Footage from a cancelled futuristic Call of Duty sci-fi game in development by Tony Hawk’s studio Neversoft has leaked online.
The footage was spotted by Call of Duty insider account CharlieIntel, and seemingly comes from a cancelled Xbox 360-era Call of Duty game known as Future Warfare (or “NX1” internally). The game was originally in development at Neversoft, which was ultimately merged into Infinity Ward in 2014.
Confirming the footage as legitimate, former Neversoft developer Brian Bright said this cancelled Call of Duty release would have launched in place of Ghosts. “Neversoft pivoted from Guitar Hero to make a futuristic COD game,” Bright wrote on X. “I believe this would have been in place of Ghosts, trying to remember. We had two to three campaign missions, and a bunch of [multiplayer] work done (I was lead MP on this) before cancellation.”
The footage itself was shared across several videos by YouTube account Riley54, which you can see via the embeds below. The first shows an overview of the missions menu, the gameplay difficulty levels and the start of a mission on the moon, aptly called “Moonbase Assault”.