Rumor: Call of Duty Moving on to Vietnam?


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Rumor: Call of Duty Moving on to Vietnam?

By Owen Good, 8:00 AM on Sun May 3 2009, 8,729 views

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Citing a confidential source, That VideoGame Blog says Activision is pursuing licenses for Vietnam War-era music, as well as Cuban, Soviet Union and African music. They also infer that Treyarch will be the developer.

TVGB says that Noah Heller is involved with this supposed CoD 7; he was the senior producer on World at War, which is taken to mean that Treyarch will be back in the saddle. Sounds about right, as Infinity Ward is developing Modern Warfare 2, with a release date about six months out.

Of course, TVGB points out that, last year, Heller told Official Xbox Magazine that "we are showing the final battles of the Pacific and the European Theatre and that lets us put a close to the war," and "we're happy that we put the war to bed," meaning no more World War II-era shooters for them. But around the same time, he also said. "I can't say that there won't ever be a WWII Call of Duty game again."

The rumored music genres are intriguing. I'm not intimate with the history here, but if we're talking about Cuban and African music, could that mean someone's envisioning, or at least considering, CIA-type secret war operations of the 1960s and 1970s? That might expand this to Call of Duty: The Cold War as opposed to just Vietnam or Southeast Asia.

Per our policy, we've asked Activision for comment. But it's useful to remember that they and many other big publishers have a standing policy of not commenting on rumor and speculation.

Call of Duty 7 in Vietnam, Cuba? [That VideoGame Blog]

Source: Kotaku.com

Now, who didn't see that one coming?

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Yea we didn't lose we just left. Got tired of cleaning up France's mess :p

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When you decide you can't win and further staying there won't get you anywhere and you decide to "pull" out, or "leave" the war, it means you lost.

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When you decide you can't win and further staying there won't get you anywhere and you decide to "pull" out, or "leave" the war, it means you lost.

Agreed. It's basically like saying you don't want to play anymore, so you forfeit.

It can be good if it is done right.

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Well, they decided to left the war because they wasn't going to win anything? Still, it won't be an heroic win.

I don't like games that finish bad, CoD4 was disappoint for me on this.

Treyarch hasn't made any decent CoD game until now; I doubt it'll happen this time.
If they Copy-Paste the MP part from Modern Warefare 2, we can at least assured that it will be good in MP.
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I don't think I have ever played a good Vietnam FPS.

Battlefield Vietnam was decent enough to have my father yell at me to turn it off because he didn't want to deal with seeing it.. (My father was a captain in Vietnam) back when it came out..

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Vietnam is a war that is hard to turn into a game. (Not saying that any war is a GOOD war...) Vietnam doesn't have the big "push", the clear victories, and the central enemy that WWII had. The Korean War would probably be even harder to pull off, and maybe that is why there are zero (or close to zero) Korean War games.

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I remember a game called Vietcong being pretty decent?

I really wish a COD instalment wasn't being pumped out every year though...

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I remember a game called Vietcong being pretty decent?

I really wish a COD instalment wasn't being pumped out every year though...

yup, it was a very good game, best Vietnam game ever

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This CoD won't finish so well, the USA lost this war... :blink:

Who said you were going to fight for the USA? I wanna play as a VC :p

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If they Copy-Paste the MP part from Modern Warefare 2, we can at least assured that it will be good in MP.

They tried that with World at War and look how that turned out.

I remember a game called Vietcong being pretty decent?

Vietcong was decent. Not amazing, but solid.

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I don't think I have ever played a good Vietnam FPS.

+1 This is what should be done in the call of duty series. I really don't enjoy multiple campaigns in one. Concentrate on one war in one specific location every sequel, and make the campaign much longer.

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They tried that with World at War and look how that turned out.
WaW is good in MP, not as good as MW, but it still bring some great features (IE:Modes).

Sure it have some Treyarch BS like tanks (I'm still sure that MW2 won't have tanks in MP).

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