Gameplay from Call of Duty that never came to Xbox 360 leaked

Activision Blizzard King is now part of Xbox history. They were once good partners, especially during the Xbox 360 era, but now they are much more than that, as Americans have bought the makers of games like Prototype, Call of Duty, World of Warcraft and more. Now that ABK is part of Xbox Game Studios, we’ll surely see several legendary franchises come to the US console as exclusives.

But talking about Activision and Xbox is inherently talking about Call of Duty, because even though more than a decade ago Microsoft used the popular shooter as a claim for its console, the relationship now goes deeper , as the franchise is now owned by the Redmond Entertainment division.

The project was called NX1 and was planned for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC

And it’s precisely Call of Duty that we’re talking about today, because an entire part of a playable mission from a Call of Duty game that never saw the light of day has leaked. The controls are those of the Xbox 360, so we assume that the game was developed for this generation of consoles. In fact, we are talking about a game that was going to be cross-platform.

The game was discovered as Call of Duty NX1 and was shared by user @mangafigurines, who shared part of the multiplayer and part of the mission in what looks like a raid on the moon. You can see the gameplay below:

A project which served to anticipate the flight of talents

But what happened to this gameIt was donated by Brian Bright, who was a project director at Call of Duty for many years. From what it says, this is a game developed by Neversoft, who was in charge of Guita Hero. NX1 would arrive before Call of Duty Ghost, but it never saw the light of day.

This game was instead intended for the studio to familiarize itself with the company’s graphics engine, and was a response to the loss of talent that Infinity Ward suffered to create Respawn Entertainment.

This was NX1, after the implosion of Infinity Ward and its split into Respawn. Neversoft went from Guitar Hero to creating a futuristic COD game. This mission took place on the Moon, we did some experiments in low gravity and it was really about the team learning how to use the engine. We previously created Guitar Hero games in our engine for Tony Hawk Pro Skater.

I think this would have been released before Ghost, mind you. We had 2 or 3 campaign missions and a lot of work was done for multiplayer (before it was canceled). One thing we really liked about this multiplayer mode was the first Escort mode in COD. There are pictures of this…

People’s reactions have been mostly positive, the truth is that there are a few ideas in this short multiplayer gameplay that I like. What do you think