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Looks Like Next Call Of Duty Game Will Be Set In The Near Future

Could Activision be moving the next installment of the alternate-year Call of Duty from the past to the future? It looks as though we'll be parting with that tradition soon, if a teaser image and accompanying video on the game's official site is to be believed.

Details are scarce on callofduty.com, but they're slowly starting to emerge. The site is currently littered with monitors displaying a "coming soon" message. A few are filled in with static, however. If you click on one of those images, you're treated to a shot of a weaponized quadrotor drone, which links to the amusing FPS Russia video shown below.

As the host teases, the technology shown in the video is still 10 or 15 years away. He adds that it could be in the next Call of Duty game, however. Then we're treated to a series of demonstrations of the vehicle "in action." The vehicle, which is purportedly equipped  with a100-round magazine and controlled with a tablet device, makes short work of a variety of targets.

We'll know more about the next Call of Duty when it's officially unveiled on May 1 during the NBA playoffs.

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  • interesting ...

  • Don't think its in the future. Half the weapons the game has already won't be in use for another 10-15 years i.e assault drone, recon drone, half the guns... half of the weapons in Black Ops were NOWHERE near the time period they should be in. The G11 didn't even start construction til the 1990's!

  • Is that Quad-Rotor (with gun) "legal" to build?

  • Would hate to be on the business end of that sucker. . .

  • It was a CGI gadget in the video, you gullible people...

  • ...H-...Has Call of Duty actually...

    GRASPED MY ATTENTION!?

    Call an ambulance.

  • Isn't Modern Warfare set in the present to the near future?
  • looks legit

  • *** I DON'T CARE IF YOU CALL IT STAR WARS BATTLEFRONT 3 OR CALL OF DUTY:STAR WARS, JUST GIVE ME A DECENT STAR WARS SHOOTER. sorry for all caps, but seriously, if you're setting it in the future, make it star wars.
  • I'm excited for this.

  • Oh, boy this is interesting... very interesting.

  • That is really intersesting! that would be really cool! and the FPS Vedio this would be amazing!

  • That's pretty weird! But riding on hoverboards will be the new skateboarding in the future.

  • They're just stealing ideas from Homefront

  • Still not interested

  • That could be cool. Though it makes me wonder, would that mean Treyarch is stepping on Infinity Ward's toes? If there's a fourth Modern Warfare, I wonder if they'll tie it in with this.

  • COD stealing ideas from Ghost Recon Future Solider?  

  • Well good no more cut n paste and they better not be jacking ideas from future soldier

  • Please make COD with laser guns, and microwave missile and EMP grenades to destroy robot soldiers that your physical character controls in combat, when your bot is dead, you go out to either retrieve it or just starts using a weapon you pick off one of the downed bots, since your character is only armed with a side pistol. Also human soldiers can fight with enhanced body assistance and soldiers can climb into full body mech suits manned, or get into huge 20ft mechs controlled by human soldiers, and flying drones that are manned by human pilots sitting back at base, or they have option to get into human based flight suits or hover pods that you hold onto and they can transport up to 8 soldiers into the heart of the fire fight. This is what we need from the Next COD World War 2145, so 130 something years into future would nuts......
  • Ha, awesome video.