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Rumor: Call Of Duty Returns To Space This Year
In space, no one can hear you no-scope. Reports have surfaced this morning suggesting that this year’s Call of Duty will take us back into the vacuum of space, something we first experienced during 2013’s Call of Duty: Ghosts (our review).
The rumor was surfaced by Eurogamer, which corroborates a post on NeoGAF suggesting a heavily sci-fi influenced entry. This year’s game is under development at Infinity Ward, which also developed Ghosts.
If accurate, this would be a strange year for first-person shooters indeed. Should Call of Duty push to the far future and Battlefield rumors about a World War 1 entry be accurate, the two competitors would be offering wildly different experiences for the first time.
We’ve reached out to Activision for comment and will update should we receive a response.
Our Take
As always, take rumors with a hefty grain of salt. The sourcing on this isn’t great (as there’s nothing to say that the NeoGAF poster and Eurogamer don’t have the same single source). I wouldn’t rule out a significant shift in one branch of the Call of Duty franchise to create some space between Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer, but that doesn’t mean it’s going to be full-on science fiction (at least any more than Advanced Warfare offered).
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