Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
The Call of Duty® experience supports Modern Warfare® 4, Black Ops 7 and Call of Duty®: Warzone™.
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- Released
- 2022
- Developer
- Treyarch
- Platforms
- 1 systems
- Critics
- Not scored
- Steam Deck
- unsupported
- Download
- Not stated
What is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II?
The Call of Duty® experience supports Modern Warfare® 4, Black Ops 7 and Call of Duty®: Warzone™.
Description as published by the developer on its own store page, read 30 August 2026. It is marketing copy, not our assessment.
The record
| First released | 26 October 2022 |
|---|---|
| Developer | Treyarch, Raven Software, Beenox, High Moon Studios, Sledgehammer Games, Infinity Ward, Activision Shanghai, Demonware |
| Publisher | Activision |
| Platforms | PC |
| Genres | First-Person Shooter |
| Languages | 14 supported |
Source. Catalogue facts from Wikidata , seeded TBA. Store data from Steam, read 30 August 2026.
How was Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II received?
Method. Player figures are Steam's own totals for the PC version, read 30 August 2026. The Metacritic score is the one Steam publishes on its store page and can lag the site itself. Neither is our opinion. We have not published a review of this game.
Accessibility
Seeing
- Color Alternatives
- Subtitle Options
- Camera Comfort
Hearing
- Custom Volume Controls
- Stereo Sound
- Surround Sound
Input
- Partial Controller Support
- Playable without Timed Input
Difficulty
None declared
Method. Features the publisher declared on its own store page. A declaration is a floor, not a review.
What does it support?
| Capability | Support |
|---|---|
| Controller | partial support |
| Cloud saves | No |
| Cross-platform play | Yes |
| Mod support | No official workshop |
| Online play | Yes |
| In-game purchases | Yes |
| Steam Deck | unsupported |
| Download size | Not stated |
| Add-on content | 46 DLC listed |
| Age gate | 17+ |
Content descriptors
- Frequent violence or gore
- General mature content
Method. Read from the publisher's Steam listing on 30 August 2026. Describes the PC version. Console versions differ.
Is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II worth it?
59% of 780,594 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Mixed. Its price is not listed. About 67,419 people were playing at once when we last checked, so it is still active.
That is the data, not a verdict for sale: whether it is worth it depends on the price you pay and what you want. Players do report problems — see the reported-problems section below before buying. We have not published our own review of this game.
How long is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II? How long to beat it
Total play time for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II is about 28.6 hours to do everything, and around 8.2 hours to reach the end of the main story. These are player-submitted times from HowLongToBeat, not our own, shown with the number of players behind each.
| How you play | Hours | Players logged |
|---|---|---|
| Just the main story: straight through the critical path | 8.2h | 666 |
| Main + the extras: story plus the side content most people do | 11.9h | 134 |
| Completionist: everything: 100% the game | 28.6h | 47 |
Source: HowLongToBeat community submissions, read 2026-10-19.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II system requirements
The minimum requirements from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II's Steam page. These are what it takes to launch and be playable, not to run at high settings.
| Memory | 8 GB RAM (other games at this level) |
|---|---|
| Processor | AMD Ryzen™ 5 1400 |
| Graphics | AMD Radeon™ RX 470 |
| System | 64-bit OS required |
Can your PC run it? Check Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II against your exact GPU, CPU and RAM.
Where Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II sits on the grid
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Players. The share of Steam reviews marked positive, pulled toward the catalogue average in proportion to how few reviews stand behind it. A game with 200 reviews moves a long way toward the average; one with 200,000 barely moves at all. Without this a title sitting at 100 percent on nine reviews outranks Half-Life 2 at 98 percent on 278,000.
Popularity. A blend of two things that are not the same. Audience is how many people wrote a Steam review, which is a floor on how many played it. Reach is how many language editions of Wikipedia document the game, which is cultural footprint rather than sales. A game can score high on one and low on the other: a huge free-to-play title has audience without reach, and a landmark console exclusive has reach without a Steam audience at all. Where both exist they are averaged; where only one does, that one carries it.
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Every point links to that game's entry. The value map and the reception map are fixed views of the same data.
How positions are decided
No paid placement, no favouritism, live third-party data
- Placed by the published method, not by us. Every coordinate is computed from the axis definitions and weights printed on this site. Nobody moves a point. See the axes.
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- No favouritism, including our own. The 16 games we have written full reviews of are scored by exactly the same formula as the other 1,510, from the same third-party inputs, and they land where it puts them. Our own opinion of a game does not enter its coordinates.
- A position is not an endorsement. It says how a game was received and what it costs, not that we recommend it. Where we do recommend something, it carries a written review with a name on it.
- Fetched from live third-party data. Player sentiment from Steam, critic aggregates as published on store pages, prices checked hourly, attention from Wikipedia. Each figure carries its source and the date it was read, and we do not adjust any of them.
Is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II still active? Players right now
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II has a top-tier live audience: 67,419 people were playing at once when we last read Steam on 19 October 2026. This is a snapshot, not a live counter, and it is a recent concurrent reading rather than an all-time record. For what is trending across the catalogue right now, see the pulse.
How many people own Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
This is an estimate, not a sales figure, and the two are not interchangeable. SteamSpy samples public profiles and publishes a range; the range here spans a factor of 2.0, and that width is the honest part of it. We show both ends rather than a midpoint, because a midpoint would look like a measurement.
Steam only. Console and storefront sales are not counted, so a game that sold heavily elsewhere reads low here. Read on 19 October 2026. Where a publisher has announced a real unit figure, that appears separately and carries its source.
Estimated sales for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
These are estimates, not reported figures. Treyarch has not published unit sales for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, and nobody outside the company can measure them. What follows is arithmetic on the review count, with the method printed below so you can check it or reject it.
How this was calculated
Steam sales track review counts closely enough that dividing one by the other across games with published figures gives a usable multiplier. This is the standard method for estimating sales from outside a publisher.
| Reviews on Steam | 780,594 |
|---|---|
| Sales per review | 30 to 60 |
| List price | Not recorded |
| Assumed average selling price | 33% to 66% of list |
| SteamSpy owner estimate | 50M–100M, a different measure, see below |
What this cannot tell you
Steam only. Console, Epic, GOG and retail sales are not in here. For a game that sold heavily on PlayStation this is a fraction of the real number.
The band is wide because the method is imprecise. Review rates vary with price, genre, launch era and how insistently a game asks. Published analyses put the ratio between 30 and 60 for paid games, and we show the whole range rather than picking a point in it.
The owner estimate above measures something else. SteamSpy counts accounts that have the game, which includes free weekends, bundles, giveaways and gifts. It sits higher than a sales figure for that reason, and the two are not alternative answers to the same question.
Revenue is the shakiest line. It assumes an average selling price well below list because most copies move in sales, and it ignores regional pricing, refunds, key resellers and whatever deal the publisher actually has with Valve. Treat it as an order of magnitude, not a figure.
If Treyarch publishes a real number we will use that instead and say where it came from. Our editorial policy covers how we handle figures we cannot verify.
Latest Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II updates & patch notes
Pulled from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II's own Steam feed on 5 September 2026. Posts marked as from the studio were written by the developer; the rest are articles Steam syndicated from elsewhere. Every one links to its source.
What readers say about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
Reviews written by people who have played it. These are separate from the GamingPickz Score and are never averaged into it: that score comes from thousands of Steam reviews with a sample-size correction, and a handful of unverified ratings would distort it rather than improve it.
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Problems players report
We read the 300 most recent negative Steam reviews of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II on 14 September 2026 and counted what they mention. These are complaints, not confirmed defects: we have not reproduced any of them, and a review describes one person's machine. What the counts tell you is which problems more than one person ran into.
- Launchers, accounts and anti-cheat11 of 300 (4%)
- Please just give us a standalone game instead of forcing zombies players through every multiplayer/warzone anti cheat requirement imaginable.
Steam review, 2 September 2026 · 1,216 hours played · 18 readers marked it helpfulwhat a sorry excuse for an anticheat.
Steam review, 5 September 2026 · 1,096 hours played · 3 readers marked it helpful
A further 4 reviews call the game buggy or broken without saying how, which is why they are counted separately rather than assigned to a theme. Counted by keyword across review text, so a review discussing two problems is counted under both. Read the reviews yourself.
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Games like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
24 games overlap with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II on the tags Steam players applied to it, on genre, and on theme. The closest are Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and Insurgency: Sandstorm.
Part of the Call of series
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II is one of 24 Call of games we track. See the whole series ranked by the GamingPickz Score, plotted on the grid, and listed in release order:
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II head to head
See Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II compared side by side, on score, price, specs and more:
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Common questions about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
What platforms is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II on?
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II is available on PC. It first released in 2022.
Do players recommend Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II?
59% of 780,594 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Mixed. That is players rating it, not our review. We have not published a review of this game.
Does Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II work on Steam Deck?
Valve rates Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II as unsupported on the Steam Deck, from its own testing.
Who made Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II?
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II was developed by Treyarch, Raven Software, Beenox, High Moon Studios, Sledgehammer Games, Infinity Ward, Activision Shanghai, Demonware and published by Activision.
Is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II worth it in 2026?
59% of 780,594 Steam reviews are positive (Mixed), and its price is not listed. That is the strongest signal we hold; "worth it" depends on the price you pay and what you want, so weigh the sentiment against the current price above.
Is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II dead?
No. About 67,419 people were in-game at once when we last read Steam's concurrent-player figure. Peak activity is higher; this is a recent snapshot, not the all-time peak.
What are the system requirements for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II?
At minimum, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II needs 8 GB RAM, a AMD Ryzen™ 5 1400, a AMD Radeon™ RX 470, from its Steam listing. That is what it takes to launch and be playable, not to run at high settings. Check it against your own PC on the can-I-run page.
How long does it take to beat Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II?
about 8.2 hours for the main story, 11.9 hours with the main extras, 28.6 hours to complete everything, from HowLongToBeat's player-submitted times. These are community medians, so your own run may be shorter or longer.