Activision announces upcoming release of Call of Duty: 18th-Century Warfare
Activision’s Call of Duty franchise has achieved enormous success with games moving beyond the franchise’s original World War II roots, shattering sales records with the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare series and the Cold War-based Call of Duty: Black Ops. In a press release earlier today, Activision has announced that the best-selling franchise will be once again expanding into a new time period with a game telling the story of another war that spanned the globe, Call of Duty: 18th-Century Warfare.
Planned features for the game reportedly include:
- Thrilling gameplay that rigorously recreates the experience of being part of a formation of thousands of men marching hundreds of miles without adequate food, water, or even the most rudimentary medicine or sanitation, standing in a stationary line in an open field while being shot at, and using a weapon that fires a single bullet every 15-30 seconds.
- A single-player campaign that lets players witness the Seven Years War in battles across the world spanning the years from 1756 to 1763, experiencing the gripping saga of the war that solidified Prussia’s power in Central Europe and gave Great Britain control of lucrative colonial territories in Asia and the Americas. Players will experience this epic drama of territorial aggrandizement through the eyes of a Prussian infantryman on the blood-soaked battlefields of Germany and Bohemia, a soldier of the British East India Company in the struggle for control of the subcontinent, and a militiaman from Britain’s American colonies in the desolate wilderness of New England and French Canada.
- A rigorously realistic portrayal of the state-of-the-art military technology of the 1750s and 1760s. Players will have access to fearsome new weapons including the musket, the musket with a bayonet on it, the cavalry saber, the damaged musket that you just club people over the head with, the single-shot pistol, the jammed musket that unexpectedly explodes in your hands and kills you instantly, and the terrifyingly accurate muzzle-loaded flintlock rifle.
- The replacement of the Call of Duty series’ regenerating health mechanic with a new, more realistic and period-appropriate “put a leather strap between your teeth so you don’t bite off your own tongue as you remain fully conscious while your wounded limbs are sawed off by a field surgeon who never washes his hands, then die from gangrene anyway” system.
- Incorporation of the PlayStation Move or Xbox Kinect motion controls during gameplay that allows the player to directly experience the thrillingly laborious process of manually pulling back their musket’s firing hammer, adding gun powder to the musket’s firing pan, sealing the pan, loading a bullet, paper cartridge, and more gunpowder through the weapon’s muzzle, drawing a ramrod and using it to push the bullet and gunpowder down into the musket’s breach, and putting the ramrod back after every single shot.
- Exciting new multiplayer modes including Stationary Formation Death Match, Colonial Settlement Massacre, and Shoot the Deserter. Multiplayer will also offer new killstreak rewards such as the 6-inch Cannon and the devastating Dysentery Outbreak in Enemy Camp.
Call of Duty: 18th-Century Warfare is planned for a Summer 2012 release.
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This made me chortle for an extended time.
That picture is from the Franco-Prussian war, which took place in the 19th century. 1871 to be exact.
Good catch! I can’t believe those Activision guys let something like that slip by…