Xbox Gaming in South Africa

Want some Wild West to go with your Modern Warfare 2? We got your dual wielding Akimbo perk right here, pardner. Demoing the game at a convention sometime yesterday, Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling, AKA FourTwoZero, showed off the new stuff:

I was presenting a singleplayer mission at the GameCrazy show this morning on stage and happened to walk over a body that had Akimbo (dual wield side arm), therefore the icon for the weapon popped up on screen and the room went crazy with chants demanding I pick it up and use it.

So I did.

Happened to be dual Deagles. Now to calm some initial fears of "OMG! Overpowered!". Akimbo is limited and balanced, just like EVERYTHING in the game. It's limited to sidearms, harder to aim than standard and you can't go ADS (aim down sights) since you have a weapon in each hand; Among other balancing techniques, so don't freak out before you see it in action.

It's cool.

That's about everything we know for now. Oh, and this is apparently not the new perk promised in an upcoming trailer this week. So watch this space.