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A playable build of Call of Duty: Future Warfare has leaked online more than 12 years after its cancellation by Activision. The scrapped CoD spin-off, known internally as NX1, was in development by Tony Hawk developer Neversoft before being dumped.
Call of Duty: Future Warfare is playable
After becoming public knowledge last year, Call of Duty: Future Warfare quickly became CoD players’ holy grail. As the first planned entry to take the series into a sci-fi universe, Future Warfare was originally meant to release with a campaign, multiplayer and a full zombies mode.
Now, 12 years later, Future Warfare builds are available online and are playable on debug Xbox 360 units. Entire missions for the cancelled CoD game can also be viewed online with many of them available on YouTube.
Obviously using Modern Warfare 2 as a base, Future Warfare’s missions are simply more CoD from that generation, if a bit unpolished. Many of the missions that are available don’t even look that sci-fi, although later missions delve further into the proposed future tech.
Over the course of the game, players take a rocket into space and fight on The Moon in spacesuits. It’s a precursor to what players would eventually do in Call of Duty: Ghosts in 2016. However, it’s incredibly cool to see what would’ve been back on the Xbox 360.
How to play CoD: Future Warfare
In order to play Call of Duty: Future Warfare, you’ll need to download the game files here. Afterwards, the prototype Call of Duty game can be run on a modded Xbox 360 console.
While Future Warfare builds can run on the Xbox 360 emulator Xenia Canary, they do need to be patched first. At the moment, the “0-Nightly SP maps.sp.xex” is already patched and the “5-nx1mp_demo.xex” needs “protect_zero” to be set to false in the Xenia config.
Furthermore, booting any executable for Call of Duty: Future Warfare in the Xbox 360 emulator will result in a black screen on boot for minutes at a time. However, the unfinished game does still work on Xenia Canary.
While massively unfinished and overall not very good, it’s incredible to be able to play an otherwise forgotten CoD game. It’s not going to wipe away the excitement of the Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 beta, or that game’s release date, but it is still an awesome experience to have twelve years after the game’s cancellation.
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