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boonspoon
04-12-2007, 11:53
From ign.com
Call of Duty 5 Confirmed
Guitar Hero 4 in the works too.
by Martin Robinson, IGN UK
UK, December 3, 2007 - Activision Blizzard has confirmed that Call of Duty 5 and Guitar Hero 4 are both in development just hours after news of the company's merger hit the wire. And while the news is unlikely to come as a shock, if Activision Blizzard's recent boasts are anything to go by we could see both of the series reaching bigger and better heights.
Indeed, during a conference call held today Activision CEO Robert Kotick and Jean-Benard Levy spoke of the company's huge projected success and hinted that many of Activision's franchise could learn a lot from the success of World of Warcraft, which has 9.3 million users across the world. More specifically, Kotick expressed a distinct interest in the subscription model employed by the WoW developer, although quite how it will work with Activision's other franchises - including a new racing title from the freshly-acquired Bizarre Creations - remains to be seen. One thing is for sure, World of Warcraft won't be coming to console any time soon, with Levy categorically stating that a current-gen version of the game was most certainly not in the works.
Cooooooooooooool..... :clap:
It looks like it's going to be made for the 360, PS3, PC, Wii (??) and PS2 (double ????) according to this (http://uk.search.ign.com/products?query=call+of+duty+5) link.
LouBarlow
04-12-2007, 11:57
Hmmm if it's not developed by IW I'm not interested. 3 sucked balls as does Guitar Hero 3
If they could dump the linear gameplay and infinitely respawning tangoes if you're not in the right place from COD5, they would have a far better game on their hands. Crysis seemed to do it far better and so did COD so no idea what went wrong there.
Diablo 3 should be made now!
AKPiggott
04-12-2007, 12:02
Apparently it's IW, Treyarch, IW, Treyarch, IW Treyarch etc...
Translation:
Great, mediocre, great, mediocre, great, mediocre etc...
Meh... don't care.
Roll on CoD6 though!!!
Apparently it's IW, Treyarch, IW, Treyarch, IW Treyarch etc...
Translation:
Great, mediocre, great, mediocre, great, mediocre etc...
Meh... don't care.
Roll on CoD6 though!!!
doesnt that mean COD4 is in the mediocre category? i've never played 1-2 or 3 but really liked cod4 on the 360
I think 1, 2 and 4 were IW therefore great
3, 5, etc. were Treyarch therefore mediorcre.
MetalGearAl
04-12-2007, 12:50
Well you don't know about 5 yet :p
ShakeyJake
04-12-2007, 12:55
Am I alone in thinking most games really don't lend themselves to yearly updates?
There were a bunch of hack jobs for PS2 and Xbox released between 1 and 2 I think.
There were a bunch of hack jobs for PS2 and Xbox released between 1 and 2 I think.
Yep they were games like Call Of Duty 2 - The Big Red One, developed by Treyarch I believe and of course no surprise, they turned out to be bloody awful.
I would love for Treyarch to learn from the naffness that was COD3 and for COD5 to be good, they better not go back to WW2 either.
TigaSefi
04-12-2007, 13:11
COD 5 is ALMOST certainly will be WW2. Muppets.
SIMON ADEBISI
04-12-2007, 13:13
Ww2? Ffs!
ShakeyJake
04-12-2007, 13:16
Have they not run out of WW2 battles yet? Will there be Back to the Future moments where you bump into yourself?
SIMON ADEBISI
04-12-2007, 13:18
COD5: Apocalypse Wow could be ok.
Hopefully they give us a few more non-linear sections with some more vehicle-based levels
MetalGearAl
04-12-2007, 14:12
I wish they'd keep the "Call of Duty x" titles to the IW games and perhaps go down a different path for the Treyarch games, so there's an obvious difference between the two.
Obviously they want to use the name to help the sales, though I thought titles like "Call Of Duty: The Big Red One" were a good idea as at least there's a decent distinction there.
Scrap the COD5 title and replace it with "Call Of Duty: Omaha Beach Landing Remix" or whatever.
Ww2? Ffs!
They should go WW1.
And better still have no Americans this time.
AKPiggott
04-12-2007, 14:18
doesnt that mean COD4 is in the mediocre category? i've never played 1-2 or 3 but really liked cod4 on the 360
Sorry I wasn't clear. That cycle didn't start until CoD2.
I'm quite worried by that news story. It reads more like they are moving away from single player games and focusing more on subscription based games services, presumably online multiplayer. WoW might be successful but wait until the market is saturated with subscription-based services. In reality, I doubt people will keep paying a monthly subscription to the next driving game from Bizarre Creations, Call of Duty Online, Tony Hawk online etc etc. Edit: Not in the same way that they would buy all of those games full price in the shops.
daboy3000
05-12-2007, 10:32
C.O.D 5 should be set in the future, i'm not talking aliens and lasers but say 30 years down the line, should make for a good storyline and some new weapons and vehicles
Vietnam or WW1. WW2 has been done to death.
GAmbrose
05-12-2007, 11:00
I think some missions delving in to Captain Price's military background would be a good starting point for COD5
The flashback episodes in COD4 were some of the highlights.
Gary A
If they could dump the linear gameplay and infinitely respawning tangoes if you're not in the right place from COD5, they would have a far better game on their hands. Crysis seemed to do it far better and so did COD so no idea what went wrong there.
Are you mad? Having the set-pieces is CoD's USP. Dumping it would mean that they're no different from every umpty other FPS out there.
Which is to say, I like the liner gameplay - or rather, the set pieces - and I like the infinitely respawning bad guys, as it encourages you to rush and attack, and play like you are genuinely fighting for territory. Rather than just hiding, killing the requiste bad guys, moving on a bit, hiding, killing, etc. Yawnorama.
Call of Duty 5: The Dominion War :dork:
no flipping
05-12-2007, 11:53
Something totally different would be good, WW1, American Civil War, Vietnam or something.
SIMON ADEBISI
05-12-2007, 12:32
American Civil War
Shoot, stop, reload, shoot, stop, reload, amputate leg.
Cant see that being too good.
amcanally
05-12-2007, 12:51
Shoot, stop, reload, shoot, stop, reload, amputate leg.
Cant see that being too good.
:lol: No air cover, night vision, and when you're asked to rush into a barn to get the Javelin, well you know its gonna be a spear of somesort, and not require a lockon.
I agree some more modern combat scenarios would be great. Heck, even just do a whole AC-130 game - I loved blowing up the cars and watching the little white ragdolls fly:notworthy:notworthy
Those WW1/WW2 rehashes are getting really boring, would rather prefer something modern like COD5: Black Ops.
MarcusUK
05-12-2007, 13:10
Something totally different would be good, WW1, American Civil War, Vietnam or something.
Vietnam would be a great setting for a new COD :notworthy
Vietnam would be a great setting for a new COD :notworthy
Given that Vietnam was a conflict that holds huge embarrassment for Americans even today, I think I can safely say "Never gonna happen".
Which isn't to say there couldn't be a 'Modern Jungle War Game which DEFINITELY Isn't Vietnam, Hell No... Oh, and We Win!' game, though. :)
fivebyfive
05-12-2007, 14:01
treyarch are looking for people for a upcoming ww2 FPS, so I'm guessing COD5 will be another ww2 shooter.
Also I hope they drop the infinitely respawning enemy, its really annoying
Yet another WW2 game done many times over by the gaming industry...
It's beginning to look like EA ports; same crap you've played last year, due out this year, muwhaha suckers!!!!!
Pacific war with a storyline from the Japanese point would be a refreshing change in a WW2 fps.
fothy123
05-12-2007, 14:56
Hope they keep the modern setting. Wasn't sure about it before I played Cod 4 but it works really well. Would hate for it to be set in the future.
I liked the idea above about flashbacks with Captain Price as that would open up possibilities for a few different conflicts so some completely different settings. Would like to see some sort of storming an embassay or a building that terrorists had taken over and had taken hostages.
I honestly think that if they go back to WW2 days instead of doing at least another modern day setting game they will get much poorer sales than this years COD4.
Maybe it's just guys I know but going by the reception COD3 received by most of them, and that most of them have come to see Treyarch as a pretty poor developer, they won't be rushing to get a new one next year. In fact I could just see it being where most people stay with COD4 multiplayer until COD6 in a few years time.
RexMundi
05-12-2007, 17:38
A cold war setting would be good. Kinda like Operation Flashpoint. But y'know, better :D
fivebyfive
05-12-2007, 17:51
some ideas for the next game:
sudan teddy crisis :D
an alternate history world war (with very different technology and weapons)
infinity ward vs treyarch: office war (not much as a war more of a slaughter) ;)
Falklands
Anyone know yet who's developing it?
AKPiggott
05-12-2007, 19:26
CoD5 should be set in the stone age. With dinosaurs.
AKPiggott
05-12-2007, 19:28
Given that Vietnam was a conflict that holds huge embarrassment for Americans even today, I think I can safely say "Never gonna happen".
Then why so many movies on Vietnam?
fivebyfive
05-12-2007, 19:42
CoD5 should be set in the stone age. With dinosaurs.
or with ghosts
;)
Then why so many movies on Vietnam?
Not to mention all the other games.
AKPiggott
05-12-2007, 20:10
Not to mention all the other games.
True, how many Vietnam games have there been? I can only think of:
Viet Cong
Men of Valor
Ermm... that crappy Platoon strategy game
fivebyfive
05-12-2007, 20:18
also there was the dire ShellShock: Nam '67 on the ps2 and xbox
Then why so many movies on Vietnam?
Irrelevent.
The point of a movie, to steal a line from Reith, is to educate, entertain and inform. So there's a lot of left-leaners in Hollywood (such as Stone) who make their Vietnam movies on that basis.
The point of a computer game (broadly speaking) is none of the above, but instead to win. Basing a game on a conflict they didn't win? That's just not going to happen (well, not with CoD, anyway, I can't speak for lesser, history-ignoring games).
Battlefield Vietnam
Conflict: Vietnam
Shellshock
Germinator
05-12-2007, 22:13
I want COD5 set in the future, where your enemy is machines. And you have phased plasma rifles in the 40 Watt Range.
wasnt that a username here? aprit40wr or something?
SIMON ADEBISI
06-12-2007, 06:03
COD5: Zombie Apocalypse.
I want this now.
AKPiggott
06-12-2007, 07:30
The point of a computer game (broadly speaking) is none of the above, but instead to win. Basing a game on a conflict they didn't win? That's just not going to happen (well, not with CoD, anyway, I can't speak for lesser, history-ignoring games).
I see your point, but this isn't Medal of Honour. CoD4 features a level where your American character and his entire squad is killed in a nuclear explosion, not to mention the game's ending which may be a victory but features the execution of your team mates.
There's more to war than winning and I think it's daft for the games to ignore that.
mr starface
06-12-2007, 07:37
The next version has to be built with full coop I think
COD5: Zombie Apocalypse.
I want this now.
There already is and it's a 4 player co-op game called Left 4 Dead being developed at Valve and due out next year :thumbs:
boonspoon
08-12-2007, 21:33
WW2 setting seems to be all but confirmed going by this....
http://www.gamer.tm/news.php?id=1848
Call of Duty 5 back to World War II
Story By Jay Filmer
Thought Call of Duty 4 meant no more WWII? Think again
Those of you who enjoyed the latest Call of Duty’s modern-day approach may be saddened to learn that Treyarch (the dev team responsible for three, and, who will quite possibly end up doing seven) is taking the series back to World War II for the fifth game in the series.
Well, that’s if a job ad on the Treyarch website is anything to go by.
The ad, which is for a level builder, in case you’re interested, doesn’t give away any concrete info as such, but after asking for applicants with “working experience with First-Person Shooter or Third-Person Shooter genres”, does go on to add, “if you’re a fan of World War 2 shooters, then even better!”.
Which if you ask us is a bit of a giveaway. Why would the ad say that if the person lucky enough to bag the job ends up on designing levels for a modern-day or futuristic shooter anyway?
What do you reckon? Are we reading too much into it? Also, what do you make of the step back to WWII? After the success of COD4, is this what you really want? As ever, let us know in the comments section below.
Oh, and cheers to forum user ‘farquad92’ for the heads up. Your stock is rising number 92…
WW2 setting seems to be all but confirmed going by this....
http://www.gamer.tm/news.php?id=1848
More marching across French fields, defending farms and church's again, then :|
what a load of crap. Are they not looking at how many folk are now playing online, and why. Idiots. I never bothered finishing COD3 as i got bored, like loads of other folk did.
Why not make a WW3 game, its the future, but probably not futuristic. It has to be modern war nowadays for me. Using some real places would be cool, though someone who does not get videogames will no doubt winge, and put a stop to it happening.
Am I the only one who would be happy to see COD5 back in WW2? Shooting nazis in the face never gets boring. I think there is plenty of mileage left for a WW2 game provided its done well and doesn't tread old ground.
I still don't fully understand why people slag off COD3? While I only played the single player game, aside from the QTE/button mashing hand-to-hand combat bits I found it to be perfectly enjoyable. Can anyone explain why there is such dislike towards COD3?
SIMON ADEBISI
09-12-2007, 11:53
There already is and it's a 4 player co-op game called Left 4 Dead being developed at Valve and due out next year :thumbs:
Frickin sweet. Nice one mr woo.
fivebyfive
09-12-2007, 12:08
Am I the only one who would be happy to see COD5 back in WW2? Shooting nazis in the face never gets boring. I think there is plenty of mileage left for a WW2 game provided its done well and doesn't tread old ground.
I still don't fully understand why people slag off COD3? While I only played the single player game, aside from the QTE/button mashing hand-to-hand combat bits I found it to be perfectly enjoyable. Can anyone explain why there is such dislike towards COD3?
treyarch never add any good ideas to new games, they keep treading old ground eg COD3 was just like their version of COD2 on the ps2/xbox,
The only new ideas were poor, the QTE/button mashing hand-to-hand combat was terrible, also CoD2 was a much better game in terms of level design, characters and level design.
edit: I like penny arcade's comic on activison exploiting comment (contains swearing).
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/12/05
COD games needs to take a break or they will become like a EA title
ShakeyJake
09-12-2007, 12:10
The main reason I can't get into WW2 games is the guns are all rubbish
Bapapapa
09-12-2007, 13:14
They should go back to the Boer War..
Rorke's Drift would rock!! :clap:
MarcusUK
09-12-2007, 18:48
The main reason I can't get into WW2 games is the guns are all rubbish
That pretty much sums it all up really :thumbs:
COD 5 should be a pure multiplayer game, but more large scale like Battlefield 2 with sqauds, vehicles etc.
Spooky_uk
09-12-2007, 23:08
They should go back to the Boer War..
Rorke's Drift would rock!! :clap:
cord 5 :thumbs:
AKPiggott
09-12-2007, 23:18
The only new ideas were poor, the QTE/button mashing hand-to-hand combat was terrible...
Although they did introduce the feature of throwing back enemy grenades, which IW soon copied for CoD4.
The main reason I can't get into WW2 games is the guns are all rubbish
Well, the German guns are good (proves your point even further).
AKPiggott
09-12-2007, 23:26
Can anyone explain why there is such dislike towards COD3?
The biggest problem for me is that it took a step backwards. Whereas other CoD games managed to show the war as this great conflict from many perspectives in many theatres, CoD3 only concentrated on the battle of [blah] in Northern France. It's a nice idea in theory showing one conflict from many views but offers little diversity and makes for a very repetitive game. On top of that, elements of that game aren't as finely tuned and well handled as they are in the predecessor so it has very little to offer.
i borrowed cod 2 and 3 over the last few days. (only ever played cod4 before) and i liked cod2. cod3 though annoyed me. seems to give a shakey cam effect that's really irritating, the guns are annoying, the germans are like they're covered in kevlar for gods sake. also those little annoying things in a game - like walking along and not being able to move in any direction all of a sudden. have to try and jump around like crazy to get around it. then finally it froze.
cant remember the last time a game froze my 360 solid.
treyarch =:razz:
IW = :notworthy
LouBarlow
10-12-2007, 04:19
Although they did introduce the feature of throwing back enemy grenades, which IW soon copied for CoD4.
Wasn't that in part 2 also?
AKPiggott
10-12-2007, 07:33
Wasn't that in part 2 also?
No. Your mates could do it but you couldn't, which was frustrating.
Rumour on Kotaku:
Someone who is more than close enough to know such things has tipped us off over the weekend that, yes, Treyarch are indeed hard at work on Call of Duty 5. And that, yes, the series is heading back to World War II. That's the stuff we'd heard already. What we didn't know is that, according to this tipster, the game's set in the under-utilized Pacific theater, something only one major WWII shooter - the awful Medal of Honour: Pacific Assault - has tried before. While (if true) the move back to well-worn WWII is mostly disappointing, if this game can branch out and explore some of the less "popular" aspects of the conflict (China, Burma, New Guinea), it might not be so bad.
Unless something magical happens and it turns out to be awesome, I won't be buying into this after the mess they made with COD3
Sounds good, lets hope we get Iwo Jima :clap:
fivebyfive
10-12-2007, 16:04
Although they did introduce the feature of throwing back enemy grenades, which IW soon copied for CoD4.
and I'm sure it was in another game before CoD3 was released.
the game's set in the under-utilized Pacific theater, something only one major WWII shooter - the awful Medal of Honour: Pacific Assault - has tried before.
MOH: Rising sun used it as well and that was ******* crap. It outsold sands of time on the ps2 :brickwall
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