By John Walker on May 9th, 2011 at 3:59 pm.
Eurogamer are throwing caution to the wind, babies out with bathwater, and quite possible, down, by announcing that they keep hearing rumours of Call Of Duty’s next release due on 8th November 2011. While Activision has yet to announce this year’s inevitable blockbuster best-seller Christmas smash hit, everyone’s expecting one, and expecting it to come from the rubbled remains of Infinity Ward. And according to a top secret internal Tesco database (has Tesco bought MI6?) it is currently named Call Of Duty: Project Collossus. Which would be a spectacularly terrible name (not least because it’s spelt “colossus”), but is probably just the codename for the game while it’s in development. I imagine they’ll call it something crazy like, hmmm, Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3? We don’t know. And knowing you grumpy bastards, you don’t care. But whether you like it or not, you stroppy thing, it’ll be the biggest game of the holiday season. We’re bound to find out more details at E3 at the beginning of next month.
09/05/2011 at 16:05 Vinraith says:
Your article talks about some irrelevant manshoot, but your image promises a roller coaster game. I demand the roller coaster game. Roller coaster tycoon 4 would be acceptable. Get on that, RPS.
09/05/2011 at 16:08 Quintin Smith says:
RollerCoaster Tycoon was so good. I think I remember building some £20 million prestige inner tube ride that gave a human being the most pleasure it was possible to have.
Kieron’s mum also gives good inner tube rides, I hear.
09/05/2011 at 16:12 Burning Man says:
Oooh, ouch.
09/05/2011 at 16:35 Gnoupi says:
Actually, I find the picture to be matching with the game series.
Intense, lot of shouting, and all on the rails.
But seriously, I would love a “HD” version of the good old rollercoaster games. Not especially in 3D, I would rather prefer some high quality 2D. Scalable.
09/05/2011 at 16:40 Stranglove says:
RollerCODster tycoon? where you create a park specifically themed for big burly men and their big burly guns?
09/05/2011 at 16:49 Stupoider says:
Glad I’m not the only one who thought it was something Rollercoaster Tycoon related- my inner child demands it!
09/05/2011 at 16:56 bildo says:
I work at Disney and with their all their theme parks you would think they would have released a theme park management and building sim. They have the games division too. I’d love to have the chance to convince them an in depth and optionaly mainstream theme park sim is necessary with the Disney name for Disney interactive
09/05/2011 at 17:48 Kaira- says:
There might be hope for RCT4, though this particular instance of it is about a year old. Maybe, just maybe, we’ll get one.
09/05/2011 at 18:10 HermitUK says:
Roller Coaster 1 looks too intense for me.
09/05/2011 at 18:54 Jake says:
I also experienced a brief, happy moment where I thought this was news of a new Rollercoaster Tycoon. I still play 3 – it’s the only game that reduces my top of the range PC to a crawl due to the amount of scenery I have placed. God I love placing scenery.
09/05/2011 at 21:24 Mark says:
I can see that meeting right now, Bildo:
“It’s Farmville meets Rollercoaster tycoon!”
Actually, that sounds pretty cool and would probably work. Disney seem to be acting pretty risk adverse towards new ideas these days, but still, if they can get something going on a small budget… maybe they could put that Playdom acquisition to use?
10/05/2011 at 00:21 BAReFOOt says:
Let me be the first to coin the acronym for this: COD PC!
BATTER than ever: Now with more CHIPS!
If that wasn’t the promised mental roller-coaster, then I don’t know what is. XD
10/05/2011 at 03:27 Shadram says:
I’m off to Florida in less than 2 weeks, to go to Islands of Adventure, Busch Gardens and… that other place… the one with the mouse… I forget its name. Anyway, point is, in my excitement, I reinstalled RCT3 and its addons over the weekend and spent a joyous few hours constructing a mega-park in the sandbox. It’s amazing how long you can spend tweaking a hill so that your coaster glides smoothly along the landscape, and constructing elaborate dark rides inside huge haunted castles. Sure, you can also just plonk down standard coaster designs on flat bits of grass, but that’s not how I roll.
So yes, RCT4 please! And not as a Facebook game, or I’ll cry.
PS. Oh, and Colossus at Thorpe still holds the world record for most number of inversions on a coaster, although it now shares the honour with another coaster in Brazil (I think, somewhere in South America anyway). Just a not-especially-interesting fact shared for free, there.
09/05/2011 at 16:10 fiddlesticks says:
The roller coaster is simply a metaphor for Call of Duty being on rails. Well played, Activision and RPS.
09/05/2011 at 16:13 Eraysor says:
And there was me thinking it was just the name of the ride!
09/05/2011 at 16:43 Cooper says:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_%28Thorpe_Park%29
09/05/2011 at 17:56 simoroth says:
I was once lost at Thorpe park as a child, true story.
Traumatic.
09/05/2011 at 16:11 westyfield says:
Call of Duty: More War For Sure.
09/05/2011 at 18:11 HermitUK says:
Well “Call of Duty: Attempting to Reintegrate into Civilian Life” didn’t have quite the same ring.
09/05/2011 at 18:45 dysphemism says:
Someone needs to mod in the supermarket scene from The Hurt Locker.
09/05/2011 at 21:31 Sobric says:
Call of Duty: PTSD
09/05/2011 at 16:15 Rii says:
Well according to the leaked product slate Blizzard’s next MMO is currently codenamed ‘Titan’, so ‘Colossus’ for Activision’s other heavy-hitting franchise fits right in.
09/05/2011 at 16:28 Jason Moyer says:
Biggest game of the holiday season? So the next CoD is going to be CoD: Skyrim?
09/05/2011 at 16:30 fallingmagpie says:
Oh my god – Call of Duty: Shadow of the Colossus!
Tired of gritty, pseudo-realistic manshoots, IW branch out into gritty, fantastical colossishoots!
09/05/2011 at 16:34 Jason Moyer says:
If they actually made a Call of Duty in some crazy semi-historical sort of setting I’d probably be interested in the series for first time in like 5 iterations.
09/05/2011 at 18:41 dysphemism says:
I can picture it now:
10 minutes of dramatic, non-interactive, first-person clambering atop a massive golem, followed by a slow-motion, press-A-to-win-game killshot.
Hooray! You unlocked Red Tiger camo.
09/05/2011 at 19:14 luckylad says:
Imagine this…
God of War violence
Shadow of the Colossus size and depth
Call of Duty’s children constantly screaming in your ear that your doing it completely wrong
09/05/2011 at 19:57 Rikard Peterson says:
Call of Duty: Ancient Warfare
09/05/2011 at 16:31 Zaboomafoozarg says:
Indeed.
Yet another tired Call of Duty manshoot?
Not a manshoot for me,
indeed.
09/05/2011 at 16:40 Meat Circus says:
I’m confused: this is a gaming website. Why is the latest in a series of popular interactive screensavers being mentioned here?
09/05/2011 at 16:44 Cooper says:
Zing!
09/05/2011 at 19:20 Ricc says:
Because they are still slightly more interactive than John’s Hidden Object games. ;)
09/05/2011 at 16:44 sneetch says:
“Call Of Duty: Project Colossus”? More like “Call Of Duty: Project Lolossus!” Huh? /elbow Huh? /elbow
Anyone?
Ok. I’ll leave now.
09/05/2011 at 17:08 Baboonanza says:
Hey, you forgot your coat!
09/05/2011 at 17:28 DestinedCruz says:
Modern Warfare 3 is actually sort of confirmed. Raven Software are working on the multiplayer for the game, and it’s even listed on their wikipedia page.
09/05/2011 at 18:00 lucasdigital says:
Bravo, Mr Walker for not repeating this rather bonkers speculation that Modern Warfare 3 is to be a prequel. There’s a reason that Modern Warfare 2′s ending felt like the end of a chapter – it’s because that’s clearly what it was, and I’ll eat one of my soviet-era Russian military hats should Modern Warfare 3 be anything other than a completion of the Modern Warfare story.
Also, what is it with all this negativity about Modern warfare. I know, the publishers spent a stupid amount of money to hype their game as the second coming of first person shooters, but in this case the game was rock solid – if a tad short. Personally, I’m looking forward to further battles along side Pricey and Soapy..
09/05/2011 at 18:26 Man Raised by Puffins says:
All of the in-house writers have been purged, so anything goes for the story. However, after the load of old bottom that was MW2, I can’t say I care a jot.
10/05/2011 at 08:51 Baboonanza says:
The negativity is primarily because MW2 (though less so MW1) is just a really uninspired on-rails shooter that doesn’t even attempt to do anything new or interesting, all wrapped up in man-child war fantasies. It’s the equivalent of a summer blockbuster movie – ok as far as it goes, but a complete waste of several hundred million dollars.
Also we’re all snobs.
09/05/2011 at 18:08 Colthor says:
“But whether you like it or not, you stroppy thing, it’ll be the biggest game of the holiday season.”
Indeed. Tragic really, isn’t it.
09/05/2011 at 18:26 slick_101 says:
well if Raven Software are making the MP then i might be slightly interested. they did also make wolfenstein (the 2009 one) which i enjoyed…………. But then time will tell. I’m most probably going to be hammering BRINK for months….. The same with skyrim
09/05/2011 at 18:29 somini says:
So back to WWII then.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer
09/05/2011 at 18:36 dysphemism says:
He’s right, we are a bunch of grumpy bastards!
Give us hell, Quimby!
09/05/2011 at 18:47 Jimbo says:
The second week in November is well established as CoD week, so no real surprise there. However, Battlefield 3 is rumoured for the week before. If that’s true, and if EA are serious about competing with CoD this time (ie. marketing dollars) then that could put a significant dent in CoD sales.
Even if you have no interest in these games, I think it’s going to be very interesting seeing how this plays out at the end of the year. I think it’s great that somebody might finally be prepared to throw down against CoD, instead of the whole industry getting out of CoD’s way every year. Will Activision blink if BF3 is announced for the week before CoD week? Can they really afford not to?
09/05/2011 at 18:58 mkultra says:
mmmm love me some quake 3 engine
tastes so good
09/05/2011 at 19:02 Narretz says:
Call of Duty: Project Colossus would be an awesome name. Still a shitty game, but an awesome name, hehe.
09/05/2011 at 19:13 luckylad says:
I don’t know about you guys but this announcement gave me an itch to go on a “legal” downloading spree. Because all of my CoD games to date have been “legally” downloaded I figure what the hell, lets run the downloader again for old times sake.
09/05/2011 at 20:01 phosgene says:
“But whether you like it or not, you stroppy thing, it’ll be the biggest game of the holiday season.”
I sense just a twinge of sarcasm. Maybe I’m wrong. It’s pretty subtle. But I think it’s there.
09/05/2011 at 20:04 Lewie Procter says:
CODPROC
09/05/2011 at 20:53 Leelad says:
Call of Duty:Blank Cheque
Really do wish they’d fuck off. It’s actually not even funny anymore.
09/05/2011 at 21:14 Teddy Leach says:
I REALLY hope it ships with the misspelled name. Then the entire world can see COD kids for the illiterate morons they really are.
10/05/2011 at 04:06 Tatourmi says:
I’d not go as far as to insult the players. The heads behind these games however…
09/05/2011 at 21:33 kupocake says:
A Call of Duty game? Released in November? Get out of town!
Also: “But all my stuff is there!”
09/05/2011 at 21:48 Jake says:
Just Codlossus would be a good name. Although that does sound like a SyFy original movie about an enormous fish.
Mega Shark vs Codlossus, I can see it now. I should probably copyright this.
09/05/2011 at 23:43 Donjonson says:
Too late pal. I’ll see you in court.
09/05/2011 at 22:29 Zarunil says:
Honored Man: Duty of Medals.
It actually could be fun if the game took place in a rollecoaster, and you had to shoot bad guys while spinning and hanging upside down.
10/05/2011 at 04:08 Tatourmi says:
And it would be a pretty good parody of the series. Someone do that! (WEEEEE *BAM* *BAM* WEEEEE)
10/05/2011 at 01:18 Basilicus says:
Sweet! Maybe this means I can finally pick up Modern Warfare 2 for less than $40.
I refuse to pay more than $15 for a six-hour campaign that doesn’t take place in a World War or the distant, spaceship-ridden, laser-holed, supersexy future.
10/05/2011 at 04:09 Tatourmi says:
Why would the world wars be good settings?
10/05/2011 at 05:12 Basilicus says:
World War I because I can’t really think of an FPS set in those times. It’d be interesting to have a game depicting trench warfare: muddy dilapidation, mass-scale human wave charges, nerve gas, crappy behemoth tanks no one knows how to deal with…it would be a terrifying and different setting.
World War II (not that it hasn’t been done to death) because I’ve always been obsessed with it and well-read on the subject. I like to play something I’m that intricately studied up on. I still remember CoD 2′s Tiger hunt in a rainy French village. One of the best levels in FPS history, even if CoD’s name isn’t worth much these days. I’d love to see something a little different and a little more obscure to our American/British perspective – the desperate defense of Poland, guerilla fighting between Finland and Russia, the invasion of Greece.
10/05/2011 at 12:04 lamzor says:
COD series looks like this:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Yyqg-EISC6I/S-BYYLHnCpI/AAAAAAAAAQg/-RKKPCaSXr8/s1600/topthrill1.jpg
COD MW1 at the top and on its way to cod black ops.
10/05/2011 at 13:01 Nallen says:
Please Battlefield 3. We believe in you.
11/05/2011 at 11:49 foilman says:
I recognise that photo – it’s one I took!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/foilman/3309557094/
It is free to use, but is supposed to be attributed to me… (it was nice to see it being used, anyway).