Activision Calls Modern Warfare 3 Countdown a Hoax

[Wandrecanada]

Activision Calls Modern Warfare 3 Countdown a Hoax

Modern Warfare 3 might not be revealed soon after all.

When media outlets were sent dog tags that led them to a Call of Duty [http://www.findmakarov.com/] almost assuredly meant a Modern Warfare 3 announcement was incoming. According to Activision, all this dog tag, teaser website nonsense is just a hoax.

An Activision spokesperson told VG247 that findmakarov.com, which refers to Modern Warfare [http://www.amazon.com/Call-Duty-Modern-Warfare-Xbox-360/dp/B00269QLI8] foe Vladimir Makarov, doesn't have anything to do with Call of Duty. Huh?

"There seems to be a great deal of speculation about the next Call of Duty project," the spokesperson said. "Let me be clear that we are not revealing yet. Anything indicating otherwise is a hoax."

The spokesperson also said that Activision has no plans to unveil any kind of new game when the countdown clock ends. So, while Activision allegedly sent out Modern Warfare dog tags, and set up a Modern Warfare countdown site whose timer coincides with the 2011 Game Developer's Conference, Activision claims it all means nothing.

Go figure. Either Activision is lying, or we'll get a very special surprise when the timer is up.

Source: VG247 [http://www.vg247.com/2011/02/25/countdown-points-to-modern-warfare-3-reveal/]

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I bet it's a Respawn timer! Get it? Ok that was lame...

 

[Atmos Duality]

Oh please. Call of Duty is so amazingly lucrative that yearly "exploitable" installments are inevitable. It would be far more shocking if Activision DIDN'T milk their strongest cash-cow this year.

 

[PixelKing]

Does anyone care about cod here?
Won't we all be playing skyrim?

I'll play this just to laugh at how bad it sucks. I love christmas.

 

[knight56]

The background on the site changed.

 

[HOPE1134]

The unveiling of Battlefield 3, that's my guess

 

[VGC USpartan VS]

I pray we get to see Soap and price again.

And yes, I do believe Ghost somehow survived with hideous burns now under a new badass mask :3

Spoilers are there for a reason!

The only ones who don't know about that kinda thing are people like me... who have no intent to ever play it...

Less suprising than you think (about the spoiler) Ghost has survived being buried alive and being shot many, MANY times. Heck, I wanna see Ghost pull a Deadpool and survive like he did at the end of X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

 

[Ldude893]

What game did they cancel?

True Crime Hong Kong.

 

[TheRealCJ]

Just so everyone knows, they did this two years ago with a page went up about Modern Warfare 2. Actvision came out quickly and called it a hoax, saying that they were not working on Modern Warfare 2.

Low and behold, on that same wendsday, we got the trailer for Modern Warfare 2. Those sneaky buggers.

Anywho, I'm calling that there not saying anything because of the three days left on the clock. I pray we get to see Soap and price again.

And yes, I do believe Ghost somehow survived with hideous burns now under a new badass mask :3

EDIT; just remembered the day the clock ends is my birthday. Modern Warfare 3 trailer would be the best birthday gift ever..just sayin.

Even if he did survive, you're probably not going to get up and get back into the game after getting a bullet in the face.

Yes but people have survived with a bullet to the face though.

Oh, it's entirely possible. But he's probably not going to be aiming a gun, rappelling off of helicopters, or running around the jungle any time soon.

 

[Alphakirby]

Go to my thread,I posted an update on the countdown's story http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.267435-Modern-Warfare-Countdown-is-not-for-Modern-Warfare-3#10226985

 

[StormShaun]

I vote that Modern Warfare 3 becomes exactly like COD4, NO KILLSTREAKS

Does not compute.
CoD4 had killstreaks.

Fair ones that happend every so often, but not heaps

 

[Cornelius Wilson]

What a lame attempt to capitalize off Call of Duty series. I hope nobody pays this company any attention, as all it did was disappoint all the fans of the COD series for teasing us with their crappy film.

I hope we get some Modern Warfare 3 news at E3 since it's not going to happen at GDC. It's being predicted that the game will do $300 million in sales here http://mwarfare3.com/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-3-to-do-300-million-in-sales-162. I think that's about right with the terrible gameplay of Black Ops, the hacking, and really not many changes being made to the franchise so less people will be buying and it won't shatter any records.