Company reveals the new games earlier than ever
Activision Blizzard, the company that Microsoft is aiming to purchase, makes a new Call of Duty every year. Much like any of the popular sports series, the releases are clockwork. In the case of this series, there are rumors and leaks for next year’s model even before the latest iteration has been released. For 2022, the buzz around the internet has been that it would be a sequel to 2019’s Modern Warfare, mostly because it’s Infinity Ward’s turn on the development rotation and their last game was the MW reboot.
The news usually breaks over the Summer with some fanfare attached, but this year it’s a little different. THIS year, the company dropped the news of the next Call of Duty game at the bottom of a press release on Super Bowl weekend. No real fanfare, no big event in Warzone, just text.
While that may seem a little boring, the actual content wasn’t. The next game, it revealed, actually *IS* a sequel to 2019’s Modern Warfare, developed by Infinity Ward. Not only that, but there’s a whole new Warzone experience coming, essentially a sequel to the massively played game, also being developed by IW. Both will use a new engine, which will carry forward to future CoD games.
- This year’s Call of Duty is a sequel to Modern Warfare® 2019.
- The new game and a new Warzone experience are designed together from the ground-up.
- Expect a massive evolution of Battle Royale with all-new playspace and a new sandbox mode.
- A new engine powers both the new Call of Duty game release and Warzone.
- Development on both the new Call of Duty and the Warzone experience is being led by Infinity Ward.
It’s interesting to see the new games announced this far ahead, but it may be due to the less than stellar sales of last year’s Vanguard as well as the entire Microsoft purchase situation. Either way, it’s Modern Warfare 2! Again. But not the original one, or the HD remaster that came out after the reboot of the first game, which makes even more things confusing. Enjoy!