A new report suggests this year’s Call of Duty will abandon the modern era, which has served as the primary setting for the last half dozen or so releases, instead switching to a far future setting that will pave the way for an all-new take on the franchise.
The new details on this year’s Call of Duty come from a pair of unconfirmed sources. First, a well-known member of the NeoGAF forums, who’s been known to leak this sort of information in the past, told fellow GAF members that this year’s Call of Duty would be “Very far future. Space combat. Full on sci-fi.” Less than 24 hours later, a new report on Eurogamer confirmed the claim, based on conversations with the outlet’s own sources. That said, it’s also worth pointing out that we’ve yet to hear an official response from Activision. So it’s always possible the rumors are based on old information.
That said, the new reports do cast quite a bit of doubt on recent rumors that Infinity Ward would return to active duty with a sequel to Call of Duty: Ghosts. In fact, while we still don’t know much about the alleged sci-fi CoD, Eurogamer says, rather matter-of-factly, that Infinity Ward will not be releasing a Ghosts sequel this year. Unfortunately, outside of projections for another November debut, there’s not much else we know about the project at this time.
On the plus side, Activision already promised to show this year’s Call of Duty at E3 2016, meaning we shouldn’t have to wait more than a few months for details on the next game in the series.
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