Next Call of Duty will Feature the Same Engine

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Update - Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling has been in touch with us to clarify his comments in this article regarding a new Call of Duty engine.

Infinity Ward creative strategist Robert Bowling has said that building a new engine for the Call of Duty franchise "would be counter productive".

When it was put to him on Twitter that "someone just needs to spend the $ and construct a new engine for the CoD franchise... Ground up," Bowling replied: "That would be counter productive. An engine takes years and years to develop and get right."

His comments were made at the same time the internet started going Battlefield 3 crazy over the COD rival's first gameplay trailer, which showed off DICE's impressive Frostbite 2 engine, described by EA as "incredible technology that takes animation, destruction, lighting, scale and audio to new heights".

All of the Call of Duty games since 2005's CoD2 have run on the Infinity Ward engine, which has been modified for each iteration of the series, and it sounds like it's going to be no different when the next CoD title releases.

Bowling was also asked over the last day whether he still works for Activision, and if he's going to join his former bosses at new studio Respawn.

He replied: "I work at Infinity Ward and plan to remain here. We've got a great team and working on a great project."

Infinity Ward is rumoured to be co-developing a new Modern Warfare game for release this year with fellow Activision studios Sledgehammer Games and Raven Software.

Last month, the UK Official PlayStation Magazine lent credence to speculation that Modern Warfare 3 will be a prequel starring fan favourite character Ghost.

As for Battlefield 3, we saw the title in action at GDC this morning and our PC Gamer colleagues labelled it "the best looking PC game in the world right now".

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Source: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/291588/modern-warfare-3-new-engine-would-be-counter-productive-infinity-ward/

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rayanXxXPosted:

everything will return the same if they get quickscoping back...
the players will be happy (:
and the call of duty series will be saved from BO epic fail .

vegasgamerPosted:

after the last COD game(B.O.), I'm starting to try different games. I think the developers(3arc) dropped the ball, and made alot of us sorry we bought the game.

blackopsflamesPosted:

blackops sucks ass its a load of shit

sloshedtrainPosted:

And if you need quick scoping to be good at game then you **** suck

sloshedtrainPosted:

Why are so many people bitching about how BO sucked.
It was good game, maybe they just can't accept the fact that BO was just as beast as MW2, if not better, and Zombies is also pretty fun too.

iFraaaagzPosted:

MW2 is 100000x better than black ops and you know it. I hope that they just leave it like it is.

TTGCALLOPosted:

The balance of ops with the MW2 engine throw in some new shit,should be good...I hope

IhostyouDONTPosted:

Does anybody else think that BO graphics look exactly like cod4 graphics??

Because i think so, but anyway all i care is Quickscoping none the less

jesse157532Posted:

MW3 graphic engine is way better than black ops

TTG_GYPSYPosted:

black ops worst cod ever until mw3 then that will be