A tank, a humvee, and Infinity Ward developers along with CEO Vince Zampella helped bring a festive atmosphere to the game’s midnight launch at a Los Angeles Best Buy. Writing for AP, Derrik J. Lang talked to first adopters and Zampella on the culmination of one of the year’s biggest game campaigns. Zampella expressed relief that a stressful unveiling period for the game has ended.
Modern Warfare 2 has had its share of negative publicity, namely from the leaked terrorist mission video and the decision to forego dedicated servers for multiplayer. One midnight reveler who lined up speculated that the servers would crash on launch night. Zampella told Lang that headaches to come over the next week will include things that will screw up that we have to fix. AP says more than 10,000 retail outlets across the US had midnight launches for the game. Read more from AP.
