Following a video teaser earlier this week, the latest issue of Game Informer magazine offers new details on the highly anticipated first-person shooter Modern Warfare 2. Fans of the first Modern Warfare will be happy to know that one of its major characters, Sergeant John "Soap" MacTavish, returns as the captain of an international group called Task Force 141 -- but he"ll be an NPC this time around.

The magazine mentions that the sequel "continues the narrative begun in Modern Warfare, with the world facing dangerous political instability in Russia." A terrorist group aims to use Russia"s political turmoil to their advantage to secure the troubled empire"s weapon stockpiles. Makarov, the leader of that group, also happens to be an associate of Zakhaev, the man responsible for the first games" nuclear attack.