So sometimes people in the industry will do a little ditty for the fans and record themselves opening up the box of a game before it is attainable to us. Usually, it’s less than exciting and has something useless like, oh I don’t know, a helmet that can only fit the head of newborn kitten. But this, this… (Call of Duty) Modern Warfare 2? I put it in parentheses because the last that was announced was that Call of Duty WAS going to be in the official finalized title, after all the switching back and forth a la Bioshock 2: Sea of Dreams (Or whatever they ended up deciding on/Are still deciding with Bioshock), but in the strikingly exciting unboxing that was revealed via Robert Bowling’s twitter feed the other day, Community Manager and Bossman of all things Modern Warfare, Call of Duty was lacking from the boxart of the Hardened edition shown. Then again, I suppose there is plenty of time to make amendments, but I figured if it was being revealed as an epic unboxing, that it was the finalized packaging.

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