There has been a lot of buzz recently involving Infinity Ward and their amazing successful game, Modern Warfare 2. Some news has been bad, while others remain great. Lets start with the good news.
As we all know, MW2's first map pack, The Stimulus Package, just came out. To celebrate its release on the 360, Infinity Ward doubled the amount of XP over the release weekend. Of course that meant I would have to prestige. My first map was the Overgrown map, which is one of my favorites from the new map pack. The pack included maps from the original MW and all new ones as well. All maps were pretty decent, but my only complaint is that all the maps seem to cater to snipers, which is great if you are a sniper, but not so much for those of us who like to run around. I ended up zombiefying myself in front of the TV the whole weekend until my hands were numb and I have to say, it was a lot of fun. After the first initial release problems on day one, everything seemed to be up and running fine.
Despite Infinity Wards successes, there hangs a shadow over the development company. Lately, if you haven't been reading your news sites, Infinity Ward founders Jason West and Vince Zampella are filing a lawsuit against Activision over their termination and their loss of royalties. Activision is filing a counter suit as well claiming they were "self serving schemers". Since then, West and Zampella have formed their own development team, Respawn Entertainment and have signed with EA. Now, its just been announced that two more key employees at IW have left. Both Jon Shiring, who has been a programmer with IW for 6 years, and Mackey McCandish, a key designer with IW for 8 years, have left today and severely crippled the future of the series. Who will leave next?
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