Quite a while ago, Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford took developers like Bungie and Infinity Ward to task, admitting that Halo and Call of Duty might be top tier games, but that he wants to see what else these studios can do. Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling has responded to the call, promising that Infinity Ward isn't just a one-trick pony, and that other projects may come along.
"Well, we like to do new stuff all the time as well," he stresses. "When we feel like we can't innovate any further in the Call of Duty franchise, then we'll do something else. A lot of that mentality went into Modern Warfare 2. That's why it's Modern Warfare 2. It is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, but you'll never see that in game. We never call it that. It's because we think of this as a new IP. This is our Modern Warfare 2 game. So we are constantly doing new stuff.
"We're doing stuff in this game that you've never seen before, which is awesome. We're going to new locations in single player that you've never seen before. We innovate in our own way. But yeah, eventually we'll do something else, and it will be fun and it will be awesome and it will be fresh and it will be great."
Despite this (and contrary to old rumors that IW was working on a sci-fi game), Bowling has said that no other projects are in the pipeline, not even Modern Warfare 3: "Right now, 100% of the team is dedicated on Modern Warfare 2 ... Honestly we have no clue what our next game is. I'm planning on taking a nap for three months. And then maybe I'll wake up."
They should do a World War II game next.
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12:20 PM on 09.21.2009
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Or something.
That'd be pretty original.
*groan*
No. Just no. Even though you're joking, just no more WWII. No more shooting NAZIs or a zombified version of them.
Bullshit.
ORIGINAL AND EXCITING.
Well, like Bungie, they're gonna have to go big if they wanna branch out into other titles without making people think, "Those are the _______ guys"
At the rate of IW's popularity, I think it'll be a while before they go away from Call of Duty.
next epic game heavily armed indians rade cowboy ranch with nuclear weapons to drive alien parasites out of local population!!!!
Too bad no decent dev has the balls to do it, due to the moral ambiguity of the conflict itself as well as the actions taken by a few of those involved.
The question is, will they?
If they really were tired of printing money they'd just tell Bobby to get lost.
Anyway, I hope for their own sake that if they ever make a new game it won't be a F/TPS.
That's not funny, Jim. Don't even joke about that
>:[
And I'm waiting for Bungie to remake/do a sequel to Oni.
Get crackin' Infinity Ward. I expect an exagerrated plot with a good dose of hip and Megan Fox and Dane Cook in lead roles on my desk tomorrow.
It's that word again. Innovate.
As long as they work under Activision their next game will be Call of Duty X:[insert time reference here] Y. End of story.
Or they could do a game with clown-pirate-zombie-alien-vampires with severe diarrhea ravaging a local fast-food restaurant and it is up to the employees to defend the restaurant using burgers and food utensils, but they are fast-food restaurant employees from the future sent to observe the past, so with their from-the-future knowledge they modify the burgers and food utensils to be able to shoot lasers and distort time, so there is a puzzle aspect having to do with time paradoxes and laser reflections. Also, the clown-pirate-zombie-alien-vampires are an alien race from light-years away known as the Shoogabooboolooocrackorskenesk. Their weakness? Blueberry flavored Jolly Ranchers. That would be a kick-ass game.
...and we'll probably have to blow Bobby to get activision to sign off on it, seeing how much he loves original IPs.
Also, reminder: Bobby Kotick.
I mean do we want Bioware to make a driving sim? No, they MaKe good RPGs and that's what gamers what from them.
That being said, it's possible Bungie could make an awesome Sim or hack & slash. They existed before Halo and liky had a few surprises in store.
But seriously, I'd like to see IW do something different. Fun and different.