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: 2) by jmorris on Saturday November 04 2017, @03:02AM (2 children)
I remember the original Castle Wolfenstein, the game that put iD games on the map. Nobody cared about killing Nazis, no bag limit on Nazis, but the usual suspects bitched about glorifying the killing all of the German Shepherds. Now I like doggies too, but seriously, OK to kill Nazis but not OK to kill their dogs? Until you could get a gun and accumulate a few rounds (from dead Nazis of course), those danged dogs were a threat.
Let is hope there is never a bag limit on Nazis. Let us hope we can get to a time where the same can be said for Commies, so many people still want to excuse their crimes against humanity and they run up a far higher body count and were equally vile.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @07:49AM (1 child)
Maybe, but without the commies the allied forces wouldn't have been very successful against the Nazis. The largest error in WW2 was Hitler backstabbing the commies, now he didn't fight a war on one front, but two.
As for crimes against humanity... does body count or the level being vile really matter? World is filled with factions and countries (large part of the Western countries included) doing crimes against humanity, most of them are just ignored.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @06:18PM
yes. just way too impatient. i think he should have stayed in the first few countries longer. just build up the war machine quietly. "don't mind us, we're fully satisfied with our reclamation of the Reich", etc. then, once you've gotten all your geese in a row, BLITZKRIEG!