520 · peak 1,041Dec 2017 — avg 571 · peak 1,112May 2018 — avg 437 · peak 776Oct 2018 — avg 437 · peak 833Mar 2019 — avg 474 · peak 932Aug 2019 — avg 447 · peak 787Jan 2020 — avg 422 · peak 772Jun 2020 — avg 416 · peak 700Nov 2020 — avg 430 · peak 834Apr 2021 — avg 393 · peak 739Sep 2021 — avg 372 · peak 684Feb 2022 — avg 441 · peak 808Jul 2022 — avg 385 · peak 619Dec 2022 — avg 440 · peak 779May 2023 — avg 361 · peak 699Oct 2023 — avg 393 · peak 730Mar 2024 — avg 350 · peak 639Aug 2024 — avg 359 · peak 604Jan 2025 — avg 358 · peak 624Jun 2025 — avg 364 · peak 649Nov 2025 — avg 358 · peak 691Apr 2026 — avg 345 · peak 644Aug 2026 — avg 299 · peak 495
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

PositiveNegative
34342026-09-222026-10-132026-09-22: 34 new positive2026-09-22: 1 new negative2026-09-23: 2 new positive2026-09-24: 8 new positive2026-09-25: 4 new positive2026-09-26: 16 new positive2026-09-28: 6 new positive2026-09-28: 1 new negative2026-10-01: 9 new positive2026-10-03: 9 new positive2026-10-05: 4 new positive2026-10-07: 4 new positive2026-10-07: 1 new negative2026-10-09: 11 new positive2026-10-09: 2 new negative2026-10-11: 11 new positive2026-10-13: 11 new positive
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$176.10$4.612015-01-012026-07-302015-01-01 — best price $9.992015-02-26 — best price $25.732015-04-23 — best price $21.022015-06-28 — best price $11.012015-09-07 — best price $9.992015-12-11 — best price $9.992016-02-05 — best price $9.992016-04-12 — best price $9.992016-06-17 — best price $4.612016-09-26 — best price $9.992017-01-02 — best price $19.992017-03-21 — best price $19.992017-07-03 — best price $9.992017-09-25 — best price $19.992018-01-02 — best price $9.992018-03-19 — best price $19.992018-06-15 — best price $8.502018-09-11 — best price $19.992018-11-22 — best price $9.992019-01-10 — best price $19.992019-03-18 — best price $9.972019-05-10 — best price $19.992019-07-13 — best price $19.992019-10-14 — best price $19.992019-12-23 — best price $9.792020-02-15 — best price $19.992020-04-28 — best price $9.992020-10-01 — best price $19.992021-05-14 — best price $14.992021-12-18 — best price $16.992022-10-14 — best price $9.992023-09-26 — best price $19.992024-09-24 — best price $19.992025-06-27 — best price $14.992026-03-19 — best price $14.992026-07-30 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1.9k9652026-06-03 — 1,441 pageviews2026-06-07 — 1,446 pageviews2026-06-11 — 1,051 pageviews2026-06-15 — 1,095 pageviews2026-06-19 — 1,127 pageviews2026-06-23 — 1,110 pageviews2026-06-27 — 1,375 pageviews2026-07-01 — 1,246 pageviews2026-07-05 — 1,286 pageviews2026-07-09 — 1,513 pageviews2026-07-13 — 1,451 pageviews2026-07-17 — 1,459 pageviews2026-07-21 — 1,610 pageviews2026-07-25 — 1,325 pageviews2026-07-29 — 1,132 pageviews2026-08-02 — 1,139 pageviews2026-08-06 — 1,072 pageviews2026-08-10 — 1,130 pageviews2026-08-14 — 1,023 pageviews2026-08-18 — 1,166 pageviews2026-08-22 — 1,234 pageviews2026-08-26 — 1,198 pageviews2026-08-30 — 1,247 pageviews2026-09-03 — 1,047 pageviews2026-09-07 — 1,138 pageviews2026-09-11 — 1,016 pageviews2026-09-15 — 965 pageviews2026-09-19 — 1,044 pageviews2026-09-23 — 1,082 pageviews2026-09-27 — 1,139 pageviews2026-10-01 — 982 pageviews2026-10-05 — 1,131 pageviews2026-10-09 — 1,055 pageviews2026-10-13 — 1,215 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

52902026-09-30 18:34 — 4 viewers2026-10-01 00:34 — 28 viewers2026-10-01 06:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-02 03:34 — 63 viewers2026-10-02 09:34 — 30 viewers2026-10-02 15:34 — 7 viewers2026-10-02 21:34 — 5 viewers2026-10-03 03:34 — 20 viewers2026-10-04 01:34 — 25 viewers2026-10-04 07:34 — 529 viewers2026-10-04 13:34 — 187 viewers2026-10-04 19:34 — 61 viewers2026-10-05 01:34 — 14 viewers2026-10-05 23:34 — 8 viewers2026-10-06 05:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-06 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-07 23:34 — 4 viewers2026-10-08 05:34 — 3 viewers2026-10-08 11:34 — 10 viewers2026-10-09 22:34 — 12 viewers2026-10-10 04:34 — 8 viewers2026-10-10 10:34 — 4 viewers2026-10-11 22:34 — 7 viewers2026-10-12 04:34 — 54 viewers2026-10-12 10:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 00:34 — 10 viewers2026-10-14 06:34 — 38 viewers2026-10-14 10:34 — 0 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

50
achievements tracked
71.7%
earned "Two Birds with One Stone"
21.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opSteam AchievementsSteam CloudValve Anti-Cheat enabledFamily Sharing2 DLC

5 supported languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish - Spain

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2010-05-04, latest 2010-07-06 (Steam store data)

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

FPSPvPWarCo-opActionShooterMilitaryControllerStory RichAtmospheric

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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