Call of Duty hints at future setting
A video linked from the official Call of Duty site hints at a future setting for the series, showing off a fictional prototype weapon that won't be on the market for 10-15 years.
Activision has started to tease the next Call of Duty, with word that an official announcement is coming May 1. But already, the company has been dropping clues, such as a new video that hints at a future setting with more sophisticated weaponry.
The Call of Duty site (via Polygon) forwards to a video from FPS Russia. It portrays a Russian weapons dealer named Dmitri Potapoff, showing off a "prototype quadrotor with machine gun." Throughout the video, Potapoff talks about how the weapon won't be widely available for another 10-15 years.
The remote controlled drone is shown firing on mannequins with its own embedded camera, and then self-destructing inside a car. The video ends with Potapoff saying, "my friends are telling me that this baby might just be in the next Call of Duty game, which would be the shit."
The obvious conclusion is that the next Call of Duty game will take place 10-15 years the future, or in the near future with access to more futuristic prototype technology. That would make sense if the sequel is the rumored follow-up to Black Ops, as it makes for an easy narrative hook to give players tools that are on the cutting edge.
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A video linked from the official Call of Duty site hints at a future setting for the series, showing off a fictional prototype weapon that won't be on the market for 10-15 years.-
Has anyone started looking at this as the start to a viral campaign? Just wondering. Clearly CoD is one of the only franchises with enough in the marketing budget to do something like that.
Just as an FYI, the shirt that he's wearing in the video reads "Tacitus", which either references the Roman Historian, or... well... something else.
Tacitus.com has a private WHOIS registration, but mentions the name Howard Coale, who's LinkedIn profile mentions being President and Chief Designer at Tacitus, which is described as...
"Tacitus's focus is 3D design and "immersive world" technologies (video games) and applying them to the most complex data visualization and analysis problems that exist. To make it simple: Tacitus seeks to provide researchers who work with the Human Genome, as well as Wall Street fund managers, with the capability to use 3D worlds to "play" with multiple hypotheses – based on real-time downloads of complex datasets – for the purpose of creating cancer drugs, or developing scenarios for how the financial markets will behave."
Hmmmm. Sounds like some sort of crazy VR stuff to me. Just throwing out the conspiracy theories early, lol. -
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Oh, I didn't know it was just a rendering. They kill people with drones all the time though but I guess not with really small ones with machine guns. Hell Darpa is testing a drone that flys at like 13000 mph http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/04/us-air-forces-secret-hypersonic-glider-flew-so-fast-its-skin-fell-off/
But the whole controlled drone thing just doesn't seem the futuristic to me anymore, it seems like the present. I think like 1/3 of the US military aircraft over the middle east are drones now.
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