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Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® II

Infinity Ward · Activision · 2022-10-22

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

Releases: Oct 28, 2022 (PlayStation 4), Oct 28, 2022 (Xbox One), Oct 28, 2022 (Xbox Series X|S), Oct 28, 2022 (PlayStation 5), Oct 28, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® II drops players into an unprecedented global conflict that features the iconic Operators of Task Force 141.

46%
positive of 29k reviews
Mixed
steam rating
80/100
critic score (4 outlets, IGDB)
72/100
IGDB user rating (174 ratings)
11h
to beat · rushed 10h · completionist 16h
borked
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$69.99
steam price (US)

Task Force 141 makes its massive return with a global squad of iconic veterans, these Operators include Captain John Price, Simon "Ghost" Riley, John "Soap" MacTavish, Kyle 'Gaz' Garrick and introducing Mexican Special Forces Colonel Alejandro Vargas.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 14,984 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1,873/week).
  • · Review velocity up 479% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 5% of 11,235 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 579k–1.3M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 28,929 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4.4k4.4k20232026Week of 2023-08-01: 257 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1,649 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 196 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 842 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 102 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 393 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 107 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 395 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 326 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 166 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 160 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 151 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 344 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 153 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 88 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 210 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 81 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 142 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 266 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 139 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 101 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 76 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 78 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 76 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 51 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 77 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 62 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 51 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 79 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 119 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 134 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 100 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 486 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 303 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 157 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 136 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 285 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 177 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 258 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 124 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 273 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 131 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 250 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 146 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 259 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 128 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 256 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 160 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 174 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 130 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 310 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 183 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1,765 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2,372 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 4,439 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4,008 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1,003 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 888 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPCo-opOnline Co-opCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportCaptions available1 DLC

13 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese…

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2025-07-29 (Steam store data)

Where its players are

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

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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