Hot on the heels of this morning's Call of Duty 3 first look, we're pleased to confirm that Call of Duty 3 has now been confirmed as a PS3 launch title, cementing the game's release date for November 17 2006.
In creating the upcoming Call of Duty 3 game, the game developers at Treyarch returned to the source of inspiration for previous games in the successful combat series: war movies.
Call of Duty 2 is still the most popular Xbox Live games on the 360. Even nine months since its release no other game can budge it off the top spot and with good reason. After the multiplayer patch came out the game has become a huge success online, with clans competing online for King and Country and now comes the info which will have Call of Duty 2 fans frothing at the mouth and ears, thats right we have some rather juicy info regarding the new title Call of Duty 3.
Call of Duty 3 producer Marcus Iremonger describes how the game will function, taking full advantage of the innovative Nintendo Wii controller in an interview.
Electronic Gaming Monthly has spilled new details on Call of Duty 3 in a preview appearing in its July issue - details of which an Xbox.com forumite has dutifully waded through and plastered across the internet in a shower of CoD love, bullets and indeed bullet-points. The information in EGM's article has been broken down into three sections by the forum poster, with the likes of new tech bumping up the realism ante noted along with key gameplay and multiplayer changes/additions.
According to a recent article in EGM, Treyarch is focused on crafting immersive environments, adding new effects like:
Speaking about the innovations Wii's remote offers to enhance the series, Nouriani says, "Typically, the reticule in CoD games is centered on the screen. With the [Wii] game, because of its accelerometers and a position-pointing device in the actual remote, we've freed the player up. We're going to be spending quite a bit of time in the coming months tweaking that until we get it just right."
Jeux-france.com has posted what is possibly the first screenshots of Call of Duty 3 for Nintendo Wii.
Playsyde.com has posted what seems to be the first screenshot of Call of Duty 3. It looks a bit doctored, but you never know.