Activision has revealed its new Call of Duty instalment for 2019 - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, which drops on 25 October. Watch the trailer here:
Described as a 'soft reboot' of the first game from the Modern Warfare series, the new release will be the 16th Call of Duty title and will simply be called Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.
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This might seem weird, seeing as it is the fourth in the story arc, but it's most likely down to the fact that the first Modern Warfare was titled Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare - so to stop any confusion, Activision is keeping things simple. Well, relatively so.
The folks at Activision have also revealed some stills from the game, which should give us an idea of what gameplay is going to look like - surprise surprise, it looks pretty awesome. Check 'em out:
So what else can we expect from the game? Narrative director Taylor Kurosaki told The Telegraph: "The world has changed a whole lot since Modern Warfare 3 came out.
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"Frankly for us as storytellers, there were no relatable stakes left in [Modern Warfare 3] for us to craft a narrative around.
"This is Modern Warfare though; it is everything you love and expect about the series, but it is for the time we live in."
Campaign director Jacob Minkoff added: "War isn't on some battlefield any more, it's in everybody's cities.
"It's in the cities of the people living in the Middle East, it's in our cities. If we're going to tell a story about modern warfare, terrorism and the global war on terror has to be involved. Otherwise it's not telling the true story."
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Sounds promising! A teaser dropped on Twitter yesterday on the official Call of Duty account, with the caption 'Going Dark'.
In the 21-second teaser, you can hear the sounds of a woman walking through the woods, with a loaded gun at the ready.
She says: "I've got a problem. They could be anywhere. What can you brief?"
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The audio then cuts off, revealing the mysterious tip-off for today's announcement: "May 30. 10am PDT." Well, looks like this was it. Exciting times for Call of Duty fans!
Some of the information had also already been leaked after the game had been shown to press, YouTubers and streamers, with Kotaku reporting: "It'll be heavy on troubling, realistic emotional moments, very much inspired by the controversial No Russian campaigning Modern Warfare 2 that allowed the player to gun down civilians."
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare will be released on 25 October.
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