Though Activision has yet to even announce the eighth installment in the Call Of Duty series, it hasn’t stopped speculation running wild that Modern Warfare 3 will be released on November 8 and will feature large scale destructible environments.
Kotaku reports that Infinity Ward has joined forces with Activision studio Sledgehammer Games and possibly Raven Software to work on the new first-person shooter. Furthermore, it speculates on the storyline, claiming that an anonymous source has revealed that the plot continues from where Modern Warfare 2 left off, and will be set in an urban environment “with military vehicles, including tanks, rolling through suburban streets.”
What’s most interesting about the recent rumors, however, is the suggestion that Infinity Ward is creating a large-scale destructible environment that won’t be as linear as many of the Call Of Duty games. This should make for some strategic battles and some huge, sprawling multiplayer maps. With Electronic Art’s Battlefield 3, a franchise renown for its big maps, team-work and vehicle warfare, also due for release around the same time as MW3, this really is going to be a heavy-weight battle between the two popular franchises.
It’s rumored that Activision will officially announce Modern Warfare 3 later this week, but an E3 showing seems more likely. Eurogamer also claims that evidence, gathered from an internal Tesco database, reveals that MW3, codenamed ‘Call Of Duty: Project Collossus’ will be released on November 8. Until we hear the official word from Activision though, take anything you read about MW3 with a pinch of salt.