Activision Publishing/Logo Variations

These are the logo variations seen throughout the years by Activision Publishing, with more to be added overtime.

Power Drift (1988, PC) and Shanghai II: Dragon's Eye (1990, PC): The logo is colored in gradient blue and brown (a reflection of the sky and the ground) with "presents" below.

Ghostbusters II (1989, PC): The logo is blue with a thin red outline. "Presents" is seen below.

X-Kaliber 2097 (1994): The logo is seen on a completely blue background.

Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure (1994, Sega CD and Atari Jaguar): The logo is made out of brown stone and emerges from the water on a jungle background with a river. The water is animated.

HyperBlade (1996): The logo is cyan and is on a futuristic blue and gray background.

Vigilante 8 (1998, N64) and Vigilante 8: 2nd Offense (1999, N64): The logo is white and in 3D. After a few seconds, the logo turns blue, squishes itself and zooms out of view.

Star Trek published titles (1999-2003): The logo appears in space, is made of white metal, and doesn't glow. Then, the Starship Enterprise flies from the left side of the screen and blows the logo to ashes.

Return to Castle Wolfenstein (2001): The logo is on a rainy background. Also, the words "produced by" are seen above.

Pitfall: The Lost Expedition (2004, GBA): The logo is engraved on a stone wall with carvings of deities on it. It then pans upward to show the Torus Games logo.

Shrek 2 (2004, GBA): The logo is made of green rocks in a swamp, and is shaped differently. The onion carriage from the movie can be seen strolling in front of it.

Shark Tale (2004, GBA): The logo is made out of green graffiti on a brick wall. The shorties from the movie spray it before swimming away.

Shrek 2: Beg for Mercy (2004): The logo appears in a flash effect and takes place in a forest. Puss in Boots then runs under the logo.

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004, GBA): The logo appears like an old film, and is placed into a black-and-white filmstrip.

Madagascar (2005, GBA and DS): The the logo is on a yellow background with a crack. Marty the zebra appears from the lower right and jumps over the crack.

Shrek Super Slam (2005):

GBA version: The logo (with a slightly blocky look) slides in from the right on a black background. It then slides to the left and the Amaze Entertainment logo appears in its place.

DS version: The logo (in 3D) is seen in a pond in the titular character's swamp. It then pans to the right to show the Amaze Entertainment logo.

Over the Hedge (2006):

GBA version: The logo is made of blue and yellow flowers on some grass in the woods. This sequence is interactive, as you can move RJ (an anthropomorphic raccoon and one of the main characters) around it.

DS version: The logo is seen on a bag of potato chips on a kitchen table.

Over the Hedge: Hammy Goes Nuts (2006, GBA): The logo is seen on a television screen. Hammy's right hand holding a remote with a big flashing A button can be seen on the lower left.

Spider-Man 3 (2007):

GBA version: The logo is shown underneath a picture of a meteorite flying through a skyline.

DS version: On the top screen, the logo gets pulled by the titular hero's web-line against a black background with a spider-web, a smaller Activision logo and some hexagons. On the bottom screen, the logo in grey scrolls from the left.

Shrek the Third (2007, GBA): There is a pirate ship sailing through a sea with Shrek, Donkey and Puss aboard, and we see them sail pass a large wooden sign with the logo in red on it.

007: Quantum of Solace (2008): The logo (without the "O") forms stylishly on a dark red and black background with a red wavy line below it. A red circle appears like the gun barrel from the James Bond movie openings and becomes the "O". The logo then disappears as we transition to the Treyarch logo. The PlayStation 2 version has the regular variant instead. At the end of the first mission, this transitions from the last part of the gun barrel sequence, with "When Nobody Loves You" by Kerli & Richard Fortus playing during the logo.

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008, DS): The logo slides in from the left and squishes itself before settling and sliding away against an African background.

Call of Duty: World at War (2008): The logo is black and white with a projector effect. When the logo ends, it cuts out like a projector.

Prototype (2009): The logo glitches on an interlaced red background that flickers, and cuts away, followed by the Radical Entertainment logo. If you look closely, you can see a thin red outline around the logo.

Both this and the Prototype 2 intro was animated at Blur Studio.

Guitar Hero 5 (2009): The logo is projected on to a city building, with the RedOctane logo in blue below it.

Band Hero (2009): The logo is formed by a neon pink cardiogram. It then flashes, transitioning to the Neversoft logo.

Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock (2010): The logo is carved onto molten rocks with lava flowing through it.

Transformers: War for Cybertron: Autobots/Decepticons (2010, DS): The logo is seen on a starfield background and there are blue (for Autobots) or red (for Decepticons) borders.

GoldenEye 007 (2010, DS): The logo is black with a golden outline and two golden borders at the top and bottom of the screen.

DJ Hero 2 (2010): The logo starts like normal, but after it zooms in, it stays in 3D. It then begins to zoom back and spin back and forth as the colors begin to offset, and rewinds to the beginning, while later starting like normal, but with the FreeStyleGames logo instead, as well as a different bang along with a male voice shouting "Uh!" when the logo zooms in.

Call of Duty: Black Ops (2010): The logo appears after the Treyarch logo; it has red numbers, "Presents" next to it, and five Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopters flying in the distance before it fades to white.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2011) and its remake, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered (2016): The logo is on a green/white radio wave/heartbeat monitor background and dissolves shortly after. The Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer Games logos follow afterwards in a similar manner. On the latter game, the logo appears in a slightly different way.

Prototype 2 (2012): The logo appears after the Radical Entertainment logo, and flickers in a ghoulish white color on what appears to be a CCTV monitor while zooming in slightly.

Call of Duty: Black Ops II (2012): The logo is on a beige background with some war footage, including blood dripping from a hanging pendant (which belongs to Josefina Menendez, the deceased sister of the antagonist of the game, Raul Menendez), a T-72 tank driving, soldiers marching, an image of the eyes of an old man, a doll burning, what appears to be an aftermath of an explosion with soldiers standing, Ronald Reagan giving a speech, and a Boeing AH-64 Apache flying towards the camera, before coming to the logo, with some text above reading "THE CALM HAS ENDED. THEY ARE BEGINNING TO RETURN.", and "PRESENTS" under it before it cuts to black.

SpongeBob SquarePants: Plankton's Robotic Revenge (2013, DS): The logo is light blue and appears in front of an aquatic background with flowers.

Call of Duty: Ghosts (2013): The logo is formed from mauve shards of glass. After a few seconds, the logo disintegrates and the remains of it form into the Infinity Ward logo.

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (2014): The logo, in gold, wipes in on a brown background with particles flying everywhere.

Call of Duty: Black Ops III (2015): The logo is formed by kaleidoscopic views of black buildings against a smoky background. The Coalescence Corporation jingle is heard as the logo is formed.

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (2016): The logo forms in a computer graphic-like fashion on a starfield background.

Crash Bandicoot: N. Sane Trilogy (2017) and Crash Team Racing: Nitro Fueled (2019): Over the logo, Dr. Neo Cortex (voiced by Lex Lang) announces, "Activision presents...a smashing blast from the past!". Wooshes have been added before the logo. On the latter, it was announced by a different narrator.

Call of Duty: WWII (2017): The logo (with a more three-dimensional look) fades in on a black background with some fog and barely visible film scratches while zooming in slightly. The Sledgehammer Games and Raven Software logos follow in the same manner.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 (2018): The logo is superimposed on a shot of a flying UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, with a slightly different look and the word "PRESENTS" under the "ION". On later updates of the game, the logo is superimposed over snippets of gameplay.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019): The logo appears in a similar manner to the Modern Warfare 3/Remastered variant, but it is blue, has footage of soldiers inside it and is also interlaced.

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (2020): The logo is on a glass wall with tape recorders in the background, as well as a chalk painted map.

Call of Duty: Vanguard (2021): The logo is similar to the the WWII variant, but is sepia-toned and has particles flying in the background like in the Advanced Warfare variant.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (2022): The logo, in light jungle green, zooms towards the camera on a dark jungle green computerized background, before scrolling down and leaving a ghostly trail of itself.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III (2023): The logo appears in a similar manner to the Modern Warfare 3/Remastered variant again, but has a red tint, and crumbles away into stone afterwards.