LOCKHEED AND LOADED: INFINITY WARD SHOW OFF MULTIPLAYER GUNSHIPS IN MODERN WARFARE 2

It’s the game that’s got other publishers pushing all of their late-year release dates out of its way into 2010, and it’s more guns and ammo than I normally might cotton to, but as I’ve said before, the persistence and leveling achievements that constituted Call of Duty 4‘s multiplayer made it easily one of the best faux-MMOs of 2007/2008, and developer Infinity Ward has just published a look at its online successor.

The biggest change you’ll see here: the ability for players to take control of the AC130 gunship in the midst of your skirmish and pick people off from a distance, precisely in the same way as you could in one of the most quietly disturbing and sobering sequences of CoD4‘s single-player mode.

As you will have seen, will see above, and will probably see many times across all media in the coming months: the game is due for release on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC on November 10th.