Uploaded May 2014 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
For those who didn't know, there was a game mode for Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 3 that was cut before the game ever released. The following down below is a description of the mode itself...
Global Thermonuclear War is a removed multiplayer gametype in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Each side fights to capture a Tactical Nuke in the middle of the map. Once a team has captured it, a countdown automatically starts, and lasts 40 seconds. When the countdown ends, the nuke explodes, killing all players on the map and winning the game for the team that captured the nuke. For a team to capture the nuke, players have to be in the area around the nuke. For every second in that area, a point is given to that player's team. Once 100 points have been scored by one team the countdown begins.
Global Thermonuclear War is a game mode only accessible through modding.
During the gametype, the teams would often resort to almost exclusively using explosives to get their enemy off the Tactical Nuke, make a mad dash to the Tactical Nuke and hold it as long as possible, only to get blown up by the other team. The simplicity of this gametype is most likely the reason it was removed.
I have information about the game mode making its actual debut in Ghosts. From what I have heard, Infinity Ward is planning on releasing this game mode (and its Hardcore counterpart) into Ghosts in the last DLC package. I believe if this where to happen they would likely get rid of the use of explosives in this mode, like it says below, that was the main reason for cutting the mode. By eliminating explosives it would make it harder to get the NUKE itself, and I'd assume there would be other changes, the obvious one would be changing it from a NUKE into a K.E.M. Strike that would end the game.
Another possibility would be maybe they wouldn't allow killstreaks or support streaks in any form for this game mode either, this would help to level out the playing field, the only advantage anyone would have would be how well your team could communicate and what kind of weapons/attachments you have.
What do you guys think? Write a comment down below, do you think this game mode is actually coming to Ghosts? What are the chances you'd play it on a regular basis if it indeed did come to Ghosts? What other things do you think they'd do with this game mode?
For those who didn't know, there was a game mode for Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 3 that was cut before the game ever released. The following down below is a description of the mode itself...
Global Thermonuclear War is a removed multiplayer gametype in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Each side fights to capture a Tactical Nuke in the middle of the map. Once a team has captured it, a countdown automatically starts, and lasts 40 seconds. When the countdown ends, the nuke explodes, killing all players on the map and winning the game for the team that captured the nuke. For a team to capture the nuke, players have to be in the area around the nuke. For every second in that area, a point is given to that player's team. Once 100 points have been scored by one team the countdown begins.
Global Thermonuclear War is a game mode only accessible through modding.
During the gametype, the teams would often resort to almost exclusively using explosives to get their enemy off the Tactical Nuke, make a mad dash to the Tactical Nuke and hold it as long as possible, only to get blown up by the other team. The simplicity of this gametype is most likely the reason it was removed.
I have information about the game mode making its actual debut in Ghosts. From what I have heard, Infinity Ward is planning on releasing this game mode (and its Hardcore counterpart) into Ghosts in the last DLC package. I believe if this where to happen they would likely get rid of the use of explosives in this mode, like it says below, that was the main reason for cutting the mode. By eliminating explosives it would make it harder to get the NUKE itself, and I'd assume there would be other changes, the obvious one would be changing it from a NUKE into a K.E.M. Strike that would end the game.
Another possibility would be maybe they wouldn't allow killstreaks or support streaks in any form for this game mode either, this would help to level out the playing field, the only advantage anyone would have would be how well your team could communicate and what kind of weapons/attachments you have.
What do you guys think? Write a comment down below, do you think this game mode is actually coming to Ghosts? What are the chances you'd play it on a regular basis if it indeed did come to Ghosts? What other things do you think they'd do with this game mode?
