Call of Duty: Warzone Is Getting New Fortnite-Like Events

Call of Duty: Warzone is getting new Fortnite-style events in the near future, according to Infinity Ward. The news comes way of the studio’s narrative director Taylor Kurosaki, who says the developer has been using the cinematic intros for each season, plus trailers, to continue the story of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. However, this is apparently just a taste of what’s to come.

“We’ve talked a lot in the past about whether games like Fortnite have a narrative,” said Kurosaki while speaking to Venture Beat. “I would say yes, absolutely. I’d say Warzone does as well. But for me, it’s in a genre and a tone that I greatly prefer.”

Kurosaki continued, noting that the team wants to borrow the Fortnite template to tell stories and expand the Call of Duty lore via Warzone, however, these events will fill into the world of Modern Warfare. In other words, these events wont establish a separate world for Warzone, but more intimately combine it with Modern Warfare and the story its campaign tells.

“That’s exactly the kind of thing that we’re working on, that we have planned,” said Kurosaki, speaking in reference to Fortnite’s black hole event. “Again, it’s all going to fit into this macro that we’ve established in Modern Warfare, and that we’ve continued into Warzone. If you know who the players are in Modern Warfare, it’ll all make sense, and it’ll all feel appropriate to the universe.:

Of course, it makes sense Infinity Ward wants to use Warzone to expand interest in the universe of Modern Warfare. After all, there’s a good chance the studio’s next game will be a reboot of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

That said, right now there’s no word on when we will see or start to hear more about these events, but it sounds like it’s something Infinity Ward already has in the pipeline.

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