GDC 09: Activision drops Call of Duty, it's only Modern Warfare 2

LSDARBY - 287 days 9 hours ago

Well this could be a good or bad move tbh....not so clever people might not know its COD and therefore wont buy it. Sounds like its missing something aswell "Modern Warfare 2"

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Ace777 - 287 days 9 hours ago

Bold move on IW's part, but i think it sounds better. Keeps everything short.

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jammy_70 - 287 days 9 hours ago

is the point in that
they should of kept the call of duty, now it wont fell like part of the fanchise, though it will be

i well this game is gunna kill some ass, the trailer was pretty cool

:)

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CaliGamer - 287 days 9 hours ago

They could call it Modern Poop 2 for all I care. LOL.

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Insanium - 287 days 9 hours ago

Since it won't have "Call of Duty" in the title, will the profit be counted in the Call of Duty net profits?

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Xiphos - 287 days 9 hours ago

Fine with me. 4 is easily the best of the CoD series. Branch off into your own thing so Treyarch doesn't drag your name down every other year.

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NaViTo - 287 days 9 hours ago

why?

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Shbzshar - 287 days 9 hours ago

ok so where does this leave IW and call of duties ... they'll still be making cod's right??... and mw 2 wont be incorporated in the cod library???

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Kamikaze135 - 287 days 9 hours ago

Things are better this way. Now people won't complain how the next Call of Duty doesn't meet the standards of the previous one, lol. Anyway, I hope they add some awesome new features into this game.

Anybody think that maybe, just maybe, Infinity Ward wanted to change up the series so much that Activision just told them to turn Modern Warfare 2 into it's own series?

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zaldare - 287 days 9 hours ago

You were right this time, Keighley.

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hac-hunter - 287 days 8 hours ago

I wonder if the Treyarch titles will drop the Call of Duty thing too?
If so, that would mean that their next game would be called "World at War 2"?

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IzKyD1331 - 287 days 8 hours ago

Not very smart.
The franchise is known as Call of Duty to the non hardcore gamer public, getting rid of that might hurt sales.

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themyk - 287 days 8 hours ago

that's gonna be about the only game that's gonna drag me off killzone2. Unless uncharted2 has a competetive MP. Please oh please oh please. M16 stopping power deep impact extreme conditioning. . RPD with recoil butt stopping g power and deep impact. Those are my money makers baby.

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Reibooi - 287 days 8 hours ago

They are abandoning the name Call of Duty for a few reasons I would think.

First is they don't want to confuse consumers with a series that keeps going back and forth with Modern Warfare and World War II Warfare.

Second is that Infinity Ward may want to distance themselves from the Call of Duty name thanks to Treyarch. Lets face it no matter how you look at it every installment made by Treyarch simply sucked when compared to the games developed by Infinity Ward. Doing this and abandoning the name Call of Duty won't affect Modern Warfare as Call of Duty is continued to be whored out.

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Bubble Buddy - 287 days 7 hours ago

Well that makes the abbreviations easier :P, from COD:MW2 to just MW2. However I still feel it lacks something in its name.

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Baka-akaB - 287 days 7 hours ago

Good to separate the good stuff from the other crap . What i'm not liking though is that it's the good one that's getting robbed of the name ...oh well .. at least each can have "his" call of duty flavor without dealing with the other .

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Sanhlami - 287 days 7 hours ago

I think its a good idea to change the name. They probably did it because too many people were getting confused with Call of Duty WWII series and the modern warfare series. Now Call of duty belongs to WWII only.

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Mutley416 - 287 days 6 hours ago

Salivate....COD!!! I`m ready...I hope the weapons are Sexy...and not lame like Cod5-

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Hi-def freak - 287 days 6 hours ago

Lets hope the single player campaign isn't!

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STONEY4 - 287 days 3 hours ago

Now it sounds like a generic shooter. Modern Warfare 2? That's like naming a WWII game just World War II.

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buckethead_911 - 286 days 22 hours ago

Im pretty sure they're saving COD5 as a title so that they can use it in the next generation of gaming.

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skatezero246 - 286 days 21 hours ago

I'm glad this happened I always called COd 4 (modern warefare), I always considered modern warfare to be separate from the other call of duty titles anyway, because it was the only modern day warfare game from call of duty. this also means we will be seeing a series of modern wardare games and world war 2 games. Its a win win in my book.

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N2NOther - 286 days 11 hours ago

I have a feeling this is going to be more of a COD 4.5 than the genre defining experience that was COD 4. Which could be another reason for the name change. That's cool with me though because more of the awesome same is still awesome.

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X_ANGEL-DEVIL_X - 287 days 5 hours ago

Call Of Duty SUCKS, I prefer Haze on it !!

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