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

Overview

Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) comes from Infinity Ward and is published by Activision. It arrived on Steam on Nov 11, 2009, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Multi-player, Co-op, Steam Achievements, Steam Cloud, Valve Anti-Cheat enabled, and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows and macOS so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009)'s latest SteamPulse observation recorded 179 players at 22 September 2026 - 01:56:21 UTC, with a tracked peak near 112,874. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 90% positive across 11,552 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) is available in 5 languages including:

4 regional rating boards including esrb, pegi, usk, and oflc

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) has no public VGI unit-sales estimate available and has 35,826 Steam recommendations. Revenue data is not available for this game yet. On Twitch, 15 streamers are live with around 341 total watchers.

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

Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

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 features for the first time in video games, the musical soundtrack of legendary Academy Award®, Golden Globe® Award, Grammy® Award and Tony winning composer Hans Zimmer. The title picks up immediately following the historic events of Call of Duty® 4: Modern Warfare®, the blockbuster title that earned worldwide critical acclaim, including: "Most Played Online Video Game" in history, 2009 Guinness World Records More than 50 Game of the Year awards, including the Console Game of the Year and Overall Game of the Year, 2007, from the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences® SPECIAL OPS CO-OPERATIVE An entirely new gameplay mode which supports 2-player co-operative play online that is unique from the single player story campaign. Special Ops pits players into a gauntlet of time-trial and objective-based missions. Rank-up as players unlock new Special Ops missions, each more difficult. Missions include highlights from the single player campaign, fan favorites from Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and all new, exclusive missions. MULTIPLAYER REINVENTED Setting a new bar for online multiplayer, Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer delivers new capabilities, customization, gamestates and modes, including: Create-a-Class Evolved Secondary Weapons - Machine Pistols, Shotguns, Handguns,…

SteamPulse editorial summary

Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) is listed as a game with $14.99 (25% off from $19.99). It supports Windows and macOS, belongs to Single-player, Multi-player, Co-op, Steam Achievements, Steam Cloud, Valve Anti-Cheat enabled, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Action. SteamPulse's latest observation records 179 players at 22 September 2026 - 01:56:21 UTC, a tracked peak of 112,874, and 90% positive reviews.

Overview tags

ActionFPSMultiplayerShooterFirst-PersonSingleplayerWarMilitaryCo-opOnline Co-OpPvPMasterpieceGreat SoundtrackStory RichAtmospheric

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Support and legal notes

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