14 DAY TRIAL // Developer Sledgehammer Games might be focused on the creation of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare at the moment, but the company is also ready to revive its canceled third-person shooter based on the Vietnam War as long as publisher Activision gives it the green light.
Glen Schofield, the leader of the studio, tells GameInformer that, “If they ever asked us to a make a third-person Call of Duty game I’d go back to what we were doing.”
The title would need quite a bit of work before launch because so far Sledgehammer Games has spent between six and eight months on the experience, but the developer says that some very cool mechanics have already been implemented.
Schofield adds, “We found out as we were researching it as well, all around the world it’s actually known as America’s war. Not Vietnam’s. We were the only ones that called it the Vietnam War. It’s kind of unpopular. And we didn’t really understand the marketing aspect of that.”
Traditionally, the Call of Duty series has focused on the spectacle of war and on the inevitable victory of the good guys, an attitude that would be poorly suited for a video game that aims to use some of the bloodiest conflicts of the XX century as its setting.
Sledgehammer Games says that it has not created a playable prototype for its first foray into the shooter genre and that there were plenty of features and mechanics that would need to be implemented.
Activision is unlikely to approve more work on the game at the moment, given how well the first-person shooters in the Call of Duty franchise are performing and the risks that a Vietnam-themed experience would introduce.
Advanced Warfare is at the moment set to be launched on November 4 of this year on the PlayStation 4 from Sony, the Xbox One from Microsoft, the PC, current-gen consoles and other devices.
The title will take place in the near future and will deliver a story which sees a Private Military Company try to attack all the national armies at the same time using advanced technology, with no direct connection to previous installments like Black Ops 2 or Ghosts.
Sledgehammer Games has said that the title will keep the core ideas that have defined the series so far, but that it will also aim to introduce some innovative features that will surprise the fan base.