Infinity Ward: Two-player the 'magic number' for co-op on VideoGamer.com has reflections from Robert Bowling at the Modern Warfare 2 developer that two is the "magic number" for co-op in the shooter sequel, with one being obviously too few, and making the case that any more than two is too many. He describes the decision to skip a co-op campaign in favor of a two-player Special Ops mode: "We don’t do co-op in our story because we’re crafting a very specific experience and we don’t want to ruin that by cramming co-op into it. We take the moments that work really well with co-op, we bring them out and we put them in Special Ops."