Infinity Ward Not Making Call of Duty 5?
By Jonathan on Friday, September 14th, 2007 at 12:57 PM PST In Activision, Call of Duty, Computer, Games Industry, Microsoft, Sony
While everyone seems to be oohing and aahing at the upcoming Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, it seems that Infinity Ward may not be developing Call of Duty 5. Don’t fret just yet though, as they’ll most likely be back for CoD6. Awhile back, publisher Activision decided they wanted to have a new Call of Duty game out every year, which didn’t leave enough time for Infinity Ward to create the games they wanted to. So a compromise was made after CoD2: Infinity Ward would get two years to make another title, and the franchise would be handled by developer Treyarch in the interim. This explains why CoD3 may have seemed quite a bit different from CoD2. It hasn’t been confirmed, but it seems that this deal may carry over into the next game as well. During that time though, Infinity Ward will also be doling out new downloadable content (maps, weapons, perks, etc.) for CoD4.
This sounds like a pretty good compromise to me, since it keeps both the publisher and the developers happy. I figure a great Call of Duty game every two years is better than a so-so one every year.
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Nice dig on Treyarch.
nice work:)
Fuck Treyarch!!!
forget treyarch!!!!!!!
go infinity ward!!!!!!!! fuck yeah!!!!!!! 
Go treyach love cod 3, infinity ward kiss my but
I thought everyone knew about this already its bin goin on since the start of cod they make alternate games like cod 2 was infinty ward 3 was treyarch 4 is infintiy ward and so on and so forh i thought everyone knew this already.
i’d rather infinity ward do all future COD’s, just because they did a better COD game.
i liked COD3, just that COD2 was all round more entertaining and more of a graphic treat, for me anyway.
Treyarch sucks. i hope they dont ruin the series, they sucked in CoD3 and IW did great on CoD4.
I absolutely HATED Call of Duty 4. What a let down! TREYARCH sucks! I played CoD2 all the way until CoD4 came out because CoD3 was absolutely and utterly horrible.
Shoot, I meant CoD3. I hated CoD3. I love CoD4.
I liked the multiplayer for COD3. So I like this alot. COD4 is awesome.
how can ya say treyarch are crap they brought us the vehicles and the split screen online cod 4 is geat online but such a let down 4 me cus i cant split screen or get in vehicles anymore theyve downgraded u think theyd leave all that stuff in and add more.still im addicted to all of em lol
I love Infinity Ward, they have been making excellent games for the Call of Duty series. It makes sense to alternate because, it puts off pressure on Infinity Ward, which allows them to make such successful and entertaining games. Call of Duty 4 is awesome, a lot of time was put into it to make the single-player experience decent, as well as the multiplayer. At the rate this series is going, it will be around for many years.
call of duty 4 blows, im still addicted to call of duty 3, eder dam baby rocks online, call of duty 5 better go back lookin like call of duty 3, keep it the same set up, call of duty 4 is confusing,night vison is useless on that game , no medics wtf, all maps look the same. its just a big let down, whata waste of money, I HATE CALL OF SHITTY 4
This sucks pretty bad. COD3 was a pretty poor COD game but if this gives IW the freedom to give us another game as good as COD4 then I’m all for it.
It kinda hurts the series as a whole but hey what else would you expect from a huge croperation like Activision. Seriously though COD4 is amazing well done IW.
CHRONIC says:
November 22nd, 2007 at 1:15 pm
call of duty 4 blows, im still addicted to call of duty 3, eder dam baby rocks online, call of duty 5 better go back lookin like call of duty 3, keep it the same set up, call of duty 4 is confusing,night vison is useless on that game , no medics wtf, all maps look the same. its just a big let down, whata waste of money, I HATE CALL OF SHITTY 4
kid u r u moron. u sound like a fucking idiot because everyone in the room is saying cod 3 sucks and u say its good.first of all cod 3 sucked terribly. the only people who liked o played that game was people who sucked at call od dut 2 because cod 2 took way more skill and cod 3 was all camping and there was no kill cam to see where they were camping so u could go get them.and cod4 is ausome i dont know how its confusing… maybe u suck at it? and nobopdy cares for medics and for that kid Dan 4 people above me… noone wants vehicles anymore either cus all it did was ruin the games when people got in the vehicles they just ran people over like faggits it took no skill.
I agree with Michael Curatolo kid COD 4 kicks COD 3s ass
No more games like COD3 because of the fact that you can glitch in order to win a match which to me is really gay also I hope the COD franchise make more and better games like COD2&4
I despise COD 4.
COD and COD(UO) were great but something about COD4 makes me sick.
Maybe it’s all the aimbotters and wallhackers…..speedhacks and so on and so forth that has me turned off about this game. This was the very last COD I’ll ever spend hard earned money on.
A 4 hour campaign and multiplayer that is nothing more than mindless run and gun
fun for hackers and cheaters…no thanks.
Not to mention the immature “crude and nasty” adolescent attitudes of the players. My copy is uninstalled. I’ll chalk it up to a “mistake”, throw it away and forget COD ever existed.
Call of Duty 3 wasn’t a terrible game, its fun. Of course not as fun as Call of Duty 4, but still fun. Maybe its cuz it was my first xbox game, I don’t know. It did add a few things like the sprinting to the series, which is good, but at the same, didn’t include other things like kill cam.
Even though I now own CoD4, I still go back and play CoD3 sometimes. At least CoD3 isn’t as bad as Hour of Victory, man that sucked!
I cannot, for the life of me, figure out why people think Call of Duty 4 is ground breaking. You guys just blow my mind. That game has one of the most thoughtless unlocking systems I think I’ve ever seen in an online game. People who are new to it will get absolutely slaughtered by higher level players with perks like Martyrdom and 3x Grenades. I just about threw the game in the garbage after my first few matches. I like to call it Call of Duty 4: Dodge the Grenade. It takes zero skill to run around whipping grenades in every direction hoping someone will be in the area when it goes off, and yet, it happens far too often, thanks the the fact that the levels are so damn small. And for a game that’s supposed to be “modern” and “realistic”, what the fuck is Martyrdom anyway? How the fuck can a man set off a grenade after he is already dead? Sniping is this game is just like any other, not that much skill involved, except it’s pretty pointless considering the levels are again, ridiculously small. I notice almost no difference in gameplay compared to Call of Duty 2, besides the fact that the playing grounds were a lot more even and straight forward in 2, and the levels were far better thought out. Call of Duty 3, while not the most advanced, had well thought-out levels, and addicting gameplay that was actually fun. Fuck Infinity Ward, and their half-assed attempt at making an enjoyable game. Battlefield 2 did everything Call of Duty: 4 does, and way more…There is nothing ground breaking about Infinity Ward’s latest game whatsoever, and if you ask me, I say they’ve gone backwards. Were they just too half-assed to actually put vehicles in the game? They didn’t even change some of the fonts and icons from Call of Duty: 2…Total bullshit. If you haven’t bought 4 yet, and you like 3 because it’s a fun, straightforward shooter that won’t make you want to whip your controller across the room every time you play it, do not waste your time and money on 4.
dude!? what is up with u and swearing. anyway i like all CoD games because they are awesome 3rd and 4th i mainly liked especially the multipleyers they rocked altho i do kinda miss vehicles and medics its still very cool
Stop whining Silva86, you just can’t play COD 4 very well, and are blaming the game for it instead of yourself. There is no reason to blame the game, you are making your character’s decision, not the game. The game just shows the effect of your decision.
I don’t care if you hate COD 4, it is just your opinion. WHY DO FONTS AND LOGOS MATTER! I just read them and notice them, I don’t care about the way they look. Blaming the game for your problems is wrong, and like I said before, your actions in game determines what will happen, and that is that. You can kill the enemy in the game no matter what rank they are. They aren’t unstoppable with their unlocks.
Stop the lame excuses. You clearly lost.
i didnt find it impossible to kill higher ranks than me in CoD 4 online i agree with ASan44 on that one
wow, i cant believe it, COD 4 is like the best game of 2007, and some people here think its crap, all it needs is co-op campaign and online co-op to be absolutely perfect, awesome job IW, keep it up, 9.8/10 in my books!
lets just hope treyarch dont mess up COD 5 too much eh….
CoD3 wasnt that bad in Multiplayer, but it was lacking in SP. If they want to make a good online game, Treyarch needs to get better servers for their game. For god sakes, it is the only online game they have and they still cant keep multiple servers. It took forever to find a game.
I just got COD4 today, but i have vista and it’s not starting, but i love the other ones! i’m just glad WWII is finally over!
Hmm…i still dun hav de chance 2 play COD3..no cd game available in M’sia.What a bummer!And now with COD4?!Oh my god!I need 2 change my pc video card…heard that COD4 needs a very high requirements….
DUDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All the COD series are excellent,and great value.Have no problems at all completeing levels.I think it would be great if COD took us back to World War One.Fighting in the trenches,using gas masks,driving the old tanks and flying the old planes,and bayoneting the enemy.What do you guys think.Sound good,or a we all over world war stuff and time to move on etc.
LOL CODUO IS THE BEST LOLOLOLOL.
ASan44, you completely missed my point. First of all, I don’t suck at the game. I’m on my third prestige mode with a 1.36 kill to death ratio (Xbox360, I’d probably do better with a mouse and keyboard), and still play it even now. Take the time to read my post again…I said the game is not ground breaking, meaning it does not offer anything that hasn’t been done before. Clever marketing and a lot of hype have gotten the game to it’s high profile status and popularity more than ‘amazing’ gameplay.
And my point about how they used some the same fonts, icons, and even sounds from COD2 (All grenade sounds, as well as the sound your player makes when he gets shot, etc.) was backing up my statement about how it’s nothing new. No, it doesn’t bother me either, but when you sit down and play the 2 games back to back, you realize that it really wouldn’t have taken much to make COD4.
OK, Call of Duty 4 has pretty good gameplay mainly because of the graphics and effects. The movements, shadowing, environments, and other animations do take time. But since they use a graphics engine that is already prewritten, it takes slightly less time to make a game, mainly because codes are written for them.
When comparing this game to the Battlefield 2 series, this game is way better. The weapon skins and maps are just way better than in Battlefield 2. Only thing that makes Battlefield 2 better than COD 4 is with vehicles. But making a game with COD 4 graphics, and BF2 military vehicle/plane/helicopter fights would truly be a very successful and ground breaking game.
I see your point Silva86, there were several attempts to make games like COD 4, just most of them were never really successful. I personnally think that OCD 4 was successful, mainly because it is a part of a high ranked and popular franchise. WW1 or Civil War action could be something cool to play, because there are not really any games that are based on those famous events, as long as gameplay / graphics are good. WW2 is just completely overused and I say is finished. But it still is fun to play COD 2 once in a while. I still do, on multiplayer on my PC.
COD 5, hopefully that’ll be good. COD 3 was just……OK. Treyarch needs to improve campaigns and the multiplayer experience. Vehicles were fun to drive in the game, just I couldn’t get on and play half the time. Since Treyarch, most likely, will make COD 5, they have the chance to make an actual decent Call of Duty game. If they do another Modern Combat game, like COD 4, maybe they’ll put vehicles in, but I don’t know, there is limited Information about this elsewhere.
I liked very much CoD2… and not so much CoD3.
I really would like to see a CoD5 or CoD6 similar to CoD2.
I do prefer WW2 and I would rather prefer a German campaign across Europe (such as France, USSR, Italy and so on…), since I do believe that a game like that would be a success.
Come on! Everyone wished to play as a German once at least!
@THE AUSSIE
personally, i think a WW1 COD could be a great idea, but im not so sure it would be that successful, considering its a backwards jump in terms of battlefield technology of the day, and considering call of duty started of as a WW2 game that has only just entered into the modern ‘theatre’.
might still be good though, the concept definitly appeals to me.
@mahrle
this idea i like, but only as an extra ’side’ campaign, like command and conquer, with the two diffrent campaign’s for GDI and nod.
You guys are totally overreacting.
Call of duty 1, 2 and 4 are exeptionally good games. IW (Infinety Ward) were some of the first (if not the first) to make you able to ADS (Aim down the Sights). Actually IW got some of the developers of MOHAA (Medal of Honor: Allied Assault) to work for them. I never played Call of duty 3, because I don’t like shooters on platforms. I only like mices and keyboards.
Now, for all who complain about Call of Duty 4 I have one thing to say: Shut Up. Call of duty 4 is a very good game: Graphics are top, Sounds top, the plot is good. We even have vehicles awaible: Helicopters and Airplanes. Then you might think or flame me with: You can’t controll them. And you are right. The vehicles cannot be used by players, which makes it more fair, because team 1 will not be pinned down by 3 Team2 tanks owning the battlefield.
People rate CoD4 10/10 stars, and the gaming magazine I read had only one – about the game: Too agressive enemies sometimes.
So… before flaming me read my reply through again
Delta
Lvl 55(multiplayer) CoD4 Lover
I’m certain COD5 will be fine.
that’d just be weird to go from modern and then back to WWII. If their going to do that then they may as well do korea and vietnam as well. I think they need to get some canadians in the game but i’m biased.
OK Everyone. I know people are dumb and won’t do it, but how about when CoD 5 comes out we all just NOT buy it. I mean, people will say it then just go like “Let’s get it” and then Treyarch might make a 7.
Or just rent it, but I can already tell this will be bad…
If Call of Duty went back to WWII, it would be cool if it was in Japan. Or if they stayed modern, it would be nice to have a siberian-based one.
it sucks either way, in my oppinion. wont be getting COD 5 or any more. COD 4 is terrible, dont critize me any one who disagrees, you have your oppinion too. COD 4 is good for people who like it, Ya its a good game, but not for me.
Better games : Rainbow Six vegas, Halo 3, Gears of War, GRAW 1&2, and cannot wait for more tom clancey games, they are always better. cannot wait for Rainbow Six vegas 2 and End War.
all of the IW fanboys are hilarious.
the net code on cod4 is shithouse, treyarch did a much better job in that department.
@callofdutygirl
Well, I think not =) If(!) IW gets to make CoD5, then he will surely be there (xD)… He has been following the game since, well, the first game
I think they set it up for a sequel. Zakiev and the other bad guys may be dead, but it doesn’t mean that the conflict is over……..well you never know. Capt Price most likely will be in the 5th installment, whoever makes it. Capt Price died in the original and then you see him alive in COD 2, and now COD 4. IW only has him in their games. IW’s Call of Duty games are usually the best. I am not saying that Treyach (however it is spelled) is bad, just I kind of like the old characters.
There is a rumor on the internet that COD 5 will be WW2 again. I don’t know anymore info about it, but it supposedy coming out Fall 2008.
The EA games are way better overall the thing that makes COD4 blow so bad is that the unrealistic perks. This game sucks I cant wait for Bad Company!!!
what the hell are you guys bitching at just play the FUCKIN GAME! If you disagree then get a FUCKIN LIFE and stop play videogames also if you Respone back to me then FUCK YOU!