When you fire up Modern Warfare 2, you will land on a screen where you can launch Campaign, Multiplayer or Special Ops – the new co-op mode. You can also see your completion levels for each one.

You can play Special Ops solo if you want, but you won’t get far that way. The ticket to survival is a friend, you can play split-screen or on Xbox Live/Playstation Network with two players max. Just remember, there is no drop-in/drop-out, so you will want a reliable partner who will stick with you if you want to get killer times/scores.

Special Ops is broken down into 5 groups that escalate in difficulty – Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta and Echo – and you can earn up to 3 stars for completing each of the 23 missions. You get one star for completing it on Regular, two for Hardened and three for Veteran. Since it takes 14 stars to open up the next group, there’ll be no strolls in the park.

There will be a lot of intriguing gameplay you won’t see anywhere else in Modern Warfare 2. Many of the ideas for Special Ops came from quality single player concepts that didn’t quite fit into the Campaigns flow. Special Ops was where Infinity Ward didn’t want to compromise on story, “but still wanted cool co-op moments”.

Here are the objectives that you will be required to complete in the missions

• Assault – Sends you through a level to take down targets while avoiding civilians
• Stealth – Has you sneak past enemies
• Wave Defense – Spawn’s five increasingly harder waves – just like GoW2’s Horde Mode
• Elimination – Drops you into a level with a set number of spawning enemies
• Snowmobile Time Trials – Get to the finish line as quick as possible
• Snowmobile Combat – Race against, and shoot your friend
• AC-130 – One man in the gunship handles fire support, while one man on the ground has a laser sight on his rifle calling down death from above.

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