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News reported by Polygon paint the next installment in the metronome-like cadence of annual Call of Duty game releases as a much less interesting package than gamers are used to. Citing industry sources, Polygon is reporting that Call of Duty Black Ops 4 is going to shed its single player campaign entirely, citing a lack of development time to deliver it on launch. This is strange for a number of reasons. First, Treyarch, who's helming the games' development this time around, enjoyed a three-years development period to make the game happen; second, there's no need to do anything else than some incremental changes to the game's engine, as has been the case for COD games for years, so that couldn't have taken up much development time; third, using development resources to "just about" finish the games' campaign and then ultimately deciding to scrape it altogether just seems like a very bad business move.
If anything, this seems like a thought-out move, with Treyarch (likely at its parent company's Activision bidding) decided do double down on development of multiplayer and the COD series' now certain-to-appear zombies mode. The decision likely comes as a testing of the waters for a pure multiplayer experience, saving the $ in development efforts for a high-budget single player campaign, and seeing whether or not there's some commercial success to the idea. I, for one, never set foot on the multiplayer modes of any COD game, and instead enjoyed the linear campaigns and set pieces of the main single player mode. This is also particularly interesting a decision, since a) COD has seen such a release, when Black Ops 3 released to previous-gen (Xbox 360 and PS3) consoles without its single player campaign; and b) with Respawn Entertainment going the full 180º difference, choosing to add a single player campaign (which was great) to its Titanfall 2 game.
Polygon reports that there'll likely be a cooperative game mode to make up for the lack of single-player. As if. And there's a chance that Activision will be releasing a "Remastered" version of its Modern Warfare 2 campaign this year - whether bundled with Black Ops 4 or not, it remains to be seen. If that's the case, I have to say this is a sorry state for the industry: rehash old campaigns, and deliver half a new game, half an old game, likely for the full retail price. It almost makes the lootbox system look good in comparison.
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If anything, this seems like a thought-out move, with Treyarch (likely at its parent company's Activision bidding) decided do double down on development of multiplayer and the COD series' now certain-to-appear zombies mode. The decision likely comes as a testing of the waters for a pure multiplayer experience, saving the $ in development efforts for a high-budget single player campaign, and seeing whether or not there's some commercial success to the idea. I, for one, never set foot on the multiplayer modes of any COD game, and instead enjoyed the linear campaigns and set pieces of the main single player mode. This is also particularly interesting a decision, since a) COD has seen such a release, when Black Ops 3 released to previous-gen (Xbox 360 and PS3) consoles without its single player campaign; and b) with Respawn Entertainment going the full 180º difference, choosing to add a single player campaign (which was great) to its Titanfall 2 game.
Polygon reports that there'll likely be a cooperative game mode to make up for the lack of single-player. As if. And there's a chance that Activision will be releasing a "Remastered" version of its Modern Warfare 2 campaign this year - whether bundled with Black Ops 4 or not, it remains to be seen. If that's the case, I have to say this is a sorry state for the industry: rehash old campaigns, and deliver half a new game, half an old game, likely for the full retail price. It almost makes the lootbox system look good in comparison.
View at TechPowerUp Main Site
