The studio that started the Call of Duty phenomenon fell to pieces earlier this year with thefiring of its co-founders and the following mass exodus of pissed off Infinity Wardemployees. With enough money, you can recover from that. And when you're Activision Blizzard, you can put Infinity Ward back together again. You can get over it. And Activision's owner claims it has, according to the Financial Times. "We have reconstructed Infinity Ward," said chairman and CEO Jean-Bernard Lévy of Vivendi, the majority owner of the mega-publisher. "We have been very happy with the way we have been able to reconstruct it." Not that Vivendi and ActiBlizz need them! Lévy boasts that Black Ops developer Treyarch has outperformed the old Infinity Ward with its latest game. And they have Sledgehammer! Activision did promise "Ultimately, Infinity Ward will rise from the ashes" not long afteraggressively hiring new talent for the embattled studio. We're sure they'll be wrapping up Modern Warfare 3 any day now. Vivendi sees continued success for COD franchise Hahahahaha Mw3 coming November 10, 2011
They did confirm that there will be a CoD every year now. Take that as you will. Of course they weren't going to let the name of Infinity Ward die off, to the fans of the game it means something. But that can't cover the fact that its not the infinity ward that made Cod 4 + MW2. Still lets wait and see if they live up to expectations
I really hope they do, Treyarch seemed to take a step back. Hopefully New Infinity Ward (NIW xD) still has the cod4 engine so they should do a good job.
Really all they need to do is stop making retarded fucking story lines... I mean... CoD4 was the best story out of all the "notable" games. MW2 was all flash and crazy unbelievable shit, and Black Ops, well... its a fucking acid trip to be honest. They did well to take stuff from the era, but they "over cooked" the story into a charcoal briquette of fail. I realize everyone plays for the Multiplayer, but with CoD, its the same damn formula. They have it pretty much perfect, if they would simply get a working party system going.... You shoot people, get objectives, level up, unlock more stuff to kill people with, level up more, and have fun with your friends while doing so. The theater stuff and monetary stuff (and wager match) are nice additions, but I know they would have sold eleventy bazillion copies even if it didn't have those features. At this point, it would almost take some real effort to fuck up what they have going. If (N)IW can make a game half as good as CoD4 or Black Ops, they'll do fine. ...But I'm still hoping they make a half decent story. I hate feeling like playing the campaign is a bad joke, and I'm the punchline.
