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Rumor: Third-Person Call of Duty Canned Due to Major Quality Issues
April 24, 2008 | 1:53 PM PST

by: Nathan Grayson



I'm sure you've heard the old adage, "Lock a bunch of monkeys in a room and eventually they'll produce Shakespeare." Well, apparently the saying only applies to works of literary genius; otherwise, we'd likely be hearing about a third-person squad-based Call of Duty in the near future -- er, more than we're hearing right now, anyway.

A source close to Activison Underground contacted Kotaku with some juicy bits of info on Activison Underground's fallen soldier.

According to the source, Ghosts of Duty: Socom Six (my title, not theirs) was to be a third-person squad-based shooter based on special ops, replete with varied types of gameplay and tedium. Yep, in the source's words, the game "took every cliché you hated from every other squad-based military shooter and stuffed it into COD."

After witnessing this "mess," Activison swiftly brought their iron fist down on the newly formed studio, cancelling Call of War: Advanced Rainbow Fighter and every other game Activison Underground would ever potentially create in one silent swoop.

Really though, the studio wasn't exactly destined for greatness anyway, as Underground's creative director had hired "a team of utter beginners and tossed the project to them without any metrics or direction."

So, where's that leave us? 1-1, it would seem -- tied with our simian cousins. Have they tried their hands at a movie yet?

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