Call of Duty: Modern Franchise Overhaul

By Owen Johnson in Gaming News
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 5:54 pm
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​There's been a lot of buzz recently regarding Activision, and more specifically the future of the Call of Duty franchise. Recently there was talk of Infinity Ward losing some key players, as well as CoD testing some new waters. Today Activision confirmed the loss of Vince Zampella and Jason West -- two heavy hitters from IW -- announced a 2011 CoD game from a yet-to-be-specified developer, AND told us that Sledgehammer Games will be creating a separate CoD game that breaks into the action/adventure genre. Phew, that is a lot to take in.

Just as suspected, the Call of Duty game to be released this holiday season is being developed by Treyarch -- no surprise there. As for this "unannounced developer", I would guess that they are the ones who will handle taking CoD in a subscription-based direction. I still don't know what to think about that, but I can't help but wonder if Blizzard would step-up and take those reins; crazy I know, but certainly worth considering.

In case you hadn't heard, Sledgehammer games is a developer founded very recently by two creative leads -- Glen Schofield and Michael Condrey -- who previously worked over at EA and brought us Dead Space. I'm very curious to see what direction they take this new action/adventure CoD game in, but based on their track record I will certainly reserve my judgement.

This will probably take a little while to digest, but I'd love to know what your thoughts are. Who do you think this unannounced developer is? What does Sledgehammer Games have in-store? What do you think of a subscription based CoD?
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