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'Call of Duty' is Reborn, Beta on the Way

by Tim Stevens on July 11, 2007 at 11:01 AM

Call of Duty 4 Beta Hitting Xbox Live

The 'Call of Duty' series has become well entrenched on both video game consoles and gaming PCs, selling into the millions every time a new iteration comes out. This is despite all of them taking place inside the rather tired-out WWII time frame, which has been covered extensively in more games than we care to list here. Thankfully, that's finally going to change to change with the next release, 'Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.' The game was announced last night at a Microsoft event preceding the E3 video game conference, which kicks off today. 'Modern Warfare' will be coming to Xbox Live as a public beta sometime in the undetermined future. (If you're scratching your head, a public beta means it's a version of the game that's not quite ready, but is playable enough to get feedback from test gamers that can be incorporated into the final released version.) Microsoft did the same with a playable version of 'Halo 3' earlier this summer, getting gamers good and excited for that game's release in September.

Developer Infinity Ward is hoping for the same with 'Modern Warfare.' As you'd expect from the title, the game takes place in the present (more or less), starting with a conflict in the former Soviet states near Chernobyl. Gameplay shown at the event had gamers stalking through long grasses in ghillie suits (those outfits snipers wear and stuff grass and shrubberies into to hide from foes) and picking off targets with stealth, showing off amazing graphics. The title looks like it'll retain its predecessors' highly scripted style of gameplay, but obviously with up to date weaponry and opponents who don't (necessarily) speak German.

'CoD 4' is due out sometime before the end of the year on the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.

From Joystiq

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