Never-before-seen footage of an ultimately canceled Call of Duty game has emerged online, providing a glimpse at what was planned, at one stage at least, to be Call of Duty’s first major jump into sci-fi and outer space. Footage from a “Future Warfare” game codenamed NXI was posted online recently.
Brian Bright, a video game industry veteran who worked on the game, confirmed NX1 was made after Infinity Ward “imploded,” so that would have been around 2010. Neversoft, previously known for its Tony Hawk games, was making this game after pivoting from its work on the Guitar Hero series. The aim, Bright said, was to make a “futuristic Call of Duty game.”
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In the leaked campaign footage, we see a mission to the moon. The footage emerged from a test, Bright suggested. “This mission was on the moon, some experiments with low g and was really about the team learning the engine,” he said. “We were making GH games on our THPS engine prior.”