To the surprise of no one, Call of Duty is returning this year. Shocking, we know, but now we do actually have some new information. While it's been speculated for some time, Activision has finally confirmed that this year's entry will be helmed by Sledgehammer Games.
The news came from last night's Activision financial call (and transcribed wonderfully by the team at Eurogamer), where the company's chief operating officer, Daniel Alegre, confirmed the game's developer, while also claiming the title is being built for next-gen consoles. However, its platforms were not confirmed at the time.
"Development is being led by Sledgehammer Games, and the game is looking great and on track for its fall release. This is a built for next generation experience with stunning visuals across campaign, multiplayer and cooperative modes of play, designed to both integrate with and enhance the existing COD ecosystem. We look forward to sharing more details with the community soon."
Various reports have suggested this year's entry will be set in World War II and is known as Vanguard. It also appears all hands are on deck for the game's development as multiple developers have been roped in to assist. Just recently, Toys for Bob, who are most notably known for their recent work on revitalising classic series' such as Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon, have been brought on to help.
How this year's game is shaping up remains to be seen. Unlike the past few years, it will also have Battlefield to contend with. EA has said a reveal will be coming soon, so it's not long until the battle begins!
Are you excited for Call of Duty this year? Let us know in the comments below.
[source eurogamer.net]
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If I remember correctly sledgehammer was supposed to be last year
CoD really needs to stop being annual, it's already killed off Crash and Spyro...
@Grumblevolcano
100% agree.
Reminds me of when the Assassin's Creed games were annual and they just went stale.
Same with COD for me now. I'll just stick to Warzone for my fix.
Does this mean that poor PS4 and Xbox One owners can expect this COD to be like the monstrosity that was Black Ops 3 on the PS3/XB360?
Shudder
Hopefully for those users it will be more like Ghosts (a nice performing cross gen game).
I am at the point where I am totally over COD again. After they ruined Modern Warfare with Warzone integration, I was just over it. Done with that series.
Literally couldn't care less about this, because it's made in bloody WW2 settings again, where as BF6 looks like it'll be set in modern times, possibly be next gen only, and have those environments you can destroy to affect the map again.
Will stick to MW and that's it, for as much as I can bare them shoving Warzone down my throat every time I fire the game up.
@S1ayeR74 it's so annoying I don't want warzone I hate battle royale games but I'm forced to have warzone installed just to play modern warfare 🙈
@Chancer28 It was suppose to be a joint effort between Sledgehammer and Raven Software but they couldn't agree on things so Sledgehammer was pulled off the project and replaced by Treyarch and we got Cold War.
@Would_you_kindly Couldn't agree more, must be 60 gigs plus sat there doing nothing for me apart from wasting my storage space. It was a cheap move by Activision to basically force it on you. BF6 here I come! Hopefully.
@S1ayeR74 most annoying part is having to update the game everytime warzone gets an update & the fact that to update the game you need about 100 gigabyte of free space even when the update is like 1 or 2 gb (at least on my PS4 pro)
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