CoD: Who's Driving the Damn Bus

At this point, all are aware that Infinity Ward and Activision were screwing each other’s nasty for years. AV got fed up since billions of dollars of revenue truly doesn’t represent a quality reach around. So AV bitch slapped the living crap out of IW. IW is now FUBAR.

 

 

No one fucking cares. Despite the fact MW2 has a wide range of inexcusable flaws, MW2 remains the most played game on XBL. For those of us not playing MW2, the E3 afterglow is keeping us warm at night with the promise of Treyarch’s CoD: BO (one of the worst acronyms ever, or perhaps the best???). Everyone seems too distracted to look beyond holiday 2010 to consider the general health and well being of the CoD franchise. Not me. I need something to think about while I’m soaping myself in the shower. After beer and boobies, CoD seems to be the thing that really froths up the lather.

 

 

Let’s start with IW, the developer who would traditionally be slated to spew forth the next Modern Warfare offering in Nov. 2011. Courtesy of Kombo:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bye, bye IW. I will remember your CoD games fondly. But your arrogance likely brought about your own demise, and possibly, the franchise’s along with it.

 

So if IW is out, then WTF happens in 2011? That’s an interesting question that doesn’t seem to be seeing much interest. But of course, Drunken Snuphylupagus is interested, and he and his proboscis have a theory.

 

 

Some folks might remember that AV set up a third CoD studio last year before the IW shit hit the fan. Sledgehammer Games was supposed to be developing a new CoD game in a different genre. Turns out, under the distraction of E3, Hammer has opened a brand new studio, lit up a brand new website, is hiring to the gills, and is “IN PRODUCTION ON A CALL OF DUTY FPS”

 

 

 

 

So it seems that we will likely see a CoD issued in 2011 by a brand new studio with untested talents. Sound promising? Fuck no. Maybe the broken IW will collaborate. Sound promising? Fuck no. Treyarch, assuming they can even man up this year with BO to a level that can support the franchise, will not be able to turn around a title fast enuf to issue in 2011. There’s no way in hell AV will skip a year without issuing a title on the cash happy, CoD gravy train. There will be a CoD8 in ‘11. It will either be made by someone with no experience, by someone beaten nearly to death, or by someone who won’t have enuf time to make a game. Sound promising? Fuck no! The end of next year looks bleak for CoD. I’m saddened to realize that I already have one foot off of the CoD magic bus. But I don’t want to be on board when it crashes and burns.