Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 officially launches connected Oct. 28, but players who pre-order the crippled (digitally, that is) volition get aboriginal entree to the game’s single-player run for a week, Activision announced Tuesday. It’s an atypical determination for the Call of Duty franchise, which usually dangles entree to multiplayer beta tests and cosmetics arsenic pre-order incentives.

Activision says that integer pre-orders for Modern Warfare 2 volition assistance “up to 1 week” of aboriginal entree to the afloat run starting connected Oct. 20. (The “up to” statement of that availability factors successful imaginable web outages and, presumably, however agelong it volition really instrumentality you to download this year’s Call of Duty, arsenic these games are notoriously beefy successful size.) It’s a beardown inducement to get players to really play the story-based broadside of Call of Duty, not conscionable the competitory multiplayer component. According to achievement-tracking website True Achievements, typically little than a 3rd of players volition implicit a Call of Duty campaign, but fixed a afloat week, that could alteration with Modern Warfare 2.

Other pre-order perks see open beta aboriginal access and the Final Judgement bundle, which includes entree to the legendary-tier Deathknell relation tegument and Bloodthirsty limb blueprint for usage successful Call of Duty: Vanguard and Warzone.

Modern Warfare 2’s single-player run picks up wherever the events of 2019’s Modern Warfare near off. The globetrotting communicative follows Task Force 141, an elite planetary squad of operatives that includes returning characters Captain John Price, Sergeant Kyle “Gaz” Garrick, Lieutenant Simon “Ghost” Riley, and Sergeant John “Soap” MacTavish, arsenic good arsenic a fewer caller faces, similar Colonel Alejandro Vargas and Corporal Phillip Graves.

In Polygon’s archetypal look astatine the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 campaign, we noted that the sequel volition beryllium a spot much over-the-top and little grounded, successful an effort to supply a much “entertaining” blockbuster-style narrative.