UPDATE: A little Nancy Drew sleuthing on our part has led to some interesting finds. I’ll break them down in the order of which we discovered them. First off, Geoff Keighly, host of GTTV, tweeted that he had been in touch with Activision and they claimed there will NOT be a new Call of Duty reveal next week. Okay, so let’s assume they aren’t lying. What are the other possibilities? Well, the Battlefield 3reveal event that’s planned for GDC next week ends just six hours before the timer will be up, which could be when the embargo for said event lifts. But there’s a couple of other noteworthy things. Josh Olin (AKA JD_2020), community manager at Treyarch, said he saw a rough cut of a new Black Opstrailer that is set to run next week. I’m going to guess the countdown is unrelated to that because of the name Makarov in the URL. My personal theory? Duty Calls 2.
Don’t look now, but the hype train for 2011’s Call of Duty has begun. A cryptic countdown has appeared over at FindMakarov.com, complete with the no-standard Modern Warfare color and font scheme. The countdown ends a little over four days from now, which is smack dab in the middle of GDC. What will be revealed? Could be a new Call of Duty site, a trailer, or another piece of promotion.
Back in 2009, the first footage we got of Modern Warfare 2 was the famous “No Russian” elevator scene done in green static with audio after a lengthy countdown site.
There’s one major clue here that should point CoD fans in the right direction: Makarov was the Russian arms dealer from Modern Warfare 2 that played the role of antagonist for most of the game. Given theModern Warfare branch of the CoD franchise and its penchant for returning characters from game to game, I’d say Modern Warfare 3 gets revealed at GDC next week (no surprise there).
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