User blog comment:AntiScootaTwo/Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare confirmed to be set in 2054/@comment-3967954-20140503074712

Still seems ridiculous even for the 2050 setting. IIRC, Treyarch did a ton of research into future warfare and how it might look, even if BOII was a little too ambitious at times. But Advanced Warfare looks ridiculous. Hover-bikes? Why? And mechs with huge miniguns probably aren't going to bloody happen, no matter how much people want them to.

I guess they're focusing more on fun than anything else, which is fine, but it's inevitably going to put off people wanting authentic (not necesserily realistic) settings.