Sledgehammer’s Call of Duty Title Shelved [Add a comment]

Brittney

Do you remember that rumored third-person action-adventure Call of Duty title Sledgehammer was supposedly working on? It’s been confirmed the title WAS a real thing —but its since been canned. You see, the studio was offered to work on another game called Modern Warfare 3. Perhaps you’ve heard of it?

“The opportunity to work on the biggest thing in the industry with Infinity Ward, that’s demonstrated that they know how to do exceptional software, was just an opportunity we couldn’t [miss],” co-founder of Sledgehammer Michael Condrey told Gamespot.

In a separate interview with Gamerzines, founder Glen Schofield revealed that the shelved title had an atomsophere similar to Dead Space. “It had a lot of atmosphere like, I should say Dead Space a little bit because you were underground in some places. You know, war is hell, war is scary and that’s what we were trying to get across. We did a ton of research.”

Interesting.

While the idea of a third-person action-adventure Call of Duty shooter sounds rather funky, I can’t help but wonder if it’d be a nice change-up to the CoD franchise. Maybe this is just me and my casual CoD self talking, but all of these Modern Warfare/Call of Duty titles are becoming a bit dull in some respect. Yes, the pretty cinematics and explosions are eyegasm inducing, but it’s all REALLY starting to feel all the same.

I gotta admit, it is amusing to think of a Uncharted-esque Call of Duty title.  With necromorphs. HA!

Anyway, what are your thoughts?

Are you going to watch the MW3 trailer tonight? [1 comment]

Brittney

Just a friendly reminder from your friendly neighborhood gamer that the first Modern Warfare 3 gameplay trailer will be shown tonight in the US. The trailer is expected to premiere during the NBA Western Conference Finals around 6pm PST.

Doesn’t it feel like we go through this every year? HMMM I WONDER WHY WOULD THAT BE HURRDURR. 

Anyway, I’m going to tune in. Not so much because I’m excited, but because as a gamer I feel obligated. What about you?

Infinity Ward Head Bosses FIRED By Activision [4 comments]

Jill

Jeez, I’ve heard rumors that Activision was headed by a big bunch of jerks but this is absolutely absurd. Infinity Ward’s head bosses Vince Zampella and Jason West were expecting a large royalty check with a “thank you” for making one of the greatest most successful games of all-time. Instead, Activision fired them before the date of their payment.

“Instead of thanking, lauding, or just plain paying Jason and Vince for giving Activision the most successful entertainment product ever offered to the public,” attorney Robert Schwartz said, “last month Activision hired lawyers to conduct a pretextual ‘investigation’ into unstated and unsubstantiated charges of ‘insubordination’ and ‘breach of fiduciary duty,’ which then became the grounds for their termination on Monday, March 1st.”

Dude, I don’t care what happened. Modern Warfare 2 was so utterly freakin’ SWEET and successful, that I think Activision should have just swallowed their pride & kissed some Infinite butts. Does this mean the Call of Duty enterprise will now plummet?