Read into that what you like, but when we hear the phrase "broaden", we think Wii Sports, Lips, Buzz!... not GRAW. Then again, surely you can't get too mainstream with war?
The title is being developed by San Francisco studio Sledgehammer and is due for release next year.
"Today, we have three studios working on Call of Duty," Activision COO Thomas Tippl told the LA Times last week. "We have Infinity Ward, which made Call of Duty 2, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Then we have Treyarch, which will be releasing a Call of Duty game in the fall of 2010. Treyarch also developed Call of Duty: World at War and Call of Duty 3.
"And, most recently, we've added Sledgehammer in the Bay Area. We haven't yet announced the content of their game, but it's going to be an innovative take that will further broaden the audience for Call of Duty."
I find it hard to believe that you can broaden the appeal of a game about war. It will already shift around 10 million units, how many more do they want to sell? I can't see them doing a single thing that would get me to purchase a COD game.
With the killstreak reward system already established, I'm not sure how they could water down the gameplay any further to make it appeal to a wider audience.
Maybe they'll just remove the shooting altogether and have you spawn with infinite air support...
if cod goes to full time third person, im going to do something very bad...not sure what that is yet but be warned, i wil do something epic...actually dont count on anything.
With the killstreak reward system already established, I'm not sure how they could water down the gameplay any further to make it appeal to a wider audience.
Maybe they'll just remove the shooting altogether and have you spawn with infinite air support...
I'm just gobsmacked by the greed of Activision. Whoever replies by saying "It is a business after all" needs their brain replacing. I also raise you the meme "Your argument is invalid..."
Anyway, as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words: http://imway2fat.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/really-skinny-cow.jpg
If it looks good i'll grab a preowned copy so none of the cash goes to those robbing bastards! It could be the best game ever to be honest but i'm dead against giving Activision another penny.
This would have been a good idea before they started milking it.I liked COD 4 , WaW and probably MW2, but no more cods for me for a while. Intresting idea, then you realise that there getting desperate
Soon Activision will be releasing a new CoD game every 6 months, although that 3 studios they talk about might soon become 2 as they will have to close down Infinity Ward following the exodus of talent down there.
No, file it under "This series is completely FUBAR." Unreal how Activision had the absolute biggest cash cow in entertainment in their hands and have managed to eff it up this bad.
A third person CoD wouldnt be so bad really if they did it right. The Conflict series was third person and they were for the most part superb war games, it was more tactical and maybe that is what the developers are aiming for.
A stealthy, strategic CoD would be an interesting change of pace IMO, especially after the disappointing hypefest that was MW2.
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