CVG: In what could've turned out be one of the biggest blunders in game business history, Activision originally did not want Call of Duty 4 to be a 'Modern Warfare' game, Infinity Ward has revealed.
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.
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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The original Modern Warfare and Modern Warfare 2 games have been drawing players back in
I really hope we get other activision games on GP soon. My dream would be Scarface but I know the license probably expired
Love me some Scarface! I even bought the comics. Yeah, licensing would probably be an impasse.
I played through Scarface again last year and it still holds up. Such a fun game. I would love for Xbox to get the rights back to remaster Scarface and make a sequel. It sold well and they had plans for Scarface 2, 3, and 4. With how long it takes Rockstar to make games the market is wide open.
That game was so much fun. Expected a cheap GTA clone but it was a good drug empire building game.
They didn't just have plans but there's actual gameplay out there for scarface 2
Seriously man we need games like
True crime
Sleeping dogs
Watch dogs( more like original not legion)
And proper saints row
GTA can’t be the only option we need other games
None of those games had dedicated servers on console in the first place? Were always player hosted. Did something change?
Infinity Ward have great developers, but in all honesty... They have the dumbest publisher. Making a modern warfare is what saved the franchise from dying out, it was the last move before the end. If Activision would've stopped them from making a modern warfare game then it would've been bye bye to Call of duty series.
wasn't that like 2 months we last had a COD news?
*cough*
Pseronally i think if Activision made COD4 into a WW2 game I'd ask them what they were smoking. Too many FPS games use the future as a setting for war. I find there are to many WW2 games out there I know there are fans of that but I need a break from them. COD 4 being a Modern War game I can get use to that I just wish Activision would quit screwing the customer since the game is popular by jacking up the price.
There Activision's best studio yet they seem to treat them like sh*t
Of course they didn't. Those idiots at Activision are afraid of any creative risks that God forbid may turn out to be excellent games. They are the ultimate milkers and if IW was not with them, COD would have already become like Guitar Hero and its millions of identical spin-offs.