Infinity Ward Explains Giving up Modern Warfare

Call of Duty creator Infinity Ward seriously considered working on something completely new after Modern Warfare 3 before eventually deciding to stick with the series.

In an interview with MCV, executive producer Mark Rubin explained that deciding to move on to a new game with a new engine, characters and even a new world wasn't settled upon quickly.

"Not a hard decision, but a long decision," he explained. "We don’t get a chance when making a game to think about the next one until we are done actually making that first game.

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We could have done something else, but we wanted to make Call of Duty and we wanted to create a new universe, or a new story at least.

"So when we finished Modern Warfare 3, we had this big brainstorming session that lasted for weeks. Everybody gets to come up with ideas of what we want to do, not just what game we want to do, but moments in games.

"We all really knew we wanted to continue making Call of Duty. We could have done something else, but we wanted to make Call of Duty and we wanted to create a new universe, or a new story at least. We wanted new characters and new experiences.

"The easy thing would have been – as we had finished the arc of Modern Warfare 1, 2 and 3 – to start a new arc within that same universe. That was the first step. But due to a lot of the changes we wanted to make with this new world, it really dictated out that we needed to make something that wasn’t Modern Warfare."

As it stands at the moment, Infinity Ward alternates making entries in the Call of Duty series with Treyarch, the studio responsible for last year's Black Ops II. It's unclear what would have happened if they'd decided to pass up making a new Call of Duty game; would Activision have brought in a new developer or would the series have had to miss an annualised entry?

What do you think? Are you glad Infinity Ward decided to return and mix things up a bit by leaving Modern Warfare behind, or would you have preferred to see something completely new from the studio? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.

Call of Duty: Ghosts is coming to Xbox 360, PS3 and PC on November 5, and next-gen consoles sometime after launch.

Source : ign[dot]com