14 DAY TRIAL // World War II was the biggest conflict ever waged on our planet, since it engaged a lot of countries and marked their entire history forever. Because it was the host to many epic battles like the ones from Normandy or Berlin, a lot of developers look at it as the backdrop for many of their games. We have seen a lot of shooters with their action placed in WWII and most of them weren't very entertaining. It's rather hard to bring something new to an old conflict, but a lot of developers still don't understand that and continue to put their games in that huge conflict.
Call of Duty is one of the most successful shooter franchises, with the first three titles taking place in WWII. However, with the fourth one, the creator of the series, Infinity Ward, decided to leave the war behind and put the action of the game in this day and age. As such, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare became one of the most successful shooters of last year, putting the players in modern day conflicts like the ones in the Middle East. But the parent company of Infinity Ward, Activision, decided that the franchise would still sell if placed in WWII, and tasked the Treyarch studio to develop the next title in the game series, entitled Call of Duty 5: World at War. All this while Infinity Ward is hard at work on another CoD title.
Although the decision wasn't met with extreme sympathy by fans, the game really looks like it will sell. Most of the critics hoped that it would be the last time the CoD franchise went to WWII, and from there on, all of the games would have their action placed in other times. But now, Treyarch senior producer, Noah Heller, spoke to ComputerAndVideoGames and said that this might not be the last CoD to take the player back to that dreadful period.
"I can't say that there won't ever be a WWII Call of Duty game again. If we had time we might have shown the end of the war from many different country's [sic] perspectives, and maybe that's a story still untold," he said. "But in the meantime people definitely haven't seen the final charge of the Red Army, people haven't seen what the fighting was like in Okinawa and I think it's definitely important to show those stories from a polished perspective rather than show some of the mopping up elsewhere in the world."
So it looks like the fans of the popular shooter franchise might endure another WWII-based game in the future. Definitely a bad move from Activision, but the title will sell because of the hardcore fans who don't care about the game as long as it's Call of Duty.