Sci-fi Call of Duty rumors resurface

Gamasutra columnist Chris Morris cites industry sources as saying Sledgehammer-developed game will feature "space marines."


Back in May, Activision registered a series of domain names that pointed to a sci-fi spin-off of the Call of Duty series. They included callofdutyfuturewarfare.com, advancedwarfare.com,  spacewarfare2.com, and several other URLs that pointed toward a  Battlefield 2142-style future-war spin-off of the series. Two months prior, Activision  announced that newly founded studio Sledgehammer Games would be  "extending the series into the action-adventure genre." Though many assumed that the nascent studio was working on a third-person spin-off of the first-person shooter series, a job listing confirmed that the studio was indeed working on an FPS.  

Now comes word that Sledgehammer's "action-adventure" Call of Duty game  may catapult the series into the future. In a column today, Gamasutra's  Chris Morris said that the sci-fi Call of Duty and Sledgehammer's  installment in the series are one and the same. "Industry sources say Sledgehammer's Call of Duty will be set in the  future and feature, for lack of a better term, space marines, a very big  step for a franchise that has historically based itself on realism," he  said.

The official story: Activision reps had not responded to requests for comment as of press time.  
Bogus or not bogus?: Probably not bogus. Morris is a  veteran game journalist with myriad contacts in the industry. Also, with  Modern Warfare 2 abandoning realism in terms of storyline--with Russia  mounting a full-on invasion of the US--the series' contemporary setting  may be the next thing to fall by the wayside. And hey, Black Ops' SR-71  Blackbird level (pictured) is near-space, isn't it?

Source: Gamespot

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Kill the series, start something new, but do /not/ make another Halo.

I agree with you Thomas

Thomas Bates III, on 10 November 2010 - 12:33 PM, said:

I thought you were for sci-fi Thomas.

LOL!

I am for sci-fi, and that is exactly why they should NOT, I repeat should NOT do this.

Science Fiction is amazing, but the trouble is nothing these days is original. Call of Duty has been rehashing for over ten years now, Halo is on the same road.
They seem to think that merging two genres will somehow make it super coolio and original.

It won't.

In fact, it will be another abomination of the game industry, it will be on that island from Rudolph where the cowboy rides an ostrich. It gets more unoriginal every time I look. You know what a good game would be? Something new.

You wake up from a coma on a deserted ship, fastly approaching an alien world. When you crash land, the aliens don't kill you, they nurse you back to health. There is an invasion, you defend your new home. That is the most original thing I could think up in about ten seconds, and it isn't even that original, probably not at all, actually. I want game studios to give me something new and bold, not the same crap I've dealt with for the last ten years!

Thomas Bates III, on 10 November 2010 - 09:38 PM, said:

I agree. I was at a gaming studio yesterday and the stuff that they were making was very unoriginal. Their previous project Omni, was very very unoriginal because it was just another HoN, LoL and Dota/

i think a sci-fi version of call of duty would be a very bad idea lol but if they made alot of cchanges to it so it was something like halo it mught be decent =P

Why do you say it'd be a bad idea?