Third-person perspective confirmed for Modern Warfare 2 [Updated]

Update: Developer Infinity Ward has confirmed the feature.

It shouldn't be a surprise that copies of Infinity Ward's Modern Warfare 2 have already slipped through the net, giving a handful of gamers the opportunity of becoming the announcers on new in-game features, instead of the actual developers themselves. One PlayStation 3 owner managed to grab a pirated copy; instead of leaping straight into the gaming forums telling everyone how awesome the game is, they managed to dig up a new perspective on the title, in the form of a third person view.

The video below is supposed footage of the third person perspective in play. However, with such poor video quality, there are no signs of aiming sights which made many think that the person could simply be viewing the game via spectator mode. This mode allows you to zip around the battle and simply watch the game instead of taking part, but as a spectator it is unlikely you would be able to view a player's ammunition, rank statistics, and their mini map.

Though many may not be convinced, another slice of evidence was fished out, as a screenshot (top) from the game's multiplayer mode list was posted and translated courtesy of the guys over at the Infinity Ward forums. The list reads:

team deathmatch
free-for-all
domination
ground war
sabotage
HQ Pro
Search and destroy
capture the flag
demolition
3rd person team deathmatch
hardcore team deathmatch
hardcore Search and destroy
teamdeathmatch ...(cant read) (maybe something like team tactical)
cage match 3rd person

Again, this could easily be a slip up, but as veterans of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare will know, adding a third person perspective, especially to Cage matches, could be revolutionary to the series, and could easily convert third person addicts such as myself into a COD fanatic.

Source:Kombo.com

Alternate Source:YourEMGN

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