Treyarch's Call of Duty Will Take Place in Vietnam

With over five million Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 copies sold, and well over 4.1 million pirated downloads, MW2 is without a doubt the most popular game of the series, since it's also one of the best selling games ever made. And while everybody knows that the Modern Warfare series is developed by the now famous Infinity Ward, some may have forgotten the previous Call of Duty installments and their developer, Treyarch.

But the studio isn't quite ready to give up and relinquish the Call of Duty franchise to their IW brothers, so we already know that it's working on a CoD game with a launch date set for winter 2010.

Even if there's no official word out yet, rumors concerning the game have started to fly around, and it looks like the game will take place in Vietnam. PlanetXbox360 has talked with some reliable sources and has found out not only the game's time setting, but also a few details concerning the game's skeleton build. Since the Modern Warfare branch of Call of Duty did incredibly well, it looks like Treyarch plans to follow a similar pattern, and borrow a lot of ideas, as well as technology from Infinity Ward.

As far as the story goes, if previous Call of Duty games found a lot of inspiration in, and followed a pattern similar to the Saving Private Ryan movie, the “Vietnam” CoD will follow more in the lines of other movies, like the Platoon, Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket. There will also be a lot more emphasis on the NPCs and their stories, and the game won't just focus on the protagonist.

While the Vietnam setting isn't really a bad one, since not only it hasn't been touched by the CoD series, but because there aren't a lot of games out there that dabble in this conflict, it will be a little more difficult to make a morally viable story. If history made it very clear that during WWII, Germany and the Nazi Party were the bad guys, things are a little murkier in Vietnam. If we follow the rule that history is made by victors, then if anything, the Americans are the bad guys, since the Vietnam War was anything but a victory for them.