Call of Duty and World War II: A Brief History

This year Sledgehammer Games joins the WWII ranks of Call of Duty with Call of Duty: WWII, which will bring the series back to World War II after nearly ten years. We can’t wait to tell you more about Call of Duty: WWII, so be sure not to miss the reveal livestream at 10:00am Pacific on April 26. We’ll see you there, soldier.

[Relientk77]

Back to WW2 and boots on the ground

Good

[threefootwang]

Agreed. Now please keep all of the ridiculous perks, weapons mods, and kill streak packages down to a minimum and just give us a good old fashioned shooter!

[Palitera]

The problem was never perks. The game was still great with kinds like Martyrdom, Juggernaut and Danger Close.

The real problem is the speed and the corridor maze map design (which means run and gun is today the only viable option), dominant after Black Ops.

But whatever. It is just the Groundhog Day again. People hope AND believe COD will be great again after every single reveal.

And then later complain COD still exists at such scale.

Today's fanbase are the ones that love what we hate about COD. Guess who Activision chooses...

[The 10th Rider]

Here's hoping the story/campaign/single-player is less like a Michael Bay action film and more like Saving Private Ryan or Hacksaw Ridge.

THAT would have me interested in a heartbeat.

Either way, a WW2 setting is enough to pique my interest again. I was just doing work at a nursing home and one of the resident there had his discharge papers on the wall . . . He fought at Normandy on D-Day. Unfortunately his hearing was so bad and I didn't have a whole lot of time, so I wasn't able to talk to him about it too much, but it was still really cool. There hasn't been a conflict since then that's come even remotely close to the same scope, scale, or stakes as World War 2 was.

[UCForce]

I think Sledgehammer Game want this game to be like Band of Brother.

[Tru_Blu]

Wish it was IW, world at war sp was a blast.

[IceKoldKilla]

@Tru_Blu You mean Treyarch. IW didn't make World at War.

[lociefer]

secret nazi jetpacks and grappling hooks !111!
joking, probably will be the first cod i buy in a long time, hopefully it's anything like world at war.

[mark3214uk]

how can you tell it will be boots on the ground from the pic? knowing COD you will go back in time with a jetpack and laser guns

i wont believe it untill i se some gameplay or a trailer

[Erik7357]

crappy game though, better setting

[UCForce]

"Sigh"

[CitizenFour]

http://imgur.com/KlZVOEi

Lol or is it???

[endi123]

Finally people will stop whining about cod, boots on the ground boots on the ground boots on the ground....

[BigKev45]

Get your popcorn ready.

[Next_gen_2015]

For a World at war copy and paste job

[UCForce]

Oh really ?

[CernaML]

I absolutely would NOT mind that.

[annoyedgamer]

You say that like its a bad thing..

[UCForce]

So it is true. Here the thing, this game got leaked way earlier than previous COD games.

[ApexWolf22]

I find it difficult to digest that it was accidental. Infinite Warfare turned so many stomachs, that I'm sure it was intentionally done to build hype towards taking COD back to its roots. They have way to many measures to prevent "leaks"

[ocelot07]

Good no more of this space crap. Might actually but COD this year.

[CyrusLemont]

You're a space marine sent from the future to help change the tide of word war 2 using advanced tech and skills like exoskeletons and walrunning abilities.

/s

That would be the best troll though haha

[ocelot07]

I swear if that happens........

[MasterCornholio]

Sounds about as retarded as the storyline in Ninja Gaiden games.

What next future neo Nazis go to the past to turn Hitler into a giant robot?

LOL

[CyrusLemont]

Wow can't believe how many horrible typos I left in that comment, sorry everyone!

[Father__Merrin]

good no more double jumps, no more ground skidding, no more wallriding

hate it when stupid users on IW get kills by jumping about lol day one purchase for me i predict 10 million + on ps4 alone

[Liqu1d]

WW2, cool. Now drop season passes and stop putting weapons in supply drops and I'll be interested.

[ClickbaitAF]

I might actually buy this, but I'm not gonna lie, the way they abuse the microtransactions might turn me off. Also, if this doesn't have dedicated servers........

[korea09]

They listened to is when we said we dont want any more future CoD games. Maybe we wont have to stop there

[OMGitzThatGuy]

Its going back to the future in 2018. Three devs are gonna have to differentiate somehow.

[korea09]

Is that boots on the ground I hear?
Is that WW2 I hear?
Is that (possibly) a normandy beach landing mission I hear?

[2pacalypsenow]

Never though a Battlefield game would affect Call of Duty

[korea09]

I don't bf affected this title because sledgehammer started working on a new title after they finished AW and that was way before BF1 was out in the public

[Tankbusta40]

It probably takes less than a year to develop a call of duty game, they have been using the same engine for a decade. There is zero reason to believe the game started three years ago

[AlphaCentyros]

I'll give you one reason: they released their last game 3 years ago, what else have they been doing? Do you think their entire company just took a break for two years? There is zero reason to believe they started developing the new CoD a year ago.

[UCForce]

Besides, COD have three years cycles.

[showtimefolks]

2pacalypsenow

yet IW outsold BF1 and TF2 combined

Tankbusta40

keep thinking that it's a 3 years development cycle

[Der_Kommandant]

Finally!!, they'd better don't make an alternate universe with jetpacks or some stupid shit. If COD go back to its roots i'll gladly preorder it.

[EmperorDalek]

Oh god it's actually called CoD: WWII

[mafiahajeri]

Persevered and didn't buy the last one and asked for WW2, so I'll be buying this one.

[themodern_age]

I'm actually very excited to see what this game will look like.

[TacticProductionz]

Didn't think they would actually call the game WWII!

[Patriot4Life]

Good timing too since the sh!t storm that is about to go down with North Korea.

[PCGAMERONLY]

They should have been a bit more creative with the name, just sounds too generic

[UCForce]

Well, it's plain and simple since the original MW.

[Tankbusta40]

I know alot of people proclaim they are done with cod every year... But after the modern warfare remake being changed and loot crates added and forced... I am done with call of duty. It's awesome they are going back to ww2 but it will just be riddled with microtransactions galore and that's not something I want.

[No Way]

So basically they are just following what Battlefield and Titanfall are doing? First with wall running and jump packs and now back to old-school warfare. C'mon, Activision.. at least do your own thing.

[theshredded]

I am actually excited for this. I hope this game finally puts COD back on track.

[Ninver]

No flying and wall running nonesense. Hopefully they get rid of the aim assist. That should weed out the noobs and 12 year olds with no skill spouting racist remarks online.

I'm asking for alot out of modern shooters i know, but one can dream.

[NotanotherReboot]

Can't shreking wait

[InTheZoneAC]

give me modern combat. WW2 was completely played out last gen and on ps2, was hoping to never see that era again.

[mkis007]

D-Day mission that puts frontline to shame please. I want a massive opening campaign dedicated to the DDAY assault.

[The7Reaper]

They should add weapon kits from MWR in this game instead of camos that or just plain dusty type camos nothing super flashy

[IceKoldKilla]

Well it's a step in the right direction. But I can't say I fully trust Sledgehammer. They made AW which I never liked. I stopped playing Multiplayer after Ghosts. Barely played to be exact. Maybe this will finally be the CoD to get me back in. I think I needed the break like ma y of us old fans. Playing every single one since CoD (2003) meant eventually I got tired of the same shit. Then future shit came into play and ruined it imo.

[Turkeyman07]

The last GOOD Call of Duty was Black Ops. Hopefully the magic of BLOPS can be recaptured

[KryptonKronos]

Haven't played Call of Duty since World at War. Words cannot describe how happy i am they took note, i'm surprised how many people like these versions of shooters far better than the rest.

[Father__Merrin]

One of the biggest launches this year can't wait. I PREDICT battlefield 1 players rushing to call of duty