Games Inbox: Bringing back sci-fi Call Of Duty, PS5 heat warning, and Citizen Sleeper negativity

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Space wars A reader mentioned recently, how everyone was sick of Call Of Duty games set during the Second World War and I think that’s probably true. There’s probably a better and more original way to handle things than Vanguard but the whole setting has been done to death and I think they’re better off leaving it alone for now.

But the obvious question is if they stopping doing WW2 games then what will replace it? This year we’ve got Modern Warfare and then after that is a new Black Ops, set in more recent history, so what’s after that?

I know some fans are going to hate the idea, but I think the obvious idea is sci-fi. People hate the idea because we’ve still never had a game try to do a serious far future military shooter and do it well. It doesn’t have to involve aliens or even robots but it’s really not hard to imagine in the future that we will have bases on the Moon and Mars, and multiple spacestations, where things could kick off.

Make proper use of low and zero gravity, and an actual decent story, and I think you’d have something really interesting. A lot more than if they do more historical games.Affie

Same but different I agree with the Reader’s Feature about Mass Effect 4 at the weekend. No matter what the gameplay is like the thing I’m most worried about is that all their energy is going to go into making sense of Mass Effect 3’s ending and being some sort of continuation of Andromeda.

To me, this sounds like a recipe for disaster. I think there is some hope that the new game might be a reboot of sorts though, as