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Call of Duty shocker: No local search for Modern Warfare 2
By James Cottee - Tue Sep 29, 2009 9:57am

"Mom! MOM!! I wanna sandwich!!
Infinity Ward creative strategist Robert Bowling has confirmed that in Modern Warfare 2, Aussie gamers won't be able to seek out other Aussie gamers for relatively lag and trauma-free game sessions.

From Bowling's Twitter:

"There isn't an option to search specific regions / countries when matchmaking, but there is improved matchmaking to auto-assist"

This is bad news for Australia, and all other non-American gamers, and has unsurprisingly triggered some colourful comments in the official Xbox forums: "in layman's terms, we are shafting all non-American gamers."

It's not like the technology is unfeasible; Treyarch's Treyarch's CoD: World at War supported Local Search.

This news stacks uncomfortably with the revelation that Modern Warfare 2 will not have any kind of zombie mode...
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