Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is apparently the name of 2019’s entry in the long-running franchise. That’s according to reliable Kotaku scribe Jason Schreier, as press and influencers purportedly played the title this week. We’ve been told to expect an announcement of the “soft reboot” imminently, although Activision is yet to tease anything at the time of writing.
The title is somewhat amusing, but it does make sense. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was the name of the Infinity Ward game that really put the franchise on the map, so we suppose opting for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 would be a bit confusing. From the speculation we’re hearing, this version does sound like it’s trying to do something different, too. All will be revealed soon.
Update: Eurogamer.net is reporting that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare will be revealed on 30th May.
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"Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was the name of the Infinity Ward game that really put the franchise on the map"
It's also the last one I bought or was remotely interested in.
To me, its just Activision cashing in on the most popular sub-division of the Call of Duty franchise and something Treyarch has been doing too with their 'Black Ops'.
Ghosts for example had a decent Single Player game and its MP - certainly with all the DLC - was a 'great' entry. However, it was affected by splitting the users between old and new gen games as well as franchise fatigue. People were getting fed up with the same basic 'boots on the ground' style game-play. Its why they believed Titanfall with its Advanced Movement would kill CoD and make it seem so dated.
Point is, the 'Ghosts' name isn't all that popular and a Ghosts 2 would probably divide the community - some looking forward to the next chapter in the story and put others off because of the 'reputation' Ghosts has. Modern Warfare name is 'bigger' than CoD with MW2 being the biggest selling game in the franchise. MW3 wasn't great though but then its understandable with half of Infinity Ward quitting and then Activision pulling Sledgehammer, Raven, Neversoft and even Treyarch to make MW3 in time to hit the release window CoD has traditionally hit.
BO4 was the first game I didn't buy since CoD4. Since MW2, I have also bought ALL DLC content (also own CoD4 DLC too but didn't buy W@W DLC) and calling the next Modern Warfare won't convince me to get back in to CoD. They have to convince me the game is what I want to buy - Campaign, co-op and MP content. The name alone is not enough!!
And here I am, a simple man just wanting to play MW2 and Battlefield 3 on the PS4.
Well, when you release a new game on a yearly schedule, you start running out of ideas for names.
Besides, the only CoD games I have any interest in playing is 2 and 4. Call me old school, but those two are the best in the series.
Good enough for GoW,
good enough for CoD.
@Vegetto All I really want is a MW2 remaster that I can play forever (on my BC PS5) Give me those One Man Army Noob Tubes and Rust.
No-one called MW CoD 4 anyway did they?I always just referred to it as Modern Warfare. Bear in mind there were a number of CoD spin outside of the numbered series such as Big Red One on ps2 so i always stuck with the subtitle
There is potential for this to be confusing for consumers. Particularly with Modern Warfare Remastered already available.
I would have gone for Modern Warfare 4 or chosen a different name personally but there you go.
At least they didnt choose Modern War4are.
On a side note, i just got the plat in MW: Remastered and had a blast. What a wonderful game that was. And serves only to remind me how far CoD has fallen in the many years since
The easiest thing to do for yearly games is add the year at the end. Sports titles have known this and even though yearly editions are perceived as basically the same game they still sell as they're not making it more than it is.
Yearly gun-fests would do well to emulate that model instead of pretending to reinvent themselves with little to back it up.
Out of ideas? Jump that shark!
Call of Duty: Modern Fourware
They should have just kept it literal: Call of Duty 16 - Modern Warfare 4 - More Modern Warfare (Now with Battle Royale!)
@Shatter & Knuckles, featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series (Day -1 Edition) Deluxe Edition.
The CoD series is just so messed up now. Activision has no idea what to do with the series excecpt try to keep milking that cash cow which isnt working no more. I feel that after Black Ops 5 if the series doesn't give the fans what they want that will be the end of CoD
@Frigate "It's a great idea in my opinion."
Too funny. I was actually being sarcastic, I hate that GoW is called GoW, there's already a game called GoW. I guess I should have put that on the end of my previous post after all.
I wrote an overly long comment about it 2 weeks, I decided to just keep it short this time.
Comment #16.
https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2019/05/days_gone_passes_lifetime_sales_of_god_of_war_the_last_guardian_in_japan
@Frigate As long as it has CoD in the title I don't think it really matters what they call the rest either. Name, number. As long as they don't put a woman on the cover, that'll ruin the realism. 😂
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