There was, of course, a lot we didn't see. Bowling talked about dogs chasing the player in a forest, about multiple missions in Rio which he's proud to note don't have the developers re-using the same digital terrain in both.

Even more tantalizing was talk of the mysterious Special Ops mode, a batch of co-op missions that will last as long as the game's single-player campaign. Bowling said that the developers didn't think co-op gameplay would work throughout the game's campaign, so they chose to pull sections out, remix them and make some new missions, all tailored for co-op, and dub it Special Ops. Examples Bowling provided were a snowmobile race, a water-based fight alongside Navy SEALS, or a fight against a rush of 50 enemies.

Infinity Ward isn't showing Special Ops yet, but they do sound close to revealing more about that and the series' returning competitive multiplayer.

A few odd and ends: Bowling said that the length of the game's campaign hasn't been locked in yet. He said decisions have not been made yet as to whether to reward players of the first Modern Warfare with unlocks in MW2, but if that was done, the unlocks would not be performance-enhancers. Bowling declined to reveal the make and model of the night vision goggles coming packaged with the $149 Prestige edition of the game, but did say he's used them with the lights turned out in the Infinity Wards studios and did confirm that night vision goggles are banned in Belgium and France — so maybe no Prestige editions for those countries.