Job Listing Suggests Call of Duty 7 Not Modern

[Queasy]

World War II shooters used to be all the rage between the Battlefield, Call of of Duty, Medal of Honor series and others. Then Battlefield went to the future and the present most recently with the Bad Company titles, Call of Duty came to the present or near-future with the Modern Warfare titles by Inifinity Ward, and now even Medal of Honor is getting an update to a modern Afghanistan setting.

Call of Duty: World at War by Treyarch was an extremely successful WWII based game and is still in the top 5 games played on Xbox Live. So the question has been, "When will Call of Duty 7 be set?" The answer possibly became a little clearer with a job listing discovered by superannuation. The level designer job listing mentions, "Research subject matter for history and look of the level."

That line suggests that Call of Duty 7 will not be set in modern times but doesn't confirm a past time setting either. The World War II era of games has clearly been played out but previous games based on the last large-scale United States military operation in Vietnam haven't necessarily been wildly successful either. Could a setting in the first Gulf War or Korea be in the works? Or possibly some non-specific Cold War setting that spans multiple locations?

 

[Kabob]

If Treyarch makes it it'll be something different (Vietnam, Desert Storm, WWII, who knows). IW isn't about to give up the cash train they've got with MW. And considering the cliffhanger at the end of MW2 they've got MW3's story already lined up.

 

[AstroManLuca]

Cold War would be neat. There were so many little flare-up conflicts with a wide selection of technology, ranging from WWII-era rifles to relatively modern weapons and vehicles. Since the COD series has always been about jumping from place to place, it could work. And for once I'd like to see a FPS that isn't either WWII, modern era, or space marines.

 

[Fayd]

Call of Duty: Atillah!
Call of Duty: Rome!
Call of Duty: Vikings!


lol.

 

[Kabob]

Or Call of Duty: WWI. You sit in a trench for 8 hours and ever 30 minutes you pop up, shoot 1 bullet and then duck back down. Oh, and don't forget to run from the mustand gas.

 

[Kromis]

I'm gonna guess Korean and Vietnam War.

 

[Queasy]

Or Call of Duty: WWI. You sit in a trench for 8 hours and ever 30 minutes you pop up, shoot 1 bullet and then duck back down. Oh, and don't forget to run from the mustand gas.

Call of Duty: Snoopy vs The Red Baron!

 

[Glitchny]

Hopefully Vietnam. Could be a pretty epic setting. As long as I get a chance to call down some napalm I'm in.

 

[brblx]

kill the franchise. kill it with fire.

does anyone remember when people just tried to make good games instead of making eleven sequels to the same tired shit?

 

[Kabob]

Call of Duty: Snoopy vs The Red Baron!

Linus is going DOWN!

 

[R Nilla]

kill the franchise. kill it with fire.

does anyone remember when people just tried to make good games instead of making eleven sequels to the same tired shit?

Yup, and they still do. But Bobby Kotick (Activision) is pretty open about not being one of those people. He wants to franchise and sequel our bank accounts to death.

 

[AstroManLuca]

kill the franchise. kill it with fire.

does anyone remember when people just tried to make good games instead of making eleven sequels to the same tired shit?

Being a sequel doesn't necessarily help or hurt the quality of a game at all. In many cases, sequels are good because they allow developers to spend extra time on details that they weren't able to work on in previous games.

Some of the best and most popular games either spawned sequels or were sequels themselves. Should Nintendo have hung it up after the first Mario and tried to come up with something new? You can argue that the number of Mario tie-in games these days is excessive, but that doesn't make Super Mario Galaxy a bad game.

Please take off the nostalgia goggles.

 

[BD2003]

Its definitely not WW2.
It cant possibly be WW1, the Civil War or the Revolutionary War, as those would make retarded games.
It wont be modern, since thats IW's turf, and Treyarch has been working on it for a year now.

If it's going to be another US-related conflict, which it is almost certain to be, it has to be vietnam and other cold war era conflicts, especially given the work treyarch has done on jungle environments for the pacific in WW2.

 

[BD2003]

kill the franchise. kill it with fire.

does anyone remember when people just tried to make good games instead of making eleven sequels to the same tired shit?

Except that Call of Duty is far from tired, and me and millions of people disagree with you?

 

[Queasy]

Except that Call of Duty is far from tired, and me and millions of people disagree with you?

Yeah, as I mentioned in another thread, Call of Duty titles take up three of the top 4 spaces on the most played games on Xbox Live currently. You can't deny their popularity right now. It may wane later but Activision is going to milk it for all it's worth and then some more.

 

[Glitchny]

kill the franchise. kill it with fire.

does anyone remember when people just tried to make good games instead of making eleven sequels to the same tired shit?

Well considering it's a first person shooter and they are set in WW2 and Present day it's not like the name Call Of Duty is somehow destroying the game style or suffering from sequels that much.

Even if they renamed it, it'd be like every other military shooter but with a different name, which changes nothing.

 

[lord_emperor]

How about the post-nuclear exchange conventional warfare that was assumed by Soviet military doctrine during the cold war?

 

[brblx]

Yeah, as I mentioned in another thread, Call of Duty titles take up three of the top 4 spaces on the most played games on Xbox Live currently. You can't deny their popularity right now.

and hollywood will probably make a transformers 3. and we got out fourth x-men movie last summer. and fourth fast and furious movie. et al.

yes, lots of sequels = automatic greatness. obviously.

anyone wanna play mario party 15?

 

[Queasy]

and hollywood will probably make a transformers 3. and we got out fourth x-men movie last summer. and fourth fast and furious movie. et al.

yes, lots of sequels = automatic greatness. obviously.

anyone wanna play mario party 15?

I never said greatness. I said popularity.

 

[brblx]

i know. it's just that in the modern entertainment dictionary, 'popular' and 'good' have become synonyms. maybe if we cloroxed the gene pool a little bit, you wouldn't have to hear me bitch when halo 5 comes out...

 

[AstroManLuca]

Saying that sequels are automatically bad is just as stupid as saying they are automatically good.

I'd say Super Mario World is a good example of a sequel that was pretty damn good. Meanwhile, the game Haze for the PS3 was an original game, not a sequel, and it was pretty crappy.

 

[Kabob]

Know what's even crazier? Everyone who's posted in this thread has an odd number of posts. It's like a conspiracy!

 

[smackababy]

The thing is, even a modern game needs some sort of historical reference. So, based on the job listing, you can only take that it isn't a completely new and fictional world with no historical base (Call of Duty: Planet X is out of the question). Even a game based in a modern setting would have to have some sort of historical level design, as there isn't really any new area, someone would have to be consulted.


I, personally, am a little tired of the WWII games. I loved the original Call of Duty, and even Call of Duty 2. The rest of the WWII shooters felt like the same old crap with better graphics. Doing something "new", like for instance, a Vietnam War game set completely in the jungle would be refreshing.

 

[fatpat268]

Call of Duty: Future Warfare
Call of Duty: Cold Warfare

Hmm...
If they do decide to go back to WWII, why not do some type of alternate history type of story. We've pretty much already played every battle in WWII

 

[Kromis]

Call of Duty: Future Warfare
Call of Duty: Cold Warfare

Hmm...
If they do decide to go back to WWII, why not do some type of alternate history type of story. We've pretty much already played every battle in WWII

Resistance is gonna come a-knockin' on their door