GDC 09: Activision drops Call of Duty, it's only Modern Warfare 2

PS3-Sense writes: "Activision announced today at the GDC in San Francisco

, USA that the new Call of Duty only 'Modern Warfare 2'is to be called. They dropped the line Call of Duty in the title. This is the official title of the game. After all the hassle to the title Bioshock, Activision keeps it clear an confirmed this immediately."

OH GOD.

Activison...why? The average person is not going to know what the game is a sequel to.

Plus the name just sounds dumb now.

I guess Activision wants CoD to really be WWII only, anything else is chaos.

I still think they are in discussions, I have a feeling we will be seeing CoD on the shelves this November

@soriku

arrogance?

My only guess is they are trying to make it into two seperate franchises.  Not that it really means much, but I guess they hope people would be more receptive to one CoD and one MW game every other year than a CoD game every year.  Probably trying to make sure CoD doesn't suffer the same fate as Tony Hawk.

Name sucks now, It should be Modernz Walferez party.

Hey, on that picture, it's Rio de Janeiro, Brazil isn't it?

@ tyig, yes, which is why people assume that it is going to take place there (and better feature Gaz and Price!!!)

Also, why are you posting this Darth, as you don't have CoD 4 (I have probably told you 100 times to get the game and you have probably already explained to me why)

It's all part of the milking strategy. They effectively got to make two direct sequels to modern warfare, and dropping the "Call of Duty" name adds to the effect that this is the 'true' sequel to Modern Warfare.

Knowing Activision, this is almost certainly their strategy.