Treyarch staffing up for new Call of Duty

Treyarch is on the lookout for staff across multiple disciplines to work on what would appear to be a new game in the Call of Duty series.

[e-p-ayeaH]

Its just adding up more ppl to reskin the game basicly.

I wonder if the Infinity Ward guys are planing on new engine for the next Call of Duty.

[velocitygamer]

Tbh, I am somewhat looking forward to this cod game, since Treyarch are developing it, and they always do put in new and interesting features like wager mode and custom emblems, unlike MW3 which was more or less MW 2.5

Sadly, Treyarch don't get the attention they deserve, instead, cod fanboys are always up Infinity Ward's asshole.

[princejb134]

wow velocitygamer
so basically you saying treyarch is better than infinity ward
no way, they made the crappy world at war and the semi good black ops with bad graphics
at least infinity ward games are good and fun with decent graphics

[Shackdaddy836]

It depends. They do something unique every time and their maps for multiplayer are always really good, but I really didn't like Blops for multiple reasons. I did like WaW though. It had kinda an artsie feel to it(the russian sniper level for the SP had a great feel to it).

I hope if they are making a second Blops then they put some kinda slight art style into it.

[megacowdung]

MW3=MW2.5? no way, it was more like MW1.9

[Iroquois_Pliskin]

Goddammit Tryarch/Inifinity Ward! Haven't you learned one bit from that epic Metacritic low score you got?

[Animal Mutha 76]

@Velocity

I totally agree mate. Treyarch did a grand job with black ops and I still play it now over MW3. The effort they put into the zombie maps was awsome and all of the other nice touches such as the hidden menu zombie game/walking around using terminal. I also like to dive to prone and having custom emblems.

I also like all of my stats to be in the game when I finish a round, not taken out and fluffed up in a seperate app and sold as 'Elite' which is a bit shit when it could easily be in the game engine.

I think the maps of MW3 aren't up to the same standard of design and detail as blops. I conceed that the spec ops and the delta and riot squads are cool though.

Survival is hoard by another name although its fun but not as good as horde 2. And why only 2 player!

MW3 feels like 3 teams put it together in a hurry. The campaign, MP and Elite all feel 'unrelated' If you know what I mean.

Just my view...

[frostypants]

Infinity Ward as we knew it is DEAD, folks. As of now, Treyarch probably has more in-house experience with the series than IW, since they lost so much key talent.

To me, Black Ops felt far more like a complete CoD game than MW3. I think that trend will continue. Treyarch will keep improving, and IW will become the red-headed step child no one likes.

[killcycle]

I like Treyarch better then Infinity Ward!
I like Infinity Ward better then Treyarch!

They both suck and make the same recycled shit every few months but ya'll already know this and you'll carry on buying their games!

Mooooooo

[Army_of_Darkness]

Stop complaining bitches, cause you all know that your gonna buy the next cod game like you did mw3. Sales don't increase on they're own.

[Tanir]

Whoa another map pack already? dang.

and Epayeah

infinity ward doesnt exist anymore, they broke off and its just the crappy people left from IW

[fluffydelusions]

Aren't treyarch making a PSV COD as well?

[JaredH]

Yeah at least there'll be new menus and interfaces unlike MW3...

[FAGOL]

Yay new menus & interfaces that are broken.

Go on the PS3 version of Black Ops> Main Menu> Multiplayer Menu> Go back to Main Menu> Recalibrate every freakin setting again.

A billion patches later it still isn't fixed.

I'm not defending IW or saying they're better than Treyarch but at least their menu is quick and easy to navigate.

[JaredH]

I have MW3 on 360 and every time you go in a playlist or to a new menu the game freezes for like two seconds. It wouldn't be annoying if it didn't do it for every menu. And by freeze I mean even if you're in the guide menu that freezes. If you're in a party and you're changing a class if a playlist is picked it freezes, kicks you out of the class menu and doesn't save what you did.

I had no problems like this in Black Ops. I liked how friends could join your party without having to invite them and you could actually look at their stats without having to go on the website for elite. The voice chat didn't cut out for every loading screen and menu change either.

MW3 also has the same emblems and titles from MW2 except new skins. They only have a few new weapons and the whole new kill streak system just makes it so there's constant air support out just like MW2. It truly is MW2.5 especially how everyone still uses shotguns, explosives or quick scoping. The one new thing they did was add a new burst gun that kills with two bullets to try to make it like COD4.

Honestly the new Treyarch game will probably be just Black Ops 1.5 and I think I'm just finally done with Call of Duty.

[RioKing]

"I had no problems like this in Black Ops. I liked how friends could join your party without having to invite them and you could actually look at their stats without having to go on the website for elite. The voice chat didn't cut out for every loading screen and menu change either."

^This. Oh and another thing that I loved about Black Ops...the lack of team killers in every other game of Hardcore Search & Destroy :)

[FAGOL]

I doubt they'll even attempt to create a new engine this gen.

[Kahvipannu]

Yes, sounds believable. They will push new games out as fast they can, and at some point upgrade the engine for new gen.

And since people are buying, why not? I still think they are milking it, but money is what matters in the end, atleast for Activision.

[NeloAnjelo]

The word "NEW" doesn't exist in the world of COD.

[NobleRed]

You won't see a new engine for Call Of Duty until the next gen arrives.

[shaun mcwayne]

i dont even think they will make a new engine for next gen, they will be so desperate to get more cash they will still use the same one, but make the game look photo realistic. When we see screen shots, it will be like wow. then we play it and it will feel the same.

[Wizziokid]

obviously. new COD every year remember

[lorianguy]

You mean "new" cod every year ;)

[NukaCola]

he means "another"

[SquidBuck]

First of all, their is not that much Cod can add to the multiplayer, but Treyarch is always good at making awesome campaigns. Black Ops 2 won't be that bad.

[torchic]

disagrees? IW fanboys?

[SKUD]

IW doesn't exist. The name hasn't meant anything in years. Despite activision trolling the name.

[torchic]

exactly. the creme of IW ran off and opened Respawn Entertainment. as someone else said a few days ago, the people who stayed at IW are the greedy ones who used to make tea and coffee for the others who quit IW.

yet people still ride IW's deck hard. Treyarch is the main dev now, in my eyes at least.

[irepbtown]

Infinity Ward does exist, but Sledgehammer was brought in because IW had lost quite alot of workers and needed some gaps filled.

So MW3 was done by both IW and SledgeHammer.

[frostypants]

irepbtown, try "what's LEFT of Infinity Ward". Those gaps filled by Sledgehammer were major gaps, and they were not filled well.

It's clear that very little actual coding was done for MW3. It's a lot of re-skinning and re-using of MW2 assets. Even the "new" killstreaks are just re-hashes where they swapped out one asset for another, but the behavior is the same.

If people like MW3, that's great, but the missing Infinity Ward talent is PAINFULLY apparent in the final product. It is very obvious that the people that mattered most at Infinity Ward were not around for this game.

I will point out the most damning point in all of this that I've seen tossed around in other threads like this one: the Vietnam EXPANSION for BFBC2 provided more differentiated content than MW3 provides over MW2. The former offered entirely new weapons, entirely new objects/vehicles, entirely new sounds, and the new maps were amazing. It was like a whole new game, and with a few additional maps easily could have been.

I and many others feel more than a little ripped off by the full-game price tag of MW3. It's a perfect example of not getting what you paid for.

[JeffGUNZ]

@ frostypants.

What aspects of MW3 are so apparent that the "good" IW workers obviously didn't work on this title? I think MW3 is leagues better than MW2. The killstreaks are more balanced, the perks are more balanced, the game is just more balanced then MW2. I fail to see what is so noticeably groudbreaking that makes this game flawed? I am sure respawn will make a great game, but MW3's MP is much more balanced then MW2 (where the entire staff was involved), in my honest opinion.

[frostypants]

The map design in MW3 is uninspired and horrid, for starters. As are the spawn points. It's as if the people that understood how to do those things correctly were missing from the development process.

Further, the insane amount of asset-recycling since MW2. Instead of bringing in new people to work on that, they just took MW2's and re-used everything.

There is no real "selling point" for MW3 that you can point at and say "this is the defining feature that it adds to the series". It has no identity of its own. That could have at least bothered to add in some of the cool aspects of BlOps, like the customization options, but they didn't even bother to do THAT. If it wasn't in MW2 in some form, it wasn't gonna be in the MW3 re-tread.

Can you deny that the differences between MW2 and MW3 are much less than those between MW1 and MW2? MW3 just feels like they took everything from MW2, threw it in a box, shook it, and laid it out in a different order.

It's as if Infinity Ward became the Taco Bell of developers: MW3 is the Burrito Supreme to MW2's Soft Taco Supreme. THEY TASTE THE SAME! :-)

Now, if MW3's maps were decent, it might be a slightly better game if only for the removal of Commando Pro, but other than that I'm not sure how you can think it's more balanced. Unless you mean that the maps and spawns are so random that everybody is equally screwed...

[Gamer-Z]

"facepalm" @MoCowbell

people never learn Lol

@torchic

There are IW fanboys now!? Aren't all you COD fanboys in the same lot?

[torchic]

I've been called many things before, but CoD fanboy? never. well done sir.

[ATi_Elite]

Now it's Treyarch fanboys vs. Infinity Ward fanboys!

Call of Duty...Oh gosh! When will it never stop?

*Sean P-Diddy Combs pops outta now where "Can't Stop Won't Stop"*

Noooooooooooooooooooooooo!

[BuffMordecai]

Black Op's campaign kicked MW3's in the ball sack.

[3GenGames]

I lol'd at new.

[boommuffin]

Its funny that dolphin diving was the biggest change to the gameplay since CoD4 XD

[arnyftw]

They need more people to help copy-paste.

[bumnut]

Not bought a COD game since WAW, I will not buy another until a new engine is released.

Even Fifa has more improvements each year than COD.

[Disccordia]

I read this a lot so.. out of interest, what's wrong with the engine?

[bumnut]

Its just dated now, like the source engine. Both were good in their day but look dated now.

[JeffGUNZ]

You didn't really answer his question man. Seriously, what is wrong with the ENGINE that ruins this game for you? So, if the game had better graphics, sound, etc, you'd think the game is great all of the sudden? Let's be real, COD is fun because it's a smooth 60fps and the core mechanics are addicting. The gameplay is fun, which is the most important thing.

[spektical]

whats wrong with the engine? hmm zero effort into improving it when devs like GG, ND, DICE, hell even EA Sports, improve on their engine dramatically eventually.

what we are seeing is Activision milking the cows (the 11 million annual COD buyers) for all their worth by doing little work.

[Drekken]

I delete people from my list that only play CoD.

[2fk]

you know whats really sad? they're just started staffing up when they had all year to do this...it seems like they only take a year to do a COD which is why it always feels the same year after year

Also i had some hope for MW3 i really dont want any game to fail so i thought it was going to really good so i rented it and it was really bad

[fatboyfsx]

Am I really the only one that noticed this article is from last March? Especially with the last sentence, "with the combined talents of Infinity Ward, Sledgehammer and Raven said to be handling this year's franchise entry."

What idiot put this up as new news?

[M1chl]

I just came here to say, that I liked a Black OPS campaign, although I won this game, so I don't invest any money. I kinda want to play BO2 campaign to see where they gonna move that storyline. Gameplay sucks, but everything else, I enjoyed (still kinda bad for a game, where gameplay is like root : D )

[MizTv]

well isnt that just great

[DFresh]

COD: BLOPS2
[Confirmed]
XD

[3GenGames]

So is MW4, BLOPS3, MW5 as of today.

[_Aarix_]

you heard it here folks

[Agheil]

THEY SHOULD GIVE ZOMBIES ITS OWN CAMPAIGN!!!

[Hazmat13]

come treyarch we know you can create a new engine. do it! you have money and the man power!

[Kahvipannu]

It would not make much sense, unless they would make it for mostly next-gen in mind, like Dice did.

It's a bit late for this gen now, they have had the resources for it, but they haven't, since people still buy theyr product, and it's nice to milk money from them with annual releases.

Instead of new major improvements, players get pointless spend more money features, and overpriced DLC.

Again, can't blaim them if loking just the financial side of it, but it's laughable how Activision have been acting towards gamers. Insult really.

[Scenarist]

mw3 is my last COD game im buying this gen
just on prinicple

Ive spent more money on COD franchise than ive spent on MMO subscriptions over time

[llMurcielagoll]

Same $hit different game again? Count me out.. Not going CoD is not worth my money anymore...

[ME1989]

I enjoy the COD games just as much as I'm enjoying Skyrim, Dark Souls, Batman, etc right now.

As long they're fun for me, keep em coming, personally.

[mcstorm]

I see this site stil hates cod games. Im not a fan of cod but i can see why people like cod games over games like bf ect because of the fast pased action. We all know av love to milk there game names just link gh ect but as long as people want this type of game they will keep making just like apple with there i devices ect.

[ExitToExisT]

maybe a new engine this time around , huh /jk

[pumpactionpimp]

shocking... C'mon like anyone actually thought they would stop at MW3?

[Oldman100]

Staffing up to make another terrible ps3 port.

[rattletop]

i lold when i saw the word 'NEW'.

[artdafoo]

Shit, they should be laying off people, how many fools do you need to re skin the character models, add couple diff guns, build the maps wich they will just use previous buildings and set pieces from Wack Ops 1

[0neShot]

I lost confidence in treyarch because they really fked up Black Ops, the core mechanics of the game especially that crappy waaay off hit detection and broken lag compensation.

[Sarobi]

I'm not getting anymore Call of Duty games until the next generation consoles arrive, because at this point I know we aren't getting much of a change in terms of the engine and graphics on current consoles.

[zombiMessiah]

i wish they would just take a year off from call of duty. support one for little more than a few months this time and get every idea into a new game.

[susanto1228]

Geez this is getting really old......unfortunately as long as
teenagers convince there parents to buy them this garbage they can keep cranking them out...

[DeadManMcCarthy]

omg a new cod i never would have guessed it.

[Ricardoportillo04]

omg theres gonna be a call of duty 9 i never would have expected that to happen..i cant wait to waste 60 bucks for a new box

[NeloAnjelo]

Predictable... just like this franchise. Any bet these will be some the things discussed when its released:

1) Broken at launch
2) Unbalanced Online
3) Medicore Campaign
4) Same gameplay and engine
5) No innovation
6) Not equal across all platforms
7) A glitch fest

But guess what? It will sell bucket loads because of the sheep that keep lining up each year for this trash. With all the money it makes you'd think the least that can be offered is something that works.

[damnyouretall]

imo they should give it up this gen and start developing a next gen cod from here on out. might take a few years but hell. i loved cod 2 and 4, but 9 in the works already? too soon and kind of a joke

[NeloAnjelo]

Its been a Joke since MW2.

COD4: MW was a great game. Everything MW since then has been a copy.
WAW, B.O... etc are essentially the same game with Zombie packs...

What I am really annoyed at is that these can all be sold as DLC, at a much cheaper price to the consumer. Activision are money whores that will suck fans and established franchises dry... and then try to take some more. I am done with this series.

[ClydeRadcliffe]

old news. incredibly old news. in fact it's even dated 9 months ago

[irepbtown]

Considering the amount of people reading it and commenting, I guess alot of people missed it.

[Ricksta_13]

I cba with the CODs anymore, time to go back to trophy whoring !!

[Gamerita]

who would have expected this ?? lol

cod games are addictive & fun more of the same is all good. ;)

[leahcim]

oh come on!!!

someone stop this shit..

[Der_Kommandant]

Project Reclycle Copy Paste

[lumley666]

oh no another cod game lol i thought mw3 would be the last lol

[SuperbVillain]

womp womp no thanks.I haven't played MW3 in more than a week now.

[BlueEye]

Treyarch and/or Infinity Ward need to pull a Capcom and find and hire someone like Seth Killian, a long time fan of the series, knows what it needs and is good with the community. I'd say Woody.

[Rashonality]

you know when a funny joke becomes unfunny then funny again then seriously unfunny then funny again then so seriously unfunny you don't even care cuz it was used so many times you just lost interest...Call of Duty is that joke

[Tzuno]

well it's time to return to wwar time again.

[-Gespenst-]

NO THANKS.

[Coheno]

This article is from MARCH! Who approved this crap?

[StarWolf]

people are finally getting tired of COD...pretty much how i felt 5 years ago.