Despite Seven Million Sales COD 5 Could Go to Treyarch

make sense? not!

This is not surprising at all and makes pretty good sense too.

Treyarch were given the console only COD3 to allow Infinity Ward more time to make COD4 the best PC/Console game they could.

By following the same pattern, having a yearly update but not at the cost of IW's expected COD6 Actvision are simply banking on the same process that has proved so brilliant this time round.

Stu

i expected this to be the case, i thought it had already been annouced before 4 was released.

i think its good idea, 2 takes on the one series, mixes it up a bit

That's all well and good, but I'm just disappointed that its retreating the series to WWII again. Modern Warfare sold more because it wasn't similar to Brothers in Arms or Medal of Honor, and shows how a change in settings and weapons can change a games fortunes.

We love Modern Warfare and I'm tired of WWII. I'm sure many feel the same.

Perhaps a WWIII with futuristic nano bot weapons where you site back and let robots do the fighting and you simply move the camera around to see the action!!

Bah, yer tilting at windmills there Don Quixjoji...


1. CoD5 isn't really part of the IW CoD series is it? They're almost like two seaparate series, aren't they...so theres plenty of hope for CoD6 to be a de facto sequel to Modern Warfare.

2. World War II has been, will be, and is the ideal conflict for basing an FPS around. Get as sick of them as you feel you need to, they'll keep coming, and as long as they come up with a truly exceptional one every once in a while, thats OK. Personally, I think a IW CoD taken back to WW II would be hot. WW II had balance, something which is lacking in most subsequesnt conflicts. WW II has gravitas, it is the defining moment in the world we live in, most of the technologies we reply on were either spawned or developed during the war or as a result of its aftermath. WW II has villains no one is going to defend, you can pretty much do whatever you want to with the Nazis, without fear of a stern note from Der BundesrespublikDeutchland. Not like thouse touchy Chineese, Koreans, or Ay-rabs.

3. WW II isn't likely to cause anyone to have flashbacks or trigger their Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome. I mean, they're all almost dead anyway, right? Imagine: "Yeah, we were just playing that new Vietnam FPS on the HDWii with Uncle Tranh...when he got all glassy-eyed, tore off a bit of the Wiimote and threw it through the screen. Next thing you know hes in a pit in the backyard with some pointed sticks, smearing them with his own excrement, and muttering to himself about the French." Uhm, same story except its Uncle Johnny, Gulf War, and instead of the pit, its the neighbors Hummer, and he's complaining about how its not uparmored. I mean, they're all almost dead, anyway, right?

4. The balance. There is an unholy amount of it to be found or created from within WW II, including some of the most legenday weapons of all time. Germany, in particular, fielded a wide range of infantry weapons, running from a WW I bolt-action rifle, though submachine guns, to the original assault rifle, two kinds of manportable, shaped-charge anti-tank weapons, an offensive grenade, and the Luger. (Also, the MG-42) Not to mention the zombies with tesla coils and gatling guns. The allies countered with the obscenely useful M1 Garand, iconic Thompson sub and BAR, the bazooka, a defensive grenade, and the Colt M1911A1 .45 automatic. (Yes, and Brens and silenced Stens, bolt-action holdovers, etc.) This symmetry carried on through the vehicles as well. Spitfires and Hurricanes vs. 109's and 190's, Long-range Mustangs escorting bombers vs. too-scarce, jet-powered, Me-262s, mighty Panzers and the occasional (tactically supreme, yet strategically lousy) Tiger vs. masses of vulnerable Shermans or the excellent T-34, Stukas and Sturmoviks. Theres a wealth of variety in conflict availible...

For all these reasons and more, WW II is the ideal historical conflict to base an FPS around, so they ain't going anywhere, get over it.

You forgot how it also involved, Hell Boy, Indiana Jones, Mutated Vampires, Clones & Giant Robotic Clockwork Machinary how could any boy resist!!

Okay, fool yourself with that thinking buddy. You run out and buy the game and then notice how it bombs. There's a good reason COD4 on the PS3 alone outsold COD3 on all formats combined, even with the Mature ESRB rating and no PS2 release, same goes for Rainbow Six Vegas vs COD3.

There are many fans like you who like the WW2 genre over the modern FPS games, but its obvious your the minority group. I for one wont be buying the game if it does take place during WW2.

i personaldont have preference on the war, wether it be, WW2 or Modern Day War, of even Futuristic (gears of war) as long as the gameplay is good i dont concern myself with the date. and i think it stupidity to refuse to buy a game because its based in WW2??,

Well I think its more in keeping with COD genre which is second world war era and was shocked at it going to modern warfare with COD4 (not that it isnt a brilliant game and love it except that it has no dedicated servers for multiplayer). More modern or futuristic FPS are covered by a whole range of other games like Halo, Quake wares etc. What would have been good is a WW1 game where its close quater trench fighting, with snipers over no mans land, artillery and mass murder the old armoured cars but this still isnt really in keeping with the COD genre of WW2

I call it the "Total War" way of making a series, except this one is the crappy version. In short, you have two teams that make games in a series. So game 1 in series X is made by team 1 and game 2 by team 2 and game 3 by team 1. This is what Creative Assembly does. Rome Total War was made by the time behind Shogun Total War, Medieval II by the team behind Medieval I and the new Empire is being made by the team behind Rome. This always them to make a Total War game every two year while being able to work 3-4 years on each one.

Too bad Treyarch is not so good a developer as...Infinity Ward? (Is it Infinity Ward?). It does mean that CoD6 will be given 3-4 years to be made, ensuring high-quality. So at least be happy for that :)

According to Activision they want to do a release per year for CoD.However, two osudits just can't do it there isn't enough time to come up with enough good ideas and bring them to a satisfactory result, so they are bringing in a third studio. The *next* CoD release is *supposed* to be from Treyarch, and it will be an Historical game like WaW and all CoDs prior to the release of CoD4. Rumour has it they are looking into a Vietnam game (BF: Vietnam anyone )The next release in the MW franchise should be in 2012 if the rumoured schedule (with the new studio's release being 2011).Good Luck!