The next installment of the first-person shooter (FPS) series Call of Duty returns with the Korean Peninsula as its setting.
Activision on the 28th (local time) released the trailer for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 and said it plans to launch it on Oct. 23 for PC and console platforms.
The released trailer opens with a scene in which Korean and U.S. soldiers patrolling downtown Seoul are ambushed amid a blackout. It then shows armored vehicles and tanks engaging in combat in central Seoul, modeled after Sungnyemun, as well as a unit presumed to be the Republic of Korea Marine Corps landing on a beach aboard hovercraft.
The specific storyline was not disclosed. However, it appears to center on a war between South and North Korea on the Korean Peninsula, with multiple factions clashing.
It has been 12 years since Korea appeared as a playable major setting in the Call of Duty series, following Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, released in 2014. The title logo for this installment uses the Korean character "sa" in place of the Arabic numeral "4," alongside the words Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.
Meanwhile, Activision said that the DMZ game mode, which appeared in the 2022 title Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II and was absent from subsequent entries, will return in this installment. A DMZ mode preview video is scheduled to be released on June 7.
Call of Duty is a popular first-person shooter (FPS) series published by Activision under Microsoft (MS), and as of 2024 more than 500 million copies have been sold worldwide.