Polygon.com / 13.05.25

Former Call of Duty dev wonders if the franchise has run out of ideas'

A former Call of Duty developer is wondering the same thing you are: if the franchise which has released 21 mainline installments since 2003 has run out of ideas. Its almost like The Simpsons its been around so long that it feels like theyve run out of ideas at times. It kind of wandered into left field, Chance Glasco told an Oklahoma news station on Monday. Glasco is one of the founders of Infinity Ward and helped co-create the franchise with 2003s Call of Duty. Theres a chance Glasco worked on your favorite COD game; Infinity Ward was responsible for series standouts like Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Modern Warfare 2. I wouldnt say it peaked at Modern Warfare 2, but that was probably the best game we made, Glasco said. While the series may or may not have peaked with MW2 (though anyone who misses running around with a silenced UMP45 might say it did *raises hand*), theres no arguing the Call of Duty of today is massively different than the Call of Duty of prior hardware generat...
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