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Call of Duty 4 Plot Written by Hollywood's Talented - No More Nazis!

Developers starting to take on other history topics than WW II

Jun 15, 2007 08:10 GMT  ·  By
  

Following a report on the number of World War II-based games that are out there (not that this piece of news is connected to that), Infinity Ward, creators of Call of Duty 2, have decided to get some Hollywood writers on the title, in order to provide Nazi-free ideas. That's right, no Nazis to kill in this fourth installment of Call of Duty.

If you're disappointed that that's not about any Wii installment, the answer is simple: it can't handle it. Not Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, but the Wii. The console can't handle the title. OK, now that we're on top of everything, here's Infinity Ward's comments on why they had to hire Hollywood talents for their first-person shooter, as Kotaku reports:

"We really needed to create a bad villain, since we don't have Nazis to kill any more. In previous Call of Duty games, you could start off and know that those guys are bad - we need to kill them for X, Y and Z reasons. We spent a lot of time working on the storyline - we've hired Hollywood writers who are really great at creating cliff-hangers."

The fact that Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare wasn't going to be set in WW II was already known back in April, as some of you may remember Infinity Ward posting some hints about the game's future settings. Here's what I found via VoodooExtreme, at that time:

"Amazing Things To Happen On April 28th:

- 1758 - James Monroe, 5th President of the United States is born.

- 1788 - Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.

- 1932 - A vaccine for yellow fever is announced for use on humans.

(Then nothing really happened for a long time.... but now....)

- 2007 - What goes down this April 28th is equal to, if not surpasses, the magnitude of any of those.

Who's ready?!"

So we knew then that Call of Duty 4 was going to "skip" WW II. Although it's a good thing that we're starting to see different topics for history-based video games, other than WW II, I'm not so sure that The Renaissance or The Enlightenment are ready to do the trick just yet either...