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Call of Duty 7 Under Development at Treyarch
by Alice O'Connor and Chris Faylor, May 13, 2009 8:05am PDTTreyarch senior animator David Kim has let slip that Call of Duty 7 is under development at the studio behind Call of Duty: World at War by listing it on his LinkedIn profile.
"I am currently on my second title as a senior animator in the games industry with Activision / Treyarch on Call Of Duty 7," reads Kim's profile, superannuation spotted.
Call of Duty 7--no doubt a working title--may be expected next year given Activision's commitment to annual releases of its major franchises, and its "leapfrog" strategy which has seen Infinity Ward and Treyarch alternate CoD entries these past few years.
Kim's Call of Duty 7 listing follows recent rumors that the sequel could be set in the Vietnam War era, based on the tunes Activision is supposedly seeking to license.
World at War senior producer Noah Heller of Treyarch stated last year, "I can't say that there won't ever be a WWII Call of Duty game again," suggesting that World War 2 might be on the shelf for now--but he also raised several promising unexplored areas of WW2.
Obviously no platforms are known yet but the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 are safe bets considering the franchise's history on the platforms and recent Activision activity.
The next Call of Duty entry will come from Infinity Ward with Modern Warfare 2--originally referred to as Call of Duty 6--this fall, which recently received a brief teaser trailer.
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Why do they give it to a developer so obviously inept?
And why can't the series die? It's a bit past it now.
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News flash: Leave CoD to Infinity Ward, or just let the series die after Modern Warefare 2.
That's one thing that I actually enjoyed about Halo and Gears, at least they knew when to end a series.
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Cutscene, battle, slowly push forward killing infinate soldiers , cross invisible line to stop spawns, cutscene.... repeat etc etc. While I have always found Call of Duty to be relatively respectful to the horrors of war, nothing kills the immersion of what it is representing than Young soldiers acting like and then being mown down like they were no more than Space Invaders.
There just is a feeling of a by the numbers sequal much like the Guitar Hero series (I'm looking you, douche who runs Activision)
These are talented Devs, especially IW, I'm sure they could do so much more if they would (or could) stretch thier wings just a little.
Glad that Activision is giving them two years to develop again. Making them pump out CoD3 in ~11 months from start to finish was a mistake. :(
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I'm looking forward to filling Commies full of lead fired from assorted 50s and 60s era weaponry.
Does that make Treyarch a "bad" developer? Of course not since they obviously can deliver a good product on time for AV. But to say their games are on the same level as Infinity Ward's is just retarded. IW are the creators and the innovators.
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good stuff.
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must be fun for infinity ward and treyarch or when people are talking to them 'so what are you working on: call of duty'
"so, you finished call of duty x what are you gonna make now" 'call of duty y'
"okay..." and repeat that until the end of time