I suppose they ditched the WWII setting because it's viewed as overdone...even tired. However, WWII games sell, which is probably the reason for the long franchise.

With COD's tradition of ultra-linear gameplay I don't know if they'll be able to pull off a game based on counter-insurgency operations. We'll see.

I think a game based on the island-hopping campaign in the Pacific would have made a good WWII sequel. Why can't COD show some love to the Marines?

Oooohhhh.... I really like that.

I haven't even finished playing through the CoD3 campaign. I bought CoD3 over Gears of War, too.

CoD3 is very different than CoD2. The vehicles and large maps killed it for me.

Maybe a lot of other people didn't like CoD3 either. Perhaps they recognize that a CoD4 in a WWII setting will remind people of CoD3. A big change for CoD4 might get the CoD2 fans back.

I wondering if CoD4 will come to the PC. CoD3 never did.

CoD3 is very different than CoD2. The vehicles and large maps killed it for me.

On a side note here, COD2 PC > COD2 360. Only eight players over Xbox Live? No thanks, I'll stick with 32 on the PC. Oh, and the mouse and keyboard.

The only thing I can think about COD4 is... Modern Combat? Was that necessary? It's like Battlefield 2: Modern Combat for the 360, not really needed.

OK, rapture.

Either way, I still say it's about damn time. I'm tired of playing WWII.

When I read that for some reason I pictured Rapture as Dr. Evil and MasterKim as Mini-Me. Then I pictured them doing the music video "Hard Knock Life" (like the "real" Dr. Evil and Mini-Me) and replacing the lyrics with PC-gaming propaganda.

...and I be MasterKim and hella fly
My card is made by ATI
My FPS lay you to rest
Overclocking CPUs
GPUs
DOG, you know me

With my Phat LCD,
Go 3 on 3? Hell nah.
8 v 8? let me demonstrate
(waves hands) The su-per-i-or-i-ty of 32-player chaos
I take it on
With my Radeon
Enough on-board RAM
to give SETI a hand

You don't even wanna know
The hole it put in my billfold
Na-tion-al def-i-cit... it pales!
To my Amex statement...

More to follow...

LOL!! did you pull that out of some Weird Al song? White and nerdy perhaps?

Didn't get it from anywhere. Just typing as I think

And what is that you say?
oh no
oh my
my DVI
be spittin frames so fast your eye can't even see it
better believe it, you'll get served
with resolutions unheard

your HD is DOA
I got a better way to play
can you cope
with tiny fonts--you'll need a microscope!

gotta run...more later...

I'll give you a million bucks if you just input that information (the text you wrote) with a controller.

You probably didn't because it's less efficient.

You can quote me on that. Actually: just make a rap song out of it.

Platinum pads for my mice
Processor cold as ice
Cry-o-gen-i-cally cooled
You're about to get schooled

Straffing with the X and Z
It's all about ability
To press eight buttons at once
Layin waste to the chumps

Connecting to my server
Look no further
You found the ping you want to see
IRC is where we meet

Does THX have a nerdcore rapper rising?

Q to the W E-R-T-Y
QWERTY in the house, with my keyboard and mouse
Best input device since the optic nerve
Watch as I swerve..
From side to side, shootin' fools in the eyes
They better get wise...

To the benefits--of a set of headphones
Do you want to get pwned?
But somehow over the fans I think I hear
my cellular phone--interferring with the speakers.
With my rail gun I'll get rid of all these freakers.

W-A-S and D,
All you noobs got nothing on me,
It's plain to see,
I blow your heads off with impunity.

What's auto-aim?
Man, that ain't no skillful game!
I don't need that when I've got my mouse and keyboard,
It's how I reach top of the leader boards.

Can you play R-T-S,
On that piece of mess,
That you call a game pad?
Man, that stuff is just plain bad.

What now, son!

00001000 Mile.