Cal Of Duty 5 Wii Revealed and Other Game News

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Activision held their quarterly conference call yesterday and spilled the beans on what they have planned for 2008/early 2009.

The big news is that Tony Hawk is getting a huge makeover according to Mike Griffith, President and CEO of Activision Publishing:

Over the past six months, we’ve been working reengineer the Tony Hawk brand. We started with a deep dive evaluation of our approach to the genre and new trends in the videogame market. Then we conducted a significant amount of consumer research and testing to better understand the types of innovations that consumers want from this brand.

I guess this is what happens when you stop being the only game in town and a newcomer (in this case, EA's Skate) pulls in a crowd too.

Griffith also talked about the next entries in the Guitar Hero series (which should ship sometime between April and June) and made a few remarks about the series appearing on new platforms, "headlining" bands and new hardware innovations.

So, while cryptic, it certainly sounds like Guitar Hero for the DS and Guitar Hero: Aerosmith could become a reality. But the "hardware innovations" quote could mean anything, maybe "Drum Villain" (which Activision owns the trademark to) is closer than we think.

Finally, the company confirmed that Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 and a new Spider-Man game are coming this fall. They've also confirmed that Call of Duty 5 is coming to the PC, PS3, Xbox 360, DS, PS2 and Wii.

Here's the full list of what Activision has lined up for the rest of the year and into early 2009:

April - June 2008
# Kung Fu Panda (six platforms)
# 2 Guitar Hero Spinoffs

Fall 2008
# Call of Duty 5 (PS3, Xbox 360, DS, PC, PS2, Wii)
# Guitar Hero 4
# Next Tony Hawk
# Quantum of Solace (Bond 22)
# Madagascar: The Crate Escape
# Kung Fu Panda Followup
# Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2
# Next Spider-Man

Early 2009
# Monsters Versus Aliens (Dreamworks Animation)

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[jimbo]

ye seen this on another forum..

it will be done by the people who made 2 so it set in ww2.

hope it not a ps2 and they take there time

 

[X@vier]

nice i hope the online gets better with this game on the wii.

~X

 

[jimbo]

^ aww what happened to your other avater it kicked a$$

 

[Sovieto]

too bad cod5 will suck =/

 

[AoWFraggit]

wasn't it confirmed that cod 5 would be reverting back to WWII?

tbh, i'd much rather see them release cod 4 for the wii...

 

[jimbo]

yes cod5 = ww2

 

[transform8]

cod5 will be back to ww2, and theey will put in the rankings and classes and all that probably

 

[Sovieto]

cod5 will be back to ww2, and theey will put in the rankings and classes and all that probably

maybe, treyarch tends to take the series a step back though.

 

[JCpackers05]

that is really gay...they finally change it (to a game that kicks major ass) and they're just deciding to go right back? retardeddddd.

 

[Foxy]

maybe, treyarch tends to take the series a step back though.

Right.

CoD 5 = 3.5

Somewhere between 3 and 4, WWII setting but some 4 features and ultimately not that great.

 

[Sovieto]

theres a good side to this though. the treyarch cods still sell which i guess helps fund the infinity ward's cods, also giving IW 2 or so years to make a game instead of rushing out one that doesnt innovate much every 1 year.

 

[Foxy]

theres a good side to this though. the treyarch cods still sell which i guess helps fund the infinity ward's cods, also giving IW 2 or so years to make a game instead of rushing out one that doesnt innovate much every 1 year.

Think of it like anime I suppose...

IW = Main Archs.

Treyarch = Fillers.

 

[Sovieto]

Think of it like anime I suppose...

IW = Main Archs.

Treyarch = Fillers.

yeah.

 

[SantaClaws]

marvel 2?

SICK