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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @03:26AM
> It's difficult to understand the mental gymnastics required by a gaggle of red-faced children screaming, spraying people with spittle over hatred of Nazis while wearing a hammer and cycle t-shirt.
I'm trying to work the mental gymnastics and sheer ignorance required to claim that one of the most succesful inventons of victorian capitalism, the cycle, is used as an icon by anti-nazis.
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