WithCall of Duty: Advanced Warfare, theCall of Dutyseries started to lean harder into science-fiction than past games in the series, introducing jetpacks as a new means of traversal in the game.Call of Duty: Black Ops 3continued with the jetpack trend, as didInfinite Warfare, with the latter being set in space in the far future.Call of Dutyhas since gotten back to its more boots on the ground approach from the earlier games, and it doesn’t seem as though the franchise will be returning to jetpacks anytime soon.
Treyarch developer David Vonderhaarreplied to fans on Twitter to confirm thatCall of Duty2020 won’t have jetpacks. Vonderhaar stopped short of revealing any other details about whatCall of Duty2020 will entail, but it seems to safe to assume that this means that the game will either have a modern or historical setting. There are a number of possibilities when it comes to what that setting could be, though rumors have pointed toCall of Duty2020 being set during the Cold War.
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More specifically,Call of Duty2020 may be set during the Vietnam War. Rumors and leaks have pointed in that direction, and it wouldn’t be the first time that a Treyarch-developedCall of Dutygame was set in Vietnam. However, concrete details are unavailable at the time of this writing.
Traditionally, newCall of Dutygames are unveiled in May, with further details revealed throughout the summer months. There doesn’t seem to be any reason for Activision and its teams to diverge from that, though there may be some extenuating circumstances that sees things changed up a bit forCall of Duty2020.
There have been reports thatCall of Duty2020 has had a troubled development cycle, apparently due to conflicts between Sledgehammer Games and Raven Software. These issues then saw Treyarch brought in to salvage the project as the lead development studio, with some reports indicating that Treyarch has turned the game intoBlack Ops 5. Activision has mostly kept this situation under wraps, though, so it’s hard to say with certainty what exactly is happening with the nextCall of Dutygame.
More details onCall of Duty2020will likely be revealed this coming May.
Call of Duty 2020is in development for unspecified platforms.
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