Call of Duty 5: World at War (PS3/360)

[Candyman5]

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Dreamcast?

That is exactly what I was about to say??

[ac11367]

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I don't mind if COD5 going back to the WWII route. I would like for it to be from a German soldier point of view. COD5-The Rise of the Reich. Just kidding.

Activition was brilliant with the strategy regarding COD releases. COD3 was a stop gap between COD2 and COD4. COD3 generated revenue while Infinity Ward was developing COD4.

[DickDalewood]

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Hell yeah, I will be definitely picking this up for my dreamcast.

Haha, like the other two guys said... WHAT???

[JRod]

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I don't mind if COD5 going back to the WWII route. I would like for it to be from a German soldier point of view. COD5-The Rise of the Reich. Just kidding.

Activition was brilliant with the strategy regarding COD releases. COD3 was a stop gap between COD2 and COD4. COD3 generated revenue while Infinity Ward was developing COD4.

I would love to have true unit combat...not the stuff they have now. And I would love for it to have true open maps. Not the ones where you have two choices to walk through.

See you are in France and need to secure a bridge or something. The build the town and you walk up to the edge of it and need to progress through the place without the linear feel to it. Just one big town where you could go in buildings and homes. Patrol the streets and need to hold and take positions. That would be cool.

[bkfount]

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why does it have to go back to WWII? Is it really that hard to make it original like CoD4? This is about as bad as EA making the best bond game ever, only to follow it with Rouge Agent and From Russia With Love.

[thelwig14]

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why does it have to go back to WWII? Is it really that hard to make it original like CoD4? This is about as bad as EA making the best bond game ever, only to follow it with Rouge Agent and From Russia With Love.

Totally agree on EA, still scratching my head on the Bond route, but I disagree with your WWII comment.

The COD series, more or less, owns the market in the WWII genre and they would be fools to give up that market share because no matter how many games come out, there are so many different angle and stories to cover.

Now, with IW, far superior to Treyarch, they have grabbed market share of the "modern warfare" market and soon will put themself in a position to be the leader based on the primetimeness of COD 4. They would be idiots to ruin this huge, immediate following and goodwill of COD 4 by letting Treyarch continue the franchise.

It makes sense. Lead in two markets while letting the inferior team continue to win the stale market and let the superior team continue to try and be the leader in the growing market.

Neither touch, everyone wins.

[Eton Rifles]

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Maybe it's time to try the Vietnam war with COD? Or maybe even combine with smaller wars like Grenada, Falklands, Desert Storm, Malay emergency. The posibilties are endless.

[ac11367]

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I would love to have true unit combat...not the stuff they have now. And I would love for it to have true open maps. Not the ones where you have two choices to walk through.

True open maps will indeed be very nice. But for now, I would take being able to choose like 3 paths, which does somewhat give us the illusion of an open map.

COD Vietnam would be cool. I bet it would've been an even better premise for video game if US had won the war.

[bkfount]

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Totally agree on EA, still scratching my head on the Bond route, but I disagree with your WWII comment.

The COD series, more or less, owns the market in the WWII genre and they would be fools to give up that market share because no matter how many games come out, there are so many different angle and stories to cover.

they had canadian and polish missions in cod3, that's reaching the barrier of not caring anymore. They can throw in first person struggles or driving missions, but it's still a tired WWII genre game. Maybe they can let you drive the boats that pulled the floating concrete docks to normandy beach, that's not been done before. CoD hasn't touched the pacific front yet, so they can do that I suppose.

As for vietnam, there's a reason it fails as a game. There's no real mission, and we failed in the end anyways. At least with WWII or the story in CoD4, there's and actual goal and end to a game.

[chippered]

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Good God, why change things up after making such an awesome game? WWII again? WTF!!

[thelwig14]

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Good God, why change things up after making such an awesome game? WWII again? WTF!!

Read the posts. The games are developer dependent.

[Moses Shuttlesworth]

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NICE!

[Flawless]

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Activision Reveals Call of Duty Plans

The next Call of Duty will arrive across six different systems before the end of Activision's fiscal year, which ends March 31, 2009, and will feature a "new military theater," according to Activision Publishing CEO Mike Griffith. The undisclosed new setting will try to capitalize on the massive success of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare which, according to an Activision earnings call, has doubled the install base of the franchise ever since the company took the series out of World War II. Next-Gen.biz reports that the next installment of the best selling first person shooter will appear on the DS, PC, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Wii and Xbox 360 platforms.

[Pete1210]

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WW2, Pacific. Read an article (rumor?) several weeks back.

[bkfount]

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Activision Reveals Call of Duty Plans

I just hope the milking of the franchise doesn't hurt the momentum IW has earned. Lots of people will go from playing CoD4 to expecting the same level of quality in CoD5, without knowing or caring that the franchise flip flops developers. That link seems to hint at it possibly being another non WWII game, as it mentions how successful CoD4 was after moving out of that genre.

I read that Treyarch is also making the first Activision 007 game, based off the new movie. So I wonder if they can really do this as well, since CoD5 will be on almost every console imaginable, both next gen and last gen.