I was very pessimistic about this when it was announced that Treyarch, the developers of Finest Hour and Big Red One (bleh), were doing it. The thing is I haven't read a negative preview (of the 360 version, at least) and I still play COD2 regularly with friends, so a 24-player version will be beautiful. Plus it really looks excellent; as good as the original but with tons more going on.
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