Word is, Activision has told the hackers and the websites that make hacks for CoD4 and CoD5 to cut it out or face a law suit. You may have noticed lots of Call of Duty hacks have been disappearing form the various hacking sites. Hell, even a big chunk of COD hacking videos have been dropping off youtube.

Looks like Blizzard has told Activision to pull their head from their asses and stop the hackers. Maybe by the time COD6 is released we can have a hack-free enviorment? I won’t hold my breath.

Most people can see by looking at COD4 and COD5 that IW is clearly the superior game developer. The question is, even though Treyarch is a bad developer, are there any features from Call of Duty 5 that you’d like to see brought back in Call of Duty 6?

I would definetly like to see the prestige mode come back only with better rewards for completing a prestige than just a new custom class. Perhaps some cool gun skins or something. Also, I was playing on a server last night that gave 4000pts per kill. So everytime you scored a kill, your rank went up by atleast 1. Obviously this totally ruins the whole idea behind prestige mode because it makes your rank basically worthless. Nobody knows who really spend the time to earn their rank and who just went to a fast rank server. For that reason I have decided to remain at lvl 65 with 0 prestige. I mean, what’s the point?

Another thing I like about Call of Duty 5 that I’d like to see brought back for COD6 is the lack of nade spam. I’m sure you’ve noticed that the nades in COD6 do much less damage and have a smaller blast area. This makes for a much more enjoyable game in my opinion.

I’ll post more of my thoughts soon. What are your thoughts?

Discuss in the forums

Infinity Ward Developing Call of Duty 6 for 2009

Activision has named practically its entire 2009 line-up at an in-game advertiser meeting, including Infinity Ward’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

Speaking at an ‘upfront’ meeting with in-game ad company Massive Inc. (responsible for the famous Obama Burnout Paradise ad), Activision named its 2009 games including tentatively titled Guitar Hero 5, a new Tony Hawk’s and Modern Warfare 2.

The sixth CoD game was already confirmed to be under Infinity Ward’s wing (and not World at War dev Treyarch), but this news thankfully confirms that number six isn’t the rumored sci-fi spin-off we were dreading.

No details on the game were released, though it was roughly dated for release in autumn 2009.

In the meeting, Activision also confirmed that in the new Tony Hawk’s “you’re not going to be playing this game with a controller in your hands.” It’s out on PS3, 360, Wii and DS in October. We smell a peripheral coming…

Bizarrely (ho ho), the publisher also confirmed PGR dev Bizarre Creations’ first Activision racer will be a James Bond game. In fact it’ll be an original racing game that’s been described as “Mario Kart meets Forza”. Read more on that here.

We spoke to Activision this afternoon but unfortunately the company wasn’t able to provide any further details about the new games. Don’t hold your breath either, as it seems unlikely there’ll be anything more on them until early next year, but don’t let that stop you speculating in the meantime.

source

Do you think they will have the same guns as they did in COD4? I assume they will have to have some of the same guns, how can you not have the AK47 and M4/M16. I suspect some of the less traditional guns like the P90 could possibly be replaced with some new non-main stream type guns which would be fine with me. Don’t get me wrong, the P90 is a great gun but change is always nice.

One of the few things Treyarch did correctly, and I do mean “few”, is they made it take much longer to rank up plus they added 65 levels instead of 55. And of course the prestige. So on COD4 you only had 55 levels while on COD5, if you count the prestiges, there are 650 levels! Except the reward for completing a prestige is crap, they should ahve offered some gold skins AND custom slot for each prestige at least.

Yep, Call of Duty 6 has been announced and Infinity Ward is the one that’s going to be developing it. So no more suck from Treyarch! This is very exciting!