How Call of Duty Can Successfully Reboot itself

Brett writes - "Call of Duty is still…okay, it’s not great but don’t get me wrong I’ll still play it. I have to say it’s strange to see how popular Call of Duty got. I have fond memories of playing Call of Duty 2 on the Carentan map stringing together huge win streaks. I remember the legendary single player campaign. Once Modern Warfare released, we were all addicted. But never in a million years did I think it would become the Madden of shooters."

[jackanderson1985]

if they got one of the two entities to not call it call of duty XXXXXX then they'd have a perceived gap of at least a year between games.

i know alot of people hate it but it sells over 15mil a year it's clearly doing something right

[pandehz]

'something right'

That something my dear is nostalgia of MW1 and 2

[XisThatKid]

They could put Call of Duty games discs in Battlefield 5 boxes that'll do the "trick".

[Neonridr]

I think they need to go back to the drawing board. Scratch the engine and build a brand new engine from the ground up to toe-to-toe with FB3. Heck build the game off of UE4 instead of the same Unreal Engine they have been "band-aiding" since Call of Duty 2.

[pwnsause_returns]

they never used UE. Its based on the ID Tech 3 engine that has been highly modified for their needs.

they have enough money to build their own proprietary engine as well. they're just really cheap to spend.

[Neonridr]

sorry you're right. I don't know why I said Unreal Engine. But it's still been the same engine, modified for their needs, since Call of Duty 2. That's over a decade, time to make the upgrade.

[TrueJerseyDevil]

I do not know if they can recover from Ghosts because the game is perceived by most to be very bad. They need to take maybe a year off from releasing a new call of duty, and use a new engine or build one. I think they can try to do a different kind of game instead of Call of Duty.

[_LarZen_]

Strange...I find it to be one of the better.

[Kayant]

Activision needs to lose a tonne of $$$$ and lose some ground to the likes of Titanfall, BF, etc .... Then they will truly improve the formula until then look towards Treyarch as they seem to be the ones trying at least.

Also try the BF cycle of 2 years or something similar.

[annus]

Activision is known to milk franchises until their is nothing left to milk. They don't care about originality, they care about making money. Once CoD dies they will just start milking a new franchise.

Tony Hawks Pro Skater and Guitar Hero are previous examples of milking till the death.

[ziggurcat]

by taking 2 - 3 years off in between releases.

[_LarZen_]

Why should they do that when they earn millions each year? People buy it because they want it..

As long as it sells as good as it is they are not going to change much and they sure aint going to wait 2-3 year between each release.

[KillrateOmega]

Man, I remember back when Call of Duty was cool and genuine. Nowadays it's nothing more than a milk machine.

[Tiechie]

Go back to being cod 4 modern warfare. Or give world war 1-2 another bash instead of all this future stuff.

[jackanderson1985]

i wish someone would go back to world war 2 there was only so many weapons that they had back then not guns with bullets that explode in front of people (can't remember what movie that's from but it was recent enough)

[CapsLocke]

They could do WW1 - very strange no one didn't do it already, accept that game on Steam's Greenlight.

[LakerGamerEnthusiast]

Yeah, I'm not feeling this.

sorry

[BABY-JEDI]

Build a new engine for next Gen. Make the combat more authentic. Give the player characters some weight. Bring back the nazis & call it Killzone prequel
; )
Seriously. A new engine & build upon what the fans want

[Yodagamer]

Why? the thing that made people like call of duty was it's arcadey gameplay if you add those things it might as well be the other games. They do need a new engine though and some destruction. It's a tough line to walk imo you either change it and make other's happy while upsetting the existing fanbase or you go with what brought ya.

[BABY-JEDI]

I agree with your point, but I think this franchise is in fear of becoming the Pacman of FPS. Sooner or latter it might just find itself left behind by its compitition which is always trying to improve on their gameplay/physics/modeling ect

[Bolts-N-Rays1109]

More players cause that's all people care about now.

[1nsomniac]

At very, VERY least they need to use a brand newly built next gen engine. Anything less & it will sell less than this years version guaranteed.

[robtion]

New setting. Go back to to ww1 or 2 or go forward 100 years and do ww3 (hopefully something that will never happen for real).

[Necro_559]

Go back to the WW2 genre, a more customize version of WaW. The thing about COD is that theyve added to much, a million perks, blah blah blah. Just give us a simple game, that plays really really well. A MW1.

[HacSawJimThugin]

They cant reboot itself because they guys with the formula are shipping a game called TitanFall in March. Activision screwed itself by running these guys away and now it's time to pay for their evil deeds.

[shmeedy24685]

To be honest I think Activision should put another COD title on hold for a few years and bring out something new and more exciting but they won't do that 'cause COD is a money magnet and Activision only care about cash!

[deadfrag]

I think a back to the WW2 roots in a new game should not be discarted along with a new engine tool.But if COD dies for good i will not miss it in anyway frankly!

[chronoforce]

Add Mechs! oh wait....

[SaturdayNightBeaver]

No more please, no more COD. kill it with fire!