We’ve tagged this article as rumour but it’s more predictable than an egregious EA monetisation scheme, isn’t it? Our friends over at Eurogamer.net are reporting that Treyarch is hard at work on Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, ahead of release this holiday. Given the success of previous Black Ops instalments, it’s hardly a surprise, is it?
According to the site’s sources, this one will scale back the sci-fi focus of Black Ops 3, opting for a slightly more grounded storyline this time. According to one purported “industry insider”, it’ll be set in “modern times and is boots on the ground”. Thus far the sub-series has already spanned the Cold War through to the far-flung future, so the developer pretty much has the license to cover whichever time period it wants.
We wouldn’t expect the game to be announced until much later in the year – prior to E3 2018 in June seems most likely. Call of Duty: WWII was a huge financial success for Activision, so the publisher will be hoping to replicate that – but it will have to go up against a new Battlefield title in October.
[source eurogamer.net, via twitter.com]
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Ew , can they just end black ops
Part of the rumor is that it will be also available on the Switch but they said the same about WWII.
Well that part of the rumour's for Nintendo Life to report on, isn't it?
I hope cod can have happy medium between too scifi (infinite warfare) and too old (ww2), something like advanced warfare.
Blops has been the consistantly best subseries in CoD for years, the pseudo spy stuff is always great.
Reznov or gtfo
@YummyHappyPills Infinite Warfare has the best Call of Duty campaign in eons. It's nothing like Halo at all.
A modern era shooter the likes of Modern Warfare 1-3 or Ghosts would be a HUGE selling point for me.
After running the gamut from World War 1 to the far flung future, I'd say that shooters set in the present day are my favorite setting, hands down. From a gameplay perspective, it's the right amount of "boots on the ground" and cool gadgets and weapon attachments, IMHO.
Fingers crossed!
Activision is on a mission to infiltrate our wallets no doubt. Can we say microtransactions?
@YummyHappyPills I'm just saying Infinite Warfare has an underrated single player campaign. Irrespective of sales or review scores or public opinion, that was the best CoD campaign since Modern Warfare IMO.
@get2sammyb
I thought MW 1 and 3 both had better campaigns than Infinite Warfare, and I'd made a case for Advanced Warfare also. Not that I minded IW, thought it was a very good game. I'd be fine with Black Ops 4 for this year though, it's been a while and though I didn't love the scifi focus of 3's story, I thought the gameplay was rock solid and fun. Wouldn't mind more of a 'boots on the ground experience' from 4, though.
@get2sammyb I thought WWII Campaign was better then IW of course I don't like rocket jumping and sci-fi elements in my CoD games.
Black ops 4 aka black ops 1.5 timeline wise, set after the first game but before the events of black ops 2...wouldn't say no to that to be honest
BO2 was the most ugly shooter on the PS3 i have seen in a long time. BO3 had a fun multiplayer but the singleplayer was a joke. BO1 was the best by far for me personally i loved the singleplayer and multiplayer there.
Blops 3 was so awful my children's hearts stopped beating in sorrow at what treyarch had created. I'm hoping for something more similar to blops 2.
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