The History of Call of Duty's Cancelled Games
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- Опубліковано 21 лис 2024
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Since debuting 2003, the Infinity Ward-created Call of Duty series has immersed players in dozens of military conflicts spread across historically accurate settings and futuristic time periods. 2007’s Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare proved especially pivotal, steering the brand away from its preceding World War 2 engagements while also redefining first-person action and online multiplayer. By this point, publisher Activision had already begun exploring spinoffs, inviting different development studios to experiment with the formula for new audiences. Several of these ancillary ventures never saw the light of day. In fact, the series has played host to more than a handful of side projects that rarely lasted beyond the conceptual phase.
Such offshoots ranged from proposed sequels for existing entries to fresh ideas that would’ve taken Call of Duty to uncharted territory. One shelved endeavor even envisioned the property as a real-time card game. But for a variety of reasons, Activision halted this particular product’s forward momentum, along with that of nearly one dozen other productions.
This is the history of canceled Call of Duty games.
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I used to be obsessed with cut content from CoD. The vietnam survival horror game blew my mind as a concept. Shame they cancelled the space one too.
I think loosing an actual vietnam set Call of Duty instead of a few missions in Black Ops is the biggest shame. Maybe it'd be a tad more historical
Historical campaigns don’t cut it anymore, it’s gotta be about the world ending or some nuke, or it has to be a really novel idea
@@SeFu2006 Decided by who, us? No. Boardmembers. It's not like they gave low stakes campaigns a fair shot. Sure, they did WWII again, twice even, But the first new one was simply yet another Normandy and up to Germany affair that at this point is really fucking stale and hollywoodized as shit and Vanguard was plain bonkers. How can they get at least semi realistic (but yeah, the story was bonkers) with MW 2019 but go to such ridiculous lengths when they try to do historical stuff- trully boggles my noodles
Vietnam was still taboo, because US not winning there
Only if we play as the Vietnamese
Idk it could be neat, but as much bullshit as there is in the games already releasing a Viet Nam game where you play as the US is like releasing a WW2 game where you play as not even the "Germans" but the nazis specifically - the only exception being that unlike WW2 games like that, you did constantly have US-centric Viet Nam media after that war.
A bunch of guitar hero devs creating ghosts and advanced warfare explains so much.
Plenty of great games were made by people who worked in entirely different genres before. That wasn't the issue with ghosts or advanced warfare. Even veterans of a genre can make bad design decisions or choose an ill-thought-out philosophy for their game's development.
It even makes more sense when it was mentioned that the devs were basically doing it to try and get away from future potential over saturation of their original genre and expertise
Except those two CoDs were amazing. Genuinely the only bad thing about AW was the lootboxes.
@@johnderat2652 nostalgia goggles make you goofy 🤡
Advanced Warfare was one of the best in the franchise I'll die on that hill
2003-2006 Humble Beginnings
2007-2012 Innovation
2015-2024 Activion Blizzard became greedy
@@Bentelligent That and terrible map design
@@senorpython2262and reusing assets and game engine for years and years
2013-Present Day Dark Times
2011-2019-fuck, we have no one to make cod, how about some guitar hero devs and the disgruntled management of Dead Space?
I remember an April 1 article in a Game Informer magazine about a real “return to roots” “feet on the ground” Call of Duty and it was just first person perspective pictures of a caveman holding a spear/ rock
Infinite Warfare should have continued as it's own franchise. That game's campaign was so underrated.
The campaign was so good
Replayed it a few days ago and it’s moved up to top 3 campaigns
Advanced Warfare plot is wild. But it does have a better portrayal of PMC than the Shadow Company in Modern Warfare.
I just love the worldmaking of it, they never got enough credit for bringing the "grounded" approach of the original MW to thinking seriously about just how interplanetary warfare would logically be conducted (with a few allowances for the sake of story). I'm an aerospace engineer, and I love how legit all the little details look of the carrier you captain, your fighter craft, etc. The story -- especially the antagonists' motivation or lack thereof -- was horrendous, but yes, agree that the experience of the campaign was what I expect from Call of Duty in space. Really need more.
The only thing that draged the game down was the multiplayer
As a teen i always wondered what a CoD set in Rome would look like. I didnt know they ACTUALLY attempted to make one.
I remember the steam update page for BO2 actually talked about it
I was thinking the same thing. I recall wishing as a kid, maybe around WaW’s or BO1’s release, that I wished they’d go farther back in history for a new COD. Give me American Revolution, or Crusades, or further. Would’ve been rad
Probably would’ve been like the ps2 game Shadow Of Rome
“Should we do these fun unique ideas?”
“Nah, those would make people happy. Make Black Ops 50: Aliens”
Actually a COD game that focuses on UFO conspiracies would go hard.
An CoD with aliens would be better than those new MWs were nothing happens
No wonder you all went dark for a while. The history for all of this must have been enormous!
Wonderful documentary, like always.
Gotta enjoy the UA-cam money brah
-go to weird kids house
-he asks if I wanna play call of duty
-"oh OK whew at least this won't be so bad"
-weird kid pulls out the board game
Plot twist: you are the weird kid
@@ugosmith7529 Imagine being weird and liking the board game and saying others are "weird" for not actually being a weirdo glad it got canned
@@Ablyeon2002Liking board games makes you weird?
@@vito7428I think he means that out of all the call of duty games the weird kid could own, he only has the board game version. Which would be weird.
Yes
16:27 i lost it when i saw Marcus Fenix in the spartacus outifit
I do wish a company would make a good/historically accurate Roman based game. Seeing that armor design made me rethink wishing the COD Rome released, lol.
Roman Wars looks very much like a pre-production concept of Ryse: Son of Rome
This was exactly what I was thinking when I saw that footage
💯
I love how you record the gameplay of older games in 4k too, most youtubers don't bother any use any footage available to them, upload quality is pretty rad too!
Interesting to note that after Vanguard, SHG were early in developing AW2/Advanced Warfare reboot that got shelved at ATVI’s request, to make way for what would become MW3.
Advanced Warfare 2 has basically been scrapped like 3 times, first time was in 2017 before they were forced to work on WW2, second time was in 2021 before they were forced to make Vanguard which only had an 8 month development cycle and the third time was during 2023 before MWIII came out, also do note that MWIII had some scrapped content like the Pick 10 system and classic prestige
That explains why pretty much every single one of their titles have been broken disasters @@neomachine855
@@neomachine855for some reason my mind wipes every so often and I forget that AW2 has been developed and scrapped multiple times. I pray we at least get a leaked early build at some point like we just got with AW and future warfare.
@@neomachine855 THE 2023 MW3 was going to have classic prestige? LMFAO yet BO6 bought it back, was this all Infinity Ward's doing in trying to be the most hated studio which they've already been GOATd at doing?
Hey! That's me in the Thank You intro!! Yet another reason you guys are the best gaming doc channel on YT.
Bloodstix?
Wow, you are so cool.
@@frankaliberti thanks dude!
@@himynameisaaron86niggastix
@@himynameisaaron86he’s being sarcastic dude…
Cod now has bows, crossbows, javelins, swords, shields, and probably more that i'm not thinking of. They are halfway to an ancient warfare cod, all they need now is some maps and player skins that fit the theme.
I imagine there's some Devs willing to pick up the work, too.
Don’t worry the Gladiator season will come to BO6
The Fog of War Vietnam game feels like an incredibly big missed opportunity. Sounds like a perfect way to present COD SP campaigns. I would not be opposed to a SP only COD. MP is the same every year anyway
I'm so mad we'll never see NX1 AKA Future Warfare. The gameplay Neversoft made looked incredible. It was scifi while still being grounded with boots on the ground. Plus their take on combat on the Moon was way cooler than what we got Infinite Warfare.
I think Future Warfare is should be pre-sequel to infinite warfare, just like how World at War is pre sequel to Black Ops 1
@@captainnutt2995I prefer the idea to distance it from Infinite Warfare. It works for WAW and BO1 because they are good games, but Infinite Warfare was largely disliked due to it’s setting
@@beastmode1915 Yeah by that time everyone get tired of futuristic COD but the Campaign is good
well buddy if you got a PC NX1 is sorta playable
@@1124spawn Yeah I heard. I’ll definitely download the build when I can
Call of Duty AA: Brother in Arms meets Splinter cell
Call of Duty Roman Wars: Ryse son of Rome and literally nothing to do with Call of Duty
All the Call of Duty games you'll never play: that would be the last 10 titles lol
Bo3 was pretty great, that was the last one that had soul put into it. The rest never really felt quite right.
@@CERRYGREENBAY You are child
Was it good? I distinctly remember the multiplayer feeling like Titanfall 2 at home, i.e. with invisible walls everywhere smaller maps, no mechs and worse movement.
Put down the rose coloured glasses!
Haven't touched one since the original Modern Warfare 2, feeeeels gooooood maaaaan
@@leviathan5207 no rose colored glasses. its simple : zombies was so unbelievably perfect that you simply cant say "bo3 was bad." because if you put the disc in, you can play the best horde mode that's ever existed at its absolute peak.
you put in the disc for vanguard, and there's very little waiting for you.
the multiplayer was mid. but the best of the jetpack games. but its simple - BO3 is and always will be great, because of zombies. you put in the disc for the new MW3 and all you have waiting for you is DAMN NEAR NOTHING. MW3 is an unbelievable failure.
BO3 is an unbelievable achievement. its cool to say "cod bad" but BO3 isnt that game. i still play it today, like the other hundreds of thousands zombie fans.
Thank you for all the great voice over work Steve! 🙂
Roman wars would have been awesome we need a bo3 mod tools map on it
Those guys were just using call of duty to make their own game they didn’t care about call of duty brand and the execs knew it
Looked kinda awful
I'm always amazed by the quality of your videos! Best gaming history channel on UA-cam!
Shame COD has never seen fit to make a unified theme song across all it's games, like Battlefield. The closest they have is Treyarch's Zombies vocal melody. It'd be neat to hear how they change it from game to game like the Battlefield one does, like how it gets glitchy and dubstep-y for BF3 & BF4 and all orchestral for BF1 & BF5.
It's a shame yeah. But COD does have its own unique culture like 360noscope. The brand themselves is already powerful enough to stay relevant in AAA market.
> no roman game
> no modern-ish space game
> no veitnam game
yeah think i might off myself ngl
Please don't
blops 1 has vietnam levels, also dont be killing your self bro
Just Do it
Same. 'Nam CoD or I take a toaster bath.
They're just games bro, just play MW Remastered, WAW, and BO1.
At this point, why not do COD: Roman Wars? It’d literally show that COD can do more than just the same old slop.
Seeing a dev team actually smiling, having fun, and having active and actual VETERANS in the room with them really emphasizes how far we've fallen.
Seriously 😢
always nice to see videos from GVMERS!!
NX1(Future Warfare) source code Just leaked
how timely that this pops up in my feed LOL
I remember the rumors and hype that surrounded the Vietnam, space, and medieval CoD games at the time. People were especially excited about the 'Nam and space ones. I forgot there was talk about a zombies only CoD years ago.
This is a topic. I’ve been interested in for a while! Thanks for making the video!
I had no idea there were cancelled titles in the Call of Duty franchise. Looking forward to this.
Man a Finest Hour sequel would have been great. It was the first Call of Duty I ever played and will occasionally go back to
6:30 > Reptilian jumpscare
Watching this right after i played the Nx1 build and really wish more of these leaked.
In my opinion Call of Duty: Black Ops II was the last good game of the franchise because after Black Ops II the franchise went downhill...
I'm really hoping bo6 answers the questions we all had for bo2, we've been waiting so long
for me their last good COD game was Ghosts.
@@codezero7981 Am curious why you like Call of Duty Ghost?
@@johnv7317Ghosts was good, but the maps and pointstreaks dragged the game down to oblivion.
Yeah so this isn’t true
I miss the CoD4 and before games on PC. Community servers and all
Huh? Call of Duty was originally a PC game though?
@@georgewhitworth9742 that's what I'm saying. I miss those days
Is it just me or most cancelled games would have been more successful than those that got released?
It truly feels like studios care more about the profit by creating more or less the same for full price rather than making a something original. There are exceptions, but in general projects that could make it, and bring well deserved money into the pockets of studios, seem to look and sound better with amazing content, but the studio fears of something, or have wrong calculations, or whatever.
Thanks for another amazing video.
Every video of history of X title is always a pleasure to watch, especially on this channel.
Safe ideas over risky ones.
@@CorkScrewDood I see. Though risking is more challenging and exciting, but I guess the money plays a big part in it, coz there are lots of things to pay for, and one of them is the employees.
Thanks though.
considering how much flak advanced warfare got, I highly doubt they would have gotten a better return of investment than going with ww2, especially with how tired people were of the jetpack gameplay
@@yllruk13 I see. I meant some original ideas in general, but I guess I mixed up this video with another one that contained random cancelled video games.
We really missed out on some interesting concepts on the CoD franchise... Man it sucks.
I still hope for a CoD spinoff focused on The Revolutionary War.
Honestly, I'm not sure if Advanced Warfare 2's reception would have been better or even worse than WW2's
I don't know about cancelled or halted - but I'm still salty Call of Duty 3 never came to PC. I understand Treyarch didn't have enough time to make it/port it to PC but after all these years Activision (and now MS) couldn't see fit to bring it to PC even if it was just an upscaled game with keyboard and mouse support included? Ah well, maybe one day.
Same here, hate that gap between COD2 and COD4 in my Steam library.
That " PRICE " Intro ...EPIC !!!! ALWAYS GETS ME !
I personally loved Finest Hour, so it definitely sucks they never made their follow up. I always wondered why they went to Treyarch with Big Red One, and I definitely wouldn't trade "BRO" for Combined Forces.
Sucks that some of these games didn't make it. Some of them looked like they would have been great games!!!
I will spend my evening watching this. You guys produce the best videogame videos
Knowing we could have had not just one but TWO finest hour sequels is soul crushing...
I did remember a call of duty based on ancient Rome but I did not remember where I read it. that is very interesting
Losing the Devil's Brigade game is really saddening to me. First off, the Devil's Brigade film from the 1960s is one of my favorite WWII movies from that era. Other than that, the unit doesn't really get as much recognition as you might think. The Italian front is also severely underrepresented in WWII video games. I also am a sucker for squad-based shooters with a slower pace. Doubt we'll ever get it or something like it, sadly.
I've been lurking on the call of Duty wiki for over 10 years now and I've always wanted a video like this. Thank you guys so much. I'm even learning things about history that I would have learned if those games had come out.
Man you guys knocked it out of the park with this one guys. 10/10
Ayo! Thanks for the shoutout at the beginning of the video, I had to take a double take when I saw my lil profile Pic in the top left corner🙌🏾. Keep the quality content coming.
Havent watched yet but hoping COD Fog Of War gets a mention, genuinly could've been an amazing new take on the franchise.
You guys need to do Concord next.
Frankly I couldn't care less about call of duty, I just don't enjoy this kind of games. Just finished watching this video, amazing work as usual 😊
I wish there was more info on canned Battlefield games
We know about the cops game by DICE (no images)
A game by DICE LA that got canned and forced DICE to make BF5 faster (maybe some images?)
Hardline 2
And i guess other things
Roman Wars would've been an interesting game 😬💯😳
When I see a notification from this channel, I know it's gonna be a good one.🤙
I love your voice! 😊 It's iconic
Today I learnt that Schofield essentially almost pitched half of the original Black Ops idea.
Would be cool if you put your sources in the description
This series pisses me off so much. One of the most recognizable, 'leading' gaming brands on the planet- but also one of the most, if not nearly at the top, corporate and greedy franchises to exist.
There's so much passion and talent that goes into making these games, no matter how good, disastrous, or awful they are, it sucks that this leading franchise is ruled entirely by elite, untouchable tycoons uninterested in the 'art of warfare'.
And I don't mean warfare is beautiful by any means, but y'know what I mean! The drama, the emotion, the events and heroes, the stories of valor and betrayal- etc. etc.
Glad you guys are still around ❤
I was always hoping GMVMERS would do a Call of Duty documentary.
Call of duty is the best at disappointing
Not back in the day. It was awesome. Now it is a disappointment. Ill never buy one of the newer games.
We have you to thank for that, you constantly bought cod points and every game at release.
@@Assassino275 lol I hope you're talking about the other person. Have never soeant money outside of buying the game. Havent bought one in a very long time. New cod sucks.
Old COD was fucking incredible. Shame they went corporate
As soon as they went to a yearly release cycle (which was nearly instantly lol) they went corporate.
COD 4 still has the best campaign.
CoD was literally corporate since day one?
What do you think Activision is? A fucking baking club?
bro It was corporate from the start 😂 Activision was not a mom & pop shop
@@DestinyAwaits19true. But man was CoD 2 memorable AF.
Ngl, the Devil’s Brigade and Ghosts 2 could’ve been great games had they actually come out.
Ghosts gets a lot of hate for the rushed nature of its development & release, but imo it planted seeds for a potentially amazing sequel Campaign + Extinction is slowly winning people over (not me but others) during the past 11 years, so for it to be ignored for Infinite Warfare was just the worst possible decision…even if IW had its bright spots
The quality of the editing!
nice to meet you steve, always wondered who the voice was
The pleasure is mine. Thanks!
Been trying to remember the name of general chaos for more than 20 years.
Thank you
you guys inspire me so much Im gonna start uploading on my own channel
A Vietnam based cod would be lit.
Video starts at 3:00
This man’s voice heals my soul ❤
Hahaha having worked at bee ox on the Call of duty franchise for a while, there is soooo much more cancelled Cod prototype and idea than just these hahaha! I even remember the studio launching an open competition for teams to develop their own vision of a cod game or mechanic! Still, I learned about a few that I wasn’t aware of :) thanks for the video as always :)
Great video, as always!
Thank you guys on the patreon for continuing to support the channel so that someone like me who can only afford to subscribe to enjoy these videos, again thank you
Can’t wait for the concord episode
6:38 as a vehicle sim player and something of a history buff...i'm still wondering..what is this?!😂😊
Looks like M44 self-propelled howitzer or something in that family
Actually, looking at the chassis shape and barrel length, might be the M12 instead
I remember hearing about cod Rome around the time that the mw trilogy had ended. Definitely a neat idea, but it wouldn't have been a cod game.
Press 9 to give Kevin Spacey his vindication.
a Roman wars cod game right now would show the industry that CoD still isnt afraid to take risks, it definitely would break up the monotony theyve become, if they arent willing to go that far the standalone zombies experience would make almost every fan happy, and even if THAT is too far, the Vietnam game could easily be realized because as of today the only thing close weve gotten to that was a couple missions in Bo1-Bo2 and Cold War.
Anything after BO2 because they've all been trash since
I didn't even think that a "successful" game franchise could have so many lost battles
Hard to imagine Activision ever comprehending, or using the words: "over saturated," again 😒
would be cool if they showcase some of their old ideas for the games in they're campaigns old rowan style mission a nudge to when they were going to make a Roman game
A call of duty in Roman times sounds amazing tbh
since when any see this comment current year 2024 cod black ops 6 drops after that cod should revisit these ideas like cod Vietnam and advanced warfare 2 also moon cod seemed lit future entry's bro don't let it be just past cancelations make them relevant in gaming if studios were smart they let these give success it shall sell
Super interesting video
"All The Call of Duty Games You'll Never Play" In my case that would be every single title in the franchise.
Damn, that 3rd person stealth cod would have been nice.
Ubisoft rejected the studio’s idea, but then moved on to create For Honor. lol
I mean the idea of CoD being a card or board/tabletop game sounds extremely silly to me but I give respect that they tried something different with the franchise. There was no way it was going to be successful as D&D or similar games. I mean you could adapt CoD into a D&D style game but it would take a lot of time and resources to get right and I doubt it would ever be that successful.
i was not expecting this voice narrator for an opening like that 💀💀💀💀
They did so many weird things, which is cool
Mafia series breakdown and history!
"Rhythm games are oversaturated... Lets make a Call Of Duty game!"- Neversoft.
Very interesting, thanks
I wish Raven would give us a Soldier of Fortune Remaster.