No it is set after. Watching the Intro and the scenes in between the missions should make this clear.
yes you should if you want to follow the story line in the campaign mode
the single player modern warfare is a campaign story, and the multiplayer has different game modes where you compete against other players and level up, but theres no story.
The Modern Warfare 3 story mode starts right off where Modern Warfare 2 ended.
Modern Warfare 3 has not been confirmed but if it continues the story than yes.
no
No, Call of Duty: Black Ops doesn't continue the story line from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Those two games are set in entirely different eras.
Its a whole different story
There are rumors that there will be a modern warfare 3 coming out as the next call of duty. The game will be a prequel to modern warfare 2 as it focuses more on the story of ghost, who died in modern warfare 2
NO
nope
no, there's no solid story, I would just get call of duty 4 AND modern warfare 2 for the whole experience though
Modern Warfare 2 runs on a new gaming engine, IW4, developed by id Software. The story is somewhat short but the multiplayer tops the rest of them. And its not CoD: MW2, its Modern Warfare 2.