Call of Duty has become one of the most successful franchises of all time, and many gamers are currently awaiting the arrival of Treyarch’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 with bated breath. The game isn’t that far from release either, it’s scheduled to drop onto store shelves next month, but that hasn’t put a hold on the development of the next CoD video game. Much to the surprise of very few, Infinity Ward is already working on a future title in the series, and apparently it’ll be a follow up to last year’s Modern Warfare 3 – appropriately titled Modern Warfare 4.
The voice actor for Modern Warfare protagonist Captain Price, coincidentally named Bill Murray, revealed to ThisIsXbox that he’s getting ready to meet with Infinity Ward next week to talk about Modern Warfare 4. Apparently Murray was blissfully unaware that the man he was speaking with on a recent flight was actually a video game journalist, because he prematurely let the cat of the bag by confirming Infinity Ward’s next project. According to the voice actor, the fourth game will carry on from where MW3 left off, and Captain Price will be returning in one form or another.
“Yeah, on Monday I am off to meet Infinity Ward about the next game, Modern Warfare 4, I’m doing work on the sequel to Modern Warfare 3, it carries straight on and I only ever appear in the Modern Warfare games…”
Many fans thought that Infinity Ward would move away from the Modern Warfare series after the the third title wrapped up the events in the best-selling trilogy, but it appears that simply won’t be the case. Reports surfaced earlier this year that Neversoft is helping with the development of Modern Warfare 4, and that’s now incredibly plausible given the recent turn of events.
It’s disappointing to learn that Activision doesn’t plan on taking the series in a different direction following the release of Black Ops 2 in a few weeks, but it’s not at all surprising that they’re sticking with the Modern Warfare brand since it’s proven to be incredibly profitable. Maybe Treyarch will provide fans with a new kind of war-filled, first-person epic in 2014; I mean, Call of Duty: Space can’t be that far away, right?
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 will likely be arriving at the end of 2013.
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Source: ThisIsXbox (via GamesThirst)
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Dear God why?
Because corporations view games as consumable commodities and not pieces of art.
Why would they not? I don’t play COD but if you were in charge of a company and didnt continue to make these games that sell millions of copies you should be fired.
Really? They are seriously trying to wring out more from an already finished story? This is ridiculous. Not to say it wasn’t expected though.
What happened to the police warfare? I haven’t heard of it since the pitch for the game.
That was fan made, right?
As many times as I need to say it Treyarch will always be better. This is how you know that Infinity is about to destroy their own game. This is the biggest disappointment yet. I am glad Treyarch takes chances and they are willing to make the game in the future and I been waiting for that for a long time. But for Infinity Ward to do it, it is insane; after Black ops 2 I am done. The future is all I been waiting for nothing else. I hope other COD fans feel the same way. I would like to hear more from the gaming community.
Infinity Ward used to be better. But the old team has been ripped to shreds by Activision, what’s left is just a soulless corpse that does Activision’s bidding.
Infinity Ward exists in name only. ALL of the talent behind MW1 and MW2 were gone before 3 was even made. We should be calling it Infinity Was. Everyone assumes that they lost a step and fell flat. The fact that Treyarch is better is true in the same way that you are a better runner than a person with broken legs.
WHY?
mw series is dead now. 1 and 2 were great 3 was terrible. just start another series please. its boring now
This cash cow is running low on milk. Give it a few more years and this series will be dead in the water. I don’t think you should have revealed your source of information. This may indefinitely hurt this mans career.
As if it wasn’t clear from the beginning. Activision swore to keep up this development cycle. It’s what they owe their shareholders.
i completely agree, the guy might not get hired after he said this, the one to blame here is actually the original source “thisisxbox” such a shame.
Getting black ops 2 since they are going in a different direction and i luv zombies. Maybe MW4 will go in a new direction as well?
Lol yeah don’t get your hopes up.
Oh geez! Give it a rest lol
I hate to say, but this comes as no suprise to me. Infinity Ward is starting to fall behind, which Treyarch seems to be getting ahead of them.
I’ll play it for the campaign and nothing more.
hey guys i bet jwalka is gonna be a hatin and talking smack about cod like he does on every cod related article;)
Wherever Call of Duty is mentioned, he’ll appear. Just wait, he’s coming.
BF4 will slaughter this game next year. Modern Warfare series is dead, but the Battlefield series is finally gaining momentum, especially with COD fans who are displeased with MW3. Like I said, expect BF4 to massacre this game next year, hell, I would bet a good chunk of money BF3 would still be superior to MW4.
Can’t wait to see COD dethroned, although Halo 4 may do that on the Xbox in a week…. Master Chief is back baby! Hal0 4 > Black Ops II. I’m not saying Black Ops II will be bad (though I can see it being another MW3 situation) but Halo 4 has soooo much more to offer than Black Ops II. In Chief we trust.
No one cares about BF4 either. This whole thing is as done as Guitar Hero and Rock Band. Those developers didn’t get the memo either.
I am excited about Halo 4 though.
I care about BF4, although I don’t like the 2-year development cycle idea, they’re only doing that to try and get some of the COD pie. Still, BF4 will be a lot more polished than BF3 right off the bat, I am excited for it.
Same about Halo 4 though, can’t wait for that game. Got my LE pre-ordered at Best Buy. 6 moar days….
Remember ME3 was released 2 years after ME2 and all hell broke loose. Who’s to say the same thing won’t happen with BF4?
Battlefield has had momentum since Battlefield 1942, they only hiccups were the Bad Company games, which tried to better tailor the Battlefield experience for consoles, but were ultimately weaker games than Battlefield 2, but still fun to play.
I think we all knew Battlefield 3 would put Call of Duty to shame.
Are you serious? Activision just HAS to continue the MW series so they won’t scare away a handful of people with a new subtitle?
f*** yes bring on call of duty 10, gonna be hella epic and unparalleled in every way possible, CoD will forever remain king of fps’, gonna be a day one pre-order for me regardless of how much extra i have ot pay for low grade maps and bs that tears through my wallet, so long as i play this epic super duper game day one, it’s all good.
There he is!
xD right on schedule.
Treyarch knows how to make a game with good SP and MP, so BO 2 is a good buy. But God knows IW is killing CoD, Please Stop..
I don’t think i’m gonna be interested in MW4. I’ll be satisfied with BLOPS 2; unless I.W. pulls a Killer Bunny out of their hat, I won’t be interested.
Hmmmm….doesn’t really seem necessary after the excellent MW3 wrapped it all up. I’m unbothered about the unfair & broken multiplayer, so colour me “meh”. Though Infinity Ward> Treyarch *easily*.
“The excellent MW3?” What part about it was excellent? That one part that was completely unoriginal and done to death? Oh wait, that’s the whole game.
what they should have done was hired the guys that did/are doing police warefare, get rid of IW since no one is there anymore and they’re just ruining things by not doing anything decent with whatever they have left. then they should have merged radical entertainment (prototype and hulk) with the police warefare guys and had that team of 50+ guys make a new series of wannabe realistic shooters.
at least that way they would be trying something new whilst retaining the CoD title (call of duty police warefare sounds good imo).
kotich has no clue whatsoever as to wtf he is doing and will milk anything until it is bone dry, then move onto and create another trashy fad (like he did with the skating games).
Do what 343 did to halo, or (hopefully) Disney is going to do to starwars, and hire a bunch of big fat (as an adjective to describe their nerdiness not their weight.) nerds, to make the next part of the series, and then maybe it’d be a great series again, and I hate playing treyarc games the only good one was world at war, black ops was crap, and black ops 2 will be crap.
Let’s see if Halo 4 is actually good before we start patting anyone on the back.