The Call of Duty shooter series could once have become quite futuristic – with Future Warfare. This part from Neversoft never saw the light of day, but gameplay scenes from the title have now leaked online in a video that is over two minutes long.
Do you remember Call of Duty: Future Warfare? The game had the internal code name “NX1” and was once created by the developer studio Neversoft and would have placed the successful shooter series in a much more futuristic sci-fi setting. Ultimately, the project w as scrapped and never saw the light of day – but now a video leaked online reveals what we could have expected.
The two-minute-long clip, which first shows the menu and then also real gameplay, comes from an early version of the futuristic shooter from 2011. There you can see a mission that would have taken place on the moon. According to reports, the title should also have used remastered maps from classic parts of the Call of Duty series.
Developer Brian Bright also commented on the video, who went on to say that with the mission on the moon, Neversoft also experimented with how a low-gravity feature could have worked, for example. In addition, the aim of such test runs was to learn how to use the engine used.
This was NX1, after IW imploded and split into Respawn Neversoft pivoted from Guitar Hero to make a futuristic COD game. This mission was on the moon, some experiments with low g and was really about the team learning the engine. We were making GH games on our THPS engine prior.
— Brian Bright (@BrianBright) January 28, 2024
According to Bright, if the game had actually been implemented in this form, it would have replaced Call of Duty: Ghosts, which was released in 2013. After “NX1” was canceled, Neversoft contributed “2 to 3 campaign games and some multiplayer work.”
Another comment also lists the supposed list of multiplayer maps for the former Future Warfare, which included the following maps:
- Legacy Afghan
- Legacy Crash
- Legacy Terminal
- Bin Laden’s Compound
- Gladiator Assault
- Merc Mode Map
- BENCH
Neversoft was originally founded in 1994 and eventually merged into Infinity Ward two decades later. Although Future Warfare was scrapped in this form, some aspects ultimately made it into Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare from Infinity Ward, released in 2016.
Also this year there is a new part of the extremely successful shooter series with Call of Duty: Ghosts.
