Tom Henderson pointed out an interesting detail of the management of the Call of Duty franchise. Reportedly, the chapter of 2025 currently It doesn't have a core team yet to lead the project, with just 20 months until release.
According to what was indicated, Activision's initial idea was to assign the work to Sledgehammer Games, but after a 16-month development cycle for Modern Warfare 3, the team “essentially refused”. It's not something so obvious that an Activision team would be opposed to working on a game but according to Henderson Sledgehammer Games was able to present convincing reasons.
Henderson goes on to state that High Moon Studios was in contention at one point, but it's unclear whether he still is. High Moon Studios is a mostly support team within Call of Duty.
According to Henderson, however, it is more credible than Infinity Ward will be to develop the 2025 chapter, as it is already working on the 2026 chapter. Sledgehammer instead would have received the green light for the 2027 game.
The strange situation of Call of Duty
First of all specifying that it's a rumornot official information and the fact that even if correct the details could be old or becoming old, it must be said that Henderson is a reliable source and we can use what is indicated as the basis for a couple of arguments.
For players, the Call of Duty of 2025 is far away and not very interesting given that the 2024 game hasn't even been announced, but with only 20 months left until the potential release, not having a main team leading the project is very strange and worrying, given that it takes several years to create a game of this caliber.
Obviously the lack of a core team it doesn't mean that no progress has been made, as each chapter is the result of the support of various teams and there will probably be at least a generic idea of the type of game to be made, but in any case it is an irregular situation and it is It's possible that Activision will have to make up for the time lost in some way, whether through a delay (unlikely), content cuts at launch, or an increase in support staff/team.
Furthermore, it seems that the next games will have an open world campaign like Far Cry.
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