Call of Duty is the topic on everyone’s lips at the moment, with it being around this time of year that we find out the setting, title and some story information about the annual release of the juggernaut franchise. Leaks and poorly timed marketing has meant that this year we all-but-know for a fact that the upcoming first-person-shooter is surprisingly Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
Why is this surprising? Well, Call of Duty generally works on a merry-go-round of releases between Infinity Ward, Treyarch and Sledgehammer Games, generally with each developer handling their own properties and storylines for Activision Blizzard. That doesn’t seem to be the case this time though, with Sledgehammer Games reportedly working on the sequel to the well-received and outstanding Modern Warfare 2, which released last year.
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Call of Duty: Modern Advanced Warfare
More surprising than this year’s release, is the potential release calendar coming up, and what reportedly it could have in store for us in a few years. This is a tentative report for sure, but industry insiders are hinting at that one of the most contentious instalments in the franchise will be getting a surprise sequel in 2025, thanks again to Sledgehammer Games, in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.
Now, it’d be a shock to see us return to this particular universe under the Call of Duty moniker for a number of reasons. It wasn’t well received, in fact, it was outright disliked, causing the company to reroute and bring back fan-favourite franchise Modern Warfare for another run round the merry-go-round, it was released during a very hard time for fans of the franchise, surrounded by critically poorly received titles, and it didn’t really grab fans in gameplay or story either.
However, due to the even worse reception of Call of Duty: Vanguard, the higher ups in the development studio decided against continuing with Vanguard, instead choosing to revive of their properties in Advanced Warfare.
With the success of the Modern Warfare franchise, perhaps the thought process is to try their luck again and hope fans will want to play a future version of Warzone, or maybe they’re just running out of ideas at this point?
Will Kevin Spacey return to the Call of Duty franchise?
The Call of Duty franchise isn’t well known for having their celebrity-acted characters last more than a game, whether it was Kiefer Sutherland’s Sergeant Roebuck in Call of Duty: World at War, or Kevin Spacey’s antagonist in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.
For the uninitiated, Spacey played Jonathan Irons, the founder and CEO of the private military corporation, the Atlas Corporation. Whilst starting as a supporting character, he ends up betraying the player (don’t they always) and ends up the main antagonist to Jack Mitchell, the protagonist and close friend of Irons’ now dead son.
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After failing in his mission to destroy the world, Kevin Spacey’s character Irons ends up hanging from the side of Atlas HQ, and unsuccessful in his attempts to emotionally manipulate the player, ends up falling to his presumed death far below.
With all that said, this is a world set in 2060, where prosthetic limbs, whilst expensive, are readily available, and we’ve certainly seen stranger and more unbelievable events occur in Call of Duty canon.
What is more unlikely than surviving a long drop and returning in future instalments to an admittedly poor title in the first place, is being invited back after the stars recent legal and public relations troubles, dropping from grace in his colleagues and the public’s estimations. His appearance may well hinder the title, rather than help it, so even if the Advanced Warfare sequel rumour is true, it’s unlikely Kevin Spacey will return.
What do you think? Are you excited to return to Sledgehammer Games’ universe? Do you think we’ll see more of Kevin Spacey’s Jonathan Irons? Let us know in the comments!
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