Uh.. what? Not going to happen with BC through a legacy platform turned into a SoC.

Also.. lol @ your price. There's absolutely nothing close to a price for this still unannounced platform.

Call of Duty: Ghosts will set a new Benchmark for the Next Generation

All-New World, Story, Characters and Experience, All Powered by New, Next Gen Call of Duty Engine from the Developer that started it all, Infinity Ward

For an Exclusive First Look at the Game, Tune in to Xbox: The New Generation Revealed, May 21 at 10AM PDT on Xbox.com, Xbox Live or SPIKE TV

Groundbreaking Title Lands on November 5

SANTA MONICA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Prepare for the next generation of Call of Duty®. The franchise that has defined a generation of gaming is set to raise the bar once again with the all-new Call of Duty®: Ghosts. Published by Activision Publishing, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision Blizzard (Nasdaq: ATVI), and developed by Infinity Ward, the studio that created the original Call of Duty and the seminal Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® series, Call of Duty: Ghosts ushers in the next generation of the franchise. The new title delivers a riveting all-new gameplay experience built on an entirely new story, setting and cast of characters, all powered by a new, next generation Call of Duty engine that redefines the series for the next generation.

"Infinity Ward set the gold standard for first-person action for a generation, and they're going to do it again with Call of Duty: Ghosts," said Eric Hirshberg, CEO of Activision Publishing, Inc. "Ghosts delivers an all-new story, all-new characters, an all-new Call of Duty world, all powered by a next generation Call of Duty engine, which is a leap forward for the franchise. Infinity Ward is going all-in to create the next generation of Call of Duty worthy of the world's greatest fans."

"Everyone was expecting us to make Modern Warfare 4, which would have been the safe thing to do. But we're not resting on our laurels," said Mark Rubin, executive producer of developer Infinity Ward. "We saw the console transition as the perfect opportunity to start a new chapter for Call of Duty. So we're building a new sub-brand, a new engine, and a lot of new ideas and experiences for our players. We can't wait to share them with our community."

To see an exclusive first look at Call of Duty: Ghosts tune in to Xbox: the Next Generation Revealed on May 21 at 10AM PDT on Xbox.com, Xbox LIVE or SPIKE TV for the debut of the all-new game from Infinity Ward.

"We are consistently thrilled with the overwhelming response received from critics and consumers alike to the Call of Duty series, which has firmly established its home on the Xbox 360 with the game's largest and most engaged community," said Don Mattrick, president of the interactive entertainment business at Microsoft. "With Call of Duty: Ghosts, we have no doubt that our longtime partners, Activision and Infinity Ward, will raise the bar higher than ever before for this incredible franchise."

Starting today, fans can begin pre-ordering their copy of Call of Duty: Ghosts at retail outlets worldwide.

"There's no other video game property like Call of Duty. It's the biggest game franchise on the planet that has had some of the biggest game entertainment launches in history," said Tony Bartel, president of GameStop. "We are very excited for the launch of Call of Duty: Ghosts, as we transition to next generation consoles."

Call of Duty: Ghosts will release on Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and PC on November 5. Call of Duty: Ghosts will also be available for next generation platforms. For the latest intel, check out: www.callofduty.com/ghosts, www.facebook.com/CODGhosts, or follow on Twitter @InfinityWard. Call of Duty: Ghosts is not yet rated.

Starting from scratch without the designers to nail the essentials is a disaster waiting to happen. For their fans.

People who don't play Call of Duty care more about a new engine. They're best off enhancing the graphics end of things and sticking with what works. "New engine" is just code these days for "mild enhancements." Not very many games are ever really starting from scratch.

How much does it bother you that CS:GO is using an engine from more than 8 years ago :D

@Optimus

Sigh.... Blue Dragon is dead and burried, so are exclusive jrpgs for upcoming MS consoles.

In a shooter, a gamer creeps up behind the enemy, makes a slash motion with his hand an assassinates someone.

That sounds just as ham fisted as the ideas they have now. That is essentially what the killzone game is doing on the vita. Stealth kills are touch screen activated. And you know what...people hate it already. You know why? Because it is NOT a better alternative to pressing a button. It interupts the flow of combat. Swiping your arm through the air to assassinate an enemy is the same deal. Same as those games that had melee attack as a six axis gesture. People don't want it. And i don't blame them. Kinect needs to natural, and non intrusive. People don't want to have to take a hand off the controller to make some arbitrary action that could have just as easily and intuatively being achieved with a button press. So outside of facial recognition i see absolutely no room for kinect in core games. It's a method to play casual games, nothing more.

I still believe that jrpgs of some kind are perfect for Kinect. I disagree that taking your hand (or even both hands) off the controller is a total non-starter. It can work, so long as it's intelligently designed. I mean, if Microsoft are in anyway serious about Kinect, there will be games that prove that Kinect can work in true hardcore titles.

it's like the whole "vita/PS3/4" and "360/720/smart glass" thing. CAN you use them together? yes, would it be compelling in anyway? no. As long as the "other" means of control is seperate from the one in your hands, it's always going to be immersion breaking. i don't want to have to put down the controller to wave my arms around (or in the case of smart glass, pick up a seperate devise and swipe at the screen) and then pick up the controller again. it breaks the flow of gameplay. and i can't thing of a single situation where it wouldn't. i mean, how is this ryse game going to work? move around with the controller, and then fight with movement...that sounds horribly miss-matched. i can see kinect working in a voice recognition/facial recognition sense for RPG's (assuming it's good enough to register subtle facial expressions) since it doesnt interupt anything. but anything even remotely fast paced and it's going to fall flat. like the awful combat sections in kinect star wars. improved accuracy of kinect 2.0 wouldn't change that either, because in those situations you would still be limited to rediculous one the spot "genstures" to do even the most basic of actions, basic actions that would have been second nature, intuative and natural using the control pad we've been using since the dawn of gaming. kinect is for kinect only games, i've accepted that...and so far it's been easily avoided.

A turn based jrpg I think solves these concerns rather easily. They aren't that fast paced to begin with and lend themselves rather well to providing the gamer with ample time to execute certain commands or even hand gestures, and then picking the controller back up in plenty enough time to stay ahead of all the action taking place. Kinect's latency and accuracy would be much less of an issue in a turn based jrpg also. I see possible kinect hand gesture specific commands in a turn based jrpg falling in rather effortlessly into that already well established system.

I don't know if you're all that into turn based jrpgs, but I'm positive you still understand the basics of how they work to know that Kinect can work with such games. The key to Kinect, to me, has always been Japanese developers, preferably jrpg developers. They just tend to be more likely to have the kinds of ideas and game design preferences that would make this kind of thing work.

I fully expect Ryse to be the next gen Xbox's Lair. Yep, that bad. I wasn't much of a fan of Crytek's games to begin with, and now I'm suppose to have confidence in a game that involves Kinect and that will also apparently involve Spartacus style combat? It has yikes written all over it. Game better involve more controller and way, way less Kinect, or else I just don't know how that's going to turn out.

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