The next COD may be called Call Of Duty: Vietnam and is still on schedule for release this autumn, claims a reliable source.
With everything going on at the moment it’s pointless to guess when, or even if, this year’s new Call Of Duty might be announced, especially as most fans have taken it as read that rumours about a new Black Ops (either a sequel or a reboot) are true.
That may still be the case, but according to a new rumour this year’s game is set during the Vietnam War and may simply be called Call Of Duty: Vietnam.
The source is the usually reliable Jason Schreier, who is currently moving from Kotaku to Bloomberg, but who apparently isn’t much of a Call Of Duty fan and doesn’t know whether the game counts as a Black Ops title or not.
The first Black Ops game, from 2010, was set during the Vietnam War and so it could be that the game is actually a reboot, just as last year’s Modern Warfare was. Although Schreier suggest that’s not the case.
Black Ops 4 was only released in 2018 but that game came under a lot of criticism for not having a traditional story campaign, which is not a mistake any subsequent entry is likely to repeat.
When asked on Twitter whether the game was still due out this autumn, Schreier replied only that that was still the plan but that, ‘nobody knows what’s going to happen in the coming months!’
His response suggests that any possible delay is more likely to be due to the coronavirus than the previously reported problems at developer Sledgehammer.
Normally new Call Of Duty games are announced around April time but that traditional is certainly something that’s liable to change at the moment.
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