Latest news,,, lot of people not impressed with going back to WWII.
Even more, even less impressed that it will be made by the makers of COD3 !
Did you know that World War II took place in more locations than Europe? Modern video gaming and filmmaking sure don't.
We reported earlier about a rumor that Activision had handed Call of Duty 5 to Treyarch, makers of the certainly sub-stellar Call of Duty 3, and that it'll be set in WWII again.
According to a tipster at Kotaku, the above is all true with the addition that the focus will be of the Pacific theater (we were at war with Japan, too).
That softens the blow a little bit. If COD 5 would have been another muddy Normandy game I might've just scratched my eyes out. The entire Pacific campaign of the war has been tragically ignored in gaming, perhaps because of gaming's strong ties with modern Japan. If it's done well, it could be pretty interesting.
That means carpet-bombing paradisal islands and launching artillery attacks from giant Navy battleships, nothing less.