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10. The Setting Will Be Present Day

There's a bigger reason the publisher is planning a revival of the Modern Warfare franchise, though, and that's because they're apparently eager to return to a contemporary setting and release a more conventional modern-military shooter. After MW3 shipped, all three major COD developers adopted near-future settings in an attempt to capitalise on the sci-fi shooter boom happening in the early 2010s, but now Activision is clearly making a concerted effort to diversify their brand.

Sledgehammer took the franchise back to WW2, while Black Ops IV maintained a near-future setting, but dropped the harder sci-fi edges like wall-running and double jumping, and it looks like MW4 will fall somewhere in the middle, returning to the same kind of combat that made the original series such a smash-hit in the first place.

It might seem obvious that a new Modern Warfare sequel would be set, well, in the modern day, but the franchise was getting increasingly further into the near-future with the last two releases, and Black Ops has proven that the brand is bigger than any specific time period.