Here’s some news that may get fans of the record-breaking event release of Modern Warfare 2 a little disappointed; According to an inside source of VG247, Infinity Ward will not be making Modern Warfare 3 as per the Activision tradition of semi-annual releases alternating between Treyarch and Infinity Ward.
They refer to an older quote from Infinity Ward headmaster Rob Bowling where he says they’re not sure what they’re working on next (when the answer should be clear). They continue to report that their source says a Canadian studio would be handling MW3 and that another source points to the new addition to Activision and Call of Duty in the form of Sledgehammer Games.
This is all conjecture at this point but I really dig the way the series is currently set up with Infinity Ward handling the insanely popular Modern Warfare series (which needs another follow-up by the way) and Treyarch handling the World at War series which can cover historical battles (Vietnam rumored as the next landscape to be digitally destroyed).
My thoughts were that Sledgehammer could be handling one of the two places left to go: the future or the MMO genre. We still don’t know what Sledgehammer is working on and there’s nothing official yet on what’s coming out this year from Treyarch.
I’d like to see things continue as they have been with Sledgehammer bringing something new to the franchise. That being said, whatever Infinity Ward does next, we know it will be awesome.
What do you think?
Source: VG247
