Call of Duty 2017 Will Return to the Series' Roots

It needs a total revamp aswell as a return to its roots. BF1 FTW!

On one hand AW was the last cod I really enjoyed, and still play occasionally, so I'm really looking forward to what Sledgehammer has to offer. On the other hand, military/realistic shooters have to be something really special to not bore me to death. I'll keep an open mind for now.

Destroying Nazis and evil regimes always feels good! I loved call of duty original series on PC. I have no idea how they could do this though... hasn't it all been done before?

In other words, they are so creatively bankrupt, they are going to go back to the beginning of the annual cut and paste series.

As usual i'll pass for this series.

Lol okay COD go home you're drunk. But I know everyone buys you anyway, you sly dog.

If I buy a shooter from Activision this year, it'll be Destiny 2 if it turns out to be the drastic improvement the rumors are making it out to be.

To be honest, Activision will never be able to re-create the fun that was COD 2's multiplayer.

That being said, they're only doing it because Battlefield went back to the world war setting.

The last call of duty i played was ghosts , i really don't like modern war so this is good news for me
But i hate activision and new CODs , even if they're backing to the origin of the series ( seriously , a fps game has a origin or some thing? What? ) acitivios still be a rober who just want's gamers money and nothing else!
Activision is going to be new konami
They kill idea's and let EA play that idea on games then when they found out that idea is working they working a game like that too! This is jerk

for the Series Reputation it would be a wise choice to release a CoD with some "classic"-Setting - but personally im so tired of all WW2 shooters since I grew up in that era of CoD and MoH. I know many demand that (Word at War is still very popular amongst the community, but was like one of the only ones I skipped because of the Setting). I also dont want CoD to continue "going future", for me, the ModernWarfare Trilogy was exactly what I want CoD to be - a modern shooter (the Story is highly forgetable though).

Can I have Medol of Honor instead?

One word - Steampunk. Give me that in a shooter and I may, just may go for it. WW2? Already been done.

@Tasuki Agree, call of duty 2 online was all about skill. I would love to play that again

I remember the days when i was a Pc Gamer: Teamspeak, call of duty 2 and C&C TW and ofcourse Clan VS Clan.

@Tasuki if you grew up in the "era of WW2 shooters" like I was, Hearing such things like CoD going back to its roots automatically give me the idea of it going back to its former Settings and - as well - control schemes ...

Welp, if a more traditional CoD doesn't outsell IW, we have problems. It's probably what they are betting on.

@Tasuki I suppose it depends on what is meant by roots. I believe the first 6 games of the series were WW2 games, plus World at War, so to me roots mean what you started with.

Vietnam is a difficult setting for bombastic actioners - it is harder to go good guy and bad guy on that one, it was a politically and idealogically inspired war and still in the public consciousness.

You could be right though - going back to Modern Warfare era might be more lucrative.

Personally I am unsure of whether this is a good move by Activision. Maybe from a public perception it could be but from a game-play perspective I don't know. One of the issues that CoD suffered from, particularly from MW onwards when so many people jumped on-board, was the fact that the actual game-play grew stale. I think that by the time Ghost's released, people were 'bored' with the actual game-play mechanics. Jumping to a new generation of consoles, they expected a 'change' - not in terms of setting so much but in terms of game-play mechanics.

Soon after Ghosts we had Titanfall (at least for Xbox and PC) and a LOT of the CoD faithful were lauding TF as the next big thing because of the Advanced Movement, because it offered something fresh and new, something innovative compared to the 'same old' wrapped up pin a new 'setting' that CoD was churning out year on year. Advanced Warfare went to far with its movement and ruined the CoD flow - something both BO3 and IW got right but by that time it was too late.

MWr feels so slow, so old now and I really hope they can bring something unique to CoD. I don't know if I will get bored climbing ladders straight into a claymore, betty or Satchel charge as someone camps on a second floor, , getting shot whilst mantling, climbing etc and not able to shoot etc. I have no interest in 'historical' warfare either.

I would much prefer that if CoD is going 'backwards' that they don't go for historically accurate settings but opt for an 'alternative' history. That way they could at least be free to be creative and offer something unique and innovative rather than essentially just a remake of one of the CoDs but with fancier graphics. A WW2 setting could end up being more like a W@W remake in essence - obviously different maps, characters for the campaign etc but the game-play won't be that different. Vietnam type setting could be more like BO, Modern setting - well more like MW2 I expect...

At least with an alternative history, they could be more creative, more unique...

I doubt I'll ever played another COD game the franchise just bores me at this point and is a glaring symbol of almost every aspect I dislike about modern FPS games. Doom was the game that reignited my fondness for the genre and I even enjoyed playing the Duke Nukem anniversary game more than the recent COD.

Destiny 2 is the game I want to be playing as long as it keeps its mix of having so much content that you can also play solo. Don't get me wrong I enjoyed playing with my friends more but due to my shift patterns and a young child I can't guarantee having the time to do it

Can't believe how activision throws infantry ward under the bus. If they really are returning to roots then all the micro transactions that ACTIVISION was so "passionate" about will cease as well?

If this is true I will be extremely happy, pretty much day 1 buy for me. Either WW2, Korean War or the Vietnam War will be great.

Though I would prefer it if they did more underlooked theatres and battles of WW2 like Italy and China. France 1944 is great and all but it's done so much, plus it would be nice to see what could be done with other settings.

Would love to see a COD RTS kind of like how Halo has Halo Wars. I miss Command and Conquer.

Bout time Cod when back in time, hopefully they'll ditch the microtransactions as well.

I won't hold my breath tbh and the community told them it was a crap idea (infinite warfare). Thankfully people voted with their wallets which seems to have done the trick. BUT let's just wait and see.

Activision should do to COD what they're doing to Skylanders. Give it a year off.

"Going back to their roots" would be a WW2 PC only shooter

Seriously, I don't know what to make of it. I like BF1, but honestly I'm just as tired of World War games as I am futuristic, wall jumping laser games. Maybe something current in terms of tech and gunplay? Even maybe a Modern Warfare 0.5, something somewhat current?

Online FPS games are becoming a bit like an MMO for me, in that I feel guilty buying it and not playing it at least a few times a week, which takes away from my time with other games. Sigh.

Personally, I'd like to see a war game set in the Korean War or maybe the Yugoslav Wars. Call of Duty has done a really excellent job with the past three games when it comes to storytelling, and there's a LOT of relatively untapped potential in some of the more overlooked wars of the 20th Century.

I never hit top level in multiplayer in any game since black ops 2.

since sledgehammer would have started work on this even before black ops 3 came out, i'm not sure they can just change the setting to WW2 (if wasn't intended to be from the beginning of development) just because there was some blacklash over the space/interstellar setting of infinite warfare. i get the impression it's referring more the core gameplay, more military focused, and less on cyber-enhanced supersoldiers. personally, i thought the infinite warfare campaign was quite decent, though wasn't a big fan of the flying parts. campaign wasn't any worse than titanfall 2's imo. the multiplayer was utter crud though.. though i've only really liked black ops 2 multiplayer since world at war.

the problem with the WW2 setting again, is the CoD formula itself. small team 6v6 infantry focused modes with WW2 weaponry has already been done in CoD 1-3, it's hard to see how another WW2 CoD would be sufficiently different, other than visually enhanced..

I believe the reason Battlefield 1 was so successful is that it picked an era not commonly touched for shooters, The Great War, World War One.
This lends itself well due to trench warfare and a different approach we are commonly seeing in games.

This will go one of two ways, they go truly back to its roots and that means an end to crazy killstreaks and nonsensical weaponry, or, as someones already stated, they go alternate timeline which I think would work heaps better, due in part to the fact all that killstreak rubbish is so well established.

Personally Id like them to go into a unique untouched era, The First Afghan War, Crimean or Boer War, or the US Civil War for example, things rarely touched these days if at all.

Maybe even the Battle of Hastings 😂

Id be really happy if this is a thing ~

I probably get lots of hate for this but COD4 multiplayer was boring for me. Few weapons the gameplay was stale. Even the killstreaks where boring. I wont say they need to add a lot more but maybe a few extra or just a few different ones. More weapons to. And some really new maps.