After Infinity Ward heads Jason West and Vince Zampella were fired early last year, Sledgehammer Games was announced to be working on an action/adventure Call of Duty game. The company is now focused entirely on helping to finish up Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 ahead of its November release, but its original CoD project hasn’t been forgotten.
“Right now Sledgehammer’s 100% focused on Modern Warfare 3,” Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg told IndustryGamers. “We haven’t announced the future slate or future plans for the studio. They were originally working on an extension of the Call of Duty franchise into an action/adventure genre and that’s a game I still want to play. That’s a supreme, incredible group doing that. All I can say is right now they’re 100% focused on Modern Warfare 3.”
Call of Duty has never ventured outside the first-person shooter genre. For years now it’s been an annualized series, and it’s unclear if Sledgehammer’s game would have been one of two CoD games released in one year or if it would take the place of one of the alternating Treyarch and Infinity Ward FPS releases.
