Call of Duty Elite 2.0 Launching with New, "Innovative" Call of Duty Title

Call of Duty Elite 2.0 Launching with New, “Innovative” Call of Duty Title

Improved version of Call of Duty: Elite will arrive with next game.

In Activision's most recent earnings call, the publisher has announced that they are "already hard at work on Elite 2.0, with several innovative features being developed to work hand-in-hand with our new Call of Duty release." Also, new features are to be implemented into the current Elite service sometime in the next sixty days. In the same phone call, Activision also explained that Treyarch's new Call of Duty title, currently in development, is looking "fantastic" and that the developer is "laser-focused on raising the bar with this year's new Call of Duty." The game is said to be bringing "meaning innovations" to the industry, but Activision wasn't totally specific on whether or not the game is going to be more innovative or if the new version of Elite will be bringing the new 'industry' innovations.

Both the game and the new subscription service have come with some controversy recently. For some time now, reviewers and players alike have been claiming that the Call of Duty franchise has actually been lacking innovation in recent years; with what some would call short, rehashed campaigns and a multiplayer experience that hasn't seen any major changes until last year's Modern Warfare 3 which merely saw some new game modes and adjustments to the strike package system (which is relatively satisfying).

Also, PS3 owners have started to feel ripped off by Call of Duty's Elite subscription service where they were under the impression that they would be receiving exclusive DLC at the same time as Xbox subscribers. It turns out, PS3 users won't even be getting last month's content until nearly a week after Xbox users get their second DLC drop. If Treyarch's next title (rumored to be Black Ops 2) brings fresh innovation to the series and/or adjusts the Elite service to everyone's liking, it should prove to be a nice gesture to some troubled fans in the community. No matter what, Call of Duty 9 shoud prove to break sales records all over again once it comes out, most likely this November for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC (maybe even Wii U?).

By Rhett Barlow on February 9, 2012

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SKIN503

Innovative and Call of duty should never be used in the same sentence EVER…..just sayin.
- Frank
  
  Yeah, because CoD 1, 2, 4 and MW2 weren’t innovative, right? CoD4 forever changed online console gaming. Plus, without CoD, you’d have DICE half adding their games like the Madden developers do. It’s a little thing called competition.
- Kevin
  
  But Medal of Honor was innovative, not CoD. It came out earlier, made by a team that was led by the two creators of Infinity Ward. CoD 2 was just slightly better than the first, and CoD 4 actually was innovative. By the way, your point about the whole competition thing isn’t relevant, considering BOTH companies put in little effort as-is, due to greed publishers.
That Guy

innovative… ha.
Brevs

Before you ignorantfield 3 fans were around, call of duty was the innovation in the gaming industry.
- IHATETROLLS (WHO DOESN’T)
  
  that comment was so ridiculous its both funny and sad
- blazeup
  
  huh??? **scratches head**
- AIRFREAK
  
  ROFL
xL337x Revenant

No it can, just like this “Call of Duty is getting less innovative every year.” See all better. No this is stupid Ive about had it with this ELite 2 thing no sense.
Heavenswarrior121

Yea ofcourse there laughing now but there also the same dumb asses who still buy and play call of duty lol fuckin retards and hes right cod did make what fps shooters games what they are today remember cod is the KING of fps for a reason,with out cod fps games would be trash and you realy thnk battlefield franchise can carry the label KING OF FIRST PERSON SHOOTER GENERE??? LMFAO FUCKIN YEA RIGHT now thats funny
- wtf
  
  This made me blind after reading this.
  Oh wait, how do i typing then? :P
AIRFREAK

I’m not judging it until I see it, but considering cod’s track record I wouldn’t expect miracles.
- That Guy
  
  nice avater pic. i think ill take it :P
njb

COD 4 MW. Yh that game was bad a$$.

That was innovative and changed the FPS genre as we know. But its spawned so many clones.
and a yearly release of COD is bad.

Typical, you have to by the next COD just to use the New version of elite. Why not just update it now and make it ongoing.
Brevs

Why are you guys confused by my comment. Call of Duty did bring innovation to FPS. NOW they are not but CoD 2, COD 4, and CoD 6 were all considered innovators. But of course you guys are saying things like “never put Innovative and Call of duty should never be used in the same sentence EVER”. That is the ignorance I was referring to.
- AIRFREAK
  
  Cod4 was an fantastic game and a work of art. But cod4 didn’t invent any of the things that made it special. Unlocks existed before cod4 (BF2142 had them). Twitchy multiplayer with random spawns existed before. Hollywood style campaigns existed before cod4.
  
  Cod4 didn’t innovate, it just popularized those things.
  
  Like Halo CE. Did Halo invent the grenade button, regen health, vehicle physics, weapon limit, etc? No, but it popularized them.
  
  I’m not insulting cod4 by any means, just stating facts.
- lol
  
  lol cod 2 and cod6 being innovative? you high bro, have even played medal of honor or the original cod. This like the kids who watched avatar or transformers and saying it’s the most innovative film ever. Seriously though I would say black ops was the more innovative cod game in recent years with the purchase unlocks system yet activision just had to stop all that and bring the fanhoes back to mw2
PapaPhewPills

CoD will and always be the same POS it was like the year before it.
Xbox-PleaseShootMe

lol i wouldn’t stoop as low to your level and call you an idiot, but the only thing CoD innovated was a way to set back the gaming industry with low-quality games year after year like guitar hero and tony hawk. ever since CoD4 nothing has changed except the an even more over the top campaign than the last, a few guns, and multiplayer maps. no graphics, no engine, how long did it take IW to come up with 1-2 game modes? the only reason they made kill confirmed is because they got the idea from bf3
- AIRFREAK
  
  ummmmm I’m a battlefield fan too, but when the hell did BF3 have a kill confirmed mode? Do you know what kill confirmed is?
- Rhett Barlow
  
  I believe he is referring to the idea of collecting dog tags. Though, their purpose in BF3 and Kill Confirmed are entirely different.
- Brevs
  
  The huge outcry of the similarities didn’t start until mw3 because mw3 was the only CoD in which everyone began to realize that it looked like the last game they played. So what im saying is that CoD 4 didn’t start that chain of reuse. Mw3 is the one and will probably be the only CoD to be like that because they realized that they need something new. CoD 4 – BO was fine.
Xbox-PleaseShootMe

yeah i am referring to getting dog tags by knife kills in bf3. sorry airfreak and thank you rhett.