Call of Duty 2017 will take the series 'back to its roots,' Activision says
This year's installment is in development at Sledgehammer Games, creators of 2014's Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.
During a conference call to discuss 2016's fourth-quarter earnings, Activision executives told investors that this year's Call of Duty game will "take Call of Duty back to its roots."
The announcement occurred during discussion of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare's disappointing sales numbers. Executives said the "space setting didn't resonate" with players and that Infinite Warfare "wasn't the success we planned."
"Traditional combat will once again take center stage" in 2017's Call of Duty. Executives did not define "traditional combat," which could mean battle systems centered on the franchise's WWII roots, or more modern or advanced tactics and ordnance as seen in 2007's Call of Duty 4 and 2014's Advanced Warfare.
This year's Call of Duty is being developed by Sledgehammer Games. The Call of Duty franchise rotates between three developers: Infinity Ward, the studio that created it; Treyarch, best known for Call of Duty 3 and the Call of Duty: Black Ops trilogy; and Sledgehammer, which released Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare in 2014 to critical acclaim and higher sales numbers than 2016's Infinite Warfare.
While critics and players were divided on its space-themed exploits, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare did resonate with Shacknews editor and Modojo editor-in-chief Brittany Vincent, who gave it an 8 out of 10 in her review. "While Infinity Ward might have played it a little too safe when it came to the competitive multiplayer mode, the improvements in the single-player campaign and Call of Duty: Zombies are substantial," she wrote. "The single-player campaign, in particular, hooked me, and I hope that future campaigns in the Call of Duty universe get the same care."
[Source: IGN]
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replyDavid Craddock posted a new article, Call of Duty 2017 will take the series 'back to its roots,' Activision says
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2017 will bring Call of Duty back to its roots: 12 year-olds 360 no-scoping you from across Nuketown while they call you a faggot repeatedly.
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World war two maybe?
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WW2 or GTFO.
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So World War II?
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They only mention returning to "traditional combat" which could still be set in any era except the future.
Guessing since Modern Warfare is when the game really took off, it will be another game along those lines. The folks still invested in Call of Duty games have no attachment to the WW2 series and its limited arsenal. They want a mess of current day weapons and unlocks and attachments and all the other bullshit.
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Given
-how it takes about 3 years to make a CoD game -the future backlash is recent
-the direction of recent CoD games
I wonder how much scrambling they're doing to retool this "back to the roots"-
It's what any franchise does when it strayed too far.
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There have been rumors of a WWII/cold war era CoD in development for about 2 years at Sledgehammer.
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Quake engine?
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It's practically a fucking EA Sports title at this point.
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Well I must definitely not be a typical COD buyer then - I loved the new one. It is the first COD campaign I finished since Modern Warfare. I personally thought they were all getting very stale and was tired of the endless spawning corridors etc that had become the COD single player norm. It is too bad it didn't do as well since I have no interest to "go back to the roots" because that sounds boring as fuck.
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I honestly don't even know what this means.
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Back to its roots? So copying Battlefield?
Oh shit got him!
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