The new installment of Activision Blizzard’s Call of Duty shooter, scheduled for release this year, will be the sequel to Modern Warfare II (2022), not an addition to the already released game as previously planned. This was reported by the agency’s journalist. Bloomberg Jason Schreyer.
“The goal of Activision is to make the new Call of Duty look like a standalone, full-fledged release, but at the same time be a sequel to Modern Warfare II,” the journalist said, citing sources familiar with the development.
He also pointed out that the studio’s current plan is to port maps and mods from last year’s shooter into the game.
“It was going to be a major expansion with a single-player campaign and several multiplayer maps, and it was finally the full version of the game,” a source told Schreier.
At the same time, Bloomberg added that Activision executives are considering an option to switch between the modern setting in Modern Warfare and the historical setting in Black Ops, with new games coming out every two years rather than every year.
Activision changed the release schedule of new episodes of the cult Call of Duty series after Call of Duty: Vanguard, a World War II game released in 2021, failed to meet the developer’s expectations.
Former Insider Gaming reporter Tom Henderson knowledgeableThe release of the new episode of Call of Duty is scheduled for November 10, 2023.