Is Call Of Duty heading back to modern warfare?

Next year’s Call Of Duty looks like it will be set in the modern era, but is it Black Ops IV or something else?

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The most reliable source of new game info is the one that forgets hundreds of gamers are always scouring the Internet looking for clues. Voice actors and developers are surprisingly unreliable, but things like age rating descriptions and job listings are much better because they aren’t there to fool anyone or act as a red herring.

So based on that it seems as if the next Call Of Duty is going to be set in the modern day, or close to it.



Or at least that seems the logical assumption based on this job listing for a systems designer at Black Ops developer Treyarch, which wants the applicant to have a, ‘Deep knowledge base of firearms and modern military technology.’


Each of the Call Of Duty developers works on a three year cycle, so it’s Treyarch’s ‘turn’ to make a new game next year.

And while sub-series like Ghosts, Advanced Warfare, and Infinite Warfare seem unlikely to get another game Treyarch’s Black Ops has remained popular.

Whether that means next year’s game will be Black Ops IV is impossible to say, but traditionally it’s always been set in the past or near future.

The games have featured multiple time periods though and it’s possible the new game could be Black Ops but where one of those periods is the present day.

Or they could be making Modern Warfare 4 or some brand new sub-series. Or maybe the job listing is referring to a remake of Modern Warfare 2.

Exactly what the new game is going to be is impossible to tell at the moment, but it does seem very likely that whatever it is it’ll be set during the modern day.

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