Sledgehammer Wanted to Make Advanced Warfare 2, Activision Pushed for Return to WWII - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 09 November 2017 / 2,744 Views
Call of Duty has been one of the best-selling games year after year. One of the series developers, Sledgehammer Games, wanted to make Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare 2, however, publisher Activision pushed the team to take the series backs to roots - a World War II shooter.
"Sledgehammer wanted to make Advanced Warfare 2," Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg told Newsweek. "We knew they would become historians, that they would tackle it with authenticity, give it tremendous care and we also knew they would capture the unspeakable scale of World War II.
"What I love about this game is that anyone's who's looking forward to going back to the roots, the gritty, human-scale, boots-on-the-ground, militaristic, authentic experience that Call Of Duty is known for, this game delivers it in a big way."
Call of Duty: WWII launched worldwide for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Windows PC on November 3.
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Activision was right. Its also a great CoD game. We had three futuristic games in a row and it got old. Although Infinite Warfare was really good in my opinion.
Maybe we can get that sequel to Ghosts now. :-p
Ghosts... the last COD where actual sniping (laying still and waiting for your shot) was rewarded.
Activi$ion couldnt afford too lose more revenue so there was no way in hell they were going to take risk with advanced warfare 2
its ok that they are made a wwII cod but in the end Advanced Warefare was better as Infinite Warfare, bo3, ghost, and bo2 for me, i loved this exo suit much more then the fails in bo3 and iw and it needed a lot more skill for the movement then any other cod
Yeah it woulda been awful timing for them if they did do AW2
This. Advanced Warfare was the most fun I had with the series since Black Ops 2, but a sequel would've rivaled if not surpassed Infinite Warfare as one of the biggest financial disappointments in the series.
