I'm really wondering what idiot came up with this idea: A 3rd person view in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer?! Come on!! Does this make any sense to you?!
Although this option will only be available in private MP matches, it's nonetheless senseless. In its long ranging history Call of Duty always was a First Person Shooter as much as it could have been - and that's how it should be! What do the developers want to achieve with adding this 3rd person view? I simply don't get it ... Besides, of course, marketing purposes: The wide-spread discussion about the match-making-system, the leaked 3rd person view video and now the controversy about letting the player participate in a terrorist massacreare all part of a large-scale marketing campaign.
And all of this won't stop me from buying MW2 the first day it comes out! Of course not!! But I consider the decision to add a 3rd person view to a pure FPS-game to be inconsequent and inappropriate. The next logical step would be to add a mechanic for fistfighting in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 or World at War 2 - it worked great in Uncharted 2 and Batman: Arkham Asylum, so ... why not?!