Free-To-Play Call Of Duty Mobile Game Coming To China Soon
By Ford James ·
Activision and Tencent have partnered up to launch a free-to-play Call of Duty mobile game in China later this year.
Tencent truly are the definition of a conglomerate aren’t they? They have a stake in almost every major gaming company in the world and China is where they thrive. It should come as no surprise then that they’ve partnered with Activision to create a Call of Duty mobile game exclusive to China. They’ve been working together for several years at this point on Call of Duty Online, a PC online shooter that has combined the best parts from a plethora of Call of Duty titles and merged them together to create - you’d think - the ultimate Call of Duty game.
It seems like this Call of Duty mobile game is going down the same path. Tencent are reportedly responsible for the development and it aims to bring all the best “Call of Duty characters, maps, modes and weapons from across the franchise” into one mobile experience. They’re calling it a “definitive first-person action experience” and it’s scheduled to launch in the coming months - presumably in 2018.
“We’re working closely with one of Tencent’s top mobile studios, Timi, to develop a fun and original Call of Duty experience that delivers superb gameplay and mechanics to mobile players,” said Rob Kostich, EVP and GM, Call of Duty. “Call of Duty has been the leading first person action experience around the globe for years* and seeing that come to life on the mobile platform has been really exciting. We can’t wait for fans to play.”
We don’t know much else about it yet - minimum device specs, which content will be available in-game, or an exact release date, but no doubt we’ll find it all out before long. In other Call of Duty news, the groups for the World Championships were announced earlier this week. Check out the latest multiplayer trailer which includes Blackout too, the battle royale mode in Black Ops IIII.
(Header image courtesy of The Industry Observer.)