Rumor: COD6 goes sci-fi?

by Terrence Stasse { Jun 21st 2008 at 2:00PM }

To be honest, we almost feel a bit dirty posting this rumor. The game that for all intents and purposes, is COD5, is currently still being teased, and there's already rumors about the next game? Indeed there is, thus the faintly dirty feeling. Apparently an Infinity Ward team member spoke to someone from TalkPlaystation.com and told them that the company is at work on a new sci-fi title that may or may not see reveal at E3.

With Call of Duty: World at War returning to the familiar territory of WWII, and the series' current hit staking the claim of Modern Warfare it would seem to make sense that Infinity Ward would want to jump things into the future. If this ends up being accurate (heck, they could be working on a non-COD sci-fi game too) let's hope Infinity Ward can do better than some other popular franchises that have used a futuristic setting. We can't help but get flashbacks of the ill-fated Battlefield: 2142 ...

[Via Joystiq]

Tags: call-of-duty, call-of-duty-4, call-of-duty-5, call-of-duty-6, call-of-duty-world-at-war, cod4, cod5, cod6, codwaw, infinity-ward

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Big Filth @ Jun 21st 2008 2:07PM

if IW makes a shooter it is going to be good.

duh.

I dont know about this SCI FI setting tho, lets just hope they dont go overboard.

There should be a happy medium between modern warfare and star wars. lets hope its closer to the first.

Dan Mowchan @ Jun 21st 2008 2:09PM

Uhmm, 2142 wasn't all that bad actually. Sure, BF2 is a hell of a lot better, but it has some fun game modes and its a nice variety. Don't hate. However, even if it wasn't "ill-fated," I still hope it turns out better than 2142 either way.

knightsray @ Jun 21st 2008 8:45PM

man they're only saying it's ill fated on this site cause it never came to xbox! it was one of the biggest and best games on pc and anyone who takes a second to get on would love it! don't hate just cause you can't have it people!

SovietSpartan @ Jun 22nd 2008 2:38PM

I agree with King. Way less grenading... and the weapons were kind of sweet. I loved owning mechs.

HEY a new patch just came out.

2142, here I come.

Momer @ Jun 21st 2008 2:12PM

Oh crap, let's really hope this doesn't turn out like the Battlefield series. Battlefield 2 chose modern warfare, and is still an amazing game. 2142 however, not necessarily because of its move to Sci-Fi disappointed and was just a worse game overall. If Infinity Ward can actually pull this off though, we're in for some good times.

knightsray @ Jun 21st 2008 8:47PM

maybe it disappointed you but if it was just a bad game i guess those thousands of servers up at any given time are just fool of morons!

Royale @ Jun 22nd 2008 12:58PM

it's true... gears of war and battlefield 2142 came out around the same time and it's hard to find a gears of war match while bf2142 server list is always full. I'm not saying which is the better game... they're both awesome. So.. why knock a game that is so obviously popular?

David W. @ Jun 21st 2008 2:40PM

MAKE THIS GAME!

But use the team that made COD4

mattclarkie @ Jun 21st 2008 2:32PM

Probably become a bit like GRAW, unless they decide to go really futuristic. Of course working on the theory that this isn't just a pile of mushrooms.

Hooligunn @ Jun 21st 2008 2:33PM

Hahaha. Oh comon on. You CANNOT be taking this seriously. I'm surprised you even posted it. Like that site isn't just doing it for publicity.

It's a basic blog, with a basic unedited theme, with ABSOLUTELY poor writing (like it's been written by a 10 year old) and no understanding of the games industry.

Read this: http://talkplaystation.com/360-games-that-could-come-to-ps3/

Then tell me you couldn't help laughing at the absolutely rubbish writing / grammatical errors and "Gears of War" as being a title with a chance to go to PS3.

I call absolutely fake - another "pull in traffic" fake rumour.

mattclarkie @ Jun 22nd 2008 4:12AM

My dog could write a better blog than whoever wrote that talkplaystation article.

Now all I need to do is think up a name for it.

Perhaps PeeByATreeFanboy.com.

Delirium @ Jun 21st 2008 2:46PM

If this is the case, I say we just skip right over the possible failure of Treyarch.

psyborg @ Jun 21st 2008 3:15PM

I could see it happening. Since Call of Duty is an Activision game Infinity Ward is stuck spending the rest of their careers making yearly Call of Duty sequels, so I could see this as a way of sneaking in something new. (much like they did with Modern Warfare)

Probably fake but its possible.

THe SySTeM @ Jun 24th 2008 3:08PM

All bow down to IW!!!

brytdavis @ Jun 21st 2008 6:27PM

It's "To be honest ..." not "Too be honest ..."

Terrence Stasse @ Jun 21st 2008 6:28PM

Indeed it is, my mistake.

Boff @ Jun 24th 2008 6:45AM

You be too honest.

ZombiesRPplsToo @ Jun 22nd 2008 2:36PM

as long as you dont give them lasers and/or swords, im fine

take the ghost recon path, not very futuristic but moderately.

Arnob @ Jun 21st 2008 6:01PM

well sure its sci fi NOW, but by the time it comes out it'll just be 'modern' again

Jonah Falcon @ Jun 21st 2008 6:09PM

Space marine shooter? Another one? (yawn)

How about Korea or Vietnam? Sheesh. Granted, it's unclear who the good guys are in those wars, but at least it makes it easier for people to play the non-US side.

MarMar @ Jun 22nd 2008 2:28PM

I'm pretty sure the good guys in Korea were the ones defending a Democratic Republic from a foreign dictator and a million communist Chinese with Soviet pilots in their planes bombing cities, villages into smithereens against UN agreements to maintain a border between the two countries...

Jonah Falcon @ Jun 22nd 2008 4:19PM

Did we win that war?

Dwag @ Jun 21st 2008 7:39PM

Not another Sci-Fi Shooter come we already have enough of those?Halo,Resistance,Killzone,Gears of War come do we need more.

Maybe Call of Duty 5 or six can include Guns from that TV show Future Weapons.

T-BoNe254 @ Jun 22nd 2008 11:47AM

LOL wow...

So four games in one genre/setting is to many? Not to mention that two of them are for the PS3. Seriously dude, think before you type. There are far more games based in a modern or WWII setting then anything else.

Anyway, if CoD6 is Sci-fi and it's being developed by IW then i see nothing wrong with it.

Dwag @ Jun 22nd 2008 3:55PM

@T-BoNe254

Well FEAR, and all those games sequals including timeshift and haze must I go find more cause I will there are too many we don't need another one and you need to think before you type cause probably everyone knows its the truth but you and when did platform matter this is CoD they always go multiplat.

Sure you may not find a prob with them but for me in 2009 I'd rather not see a Sci-Fi CoD.

birdhaus @ Jun 22nd 2008 3:15AM

The coming together of Activision & Vivendi is sweeter than bourbon & coke, rumors are already suggesting IW will do something with Blizzard, can u say Starcraft Ghost? or World of COD?
I don't think we'll get another installment of COD:MW in 2009, reading into interviews post COD4 launch tip towards the IW team doing something else which would delay the 'supposed' yearly schedule of COD releases. But on the flip side IW's recent employment drive to grow their internal teams reasures me that theres definately something big underway.

jcenky @ Jun 21st 2008 9:27PM

i was just thinking that today at work im like i bet there going for a future one, wow im so smart.

Ian @ Jun 21st 2008 10:10PM

They should do something in the civil war! j/k, Korea or Vietnam would be nice though.

Nick @ Jun 22nd 2008 10:35AM

A Future Warfare edition is not a bad idea, and I welcome it. I don't think we are talking Star Wars here. War has changed every 10 years or sooner. Look at the tech our guys in Afghanistan and Iraq are using now compared to when they first went in. Then compare that to Desert Storm. If they went 10-20 years into the future, it could be both "sci-fi" and still believable. There analysts and military advisers could certainly help them look at stuff right around the corner and keep their feet nailed to the ground. If they do, and keep the XP and prestige systems within multi-player, it's sure to be a hit.

MarMar @ Jun 22nd 2008 2:30PM

Really? I thought a lot of our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan didn't even have body armor or protected vehicles? And aren't like 300,000 of our forces now Iraqis using old soviet rifles?

Nick @ Jun 22nd 2008 10:29PM

Haven't heard that. I'm specifically talking about the improvements in battlefield technology. Predator, water breaching technology, room busters, etc. I've heard the body armor shortage, but there certainly isn't a shortage of Colt assault rifles. We aren't going to fit our troops with Russian weapons. But that's neither here nor there. There have been massive improvements to battlefield tech in the last 10-20 years.

Nick @ Jun 22nd 2008 10:40PM

Ah, just looked this up. There is some info on US troops acquiring AK-47's in the field, and preferring them over the M-16's and M4's because of the the 7.62 round versus the 5.56. But the military isn't supplying our troops with Russian weapons.

BananaBoat @ Jun 22nd 2008 3:19AM

I hope that IW's next project is given the name COD5, and that Treyarchs will just be the red headed step-child of the COD series. Not every game needs to be a number (Grand Theft Auto proved that with Vice City and San Andreas) so I don't see why that couldn't work out.

I'm not sure what could be improved upon if IW were to make another modern warfare COD game. They pretty much nailed it the first time around, with the exception of the grenade pooping mechanic that draws so much ire 'round these parts.

A future war theme might be cool, if it had absolutely nothing to do with aliens, and the tech was actually seemingly plausible (unlike the bipedal mechs and massive flying battle stations in certain other near-future games). If they were to turn COD into Halo though, I'd ditch the series harder than I ditched Perfect Dark after playing the 360 version (never....ever again).