CoD 5, Guitar Hero IV, Tony Hawk 11 confirmed
In the wake of Sunday’s shocking Activision-Blizzard merger news, the top dogs of Activision and Vivendi Games recently held a transcontinental conference call to shed more light on the out of the blue business deal and what’s to come.
Not to bore the hell out of you with all the financial mumbo jumbo, we’ll cut right to the chase here by saying that the newly formed company has unveiled its plans concerning the future iterations of some of its key franchises. Tucked away at the bottom of a fact sheet was the following:
Pipeline includes: Guitar Hero IV, Call of Duty 5, James Bond, new Tony Hawk, new DreamWorks titles, new Marvel titles and entry into racing with Bizarre
Given the enormous commercial and critical success of the above franchises, it’s hardly a surprise that new installments are underway. As for the new racing game, we already learned of its existence at the time of the Bizarre Creations acquisition.
Whereas all this is great news for fans of the top-selling franchises, what may come as a blow to you is the CEO Robert Kotick’s claim that, of Activision’s key franchises, “you can expect every one of those properties to be exploited annually or on a near-annual basis.” We’d all like to see more and more of Call of Duty and the likes but just make sure you don’t pull an EA on us!
Halo 3 will stand the test of time … more so than COD4, 5, 7 or 10 … which is where we’ll be by the time we’re done being “exploited”. Nive choice of words. Dick.
ya “exploited” was a horrible choice of wording to use… i almost can’t believe he said it actually.
halo 3 is garbage cod4 ftw
Don’t fucking start. I’m not saying that CoD 4 is better or that Halo is better, but just don’t start another one of these arguments.
halo3>cod4>feces>assassin’s creed
Who cares? It’s all a matter of taste. I like both I wouldn’t one over the other because both offer something completely different.
Surprised they’re still making a tony hawk game, I wouldn’t think anyone would want to go back to the series after skate. Probably a bad move unless they too redesign the entire game.
yeah really. I’m playing Proving Grounds on my DS where it works pretty well. After Skate no reason to get it or its sequels on the 360.
agreed. skate owns pretty hard.
yep THPS died after THUG (#5) and has sucked ASS since
Go Spooky!
^^^^ AGREED
When your older, you will wise up and mature and not start bullshit on these threads…And i know that i know that not 1 single person on this board can justify ridiculous comments…
i know that i know that you don’t you don’t know me.
what comments should I justify? When people get bored of the extremely repetative and insanely fast paced gameplay of COD4’s multiplayer, many people will come back to Halo3 because of the flexibility and robustness of the gameplay offered via the forge. Screenshots and videos are a plus, but the forge makes Halo3 so much freaking cooler.
I am a fanboy … but also objective. I still find myself putting in Halo, if nothing else then for a quick game of rocket race.
oh yeah, and I forgot to mention that Halo3 is still crushing COD4 as far as the number of people playing.
yeah but call of dutys a better game on the basis i said so
no u
That just shows there’s more idiots in the world than I realised…
The FORGE? Are you serious? All you do is move things around the map. Yeah, and the only reason Halo has more people online is because it got more hype than the second coming of Jesus Christ.
and COD4 didn’t?
and ps “just moving crap around” on maps will change how a level plays dramaticly. Go to bungie’s website and check out all the tight shit people have made. just a sugge
WTF every year a new CoD? I love the games, I have 2, 3, and now 4 but im not planning on buying one every single freakin year! what the hell do these people think!?
Ahh hell, ill probably still buy `m because I love these games, but im like, totally being exploited!! OMG!
How could you NOT buy one every year - to me it’s like being stuck with CoD2 only…I need new content, new levels, new maps, new characters, new weapons, new gamerpics, new themes…OMG I can’t fucking wait for CoD5
Well, lets just take note it took Infinity Ward more than 2 years to create CoD2, and 2 years (at least) to create CoD4… CoD3 was outsourced. CoD5 is probably going to be rushed then.
I agree - CoD5 will just be an upgraded CoD3. Also Treyarch made CoD2:BigRedOne which is basically an xbox original CoD3…
The only way I can see CoD5 beating CoD4 if it kept similar perks & unlockables, but including map editors like Halo3 forge.
CoD4 FtW
I probably won’t buy COD5 if Treyarch is part of the project.
Wouldn’t that be Tony Hawk 10? Wasn’t Project 8 the 8th in the series, which makes Proving Ground the 9th…
i was going to say the same thing. this is tony hawk 10
COD just came out and they just wanna make a quick buck buy starting COD 5 so early, $10 says its made by GayYarch.
that wouldn’t be too good…treyarch aren’t too good really
By that i hope you mean “suck”
CoD5 has been in planning for months now since Treyarch were advertising for CoD staff in July this year. It’s not like you can start CoD5 July 08 & released it October 08 is it?
Its tony hawk 10 becuase there counting tony hawk downhill jam which came out on the wii
oh shit uahahha XboxIc got the title wrong
well its tony hawks 11 because downhill jam still counts as a tony hawks game
youre a fuckin idiot
COD 4 fo the win!!!!!!!!!!!halo sucks…oh ya and dont get hurt about my opinion about halo being a gay game online..
that’s fine … I just like something that progresses as opposed to the !wham-!bam-insanity of COD4 multiplayer. I like COD4’s single player more than Halo3’s by far … way cooler with more robust missions. But for multiplayer (which = staying power), Halo3 ftw.
Anyone elses 360’s fucking up after the update cos mine and 6 of my mates keep frreezing.
I haven’t experienced any problems
not a thing here and I don’t know anybody that had a problem with the update
Fuck why are they making CoD 5 by gayarch its gonna be a money rush just like EA does well hopefully GH4 will be good and tony hawk games now suck due to Skate and james bond might be good
I think all of FPS games should be more balanced by subtracting points for deaths. It would change the way alot of people play the game. The winner for the game with the most legs will be Gears, and gears 2 should be out before to long.
Why are they coming out with GHIV thats stupid, why not just makes hundreds of songs DLC for number 3? Im not sayin the games bad btw
because people bitch at the price (for good reason) and its all about milkage make GH2 then make a crap load of overprice DLC then release GH3 and make a crap load of overprice DLC now they want a GH4 and they will make a crap load of DLC ETC,ETC this is the future of video games. I mean do we really need another tony hawk? activision thinks so
i’m no sony fanboy, in fact i am as strong an xbox fan as anyone here…. but… metal gear solid is way better than halo as far as story is concerned.
So is Harry Potter, but as a video game Halo is way better.
nice
i meant along the lines of single player.
i skipped all the jibberish above. i cant wait to see what they are going to do with COD5, tony hawk is fun but really played out, for me. guitar hero… cmon is it really nessary to make us buy another one less than a year after the 3rd? ill wait. and james bond hasnt been worth shit since goldeneye 007 on N64.
HALO 3 = GARBAGE! COD4 FTW!!!!
gow is still one of the best
WORMS!!!!!
Are we still making that joke?
QUAKE 3!!!! worms is already out.
So far we had only EA, now we have one more profit angry EA wannabe? Such a great news. Don’t you want to have “new” (shitty) warcraft every year? Or new COD every November?
I would rather read that those companies fall apart and started thinking about making games, not money.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/12/05
I’m not buying the next Guitar Hero. They should [b]not[/b] be making a next Guitar Hero. The gameplay is perfect, just add more songs to this one!
I feel the same. Either they need to change gameplay dramatically (band hero?) or just add songs to GH3. But they can milk us much more if they rename gh3 to gh4 and resell it to us once again (promising meanwhile that we will get “as much DLC as never before”), it’ sprobably what is going to happen. Again.