Call of Duty 5 set in Pacific theatre of war?
- Posted December 11th, 2007 at 11:23 EDT by
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This past weekend we uncovered that Call of Duty 3 masterminds, Treyarch, were looking into the idea of bringing the Call of Duty franchise back to its World War II roots. Now in an involving path of twist and turns, we can now bring fourth new information that sheds light on this possibility, plus more.
For a number of years, developers have raided the World War II era for content to create their latest title with. In specific, the European Theatre of the conflict has received the most attention.
As such, many have suggested that developers have not dug deep enough into the European aspect while some believe they need to lie off for a while -- I mean, how many times can we as gamers expect to storm the beaches of Normandy?
One portion of World War II that is constantly left in the dark is the Pacific Theatre, one of the portions of WWII that held some of the most important battles like Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, and Midway. Now it appears that the developers of Call of Duty 3 not only might be considering the notion of bringing COD back to WWII, but to the Pacific Theatre conflict of WWII in Call of Duty 5.
If this is true, then it would make only the 2nd time when a major WWII game explores the Pacific conflict with the other one being Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault from Electronic Arts. This is also not counting the History Channel's: Battle for the Pacific, which flew a little under the radar in terms of mainstream appeal and attention.
Call of Duty 4 is considered by many to be one of the better games and indeed in the whole year of 2007, as it received the award for best military game at last night’s Video Game Awards on Spike TV.
With great success, people might find some comfort in the new modern realm and might not be too willing to take the trip back to 65 years or so. We will bring you more on this once info surfaces.
Source: Kotaku
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CONFLICT__01 |
conflict01- 11:28am GMT - December 11th, 2007
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If its half as good as COD4 I cant wait. COD4 is best game this year !!!!
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FantasyStar |
Tirin- 11:43am GMT - December 11th, 2007
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Treyarch F***ed up CoD3. It was linear, the combat was shoddy and worst of all the gameplay mechanics looked incomplete. I have little hope for CoD5 and will most likely skip it.
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Wintee |
bluedotred- 11:56am GMT - December 11th, 2007
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Agree with FantasyStar totally.
I'm surprised they're letting Treyarch near COD again after the royally great mess that was COD3. One of the worst FPS's I played in a long time. It was a distinct step backwards from COD, and even COD2.
And why do some many games developers return to WWII for inspiration. Surely there are more entertaining wars out there ? (That was meant to be ironic).
I'd like to see someone take a real good attempt at a WWI trench game. COD4 showed that you can flood the screen with AI based characters and make it look realistic - this is what we need.
Something that makes you sit back in awe - like the first time you saw the beach landing to medal of honour on the PS2! Remember that!
Or the Stalingrad river crossing in COD!
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D3v1lwqer23 |
bluedotred- 11:59am GMT - December 11th, 2007
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Give us a Vietnam at the very least!!! Or even make it in Desert Storm, either one would be fine, but leave WWII alone for a while at least, this goes for you too EA!!!
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IRONMAIDEN
- 12:33pm GMT - December 11th, 2007
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finally the pacific. it was brutal and all that jazz. give it a chance
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funItalian
- 12:55pm GMT - December 11th, 2007
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I think we're all tired of WW2. Lets move on.....WW2 was not the only war in our history!!! Lets focus on FPS's now or the future. GEEZ....
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tretormenn
- 12:59pm GMT - December 11th, 2007
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COD4 is the best game of the year by far. Treyarch make a bad job with COD3 on ps3. again with the wwII, men this is boring. You are doom Treyarch. I will not buy COD 5. Get lost Treyarch or play some COD4 and learn a few things.
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iToke
- 1:01pm GMT - December 11th, 2007
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Hmmm....I really thought/hoped the COD series had outrgrown it's stale WWII roots - but hopefully a pacific setting may provide an interesting aspect - but I still want muh Modern day stuff, c'mon. It'll be funny if this all turns out to be true and the "success" of the next installment is nowhere near that of COD4.
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Syphon_Filter |
Syphon_filter2- 1:38pm GMT - December 11th, 2007
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Well, i hope they will make it look like good as now, the crap game MEDAL OF HONOR was really bad. And i dont no why the developers arent being creative with the new games. They keep creating same game over and over. I think they just want to make money instead of taking risks by creating new games and does not sell well or help them. I remember with ps1 there were more games and longer then ps2 and ps3.
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Dave-The-Rave |
Dave-The-Rave- 1:40pm GMT - December 11th, 2007
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JEEZ people, give the game a chance first before condemming it !!
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tadpole3159 |
faulkner8991- 2:20pm GMT - December 11th, 2007
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oh god this has to be untrue. its to wierd traveling through time back and forth. stick to modern and go WWII in cod 7 if you must go back at all
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Triple Dk |
TripleDk- 2:30pm GMT - December 11th, 2007
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Maybe you play as a future guy... from the future, who got some sweet weapons, and then you need to change the outcome of the war? Or maybe a future guy who is against the other future guy, and tries to make the story stable! Multiplayer could be awesome!! 4 teams: Good future, bad future, most of the old world, Hitler...
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Hulkman5000 |
Blkscorp- 4:28pm GMT - December 11th, 2007
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It does matter if the story is based off WWII. If the presentation of this game is good it will be a good game. Example: good story, good gameplay, Great online multiplayer.
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ryanworldleader |
ryanworldleader- 5:34pm GMT - December 11th, 2007
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At least it's in the pacific, i'm sick of europe.
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RagingStorm |
RagingStormX- 5:54pm GMT - December 11th, 2007
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Well my only reason for buying CoD4 was because it was not in the WW2 era. If its not modern times then its not for me. Hopefully some great RPG's will be out for me to pass the time...plus I don't see me putting down CoD4 anytime soon.
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CONFLICT__01 |
conflict01- 7:13pm GMT - December 11th, 2007
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Im with you on this one "TRIPLEACE". I cant think of a single game based on the falklands, Im up for a bit of Goose Green action. The enviroment would be a welcome change from most games out at the moment, and I do luv the SA80.
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chilledbreeze7
- 5:25am GMT - December 12th, 2007
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God, I remember Medal of Honour Pacific Assault, it was so poor and I think I completed in a weekend too...However I'm sure the COD version will be stunning! Cant Wait!
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MrGunhappy
- 8:35am GMT - December 12th, 2007
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Better, and interesting, but really the thing that really bothered me before was that Treyarch was doing to game. They are an extremely horrible studio.
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princevegeta1980
- 9:25am GMT - December 12th, 2007
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i think psu should of put cod3 on thier list of 5 worst games of the year and if it's the same g33ks that ar going to make cod5 i'll just buy another shooter game instead, like sof payback, lol!
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alamzil2
- 6:47pm GMT - March 11th, 2008
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maybe if treyarch gave up and infinity ward made a WWII title maybe it wont be as s**tty as COD 3 and maybe they might even have 95% destructible environments for this i am looking forwards to it give it a try if it doesnt work get BF bad company. and someone send a letter to activision saying they need to not let treyarch make their games anymore heck i would make a better game than them, hopefully they might combine the two wars, WWII and Vietnam and make it a heck of a lot better
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