We Can Dance If We Want To, We Can Leave World War 2 Behind

After several months of speculation, Activision just recently announced that its flagship FPS Call Of Duty is leaving World War II, and is coming right back to modern day. Although no new details were given, this is a huge step for the series, and first person shooters in general. There are countless shooters out there that all have you killing Nazis. Any series out there that can step into something new should go for it. It could be all out huge success (World of Warcraft) or a down-right piece of crap (Pokemon Mystery Dungeon). But really, when you get down to it, how many times can you storm the beach of Normandy? You know developers have just about milked all of WWII when one of the most recent games gives you the grand option of playing as a Canadian soldier.

Problem is with modern day warfare is that involves people who are still alive in modern day. It's hard to be accurate without somebody out there calling you out about it. You could develop on the current mess of war we have in Iraq, but everyone knows what kind of negative media it'd draw from it. So, they'll most likely take the easy route: make it up.

Not only it'd be easiest, it'd provide the freshest material. Nothing like making up battles about a conflict that never actually happen to have it all be new. The trick is just having it seem like it could happen, like the Splinter Cell series. That being said, it's plainly obvious the new game's setting is going to be.

Prepare for war in modren day Germany against modern day Neo-Nazis.