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PostPosted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 12:50 am    Post subject: Activision and the future of cod

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Sledgehammer Confirmed as Developer on New Call of Duty For 2011
Written Tuesday, March 02, 2010 by Richard Walker

Activision has announced their plans to expand the Call of Duty brand following today's hullabaloo surrounding the publisher's dismissal of Infinity Ward studio leads Jason West and Vince Zampella, who have now been confirmed as no longer being with the company.

A new game in the Call of Duty series will be released some time in 2011 and will be handled by newly formed Activision studio Sledgehammer Games, lead by Dead Space veterans Glen A. Schofield and Michael Condrey.

While Infinity Ward continue working on downloadable map packs for Modern Warfare 2, Treyarch - the studio behind World at War - will still release their Call of Duty game this autumn.

Beyond the two CoD titles currently confirmed, Activision also announced their plans to look at new genres for the franchise as well as branching out into the Asian market with the lucrative series.

Quite where this leaves Infinity Ward is unknown however and their future involvement in the franchise that has brought both companies such massive success, is currently up for speculation.


Chances are Infinity Ward will just take modern warfare as a rival franchise to cod.. probably kick its arse an all, treyarch are poo poo
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 2:55 am    Post subject:

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FUCK! Well activision hold exclusive rights to publish call of duty games so this may be the end of the modern war franchise, unless they give it to the other developers in which case it will be a toss up how it will turn out.

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When Glen Schofield and Michael Condrey left Visceral Games to form Sledgehammer Games with Activision, you may have jokingly speculated that the Dead Space creators set to work immediately on Call of Duty. After all, it was either that or Guitar Hero.

You would have been correct.

Activision today revealed that Sledgehammer is working on a Call of Duty game with a targeted 2011 release date, which will "extend the franchise into the action-adventure genre." No other details were released about the game, but it sounds more like a spinoff than a sequel. Third person, perhaps?


Well that looks likes sledgehammer will take over the modern war franchise unless it will be mixed up in legal tape with infinity ward. The turn around on these games is 2 years which is why they split the development between 2 studios so they have a game out each year, so if sledgehammer are releasing one in 2011, i doubt infinity ward would after all that's gone on today.

Saying that though, Infinity ward is owned by activision so maybe replacing the heads of the studios will see the studio make MW3 where they may have wanted to split off and pursue MW as its own franchise. Who knows? Sure we'll find out soon enough.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 11:04 am    Post subject:

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CoD started cos the guys who made medal of honor got pissed off and made their own studio.

the same guys have left activision, so will now make something else even better! (I hope) and CoD will go the way of Medal of Honor.


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PostPosted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 11:58 am    Post subject:

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CoD started cos the guys who made medal of honor got pissed off and made their own studio.

the same guys have left activision, so will now make something else even better! (I hope) and CoD will go the way of Medal of Honor.


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Allmost forgot about the new medal of honour coming out... fuck cod medal of honour will wipe the floor of it.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 12:03 pm    Post subject:

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On another COD related topic, the DLC is rumoured to already be on the disc and you just pay for a code to unlock it.

I love it when developers do that, fix the pissin spawns you slags.

What's also a pretty safe bet is paying for maps that were on COD 4. Jesus, why don't they just start pulling our teets and milking us for all we're worth.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 1:41 pm    Post subject:

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On another COD related topic, the DLC is rumoured to already be on the disc and you just pay for a code to unlock it.

I love it when developers do that, fix the pissin spawns you slags.

What's also a pretty safe bet is paying for maps that were on COD 4. Jesus, why don't they just start pulling our teets and milking us for all we're worth.


Dunt think i'll be getting them like, i've had me fun with COD now, dunt think i'll get back into it propperly any time soon.
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