Call of Duty 5 News

[Fez]

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Sources tell us that the upcoming Call of Duty 5 game in development is already playable, and currently going through quality assurance.
Treyarch is also said to be the developer, and the title, we're told, is set in a WWII Pacific environment and will be using Call of Duty 4's engine, the same engine on which the upcoming James Bond: Quantum of Solace movie game is being built.
Yesterday, on the company's call to investors, Activision publishing CEO Mike Griffith said CoD5 would be coming to Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC and DS, in addition to a return for the franchise to PS2 and Wii for the first time in two years.

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During the company's call to investors yesterday, Activision publishing CEO Mike Griffith revealed big plans for the next installment in the Call of Duty franchise, which helped drive the company to a record $2.90 billion in revenue on the year. "We'll bring the intensity of the recent Call of Duty: Modern Warfare title to a new military theater," Griffith said, adding that CoD4's success "doubled" the franchise's user base.

According to GameSpot, Griffith also announced a broad multiplatform vision for the title:

"We'll launch on all four platforms we've participated on in fiscal [year] 2008," Activision Publishing CEO Mike Griffith referring to Call of Duty 4, which sold over 7 million units worldwide on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, and Nintendo DS in 2007. Griffiths then re-confirmed that "we'll [also] launch on the PS2 and the Wii," marking the series' return to the PS2 and Wii after a two-year hiatus.

A developer for the title was not announced, however. Rumors had suggested CoD4 developer Infinity Ward might have the exclusive, but a spokesperson for the publisher later said that Treyarch and Infinity Ward would continue to alternate installments on the series. We've heard that this one is in Treyarch's court, and will feature a Pacific WWII setting.

So I guess Treyarch is really speeding through development, or mabye they started work on it before CoD4's release?

[mangle]

Best be before, if they're rushing it it shall be CRAP.

[Neil]

Treyarch would of started last year, that's why they switch between the devs, one will be done by IW, the next Treyarch then IW, it gives them both a a year to work on a new game

[Fez]

I'd hate for them to ruin the franchise, I doub they will, but if it is anything that is like the usual ''movie based game'' things then say bye bye to CoD.

Infinity Ward will probably have to revive the series... again

[Supersam]

Yea they started ages ago....

Its a shame they didnt think "wow IW did better than all of the other developers... lets keep them"..... *sigh*

Better be good.

[Fez]

Yeha they've probably started ages ago

[mangle]

Problem is, they're going to flog loads anyway!

I'd like to see if bullet penitration is in it.

[Supersam]

Its probibly going to be less like COD4 im guessing....

I think it will still be similar controls but if they make it too slow and complex they will just wreck it.

[ThyGoat]

I think I'm just going to stick with COD4... I dunno.

[Breakfloor]

one step backwards with only there second step forward

COD - rubbish
COD2 - awesome.
COD3 - rubbish
COD4 - AMAZING!

and now cod 5 based back in WWII yet they know they CLEARLY havent been working well.