Call of Duty 4 with modern war setting in development

14 November 2006

Posted by:Ferry

Call of Duty 3 is barely out the door and a Ampednews source has already revealed Call of Duty 4 is in development at Infinity Ward, the development team behind the first two Call of Duty games. Listed are the first details:

* Call of Duty 4 will be coming to the PC as well as consoles. Where as Call of Duty 3 is only available on consoles, as well as the PSP.
* It will be based on modern combat, taking place on the battlefields of present day Middle East.
* While most shooters have two or three critical points on the head, Call of Duty 4 has 16. You can shoot the side of an opponentâ€™s helmet to make it spin on their head, or knock the helmet clean off. Supposedly you will even be able to shoot an enemyâ€™s ear off.
* Multiplayer features matches with 54 players.

While this info seems very plausible, according to Xboxic, Activision declined to confirm or deny its authenticity.

Some more details: In Call of Duty: Modern Warfare you’ll serve as part of the U.S. Army, U.S. Marines, and British S.A.S. to take on terrorists loyal to an aggressive Middle Eastern dictator. This war on terror must be fought all over the world — in locations as diverse as vessels at sea in the North Atlantic, secret terrorist cells in London, the urban streets of Eastern Europe, and, of course, the Middle East — as you try to stop a terrorist coalition from using its deadly chemical arsenal.

As a pilot in an Army attack helicopter, you’ll fly over cratered urban environments — with rocket-propelled grenades to boot — before you rope down as part of a Marine platoon to engage in close-quarters combat in a very different sort of environment from Call of Duty 2. It’s in this door-to-door implementation of battle that similarities to Rainbow Six 3 and Splinter Cell start to become apparent as you fight in squads, rappel down walls, and clear rooms with silenced guns, tear gas, flashbangs, and various specialized goggles. That doesn’t prevent you from utilizing all manner of authentic modern weaponry, however, including automatic grenade launchers, mines, and machine guns.

Modern Warfare will also feature deformable environments, where you can kick down and blow up doors, or take it to another next level with destructible walls, roads, buildings, and bridges. You’ll also be able to block doors with heavy obstacles like vehicles or furniture and block windows from grenades with a little chicken wire. But you’re not just limited to shooting what’s within your firearm’s reach: you can call in and laser-sight air strikes to knock out those pesky enemy tanks and sniper’s nests, too.

The first trailer for the PC, PS3 & Xbox 360 game:

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jacko

i reckon they should keep it in ww2, as many of u guys have sed modern combat are all the same and even future combat can somtimes be close to it. they should stick with ww2 and add a d-day level in with the beach landings. although they might have run out of things battles to reinact….?
philip

no dont listen to any of them^^ no vehicles or any of that sh*t
completely cut out those crappy tank levels
we just want fast firing gunz blazing ww2 action. with no hint of any other game than COD 1.
proper health no rehealing
bigger longer levels with more characters. and preferably a squad who instead of coming back alive every level they actually die and are replaced by other soldiers.
and please bring back the crosshair!
Ian

Wait i think they should keep it in WW2 leave the crosshairs off also make the game fun like Call of Duty 2 because CoD3 sucks i think infinity ward should make all CoD game and not just even numbers and im not sure about 54 online because how big are the maps going to have to be i mean its like brecourt on CoD2 when u run the entire map then get shot and need to run the entire map again i dont wank tanks because it is so annoying in CoD3 when you go round and just keep getting shot by the tanks and no classes just pick your own gun so theres no messing around but i think they should put a class thing in like RS:V were u get promoted and unlock new kits so a character edit mode would be nice also.
sky

keep it old war style bf2 was the worst game made.
Elliot

I’d love to see a pacific campaign. With japs,yanks and aussies. Hope to see Kokoda and all of that. I think it’s to soon to do the modern war. I for one probably won’t buy a modern war game.
SAMOHT78

whats up guys

im glad call of duty is being taking out of ww2. plus bf2 for the pc is one the best games out there for pc. the xbox360 version was one of the biggest let downs for the 360 in my opinion. it was just a port from the old xbox with the looks upgraded nothing i mean nothing like the pc version. i hope they put tanks, choppers the whole shabang in there. i hope we can switch between 1 and 3 view like graw but thats a very big hope. i bought cod2 but not 3 because there are no one of color to rep me. of course i know there were no men of color alowed at the front lines. but that is why i dont buy ww2 games that much. but much respect to those who did it. take notes from pc bf2 for a great game.
i like COD!

any one know when it’s coming out?
William

Well i hope y guys are right that they do make it world war 2 and even if itis modern day combat y better play as iraqi

because if i see another propaganda modern war game its gona put me of call of duty for ever

and yes i thinks its coming out next year 2008
William

oh and dident you hate when they realised the first trailer of cod3 i thoght that was the actuall game the i sore the real game now i dont think i really want to get it and i hated that it was only on ps3 xbox 360 and psp
http://www.thedrainpeople.com Brent

I was a little disappointed with CoD3 being so short. Doubt it will take out any game of the year awards unlike CoD1 and CoD2. Glad to see the return to the original developers, hopefully that will get CoD back onto the line of Game of the Year products.