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Call of Duty 5 to have 'new theatre'
Author: Joe MartinPublished: 9th May 2008
Call of Duty 5 will be set in a brand new military theatre according to Activision.
The news, which came in a conference call to Eurogamer, co-incides with the announcement of Acitivision's 2.9 Billion USD profit this year.
According to Activision the new Call of Duty will be released on PC, PS3, Xbox 360 and DS, just like Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare - though PlayStation 2 and Wii versions are also planned this time around.
Activision would not confirm if the game was being developed by Treyarch or Infinity Ward, but did say that Treyarch is currently using the Call of Duty 4 engine to make a new James Bond tie-in game for the new Quantum of Solace film due out this year.
"We'll bring the intensity of the recent Call of Duty: Modern Warfare title to a new military theatre, to engage our significantly larger user base which nearly doubled last year as new users came into the franchise," said Activision CEO Mike Griffith.
Are you ready to heed the Call of Duty once more, or are you all knackered out from last time? Let us know what you think in the forums.
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And also; as a CoD-player, I really like the way they're getting out of the WW2. The first two games were ok, but IMO the fourth is even better. It's no just the new enviroment/era, but there's no issues in the gameplay as far as I'm concerned. (In CoD2 the climbing was still somwhat buggy)
I hear they have a shortage of Cod.. Badum-Tish!
Are we just talking new "futuristic" environments/weapons?
lol :D
Very good!
Damn, wish I'd thought of that
There's a nice old theatre near the bottom of my road, I'm sure they'd be okay with it. It's a chinese takeaway now.
BREAKING NEWS
Infinity Ward has massed tanks and Armour at the Belgium border......
Lol! Could be! Now where hasn't there been a war for a while. South America has been fairly quiet?
iceland all up there keeping quiet hmmm they up to something....
yea i heard that too, so must be fighting japan if it back to WW2, they should release a korean or vietnam version if they want to do histroy themes again tbh i fed up ww2 themes
Basically it means it won't be WWII Europe or modern day in generic middle eastern country/Russian/Ex-Soviet Bloc. It could still be WWII or modern day, just in a different place, like others have said, WWII Pacific, or a different location in modern day (China, USA, something like that), a different war in the past (e.g. Korean War, Spanish Civil War, etc.).
What I would like to see is a WWII game where you play as the Germans, we've played as the bad good guys now, why not the bad guys? Although I am pretty bored of the WWII setting now, I don't think playing as the Germans would be enough of a breath of fresh air for it.
What I would like to see is them getting rid of the ****ing terrible respawning enemies mechanic, that destroyed CoD2 and CoD4. It's a shame because CoD4 had such a great single player, only to be ruined by having to run through a wall of bullets to progress anywhere.
Seconded. I got stuck on a point in COD4 and basically haven't bothered with it for a while because of the insurmountable odds of becoming swiss cheese in less than sixty seconds.
Tell that to 99% of the other FPS developers while you're at it
The gameplay is very outdated, it amazes me the game got so much acclaim, much better games, hell, shooters released that year, many. trigegr points with endless spawnign enemies in small linear levels ot old in 2001, time to modernize. The problem is every console gamer will jump on it just because it says Call of Duty.
Really? Last i checked, Stalker, Crysis never had any of that. IW are one of the few shooters that play like shooter from 2000. HL2 doesn't do this either. Even Halo 3 does a better job, and we know hoe overrated that game is.
COD4 sucked? Your crazy.
No, I am not, look at the gameplay, same as COD1, hasn't changed, very linear, bad AI, trigger points, Spawn points, no interactivty, can't even jump over fences, to restricting. Very genric story to boot. Games should be moving ahead not backwards.
Agreed. Unfortunately a large number of not very intelligent people still enjoy that.
Personally I think the Korean war offers a lot of scope. Millions died, it basically came down to the US, UK, and other western nations fighting the north koreans, chinese, and soviets. It's not for no reason that it's called The Forgotten War at times.
It's been a while since anything good set in Vietnam has been done (How long ago was Vietcong? Great game that) - but Korea really needs to be done.
That is what gaming s becoming sadly, consoles are stunting innovation.
Ummh.... What did you just say? Something about fences in CoD and it being restricted? Have you ever noticed that there's exactly one route to go in HL2 as well? Trigger points? Big CHECK! I haven't bothered to even try Halo, but Crysis felt to me like there was just a bit wider one path to run along. It managed to be just as boring as any other single player game. Stalker isn't an FPS-game as far as I'm concerned, so I don't want to even go there.
But who plays SP anyway? I mean more than once and that normally takes a couple of hours..
Did you even play COD4?
Yes you could jump over obstacles, including fences.
AI is not that bad, crank skill up to highest and then play.
It's nothing like COD1 or 2, I loved COD2, but it's totally different than COD4, totally different game.
The end level in the plane has to be one of the most satisfying, yet the most basic levels I have seen.
I also loved STALKER, and yes I think it was better than COD4, but only slightly.
Like I said, 99%, not all. Stalker was more of an RPG than an FPS IMO, Crysis, well, I thought that was rather bland. Also, HL2 and Halo 3 are exactly the same, very linear, trigger points, all that kind of stuff, there are very few games that don't do it, because once you make the levels non linear and add other things not often seen in a FPS, it stops being a shooter and is starting to go more into the realms of FPSRPG/Adventure like Deus Ex or Bioshock. I love those games, but I also like a cinematic FPS too, and CoD4 does this very well (apart from the spawning enemies, those suck big time). If you're playing CoD4 and expecting some new innovative gameplay then you're playing the wrong game, the game is a shooter and it doesn't pretend to be anything different, and it does it well (apart from said retarded spawning enemies).
I cant see them doing a futuristic version, to close to the Battlefield franchise, if its Vietnam at least they should put the good old Flamethrower back in
Last time I checked the hitboxes for CoD4 were fine, aim at the head, hit the head, aim a tiny fraction off the head, miss. Using a controller isn't difficult for an FPS, all it takes it a bit of getting used to, I'm better with a controller than I am a keyboard/mouse.
Although many cite the respawning enemies as one of CoD's main problems i actually like it as it requires you to fight then make a push to advance but its definately a love hate dynamic.
Oh and good help us all if Treyarch are putting this together cause i'll be reading lots of reviews before going down that path, i second the post that says give it to infinity ward because them guys/girls know how to make great games.
Wait one thing i didn't like in CoD4 was there credits reel "what a cop out!!" I was waiting to see what funny little side scrolling action was to be had and i got thermal vision bombing runs very sad indeed.
COD Sparta
If that isn't enough for ya
COD Waterloo
they would be games worth playing. They've been to present day, every shooters been to the future, lets go back to the past (not wartime past, that doesn't count)
Oh jolly good sport chap.