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You might think Respawn Entertainment would be working on a game to directly compete with Call of Duty. After all, it was founded by Jason West and Vince Zampella, the two former heads of CoD developer Infinity Ward who were fired by Activision. They're accused of conspiring with a rival publisher to form a new studio, with litigation ongoing between the two sides.
Whether or not the two (and the many other former Infinity Ward staffers who left to join Respawn) want to create something that will directly compete with and best Call of Duty, with Electronic Arts serving as the publisher for Respawn's first game, there's not as much of a need for a military shooter -- EA has both Medal of Honor and Battlefield in the company's stable of franchises. EA Games president Frank Gibeau has indicated that Respawn's title will in reality be "more sci-fi oriented," meaning it will compete against the likes of Halo and Gears of War, not Call of Duty.
"In general we're going to continue to follow our rotation strategy of giving studios a full two-year cycle to get a game built and polished to maximum quality, but we're going to do it in a way that allows us to maximize technology investments like Frostbite 2, the online service models that we're doing... we're going to be able to trade team knowledge and increase the quality of the products year in, year out," he told CVG.

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