Modern Warfare 2 Inception Demo Released

There’s got to be a good reason why it took nine months for Activision to release a demo version of last year’s biggest game. Activision released a single-player demo for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of its hit game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on Wednesday. Modern Warfare 2 came out last November and sold like hotcakes, moving nearly 10 million copies by March of this year. Tom Chick at Syfy’s Fidgit blog wisely points out that the demo, recreating the snowbound early moments of the full Modern Warfare 2 game, bears a striking resemblance to one of the dream-within-a-dream action sequences in this year’s biggest film, Inception. If you subscribe to the notion that most everyone who intends to buy and play Modern Warfare 2 has already done so, then the idea of Activision attempting wring a couple more sales on the back of a Hollywood hit doesn’t seem all that crazy. It should be noted that the forthcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops also has a sequence that re-creates a frigid assault on a snowy enemy fortress. With any luck, Inception will be out on DVD by then. – GameLife