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The IW video builds anxiety for the full 1:58 seconds of its length and plays more like a trailer for next week's "24" than it does an FPS.

You are left to guess as to what is going on as the green-hued film does its best confuse and confound the viewer. Blurring and silhouetting is used throughout to ensure you do not get a full glimpse of the game.

Nevertheless, let's summarize what we can see:

22s Russian sounding people walking about.

23s Japanese(?) then English speaking voice makes routine announcement over an airport PA system to passengers.

31s An elevator can be heard arriving just in front of you. Doors open as the bell rings announcing its arrival.

37s You get in elevator (video appears to be shot in first person). Elevator doors slide shut. Motor can be heard raising elevator to next floor.

41s Sounds of a zipper indicate bags are being opened. Metallic clicks are unmistakably those of a weapon being assembled and loaded with a magazine.

48s Level L1 is reached. No one gets off, elevator keeps rising.

54s There may be two shooters as a machine gun is cocked followed quickly by what sounds like a pistol being readied.

55s Level M (main floor) is reached and elevator continues going up.

58s Man coughs. You quickly see a glimpse of what appear to be two men. One directly in front of you, who seems to be wearing a loose fitting suit and to the right a man with an ill-fitting one.

11 Level 1 is reached, elevator continues rising.

15 Russian words exchanged between the two men.

18 Level 2 is reached. Elevator stops and bell rings. Man on the left says, "Remember, no Russian".

1:12 Doors open and the men in the elevator head to Airport Security. A third man can be seen to far left. Many passengers milling about heading to their flights.

1:17 You can see some people waiting in line across the screen.

1:20 A violent burst of gunfire erupts. Women scream.

1:23 Scene immediately transitions to a collage of pictures; however, the airport massacre audio continues overtop. Helicopter gunships, tanks, exploding buildings, twisted metal are some of the images that flash by.

The helicopters appear to be American AH-6J's armed with rockets and miniguns. In real life, these attack choppers support US Army's Special Operations.

Note at 1:20.89 choppers appear to be strafing a submarine pen (is that a nuclear sub conning tower?).

By the way, there's no coincidence that the shooters stop on Level "2". After all, the "2" is a sly reference to MW "2". Interestingly, you can see Level "3" just to its right...is IW already advertising a follow up game?

If we had not ever heard of Modern Warfare, a casual observer watching this video would have assumed that this FPS game would be more like a Rainbow Six game than one like CoD4

Will MW2 go from a platoon level military shooter to a small squad anti-terrorist unit - or a special ops tactical game?

One thing for sure, the spoken Russian will mean a lot of snow maps. Just when I was about to pack away my cross-country skies.

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Originally posted by chris_uk
have you seen the video yet danny?

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