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The makers say creating a title based on a conflict that claimed about 60 million lives has been a challenge.
It's been 10 years since the Call of Duty franchise based a game during World War Two.
"In no way do you want to glorify violence, but at the same time you can't ignore it," says Sledgehammer Games co-founder Michael Condrey.
"We spent a lot of time working on the right balance."
[...] "It would be insincere not to touch on what was really happening," Michael explains.
"From the politics at the time, segregation among the allies, the role of women, to the Holocaust.
"By turning away from them we would not have brought the right level of awareness or be able to honour what was really happening.
Fine, but they better not cut the classic wise-cracking Brooklynite from the squad or Call of Duty and me are done.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @12:50AM
Yes, it is, but there's a segment of the population that wants to replace all forms of entertainment with propaganda and indoctrination, as one might expect from a tyranny (ironically enough, particularly when one considers what Hitler did with art he didn't like). This kind of bitching is a form of that.