14 DAY TRIAL // Guillermo del Toro, best known for his work on movies like Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy, has said that when it comes to playing video games his biggest love is the Call of Duty fans and that he gets the games as soon as possible and plays them to completion.
Guillermo del Toro, who is very well known as a director and is currently also involved in the video game industry, has said, “I absolutely am a big Call of Duty fan. Every time a new Call of Duty comes out – I never play the games online, but I play the solo version super fast. My family knows not to interrupt me the day they come out, they know it’s a sacred date for me.”
He added, “I think my favorite visually, of all of the Call of Duty games — even if it’s not as sassy and high tech — is World at War because, that game has some really incredible episodes in Berlin and the Japanese fields. It’s really quite arresting for me, visually, and it was very immersive. But I love Modern Warfare, too.”
The love that the movie director has for the first-person shooters that are published by Treyarch and Infinity Ward and published by Activision Blizzard is probably linked to the many movie-like effects they use and to the way they are always aiming to overload the sense of the player in the manner of high-budget action films.
Guillermo del Toro is working on a very different video game projects, called inSane, a game which will blend Lovecraft influences with a number of survival horror mechanics and with a cinematic feel.
The project is in development at Volition and will be published by THQ at some point during 2013, the first game of a planned trilogy.