CoD5, Guitar Hero 4 and new Tony Hawk's "in pipeline"

Activision has officially revealed that Call of Duty 5, Guitar Hero 4 and a new Tony Hawk's game are in "the pipeline".

Tucked away in a fact sheet explaining the mega-merger between Activision and Vivendi is the little nugget revealing that sequels to three of 2007's biggest games are in the works.

The fact sheet details already semi-confirmed news that it is developing "new DreamWorks titles, new Marvel titles and entry into racing with Bizarre", the development studio responsible for the Project Gotham Racing series.

[gamesblow]

COD5??? COD4 just came out!! I'm sick of seeing these games get rehash after rehash too... Tony Hawk needs to be drastically different when it hits. Better looking and different. All I gotta say.

Also, in this day and age... with Ps3 and xbox 360 being online and downloadable content being a hit. We should never be subjected to anual games anymore! I'm sick of paying full price for these anual games. They should release 20 dollar add ons every year for the following games

Madden
Wwe
Guitar hero
Nba
Soccer
Baseball
Boxing

etc.. etc... etc...

Nothing changes about them but the content. the graphics, animations and tones all stay the same with minor tweaks. We shouldn't have to pay 60 bucks for these. Sorry

[mighty_douche]

games are cheaper now than they ever were, and their development costs are now huge, so as gamers we're actually getting a better deal than ever before. my parents paid £75 for street fighter turbo on the snes!

anyway, with regards to CoD5, im chuffed, 4 was without doubt the finest FPS of 2007, pi55ing all over the cheifs fireworks and i cant wait to see what they can do in their next game, possible "future" warfar?

[Polluted]

Right on Mighty_douche. People seem to forget that games are actually cheaper these days. My parents bought me Toejam & Earl for the Genesis back in the day...for $113.00!! I still remember the exact price to this day because it was so bloody ridiculous. The worst part is that game probably cost around...oh...say $50000 to make. Used games were harder to find back then too.

[Anego Montoya FTMFW]

i bought Super Mario 3 for $110.

and you could finish that game in a few hours.

it`s funny how people complain about a games length (HS,Uncharted,Cod4,SOTC)

SOTC is one of the best games i`ve played in years, and you can finish that game in a few hours.

A good game is a good game regardless of price or length.

[Omegasyde]

Activision/Blizzard might turn into the next Electronic Arts, with its poor quality testing and rushed development jobs. You guys are right about game pricing, but you also have to figure out what the actualy industry standard is now a days. This standard isn't a "Rule" but is expected from nearly every consumer of that fan base... For instance:

A Role Playing game is hypothetically suppose to be atleast 40 hours long

A first person shooter is suppose to have a multiplayer mode

A fighting game is suppose to have the ability to dodge in 3d

A racing game is suppose to have over 20 cars with customization and online racing.

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Sure Toe Jam and Earl was great but that game was reaching the standards back then. Development prices did go up but so did console prices along with monumental price cuts on new technology. This new technology and "media outlets" (internet) should be utilized and 1 year rehashed versions of games shouldn't be. Every next gen console has a internet features! So why don't company utilize DLC updates every quarter like games like World of Warcraft is doing. That game is like over 4 years old and still making bank.

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

My dear friend. How are you?

I agree though.

Also, games are a LOT longer than movies...so, don't complain. People can watch the 24 hour marathon of A Christmas Story EVERY YEAR and not get bored with it! That's a 2-hour movie!!! That's like playing COD4 through 12 times in a row!!!

Try THAT!

[HeartlesskizZ]

wow that is it!!!! COD4 is officially my first and last COD ill own.

[mighty_douche]

Uuummm.... why?

[Relcom]

I sure hope you don't mean it sucks cause if you do, no one should ever take gamin advice from you.

[TheExecutive]

COD:4 is one of the finest fps I have ever played. If you dont like fps's thats one thing, but you have to admit for the genre its at the top of the pile.

[HeartlesskizZ]

dont put words where they aren't any. I never said it sucks or anything but if the game is going to have sequels every year then is a lose for me and a win for them $$$$ in the mid time ill keep playing it online(PRESTIGE now)

[nanometric]

who would ever guessed!

[PumPum]

I sure hope CoD5 has x2 longer SP campaign!

[TheExecutive]

It will probably have a longer campaign. Remember that they were starting from 'scratch' with COD:4. So it may have a larger campaign. However, I must say that I have a hard time thinking of too many SP experiences that I enjoyed more.

[Noodlecup]

Why? CoD4's singleplayer was boring enough, a few hours of singleplayer & the multiplayer went together nicely. CoD5 is going to be developed by the team that did CoD3 (the worst cod game so far) so dont count on it being good.

[psychotic_duck]

"CoD5 is going to be developed by the team that did CoD3"

How do you know that?

[mesh1]

cause real gamers know it wont be dev by infinty wards as cod series is shared by 2 devs so they can make gams eveyr year the next game wil lbe made by the makers of cod3 = i wont buy it

[Captain Tuttle]

I just hope they're not true. They almost killed the franchise for me with that buggy POS called COD3.

[mighty_douche]

instead of making things up and claiming them as fact. it would be stupid to pass CoD off to another developer after #4's success. eitherway i aint gonna get my knickers in a twist till i hear it from the horse's mouth.

[SabreMan]

since when has this been announced ??

the only reason Infinity Ward leased out the cod franchise to Treyach was because Cod3 was console only and Infinity Ward started work on Cod4 straight after Cod2

i think people are presuming to much, it's obvious Cod5 is going to get released but it won't be next year, lets just wait for some official news shall we instead of making stuff up

i seriously doubt Infinity Ward will let another developer get there hands on the Cod franchise again, Cod3 was good but not great like the rest in the series are

[crazy25000]

cod4 multiplayer has been a disaster! im buying their new game either used or borrowing from a friend, they didn't even bother on testing it on the ps3, what a$$holes

[psychotic_duck]

Are you kidding me? Is it cuz you get owned? Is it cuz I possibly owned you? lol Decoy_Octopus if you're good with PSN's.

Seriously though, what's wrong with the multiplayer?

[crazy25000]

since launch day, ive been able to play 6 games at most...always gettng DGS

[SabreMan]

A disaster it's the best multiplayer game to get released for years and works perfectly over the PSN i have never had a problem finding or playing a game. I am rank 50 second time around so have played it quite a bit so where is the disaster ??

[Bolts]

WTH are you talking about? I've been playing CoD 4 online since I got it one week after it release. No problems here.

[Apocwhen]

I agree with crazy25000. To the others, count yourself lucky. Just wait til you start losing your rank, or end up with a negative XP.
I've had my rank reset twice now. I could play a couple of games for an hour or so and advance my rank. I come back to the game next time and my rank resets to what it was previously. It can take anywhere from 5 to 20minutes to get connected to an actual game. I've opened all the ports that Activation provided in their fix resolution and put the PS3 into DMZ mode on the router and still the same problems. I've also had Options not save when I change them. They'll work for the session I play but I turn off the game and come back in and they're back to the way they are. Just check out the COD4:PS3 forum on infinityward.com. Hundreds of people having their rank reset and even rank locked.

[hardcorehippiez]

wtf , your kidding right ? cod4 online is solid very fun game up there with warhawk in my opinion.
psn hippiez2007

great game add me and well get to some warfare woohoo bring it on !!!!

[Ju]

I agree with the disaster. I haven't managed to get into any game in CoD4 yet - and I am playing Resistance 40p and Warhawk 32p absolute lag free on my setup. Its in the envelope back to GameFly today. Single player was nice, the Arcade mode, well, OK, except, if you have a weakspot and die on one mission, you have to start over again instead of just skip that - or "extend your coin", which means, its totally useless. Yeah, CoD5...that's what the world needs. Great </sarcasm>

[TheExecutive]

I havent had too many problems at all, sucks for you.

[DRUDOG]

I've had my rank revert back as well. It reverted back to the day before and I'd already made quite a few option changes. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining and I do love the game, but there are some problems. Activision CS wrote me back today:

Thank you for contacting us here at Activision Customer Support. We apologize for the problems you are experiencing with your stats and experience not updating correctly in Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare for the PS3. Our understanding here at Customer Support is that the issue is being worked and we expect it to be resolved shortly. Before contacting us again, please try logging into your online account and see if the problem has been corrected. If you still have the same issue then let us know and we will update you with a solution once it becomes available. If you are experiencing any other issues with the game, let us know that as well and we will provide you with support. Thank you for your patience.

[UnblessedSoul]

If Cod5 ain't being developed by infinity ward I won't be buying

[Polluted]

I hate to sh*t on a perfectly reasonable news story, but is anyone really surprised about this? Activision isn't abandoning 3 of it's most successful franchises. Marvel is still licensing it's characters for video games and Bizarre is working on a new racing title. Duh. Tell me something I didn't know.

Oh and to all the people who said Treyarch ruined COD:3, I totally agree. Jesus. I never played the xbox version, but I played the PS3 version and it was easily the worst PS3 game I ever played. Soooo buggy. Graphics sucked. Just awful.

[gnothe1]

COD5 probably wont be developed by IW because they share development!! IW did COD2 on the 360, treyard did a version of COD2 for the PS2, an they also did COD3 while IW worked on COD4. While IW get COD4 done treyard is getting COD5 done, you see how that works.

[Bolts]

In other words CoD 5 will be another CoD 3, crappy and uninspired.

[icechai]

go figure they wouldn't give Guitar Hero 3 any more DLC, this is why Rock Band is so much better

[solar]

skate > tony hawk

[Gabe88]

treyarch is going to develope call of duty 5 its official, read the news!!! while infinity ward do 6 i think maybe they will do something new instead of doing another COD but who knows, well treyarch will probably leave the game the same way it was with COD4 using the same formula "if it aint broke dont fix it" wich in my opinion might hurt the franchise the same way they did on 3, but COD4 was awesome so maybe some more would not hurt but again, who knows...

[MK_Red]

COD5 will probably like COD4 which was made by Treyarch. As for Tony Hawk, they REALLY need to seriously revamp the mechanics and overall design of next game.

[Daver]

They better add a damn Co-op mode!... i bought this game thinking that there was one already......

[ThaGeNeCySt]

It's cool w/ me as long as Infinity Ward remains the team behind the yearly COD's.. but if their going to alternate with trey arch a la Ubisoft Montreal/Shangai with Splinter Cell.. then I'll buy COD6 next lol

[darkdeath]

this isnt going to be good... a good game takes time... Anual games just arent as good as they used to be... tony hawk use to be a good game back in the day now... AFTER adding all the stupid tricks and junk that they put in there its just to damn boring... the kinda down graded CoD4 is an awesome game... CoD5 cant be any better... Just give us new maps and Guns and will be happy with CoD4... ADD ons are what makes the a good game great

[iNcRiMiNaTi]

who the hell wants another tony hawk game when skate is around?

another cod game already? watch them have treyarch release a garbage game like they did with cod3

guitar hero 4 wha?..sorry too busy rockin out with rockband and its 4 player co-op

[Relientk77]

that sounds cool lets c those 3 games then

[Spydiggity]

GO AWAY CALL OF DUTY, PLEASE!!! and as for guitar hero, quit trying to milk us with sequals. just release more downloadable songs. i refused to buy GH3 for that reason. the formula didn't change and the controller is the same. so stop trying to get more money for recreations of the same stupid guitar and just give us the songs we want through updated content. and tony hawk...LOL. how many of these games are there? like 50? come on! how about making some new, fresh franchises?

[witchking]

Why can't we just have weekly downloads for GH3 instead of having to buy a whole new game every year.

[davidadrake]

They better not change the guitar for GH4! There's no way I want to buy 2 more guitars agian, after replacing both my wired ones with wireless. Also, less crap music would be nice - I still like the GH2 tracks better that GH3.

[ps4]

cod4 is da best online shotter out their end of story it a hell of a lot better then halo 3 wich is still kicking a$$ on xbox live. so cod5 is going to be 2 times better then cod4 i agree davidadrake gh2 had a better sound track the gh3 i am still shakey on why i bought another guitar i could of just used mine from gh2 so idk about gh4 rock band is looking better then the gh. and tony halk the last game was pure crap SKATE is da way to go that games was CCCCCCOOOOOOOOLLLLL

[jinn]

Halo4 will be in development a couple years from now when Bungie gets bored.

[Matpan]

Well I hope they make two great games again. I know I should be happy, another COD! I just don´t like the feeling of rushing into the new version of the game... I like to wait for it a little longer...

I guess I just don´t want another EA... :P

don`t get me wrong, they make good titles here and there... but it mostly feels like:

dude: -Hi guy! It´s october, look, they released (game title here) 2K(next years number here)...

guy: -but doesn´t 2k(next years number here) begin in 3 months.

dude: ...

I just don´t like ready-made-add two thousand polys to the already modeled meshes and lets call it a sequel-games...