Subsequent yr’s Name of Obligation recreation is not going to be a part of any of the franchise’s current sub-series. In an interview with The Sport Enterprise, Activision confirmed it is lastly able to create a brand new sub-series.
“We have already type of acknowledged {that a} future title goes to be a brand new sub-franchise and we have already type of laid the groundwork there,” Activision chief advertising and marketing officer Tyler Bahl mentioned.
This yr’s recreation, Fashionable Warfare 4, is the ultimate chapter in one in all Name of Obligation’s hottest sub-franchises, which adopted on from 2025’s Black Ops 7, the seventh entry within the different standard Name of Obligation sub-series.
Activision introduced final yr it is now not going to launch two back-to-back video games type the Fashionable Warfare or Black Ops sub-series, and this presumably goes for future sub-series that get created. Bahl admitted that releasing back-to-back video games in the identical sub-franchise was one thing the neighborhood rejected.
“Yeah, I feel we have been fairly public concerning the concept of us going back-to-back with Fashionable Warfare 2 to Fashionable Warfare 3 and Black Ops 6 to Black Ops 7 was not one thing that our neighborhood was in search of,” Bahl mentioned.
“And although there have been totally different time settings and other ways to play the sport[s] and plenty of new options, that tonal shift is one thing that they have been in search of us to [do].”
The latest Name of Obligation recreation in a brand new sub-franchise was 2021’s Vanguard, which carried out poorly and failed to ascertain a brand new sub-franchise inside the bigger model. By the way, Vanguard was developed by Sledgehammer Video games, which is known to be the maker of subsequent yr’s recreation – itself additionally a brand new sub-franchise.
2027’s Name of Obligation is rumoured to be set within the late 90s and early 2000s that includes a brand new setting with a brand new forged of characters. It may be vital to see how nicely the brand new sub-series units itself aside from the prevailing duo, and whether or not it finally ends up getting a sequel.