Leak reportedly indicates upcoming sequel for Modern Warfare in 2021

Even before Black Ops Cold War arrives here, a leaker may have just discovered the first clue about next year’s Call of Duty on a potential sequel to Modern Warfare.

While the Call of Duty franchise has 17 entry doors across different timelines, two names stand out clearly. Both the Black Ops and Modern Warfare series both have the most different opuses. Treyarch has already released four different titles for Black Ops and Cold War is just a few weeks away. In parallel, Infinity Ward also has four games with Modern Warfare, the first of the trilogy before getting a full reboot in 2019. Now it looks like a fifth is in the works with once again Infinity Ward at the orders.

We saw Sledgehammer Games and Raven Software take a back seat. Instead of the usual three-year cycle, Infinity Ward would only have two to work with. We’re still more than twelve months away from this 2021 mystery game, but we may already be starting to see the first clues.

“Looks like CoD for 2021 is another Modern Warfare title or something like that,” thus reports the well-known leaker, Tom Henderson. Little is known about it other than this key detail, with the frame for the next game apparently already locked down.

“Of course, not a lot of information at the moment, but it’s a modern setting”, he then confirmed. Considering the full reboot Modern Warfare got in 2019, could a new sequel be the next step? This would contrast completely with the original Modern Warfare 2 of 2009 if Activision opted for such a solution.

To avoid confusion, there would be a good chance the name would be a little different, in the same way that we saw Cold War being added to the Black Ops sequel for this year’s game. It is however a direct sequel to Black Ops 1. So expect to see “Modern Warfare: something” or almost for the title of 2021.

This could clearly be the sequel to Price’s adventures as Price is now in the process of assembling a shock team to stop Russian terrorist Victor Zakhaev. If Warzone’s ongoing storyline doesn’t quite beat this year’s main campaign, that could clearly be our target for the 2021 release.

While this is obviously pure speculation, the leaker also considered that the original Modern Warfare 2 would be included in it. After all, it wouldn’t be any different from the way Infinity Ward kicked off Modern Warfare Remastered in 2016.

We are still many months away from the first official information on the 2021 title, so take this information with a grain of salt. Black Ops Cold War is clearly all that Activision is interested in right now. Everything about a game for next year is set aside for the moment and we shouldn’t know more for a long time.