During an event for in-game advertisers held by Massive Inc. earlier today, Activision Blizzard announced a boatload of games, most of which are sequels you knew were coming eventually.
MTV Multiplayer was on the scene, and reported that Guitar Hero 5, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, an untitled Tony Hawk project, and a Bizarre Creations-developed James Bond game are currently being worked on.
Few details were given at the event, other than the following info: Modern Warfare 2 is dated for this fall; the James Bond game is not a movie tie-in and is described as "Mario Kart meets Forza"; and the next Tony Hawk title will be hands-free.
Excluding the James Bond driving game (who could have predicted that?), it was obvious we'd see sequels to these huge properties down the road. What are you guys most interested in hearing more about?
I'm all for another Infinity Ward-developed Call of Duty, myself.
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5:05 PM on 12.03.2008
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...doubt it though.
1) CoD has been handed off to a 3rd developer.
2) Treyarch is pumping it out with just a year of development..
Guess you can't accuse them of deceptive about their plans...
I wish they would take up the rock band business model and just start releasing DLC on the regular basis instead of pumping out a massive amount of sequels.
I used to love the Tony Hawk franchise..until I realized I was playing the same game every year. some innovation wouldn't hurt.
And another 007 racing game? Why? Was there some kind of demand for this I didn't know about?
Not really surprised by another Guitar Hero. Let's not go too easy on Rock Band, Xhumation- they did release Rock Band 2 very soon after the first Rock Band, and make no mistake about it, we'll have Rock Band 3 in 2009.
I'm trying to figure out if: At the meeting, Activision Blizzard showcased new games that would make sense for in-game ads, including the vaguely titled “Guitar Hero 5,” which included a screen shot of gameplay with a Burger King ad to the right of the note highway.
Is a joke.
I'd really not be surprised if they're serious about that.
And yay more shitty CoD games, remove the infinite spawning enemies please or fuck you IW.
As long as IW itself maintains a level of quality then they are good, if Activision starts making changes I'm sure we will know.
Guitar Hero 5 interests me not at all since GH4 was massively eclipsed by Rock Band 2 in terms of quality, polish, and just plain FUN.
"The former 'Project Gotham Racing' studio is also working on an original racing IP for the publisher, which they tagged as '"Mario Kart" meets "Forza."'
The Mario Kart stuff is a completely different game from the Bond game that will release in September. Now I can breathe slightly easier.
also I wish Bizarre Creations would make a sequel to Fur Fighters
a Ninty-style balance board won't work cause how are u really gonna simulate satisfactorily the feet aerobics that are involved in just a simple kickflip ?
still question the "hands-free" coz there are a lot of grab tricks in skateboarding.
i do hope that the Tony Hawk games can mount a serious challenge to black box's skate coz i'd really enjoy a nice old-fashioned gaming rivalry ala FIFA vs. PES (which is really getting stale; however that wii version of PES was interesting to look at, i gotta say)