Infinity Ward’s newest installment in the bestselling Call of Duty series can be called as the biggest gaming launch event of 2009. It is a follow up to Call Of Duty 4 : Modern Warfare and is being called the highest selling first person shooter of all time. Few other games have been hyped this much prior to launch .. and it in this case, it seems it lives up to all of it. The guys FoxNews seem to have gotten their hands on a copy and they think its damn good.

The new game has a tightly plotted story co-written by Jesse Stern ( writer and producer of NCIS ). It is engaging, and keeps you hooked right to the end. Our brief take on this new record setting game follows below the cut.

The highly anticipated video game, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, released today on Windows PCs, XBox 360 and Playstation 3 consoles. Swarms of gamers gathered at shops around the world ahead of its release waiting to get their hands on the much hyped game from Infinity Ward published by Activision.

The game is an anti-terrorist themed and of the  First Person Shooter ( FPS ) genre and is likely to become the most successful game of the year. According to Amazon, the pre-order sales were 50% higher than previous record-holder GTA4. It could easily trump “The Dark Knight” ’s opening gross of $155 million and make sales history in the entertainment industry itself.