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Gamers optimistic over 'Call of Duty' three year rotation

Activision has announced that Sledgehammer Games will be developing their own Call of Duty game, which will give Infinity Ward and Treyarch a longer production time. Gamers and critics are optimistic that the new rotation will improve the quality of the series for the new generation consoles.

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stanr3771d ago

Will this improve the COD series or will they just be churning the same game?

Amazingmrbrock3771d ago

They probably want people to stop saying their graphics suck. If the devs have an extra year to work on the game then they can spend a bit more time doing engine stuff.

There definitely won't be an entirely new engine but there will most likely be a lot of changes to the one they are using. Still could do with an across the board engine update though. No matter what they say a rewritten engine will never be as good as a new from scratch one. The engine cod uses can't be compared with the one battlefield uses, and it probably cant be updated to do those things.

Rikuide_Furame3771d ago

Agreed, which is why I don't quite understand the move. Would have preferred one dev team focused solely on engine work and this seems like a quick fix for a publisher hedging its bets.

jamestewart3771d ago

I will get excited once they stop making the last gen versions.

minimur123771d ago

I may not be optimistic, but I do believe it's a good idea. giving a dev 2 1/2 years to crate a game rather than 1 1/2 is great being as like Amazingbrock said, it'll give dev's more time to focus on the finer details and graphics

Matt6663771d ago

it not just the graphics they need to work on they need to work on everything else to, like how overpowered certain weapons are (I.E. the knife killing you in one hit anywhere on the body) and how certain perks and kill streaks are over powered, the lag comp, the broken "anti-cheat" system they have the list just goes on

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Kingthrash3603771d ago

lol we will still be over saturated with cod. 2 years apart aint bad. let my 60+ last over a year

Heisenburger3771d ago

There are three teams working on CoD. Three year development cycles still means one every. single. year.

aondaatje3771d ago

The only thing that can fix CoD is a game release every 2 years. It doesn't matter if there is 3 devs or 300 they are still releasing a game every year and its stale

Soupaman663771d ago

or just dont but a cod game every year. wait every 2,3, or how many years you want, or buy a game specific from it's developer.

N2NOther3771d ago

Uhm. IW and Treyarch do release their COD games every 2 years. Now it will be every 3 for each studio.

raWfodog3771d ago

There is still a COD game being released every year, regardless of who's developing it. He's saying he thinks it would be best to release a COD game to the public every 2 years.

N2NOther3771d ago

He's saying the only way to fix it is releasing it every 2 years and I'm saying that there is a different COD title, with a different story being released every 3 years. Why is it best to wait every 2 years? How is not releasing one every year from a different developer going to "fix" it?

ALS3653771d ago

Lol Cod has been shite ever since MW2. The others have been poor. Heck MW1 is better than anything recent too!

NarooN3771d ago

Thank you! WaW was the last good CoD game. Everything after that has been mediocre at best. I liked Blops 1's campaign and the multiplayer was fun with friends, but even that had a ton of issues.

This move still means we'll get a new game every year, and I doubt they will do much with the extra year of dev time they have besides sitting there drinking Mt. Dew and shoving Doritos down their throats.

e-p-ayeaH3771d ago (Edited 3771d ago )

Black Ops 2 is pretty decent just letting you know i was surprised by how good it is.

Dmagic3771d ago

waw was terrible mw2 was the last good one.

Godmars2903771d ago

All I can smell is burning aslphalt as something is run into the ground...

T23771d ago

Go ahead make cod every 3 months for all I care. They pretty much do this with dlc and maps already. After bfbc2 there's no going back bops2 was decent but they can't even get hit detection right.. You have a pray and spray shooter with auto Aim and poor hit detection
. A total p.o.s... How they managed to make progressively worse games from mw1 ti mw2 to waw and then straight down the crapper is a small miracle

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All Call of Duty Black Ops Games Ranked

The Nerd Stash: "Developed by Treyarch Studios, Call of Duty: Black Ops games are some of the best in the series in terms of gameplay, story, and -- of course -- Zombies."

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Rynxie3d ago (Edited 3d ago )

Black ops 4, because it was the last cod of duty I was able to dominate with a +2 k/d ratio. Before all the freaking cheating started to happen. It was nice catching people off guard and shooting at them first and getting the kill. Unlike now, where I shoot people first, but they gun me down with less hits, less time, literally feels like they can kill me in a split second. At times, they are able to run away after me shooting them way more than necessary, yet, the second I'm spotted, I'm dead, there's no me running away to cover. They can do cartwheels, summersaults, backflips and gun you down perfectly. They can shoot you across the map with perfect accuracy. They can jump around like morons and gun you down without even having to correct their aim. They have superman split second perfect reactions. That's the best way to describe it, everything they do is spot on perfect. They can spam and spray (no praying) their gun from far away, because they have no recoil or bullet spread. It always feels like I have to aim and also correct my aim when moving around, while these pricks don't have to do the same.

And yes, I know how to play fps games. I dominated many fps games like: Resistance 1&2, kz 2&3, Socom, MAG, Crysis, Gotham City Impostors, blitz brigade etc. all with 2-4 k/d ratio. Kz2 (lag input controls) and resistance (no aim assist in resistance) being the hardest and were the games I reached either close to a 3 k/d ratio or above.

I truly got to enjoy blacks ops 4 and got my money's worth out of it. Afterwords, I would either stop playing cod games after a while, because of the cheating, or would skip buying cod games for a year or two before buying another.

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Why MW 2019 is still the best looking Call of Duty to date

MW 2019 is five years old at this point and on previous gen hardware, but it is still the best looking Call of Duty game to date.

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EazyC47d ago

MW was an excellent videogame. They messed up Spec Ops big time, but aside from this it was a huge step in the right direction initially. Most notably, at launch it seemed to come from a very cohesive creative vision that was felt across gameplay, to story to art style/visual direction. It was also very notably written by prominent ex-Naughty Dog guys that quit almost immediately before release.

That COMPLETELY dissolved through post-launch content and the full pivot to a "cross-mode" narrative that completely obliterated the cohesion in overall story direction. Warzone then "became" the new face of Call of Duty and the franchise completely removed itself from anything remotely creatively "good". It is a pure money machine, so I kinda get why they're doing it....but I personally completely lost interest.

I would love to see Infinity Ward move off CoD and get to make their own product with full control. They clearly have some massive talent in their ranks but it's perverted by Activision's corporate interests.

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Call of Duty Modern Warfare III (2023) Review - Jump Dash Roll

Call Of Duty is back with its yearly instalment, but is Modern Warfare 3 breaking new ground, or just a lazy cash grab? The answer may not surprise you in today's review from JDR.

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