Rumours abound that Activision’s next annual Call of Duty release will be subtitled ‘Ghosts’ and this newly released teaser website does nothing to dispel those rumours.
The site in itself is a pretty mean piece of marketing. Remember those posters of movies that use actual still frames from the movie to make up a bigger image from the movie? That’s a pretty terrible description but if you head to the site itself you’ll know precisely what I’m talking about. The site plays host to an image much like that, but also provides you with a zoom function so you can see precisely what the larger image is made up of.
Again the description is convoluted, but it’s very cool in practice. The larger image is made up of a number of smaller iconic images drawn from popular culture — in the five minutes I spent with it I found Cartman from South Park, the ‘trollface’ meme, the Air Jordan logo and the Fourth Hokage from Naruto.
Very interesting indeed. I hope the game itself is just as interesting.
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12 responses to “Activision Launches New Teaser Website For The Next Call Of Duty”
FFS! Another call of duty ^.^
They should just tack 2013 to the end of the title. I am sure some people just don’t see CoD as an annual release with small improvements like Madden or FIFA. Why should they change it? They won’t until it doesn’t sell.
You might as well hope for a genie to come with every copy that grants you three wishes.
Well said sir.
Or hope for an annual salary of what was it? $68 mil?
You can hope in one hand and shit in the other, see which fills up first.
The small images are from peoples profile pics on twitter and facebook.
Notice the “Find Me” and “Add Me” buttons.
Sooo… montage is the word your looking for?
if you click on the smaller pictures you’ll find they’re twitter post from people
It is actually a mosaic of Twitter/facebook pictures (you can see quite a few twitter eggs in there).
Hence the add me/find me buttons.
Oh.. boy.
A new CoD… yippee..
Just what the gaming needs…
cynically; it may not be what gaming needs but sadly it’s what sells. how people can distinguish between each iteration and even the competitors is beyond me, each seems a shallow tweak on it’s predecessor. maybe the gfx steps up in accordance with hardware improvements and now fern fronds look more lifelike, but essentially we’re all still playing BF1942.
I suspect only the independent scene can breath new life into the FPS genre now; games built by gamers not franchise marketers.