Treyarch using Cold War for Call of Duty 7?

By Robert Purchese Published 5 May, 2009

Source cites Vietnam, Cuba, Africa, Russia.

Activision has been licensing Vietnam War-era music for Call of Duty 7, according to a "reliable source" on That Videogame Blog.

Music from Cuba, Africa and the Soviet Union is also mentioned, suggesting a Cold War setting for the seventh instalment.

The involvement of Activision/Treyarch lead producer Noah Heller is also noted. He said last year that he was "happy that we put [WWII] to bed" with Call of Duty: World at War, which adds weight to these claims.

Plus, with Infinity Ward occupying the modern-day battlefield with Modern Warfare 2 (Call of Duty 6), the choice of available conflicts is narrowed further still.

Modern Warfare 2 will be released for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 on 10th November.

Our Modern Warfare 2 gamepage has more information.

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Comments (34) Latest comment 7 months ago

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  • JahB #1 3 years ago

    i don't care what treyarch does, they should stay away from CoD and leave it to Infinity Ward. We really don't need a low quality installation of CoD every other year

  • brainbird #2 3 years ago

    CoD: Rome vs Carthago.
    You heard it here first.

  • RedSparrows #3 3 years ago

    'i don't care what anyone does, they should stay away from CoD or move the series on. We really don't need a derviative of CoD1 every year'

    Fixed

  • VicViper #4 3 years ago

    Wow talk about early marketing, pity that I only care about Mordern Warfare 2. Was there any really major coflict during the cold war? I seem to remmeber it being more a war in the sense that people didn't fight so much because of mutal assured destruction and all that...

    Time to read up on the cold war again I guess... seems there was a couple after all (Korean War/Veitnam etc) colour me slightly interested
    Edited by 1 at 05/05/09 @ 09:53

  • b00n #5 3 years ago

    World War 1, come on, do it!

  • andywilkie35 #6 3 years ago

    As long as its not another World War II game...

  • Mockerre #7 3 years ago

    VicViper@

    Hmm, Korea? Vietnam? Afghanistan?

  • Cyclone #8 3 years ago

    @VicViper

    There were quite a few proxy wars fought during the Cold War. The Korean War, Vietnam, and Cuban Missile Crisis are some of the potential conflicts that could be featured. You could also have behind enemy lines/covert ops missions. Who doesn't want to play as a gung-ho CIA agent avoiding evil Cubans and trying to escape back to the good old US after the Bay of Pigs? Seriously though, using the Cold War as a basis does have serious potential if its done right. Although I suppose most video game ideas have potential if executed correctly.

  • schnide #9 3 years ago

    Sounds to me, cynical as it is, like they've got two demographics covered - Treyarch farm out the formulaic shit to the massmarket (ie Christmas time) while Infinity Ward do the better game for the online faithful.

  • skillian #10 3 years ago

    Both are for the mass market, no doubt about that, but IW (so far) do make the better game.

  • bluem4gic #11 3 years ago

    Looks like IW have turned their back on the COD name

    And instead have allowed Activision and Treyarch to rinse the IP until gamers realise they have been fooled

    Good on IW, I myself intend to only purchase their titles in future. My play in to COD:WAW just reassured me that the franchise is not given any justice in any other developers hands

  • metalangel #12 3 years ago

    Korea please... and no more blasted dogs.

  • Der_tolle_Emil #13 3 years ago

    Wasn't Call of Duty 4 release a year ago and now they are already talking about CoD 7?

  • UncleLou #14 3 years ago

    "Wasn't Call of Duty 4 release a year ago and now they are already talking about CoD 7? "

    Almost - CoD 4 was 2007, CoD 5 was last year, CoD 6 (which is basically CoD 4 2) has already been announced for this year.


    "Looks like IW have turned their back on the COD name "

    Not really - they're doing Modern Warfare 2 (CoD 6). Treyarch developing CoD 7 is just the normal cycle.
    Edited by 2 at 05/05/09 @ 11:09

  • smoothpete #15 3 years ago

    Sounds good to me, there's plenty of potential variety there

  • Spekingur #16 3 years ago

    I don't want to play a damn American or British this time. You play as one of these every single CoD game there is. Break it up. Give us a storyline from the other side (the evil side), for a change.

  • Bilbo_bobbins #17 3 years ago

    when will treyarch learn, No one cares anymore until they start bringing out games that work.

  • VicViper #18 3 years ago

    @Mockerre,Cyclone

    Knowledge dropped... guess I forgot they were connected in that way

    The thought of being part of proxy wars does sound interesting, the convert stuff has been done before but not in this setting of course. I could see them maybe time jumping between each of the conflicts and the convert stuff, the game would be following the time line of the cold wars and convey how this developed towards its end.

    For example being part of the covert mission that insitgated/helped lay the foundation for a conflict then the next minute being apart of that conflict on either side

  • geeza2020 #19 3 years ago

    "I don't want to play a damn American or British this time. You play as one of these every single CoD game there is."

    i dont remember any British soldiers in WAW...... Just americans and russians (and germans and japanese in multiplayer)

  • sneetch #20 3 years ago

    @Spekingur
    I don't want to play a damn American or British this time. You play as one of these every single CoD game there is. Break it up. Give us a storyline from the other side (the evil side), for a change.

    You got to play as the soviets too. They were "evil" (for given values of evil ;) ) also some of the better missions IMO.

    It would be nice, especially given the nature of the cold war, to play as a (say) US/British/West German soldier (oh God, it would be worth it for the novelty of playing the part of a "good" German) and a Soviet spy maybe working together avert full scale war somehow. Or maybe a better plot. ;)

    Apart from the real life conflicts in Vietnam and Korea such a setting could give you special-forces raids, border skirmishes or full scale war between East and West (and those parts of the East who are politically aligned to the West), it doesn't have to be historically accurate after all: I'm pretty sure that in WWII the US didn't have a practically bullet-proof soldier who killed hundreds of German soldiers on his own while his squad mates hunkered down behind a nearby wall shouting "covering fire" every 2 seconds.

    I'm also pretty sure that Madeupistan was never nuked (or whatever that middle-eastern country in COD4 was called).

  • sneetch #21 3 years ago

    @geeza2020
    i dont remember any British soldiers in WAW...... Just americans and russians (and germans and japanese in multiplayer)

    He did say "I don't want to play a damn American or British this time. You play as one of these every single CoD game there is." You play as Americans therefore you do play as American or British. The American one, specifically. :)

  • Rirekon #22 3 years ago

    I really don't understand all the Treyarch hate on here, Yes CoD:3 was rubbish but World At War was as good as Modern Warfare (if not better in places - as befitting a title developed later).
    I look forward to both the new CoD titles

  • skillian #23 3 years ago

    I really don't understand all the Treyarch hate on here, Yes CoD:3 was rubbish but World At War was as good as Modern Warfare

    It's probably because most people wouldn't agree with you about WaW being as god as MW.

  • bad09 #24 3 years ago

    Some Vietnam love, great. Last really good 'Nam game I played was Vietcong. Which was AWESOME!

  • DUFFKING #25 3 years ago

    CoD has been going downhill since the first game anyway :p

  • BBIAJ #26 3 years ago

    @ DUFFKING:

    You obviously didn't play Call of Duty 2 then huh?

  • Iain815 #27 3 years ago

    Vietnam, fuck yes!

  • SPKRFCKR #28 3 years ago

    I am so sick of people speaking for others when they say that Treyarch don't know what they are doing. World at War is a great game, with plenty of online variety.

  • DUFFKING #29 3 years ago

    CoD 2 was basically a refinement, but the respawning enemy trend basically started in CoD 2, and I still hate the recharging health system for multiplayer.

  • makeamazing #30 3 years ago

    I have always thought a World War 1 game is something that should have been done along time ago, so much history to take from.

    Havent we already had vietnam before.....

  • Pedrolot #31 3 years ago

    Sounds good to me.

  • cyber_nicco #32 3 years ago

    "I have always thought a World War 1 game is something that should have been done along time ago, so much history to take from. "

    Wouldn't it end up just being a lot of sitting around in god-awful trenches, fighting off rats, and dying from influenza?

  • matt4j #33 2 years ago

    i agree that the cold war woudnt be the best idea and i think they should either do world war 1,korea,or vietnam.

  • james-mw3-mw3 #34 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.