Will Call of Duty Ever See a Third Person Shooter, RTS or RPG Game?

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While the question may seem far-fetched, it’s starting to be asked by more and more gamers out there. Call of Duty has been the same game for as long as it’s been around, offering the same types of missions, the same multiplayer and so on. However, I’m not here to rag on a formula that works and sells millions of copies every single year. With the next Call of Duty being revealed on May 1st, I’ve been thinking about ways that Activision could change up the series. It might involve releasing more than one game a year under the Call of Duty name, but they could be different and people would still probably buy them.

We know from some prototype footage released that Activision was toying with the idea of a Call of Duty RTS, but unsurprisingly canned the project. I just bought myself my first gaming PC today and with it, I bought Company of Heroes. When looking at some clips of gameplay before I purchased it, I really started thinking about the prototype footage released for that Call of Duty RTS and how similar it looked. Maybe Company of Heroes was the cause for the failure of that game, considering they were both set during World War 2, but I would still love to see a Call of Duty RTS. If done right, it could be an RTS that has the same amount of popularity as the FPS version of the game. Luckily, it wouldn’t be able to become the juggernaut on the PC that it would be on consoles because PC players have a much wider variety of RTS games to play, such as the Total War series, Company of Heroes, Starcraft and so on; all of which have large online communities and very loyal fans.


Sledgehammer was supposedly working on a Third Person adventure Call of Duty before it was canned. Out of all the cancelled Call of Duty projects, that one was my most wanted. We never got any actual details on the game so there’s not much I can speculate on, but if you’ve played the third person modes on Modern Warfare 2, the third person view works pretty well for Call of Duty. I was always hoping they’d maybe install a cover component for the third person view, but of course that never happened. If any of these genres were to be used, I believe a third person shooter from of Call of Duty would probably be the most realistic idea.


Finally, this is the craziest of them all, but I’ve always had a hope we might see an RPG form of Call of Duty. The multiplayer component has some of the most addictive–OK it’s probably the most addictive leveling up system of all time. It’s the perfect formula for an RPG and I could see a Call of Duty game having you in an open world giving you a choice of what type of soldier you’d like to be, such as Spec Ops, Ranger, Task Force and so on. You’d have your customizable weapons/loadouts, choose your team and venture out in an open world taking on missions in all sorts of different locations.


We will probably never see any of these ideas I just presented, but it would really nice to see Activision take a chance in the near future and honestly, I wouldn’t care if they released two Call of Duty games in one year if one of them was a completely different game under the same brand name. What do you think? Will Activision ever take a chance of changing its prized possession? What would you like to see if Activision were to make a Call of Duty game under a different genre. Let us know in the comments!

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TCT_ProductionsPosted:

-LOST- 3rd person + COD = no


Whaaa-? I loved CoD MW2's 3rd person and just played it. Speak for yourself. If I remember correctly, 3rd person is in MW3 but isnt online in servers. Just PM's...

CalamityPosted:

It would be nice to see them bring in a new studio to make an Call of Duty RPG, assuming it's developed well. An open world war game with mechanics from Call of Duty and Mass Effect / Other BioWare games would be incredible.

TrickapediaPosted:

I know im not buying the next call of duty. I am going to use my money on Halo 4 that i know that this game will never stay the same every year... -_-

JigeePosted:

Hell no they won't. Treyarch and Inf ward won't ever change a damned thing, They'll just keep copy/pasting the same game every year, because they know that every little ten year old will pester their parents into buying it for them. This is the reason I stopped playing COD after MW2. It's insane to keep buying COD every year hoping it'll be better, COD's in quicksand and won't do a damn thing to save itself.

RozyPosted:

I think cod may/could jump into the RPG. I think it would get more gamers to love the game, just like with halo and master chief.

KiiLERPosted:

wow it took people this long to realize that the formulas been the same WOW> 1

BaconBitzPosted:

"Hey guys, wouldn't that really be cool if this happened? Ya this really isn't news at all but I just thought that I would share my useless thoughts with you."

HaLo-EPosted:

it would be awsome if u could choose between 3rd person and 1st person to get a feel for the enviroment ur in and to find better camo spots :) x

PURPDRANKPosted:

T0xic8ear I agree every year its the same missions on multiplayer. If i remember correctly MW2 had a 3rd person game mode, its pretty fun.

yeah i agree. i was playing it to and i liked it. something different.

T0xic8earPosted:

I agree every year its the same missions on multiplayer. If i remember correctly MW2 had a 3rd person game mode, its pretty fun.