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Sledgehammer Games Working On Call of Duty "Action-Adventure"

Also, Treyarch's officially up this year.


 Glen A. Schofield - The new face of Call of Duty?
 Glen A. Schofield - The new face of Call of Duty?
"Jason West and Vince Zampella are no longer with Infinity Ward." That's the official statement from Activision about yesterday's dismissal. That line is buried in a press release focusing on the future of the Call of Duty series along with these other things:


What?

One Vincent Caravella, when presented with this information, immediately said "so, they're making God of Warfare?" But you can hear that for yourself on tonight's podcast.

Additionally, Activision is forming a new business unit around the Call of Duty franchise to combine resources and bring to COD "the same focus seen in its Blizzard Entertainment business unit." But so far, all of this is starting to sound more like Guitar Hero circa 2009 than anything Blizzard's been doing lately. 
 
Editor's note: The original version of this article misinterpreted the releasse to mean that Sledgehammer's COD game would be released in 2011. No release date for this product has been announced. Giant Bomb regrets the error.
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Oh god, this is so confusing.  
 
My mind won't even process this madness, so I'll have to wait and see.

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The only reason CoD was a great franchise was because of Infinity Ward (although I did think MW2 was horrible).
 
My demand for FPS's is very elastic, don't expect me to ever buy anything from you again activision. I tried treyarch and they were terrible, you really don't have the authority over us customers to be complete jackasses.

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Activision has become the George Lucas of the gaming industry!

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Couldn't possibly even care less for the upcomming COD games. The COD franchise was burried a long time ago already. As far as im concerned COD4 is still the best game they made, doubt that they will make something better in any way.

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Activision can suck my left nut. Fuck Activision. They've ruined every series they bought rights to.

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Mr. Schofield looks somewhat disgusted at these events himself. So would I if I had to make an action adventure Call of Duty game

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I think I speak for many people when I say "FUCK YOU ACTIVISION!!!"

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@CaptainTryHard said:
" Call of Duty just died for me "
Sad face   :(
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This story is HOT! 
Also Call of Duty is officially dead in my mind.

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We'll always have Carentan.

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@Oy said:
" The next COD game will be titled:  Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: Adventures in the Land of Nyroth: 3. "
I believe you meant Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 2: Adventures in the Land of Nyroth 3.
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So first they run Tony Hawk games into the ground, then Guitar Hero games get the same treatment. I've got a hunch that Call of Duty is next up on the grave digging list, then what? Blizzard?! Also I bet this  "extend the franchise into the action-adventure genre" is of the MMO, Pay by month  variety  ala WoW. 

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The only good outcome of this is if all the talent at Infinity Ward creates a new studio and makes a Sci-Fi FPS, which will make me one happy boy.

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Now we all know why they did that stupid third person Multiplayer in MW2.
 
 Does anybody else feel like the Hyenas and Vultures have suddenly started moving in on it's weakened prey since West and Zampella left.
 
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Well, here it is. The first most public Activision maneuvers that're going to lead to the death of the once great COD franchise.
 
I know he's a businessman and this's the sort of thing that's made him incredibly rich, but damn it Kotick! You are scum!

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FUCK YEAH!

PRINCE OF DUTY
TOMB DUTY
THE LEGEND OF DUTY
METAL GEAR DUTY
ALONE IN THE DUTY
LEGACY OF DUTY
BEYOND GOOD & DUTY
CASTLEDUTYA
CRASH BANDIDUTY
ASSASSINS CALL for duty
DARKDUTYERS
UNCALLED 2: AMONG DUTY
BRÜTAL DUTY
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I think i can see why they got fired for insubordination..

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Someone at Activision must be really bad at deciding what the users want.

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Call of Guitar Duty Hero

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@syrupychinadian said:
" Lol @ "God of Warfare." How long before God of Warcraft? "
When hell freez... ohoh, almost pulled out a ActiBlizzard joke there. I'm on to your sticky shenanigans!
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RIP Call of Duty. You served us well.

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Stranger and Stranger!

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Doesnt affect me much but I do feel bad for the CoD fans that are gonna see their game get spliced into unnoticable parts. Hopefully it isnt to bad. Alot of this sounds really odd indeed. I am still concerned what all this will mean for the future of CoD.
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So they've seen the trailers for Spec Ops : The Line and have decided to do a CoD game in the same vein.  Activision are talentless hacks.  I hope all of their IPs up and leave them.  It would be better if Blizzard took them over.

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@raiz265: I personally liked Alone in the Duty. teehee.
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Big surprise since Infinity Ward is all but gone now. Activision's new low buget lackeys will be taking over the CoD franchise.

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thats what you all get for no dedicated servers
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Action adventure? Oh geez...

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  This is all the replacements for Infinity Ward could come up with.    

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THIS IS BATSHIT INSANE
 
LIKE WTF
 
I thought that post earlier was just a stunt. Seriously, this is fucked up. Call of Duty has truly gone down the drain with this move.

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So, the Blizzard Entertainment part could mean subscription fees or micro-transactions...  It could also mean an action adventure CoD MMO developed by Sledgehammer...
 
Man, Activision is retarded.

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What?

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@Mr_JPeps said:
" I've got a hunch that Call of Duty is next up on the grave digging list, then what? Blizzard?!"
Why not? I bet you, after SC2 is released, Kotick will straighten them out. I don't think he has special respect for Blizzard or any other "cult company" under his wing. From his POV, all these people have entirely too much fun developing games and goofing around for years. Bobby won't have that.
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@SeriouslyNow said:
" So they've seen the trailers for Spec Ops : The Line and have decided to do a CoD game in the same vein.  Activision are talentless hacks.  I hope all of their IPs up and leave them.  It would be better if Blizzard took them over. "
they own their IPs...that makes no sense. IW employess can quit, etc., but they can't leave and make CoD, because Activision owns that IP (franchise)
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Call of DOtA.

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Guitar Hero, Tony Hawk, Call Of Duty,  is there any once respectable game franchises Activision doesnt totally beat to death?

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A Call of Duty action-adventure? I'm seeing the words on my screen but my brain's not letting them go in.

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SHA-IT! lots of news today 

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ugh, trash. looks like this is the end of modern warfare. i would of loved to play a 3rd one. on to something else, cause i will not play another cod from the past.

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yay lets ruin the good name of call of duty just like they did guitar hero!! what a bunch of jackasses..

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Weird, what's happening to call of duty. I really hoped they would let Sledgehammer games work on whatever new ip they wanted, but it seems Activision's found it's gold mine.

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i wish we could start something awesome like a boycott or something...LET'S DO IT!

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@Dynamitekyle said:
" This is odd. "
Odd Of Warfare?
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@Korne said:
" @Dynamitekyle said:
" This is odd. "
Odd Of Warfare? "
Exactly.
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I think I'm done with Call Of Duty.

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this doesnt sound like a good thing to me, but we'll see what happens
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if we make a anti-activision group, will old bobby boy (bobby kodek) kill me?

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@ImperiousRix said:
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What?

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i agree