Have you noticed a lack of teenage boys around lately? That’s because many of them are at home playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. This relatively new game, referred to as Call of Duty 6 (COD) or Modern Warfare 2, has people everywhere completely obsessed. Junior Ian Lint plays six out of seven days a week for about two and a half hours every session when he’s not working. If he keeps up that schedule for a year, he will have logged 780 hours of COD. “The first day I got the game, everyone on my Xbox Live friends list was playing COD. Me, Jeremy, Fogle, and Justin stayed up and played for about 13 to 15 hours straight,” Lint says. He and sophomore Zeke Stroupe sa id they would much rather play Live with friends. A more surprising COD player at Freedom is sophomore Kelsie Ralston. She logs in at least two hours every day. In her longest run, she played for 10 hours straight. But what makes this game so addictive? Lint says Modern Warfare 2 seems to have the best graphics and never lags or breaks connection. He also likes the mini-game-like elements called Special Ops. Modern Warfare 2 is different because of the new features that let players customize more things and reward goals achieved during game play. Many players, like junior Justin Clagg, like to compete with friends for the highest Kill-to-Death ratio (KD). This is the amount of kills a player makes to every death received. For example, if you kill 15 people, but die 20 times, your KD ratio is -5 or .75. Clagg once achieved a KD of 25 after killing over 100 people in a single game. Lint says his KD ratio since Christmas has been between 1.0 and 1.3. He competes with Clagg and other friends to see who will have the best KD ratio before a certain time period. Modern Warfare II is the sixth game in the Call of Duty series. In the first 24 hours of its release, 4.7 million units were sold, making it the largest game launch in history. When Heath Nye has friends over, they make a beeline for the Xbox in his room. Minutes later, the sounds of shooting and player radios blast from his open doorway. When asked why they love Modern Warfare 2 so much, Nye said, “I don’t know, it’s just an all-around awesome game."