Michael Phelps Receives Call of Duty: World at War

[Spawndemon]

In some offbeat news today, CBS news recently interviewed Michael Phelps where during the interview, he received a copy of Call of Duty: World at War. Take a look:

And Rodriguez had a surprise for Phelps, a video game lover: Activision provided a copy of "Call of Duty 5," which isn't coming out until November. The company even named a character after him. A close friend tells The Early Show Phelps loves the game and would having the upcoming version early.

Not that he needs a free version. He's already being mentioned with the likes of sports icons such as Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan, and is likely to make tens of millions of dollars in endorsements, experts say.

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Do you want an early copy of World at War? Well go win eight gold medals and then we'll see! Thanks to PCOD for finding this news.

[Dan2k3k4]

Re: Michael Phelps Receives Call of Duty: World at War

Heh, funny thing is you can swim in CoD5 - I wonder if Phelps will be doing laps capturing flags from one side of the river to the other?

[imported_ATM743]

Re: Michael Phelps Receives Call of Duty: World at War

my god its already done? i thought they would still be beta testing it making sure everything is set and done

man i would love to be able to play a demo or something on pc

[MrKLM]

Re: Michael Phelps Receives Call of Duty: World at War

I heard that it has just reached beta.

[imported_Whiskey]

Re: Michael Phelps Receives Call of Duty: World at War

my god its already done? i thought they would still be beta testing it making sure everything is set and done

What he received is probably not a full working version. It's likely either a demo, or perhaps just a contained SP version. Let's remember that the "regular" news media often doesn't have their facts straight when it comes to games.

It's a great marketing/PR move - having probably the highest profile Olympic athlete from just a couple weeks ago as a fan of your game, and Activision is striking while the iron is hot.

[solofowaffles]

Re: Michael Phelps Receives Call of Duty: World at War

I'll brb gonna go win some Olympic medals.

[Mavrik347]

Re: Michael Phelps Receives Call of Duty: World at War

lolololololol... Come on... They gave him a packed BETA. So he's gonna have to buy it anyway as he will have to patch it to v1.0 when it's done then (with it being an Activision internal patch) he won't be able to find the patch come reinstall in a year or so lol. I guess it's the thought that counts.

EDIT: lol just watched the vid. It's PS3, so it's doubtable he will be able to ever patch it to 1.0 :P unless PS3 finished early ofc.

[Polka]

Re: Michael Phelps Receives Call of Duty: World at War

Yeah, they wouldnt give him the full version and say they are still in beta stages lal.

He has a lot of patches to download in the times coming eh

[RogueDOC]

Re: Michael Phelps Receives Call of Duty: World at War

This from JD at callofduty.com

No no, the game isn't done - I am about to post a blog about this. There was an I O U card inside the box =P. We'll be sending him a copy when it's fresh off the production line. The game is very much so still in development guys.

Sorry for the confusion. But pretty sweet we could give an american hero a gift like that =).

[CptainCrunch]

Re: Michael Phelps Receives Call of Duty: World at War

Yeah, what better thing to give a champion of a game of peace than a war game of death and mutilation. :yay:

Crunch

[JoMaMaz]

Re: Michael Phelps Receives Call of Duty: World at War

Yeah, what better thing to give a champion of a game of peace than a war game of death and mutilation. :yay:

Crunch

:laugh:

Whiskey is correct, great advertising! But, it's all good, he deserves a free copy of the game and 10x more than just a game, which he will receive lol! Or maybe 1000000x more...

[imported_Will]

Re: Michael Phelps Receives Call of Duty: World at War

In the time phelps opened COD5, he just won 8 Gold medals for Cod5 A$$ kicking.


lol.

[JoMaMaz]

Re: Michael Phelps Receives Call of Duty: World at War

In the time phelps opened COD5, he just won 8 Gold medals for Cod5 A$$ kicking.


lol.

hahaha! :laugh: