Activision "confirms" COD4

By Robert Purchese Published 29 May, 2007

The official trailer was presumably just speculation.

Activision has finally stamped official confirmation on the development of Call of Duty 4 for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.

Modern Warfare will be created by the developer of the first two Games, Infinity Ward, and takes place in current times. This new setting has given the team a fresh sense of freedom, shedding the restraints of archaic weaponry in favour of eye-popping technology and quickly organisable strikes from air and ground.

It's based around a fictional conflict in an unnamed Middle Eastern nation that's masterminded by Warlord Zakhaev to distract Western powers from his consolidation of power in Russia. You'll join elite units as one of the first to respond to the call for help, and embark on what Infinity Ward is promising to be one of the most engrossing stories to date.

You'll hop back and forwards in time throughout the campaign, as well as change locations. Between each mission you'll see a short loading screen that will zoom out to a global view of the world before zipping back in to your new destination. And apparently it's pieced together to offer a 24-like tension.

While the on-rails cinematic gameplay is a big focus for the developer, multiplayer will also make up a large part of the game. We're promised an experience based around Call of Duty 2, only bigger and better.

"Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is the most intense and visceral title we've ever created," said Jason West, co-studio head and project lead at Infinity Ward. "The single-player campaign is a well paced, non-stop action experience."

"As the story unfolds, the player is introduced to new gameplay at every turn. One moment you are fast-roping from your Black Hawk helicopter after storming into the war zone with an armada of choppers, the next you are a sniper under concealment in a Ghillie suit miles behind enemy lines. And soon after you are engaging hostiles from an AC-130 gunship thousands of feet above the battlefield."

It's all looking terribly pretty, too, as you might expect, and Infinity Ward is adamant that it wants the game to run at a solid 60 frames per second.

Unfortunately Activision was unavailable this morning to tell us when we could expect the game in Europe.

Still, it's all sounding very promising. But whether it'll mark itself out against strong competition from Battlefield and Tom Clancy games we'll have to wait and see.

Head over to Eurogamer TV to see the reveal trailer for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (29) Latest comment 7 months ago

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  • bioreit #1 5 years ago

    Oh no, not another World War 2 shooter....

    I mean, oh no, not another present-day first-person shooter on PC and 360! (PS3 is ok though)

    /Got righteous indignation messed up.

  • kissthestick #2 5 years ago

    Call of Duty 4 for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC

    no Wii port am confirmed

  • souljacker2000 #3 5 years ago

    Sounds good im just so glad its not another ww2 shooter, just so many games with the same weaponary

  • bonker #4 5 years ago

    I get hard at the merest hint of IW work after COD2.

    Gotta say though that the game description here has me flacid again in an instant.

    I know what you mean about the on-no-not-another-WWII-fest but I'm that way about futuristic/modern shooters too.

    Still, that said, TC's Endwars is getting me stiff again so maybe I should just keep faith in the IW gods ...
    Edited by 1 at 29/05/07 @ 12:22

  • Amazing Bryan #5 5 years ago

    Wow! It's like game developers have given up trying to be original anymore and are only interested in making money. Bring back Bullfrog!

  • bag-in-box #6 5 years ago

    Keeping my fingers crossed that the hitbox is better than in CoD2 ;)
    Could survive 2 snipershots in the head but die from one in the foot.. hehe.

  • nufcfan123 #7 5 years ago

    CoD back in the place that it all started on

    seriously, i can't believe CoD3 wasn't on PC

  • Skooch #8 5 years ago

    I think this looks awesome and if it has the same slick feel of COD2 but in a modern setting then I am all for it.

    Glad Infinity Ward are doing this one, Treyarch cocked up COD3 - it was rushed and buggy as hell, a complete disappointment.

  • Scurrminator #9 5 years ago

    the multiplayer of cod3 was fucking fantastic.

  • MrBiggles #10 5 years ago

    lolerskates,

    It's based around a fictional conflict in an unnamed Middle Eastern nation .

    lolerskates, how ******* original. Game developers are the dumbest ****** on the planet, can't come up with any new ideas ever.

  • MrBiggles #11 5 years ago

    And what's up with the Tomb raider advert you're running, Lara looks like a total slutty hooker.

    is that the only way Eidos can sell this **** anymore?

  • MrBiggles #12 5 years ago

    Am I the only person on the internet or something?, for ***** sake, Eurogamer print articles and they're sent out to die because people who read Eurogamer are the laziest ***** on the planet and can't be bothered to acnoledge this place even exists.

    what a sad ******* state of affairs.

  • Mudo #13 5 years ago

    What the hell are you on about MrBiggles?

  • WrongShui #14 5 years ago

    Fuck.

    Whats with all the stars?
    Edited by 1 at 29/05/07 @ 14:59

  • bonker #15 5 years ago

    "And what's up with the Tomb raider advert you're running, Lara looks like a total slutty hooker. "

    /pre-orders

  • dbrandwood #16 5 years ago

    Hmmm, after loving COD2 on the PC I was gutted when I heard COD3 wasn't coming out on the PC. The only saving grace was COD4 would be forth-coming and on the PC only.

    So now I feel I've been stabbed in the back and to boot they've fucked -up the whole scenario and are frigging around with time travel?????? Perhaps the coders ought to go to rehab' before being aloud to be let loose on a game title again. Yea, I've heard the "Another WWII FPS" cries, but then wasn't that the appeal to those of us who cherished COD2/3???? For me it was the lack of new kill-all mega weapons and the fact it brought the reality and frenzy of war (to as near as you can in a game) that made it so appealing in the first place. As good as the graphics look I seriously suspect that COD4 will be a bridge too far this soldier.

  • reality_cheque #17 5 years ago

    Aww, I want the slutty lara advert too :(

  • steoc4 #18 5 years ago

    Are there really all that many modern warfare games of this type?

    The only ones I can think of are Tom Clancy games, which are all in specific special force type niches rather than having you play an ordinary soldier, Battlefield 2 which is a multiplayer focussed game, and a number of much older games but gaming has moved on a lot since then.

    I can't think of a single game that approaches modern combat in the way CoD approached World War II, making you a normal troop and providing a solid single player experience while creating a realistic atmosphere portraying the horrors of war, so from that point of view I think it could be good. Better than yet another WWII game cos there's lots of them all taking the same approach.

  • souljacker2000 #19 5 years ago

    /Picks up Steak Knife
    / hunts down MrBiggles before he goes even more crazy

  • SBfistfun #20 5 years ago

    MEH, MEH and more MEH

  • DjWhizzkidd #21 5 years ago

    Call of Duty 4.

    Just what the gaming world needed.

    If its a modern themed thing, why even call it call of duty ? The whole call of duty thing is WW2. Its like brining out a tennis Game called Pro Evolution 7.

  • bdaggers #22 5 years ago

    COD3 was cock cheese - fact.

    Infinity Ward back at the helm ? thank God for that. IW + COD = buy.

    Whether its present day, future or bloody WW1, they really know how to deliver a quality shooter - can't wait for this.

  • Feanor #23 5 years ago

    "Glad Infinity Ward are doing this one, Treyarch cocked up COD3 - it was rushed and buggy as hell, a complete disappointment."

    According to Game Informer who have this game as their current cover story, the code for this game at Infinity ward is called cod3.exe

    And the story has a few other parts where it's made clear Infinity Ward weren't too impressed with how Treyarch looked after their baby.

  • RedPanda #24 5 years ago

    Post deleted at 14:31:59 28-01-2012

  • 3william56 #25 5 years ago

    "Between each mission you'll see a short loading screen that will zoom out to a global view of the world before zipping back in to your new destination"

    Yay! Call of Burnout Takedown!

  • kmittal82 #26 5 years ago

    More scripted mayhem... *yawn*

  • witchdrash #27 5 years ago

    Did someone from Eurogamer throw Mr Biggles cat in a canal or something, really makes absolutely no sense whatsoever...

    Anyway COD4 modern times, yawn. Weakness with COD originally was it's absolute obsession with Normandy, would have made more sense to take in a different theatre of war each game, but nvm.

  • TheUnionFrag #28 5 years ago

    I'll probably lap it up. It's IW after all - they've got a Midas Touch.

  • james-mw3-mw3 #29 7 months ago

    Modern Warfare 3 will be released on 8th November! It's actually the 8th main Call of Duty game, and the fifth developed by Infinity Ward. Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer will debut at the Call of Duty XP convention on September 2 and I'm betting that they will show all the weapons and perks of MW3.