Call of Duty Online has been revealed.

The game, which has been in production for approximately two years, is the product of a strategic partnership between Call of Duty publisher and Chinese investment company Tencent. The firm has been granted the "exclusive license" to operate Call of Duty Online in mainland China.

This is the first time we've seen footage of the free-to-play micro-transaction game, which was confirmed as being in development by Eric Hirshberg - Activision's publishing boss - in a financial call back in February 2011.

“We are very excited about our relationship with Tencent and the opportunities for gaming in China,” said Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard.  “We think China is one of the most exciting places in the world for us to grow our business and to develop innovative new games.

“Tencent is an ideal partner for Activision to bring Call of Duty Online to China.  Tencent has a terrific track record of customer-focused innovation and deep market knowledge that will be invaluable to Activision as we build great games for China.  We have worked closely with Tencent to create a game with broad appeal for the Chinese market.  We look forward to laying the foundation for a long-standing relationship with Tencent and to launching a new and unique experience for fans.”

Call of Duty online will feature familiar modes from the popular franchise, as well as adding some new modes of its own specifically for Chinese market.

COD Online is a free-to-play game for the Chinese market that borrows familiar modes from the Call of Duty series, while adding a fresh mode all of its own.

At this points it's unclear as to whether this game will ever seen a Western release.

You can take a look of what the game looks like in the low-res YouTube video below:

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Let me guess, this is streamed and played on a browser? Or is it a PC download and install?

This F2P/streaming/DL games direction is big. China working with the rest of the market is big big news. Not necessarily good, but definitely big.

More 30M players confirmed for Cod... i mean 300M.

Lol... streaming a F2P game would be the worst nightmare for some people on here.

:D Yep. And farmville is a no-install F2P game that many play. Nobody is complaining then again they may not understand the implications of their spending.

I think I'll stick with MW3

Proof that piracy works. If customers refuse to pay normal prices, you have to drop prices if you want to make any money on them at all.