COD5, GH4 confirmed?

By Robert Purchese Published 3 December, 2007

ActiBlizz deal leaks word.

Activision Blizzard has let slip word that it is working on Call of Duty 5 and Guitar Hero IV, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

A fact sheet on the freshly launched website unveiled the projects, which appear in the Activision "pipeline" summary.

It also talks of new Tony Hawk and James Bond games, as well as titles based on the Marvel and DreamWorks licences. Its new Bizarre Creations racing game was listed, too.

An Activision spokesperson declined to comment on it all, although it is unlikely any will come as a surprise given the success of the franchises involved.

Those with your head in the sand should know Vivendi and Activision will be merging forces in a multi-billion dollar deal to be completed in the middle of 2008.

Other than its name change to Activision Blizzard, so far little looks set to change. We will keep you posted as news hits our chops.

Despite its allure, GamesIndustry.biz will never overindulge and serve fiction in its news restaurant.

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Comments (31) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • Johnson #1 4 years ago

    GH4? CoD5? Wooooooow.

  • thepiedpiper #2 4 years ago

    woo first!!!

  • thepiedpiper #3 4 years ago

    .....bugger

  • kissthestick #4 4 years ago

    i dont think Infanty ward are doing COD5

  • Machetazo #5 4 years ago

    "Speaking in a conference call today, Robert Kotick, chairman and CEO of Activision, said: "You can expect virtually every one of those properties (its 10 multi-million unit-selling franchises) will be exploited on an annual or close to annual basis.""

    source: http://ww w.videogamer.com/news/03-12-200...
    Edited by 1 at 03/12/07 @ 15:40

  • BBIAJ #6 4 years ago

    kissthestick:

    Correct, they will continue to alternate the CoD games with Treyarch.

  • agparrot #7 4 years ago

    Blizzviz would be better?

  • roronoa #8 4 years ago

    cod5, woot I can't wait for that

  • smoothpete #9 4 years ago

    Please, not fucking Treyarch.

  • M83J01P97 #10 4 years ago

    So CoD 5 will have Night Elfs and Orc's in it I'm guessing?

  • Gruff #11 4 years ago

    errrr, sky is blue

  • Bumhug360 #12 4 years ago

    Any news on FIFA 09 yet

  • Toothball #13 4 years ago

    I plan to move to Rock Band before GH4 comes out.

  • smoothpete #14 4 years ago

    Maybe they'll take inspiration from my "Call of Duty 5: Zombie Warfare" forum thread

  • Triggerhappytel #15 4 years ago

    I second smoothpete - the last *good* game Treyarch made was Spider-Man 2. Surely Activision must realise the void of difference between CoD3 & CoD4?!

    And haven't they learned from the demise of Tony Hawk that churning out yearly updates will kill off even the biggest franchises?

  • dudefella #16 4 years ago

    Why keep releasing new GH games instead of updating the ones they already have with more content? That's all people really want, and that's what Rock Band is going for. No thanks, I'm going to stick with Rock Band.

  • the_dudefather #17 4 years ago

    Call of Duty 5: Medieval Warfare

  • tobsen #18 4 years ago

    Don't you love gaming execs who refer to games as "franchises to be exploited on an annual basis"? I sure don't.

  • skillian #19 4 years ago

    Infinity Ward will never be able to pump out a CoD game every year, so it makes sense to alternate between two teams.

    Likely there will be good ones (IW - CoD 2, Cod 4) and cash-ins (Treyarch - Big Red One, Cod 3). As a PC gamer I'm happy just to get the Infinity Ward games, as seems to happening at the moment.

  • Pablo2k5 #20 4 years ago

    Quote... "You can expect virtually every one of those properties (its 10 multi-million unit-selling franchises) will be exploited on an annual or close to annual basis."

    OMG, I can't think of anything worse! It's like the video gamign equivalent of West Life or the Sice Girls.

    Wake up people!

  • rhinoxious #21 4 years ago

    I don't think Treyarch have done a bad job of the fill-in CODs, multiplayer in COD3 was pretty good fun, and the cutdown console versions like big red one were far from poor.

    However a return to a more honest naming system might be in order, with only the major releases given the numbers. At this rate its going to start soudning silly soon anyway, Call of Duty 6: Attack of teh Sequels!

  • Wyrm #22 4 years ago

    Haha... do they need to be confirmed? I mean, will EA be doing a FIFA game next year?

  • Pulsar_t #23 4 years ago

    COD? And you're excited? Fancy playing the same FPS with different outfits each time? I guess that's why Halo sells. FTL.

  • bodypopper #24 4 years ago

    I'm praying for 'Call of Jehuty' - military might vs OTT Japanese fighting robot thingies.

    Bring it on!

  • pjmaybe #25 4 years ago

    Wow never saw this coming!

    Peej

  • J.C #26 4 years ago

    More of the same then. im getting quite bored tbh. originality is the key, why dont they take risks with new games? its the only forward. nintendo know this.

  • dudefella #27 4 years ago

    Pulsar: Way to fail, sir. Try actually playing the games.

  • AFX #28 4 years ago

    Well this business model never did EA any harm. Kills all imagination tho. This industry needs new IPs :p

  • Canyarion #29 4 years ago

    http://im g519.imageshack.us/img519/3077/... ^_^

  • Fab4 #30 4 years ago

    Its so 'de rigueur' to slag off Treyarch, yet many who do so have no clue as to the situation Treyarch were put in by Activision. They were given an extremely short development time, yet they still managed to create a game that included a class system (with air support, medics and ammo resupply) with in-game upgrades; a new (and popular) gamemode (War); new weapon types (rifle grenades, anti-personnel mines, cooked/sticky frag grenades); vehicles (tanks, bikes and jeep mounted MGs); 24 (yes, 24!!) player MP with little or no lag (something CoD4 cant even do with 12) and well designed maps that could actually cope with that amount; sprinting (try going back from CoD3 to CoD2 and see how much you miss that...so nice they put it in CoD4); online splitscreen; online game selection (not let the game randomly put you in a game..usually half way through as in CoD2/4); Ranked leaderboards....all this on an outdated game engine (and CoD5 will be using the same, all new, engine used in CoD4.

    Yeah, this game sucked, and yet it was still being played by massive amounts of people (never had a problem finding a game of any type) more than a year after its released. Oh, yes, I almost forgot...it didnt have the Toys-R-Us sniper rifles of CoD2 and didnt allow you to sit in a corner camping....probably the real reasons why a lot of people didnt like it.
    Edited by 1 at 04/12/07 @ 08:32

  • Wyrm #31 4 years ago

    * Guitar Hero IV
    * Call of Duty 5
    * James Bond (2008)
    * Tony Hawk (new - 10th franchise entry)
    * New Dreamworks Titles (various franchises)
    * New Marvel Titles (various franchises)
    * Bizarre Creations' New Entry in Racing (following September 2007 acquisition)


    Uninspirefest!