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While it’s hard to feel sorry for a franchise as massively successful and critically acclaimed as Infinity Ward’s Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, the fact that, according to the game’s developers, Activision was deathly opposed to the idea of moving the franchise out of the World War II setting almost brings a tear to my eye.
In an interview with the Official PlayStation Magazine (via CVG), Infinity Ward head Vince Zampella revealed that his team had been fighting with Activision over making a modern-day Call of Duty game going back to Call of Duty 2. But according to Zampella, “Activision really wanted it, the compromise sort of being that we’d get some dev kits for consoles in exchange for doing a World War 2 game.” This is what allowed IW to make the leap to consoles, which it had apparently always wanted to do but couldn’t because of Activision’s restrictions.
But when it finally came time for IW to start working on Modern Warfare, Activision once again stood firmly against the idea. “They thought working on a modern game was risky and [thought], ‘oh my god you can’t do that, it’s crazy!’ they were doing market research to show us we were wrong the whole time,” Zampella said. And wrong they were, as Modern Warfare then went on to ship over 14 million units and garner countless awards along the way.
So the next time you’re enjoying a little Modern Warfare or drooling over footage from the upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, give a little tip of the hat to IW for successfully navigating the treacherous world of Activision’s bottom-line-first mentality. See? You kind of want to cry a little. No?
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COD-MOH
In my eyes, Call of duty should not have gone modern. Sure, it made a lot of money, but it totally messed up the original series.. Sure they brought back WWII at World at War, but it just didn't give it the same charm it did.
To Vismortis: You say they were right to switch so it wouldn't get old. Since when would that matter? Look at the Medal of Honor games, they all stuck to world war 2, from the first, all the way up to the very new one coming out this year, all WWII, and I love every single of one them, they don't seem boring.
fbqdmg2
cod4 is by far my favorite game in the series so far. UNTIL 11/10/09.....
thatrandomdude
Making good games is all about taking risks...and keeping people from getting bored out of their mind.
Cordell1128
thank GOD if IW would of gave up we all would be playing some crappy tom clancy Shooter I HEART Infinity Ward
indianprince
IW fought the fine fight!
ZombieKohhi
Why would they want to stay in WWII?
AbsentKnight
What is it with iffy publishers now a days this reminds me of the Bungie Microsoft ordeal that almost gat Ensamble Studios shut down too.
achillez77
I almost did squeeze out a tear there. Activision and Kotick (who doesn't seem to be a video gamer) just want to cookie cutter the same old formula that they know works and are ridiculously risk averse. I'm sick of WWII games merely from all the ads, and I haven't even played any except W@W. Plus it's just automatically fresher when it's current, surprisingly.
@ Jake - I would be really interested in hearing the story behind the subtraction and subsequent addition of COD to the title, I bet it's a good one. It begins to sound like IW may have been the party to attempt to drop it, and Activision managed to squirm it back in there. Tell us that story please, or let us know where it is written, lol.
pipspoolcleaning3
The amount of deception, violence and "drama" that surrounded the Vietnam war, I feel like as game, someone would've gotten it right by now. Such a huge untapped source for material to make a game on. After seeing a great batman game come along, I believe it's possible to make a great game out of something that has been plagued with garbage if the right TLC is brought to the table.
pipspoolcleaning3
World at War wasn't a bad game and it's multiplayer got way more support in the way of DLC but as a game it owes all of its great bullet points to IW for creating the foundation that World at War needed to be a viable game. Had IW not creating such an amazing game with COD4 then WaW wouldn't have been as good as it was since it was basically a retooling of COD4 to match the WW2 era. IW brings the heavy hitters and game changing elements and Treyarch follows the leader. Treyarch, from a business point, is pretty much forced to follow IW's lead. So saying that WaW sucked would almost being like say that COD4 sucked because it was pretty much the same game with a few new weapons and levels. Also, the zombie mode was great. Can you really deny them of that?
X02
I was watching an old X-Play episode in which Morgan said apparently World War II hasn't been won yet. Honestly, Activision, were you planning to recreate the entire war in video game form?
CALiiGeDDon
Sure there are many modern games also but the reason why WW2 is seemed to be sooo milked is because there is almost nothing new to make WW2 games about. I think there should be more Japan WW2 stuff, they seem to always make WW2 Germany.
redsoxfan67
Message to IW: Please Break away from Activision
FreshCut_T70
I read in Game Informer that CEO of Activision Bobby Kotick thinks that expensive peripheral bundles don't cost enough, these guys just suck, period. I have liked all the CoD games to varying degrees but these guys are trying to top EA as the worst game publisher on the planet.
His exact statement...."you know if it was left to me, I would raise the price even further"
I'm finding hard to support these people when they clearly are all about the money, Infinity Ward needs to jump ship and find another publisher...quickly.
FrontLinePlaya
Go IW way to stick it to activision. IW should have left activision to go solo they seem be being held back from alot of things.
Drop_Six
I honestly think that Infinity Ward made a great move by making a modern war game because it was something DIFFERENT. I'm so tired of all the World War 2 shooters out there. Its just beating a dead horse, over and over and over and over.... rinse repeat. And as far as Activision is concerned, they can suck it.
PhantomGamer669
i dont think war games as a whole would have gotten better had it not been for modern warfare it came out and became the gold standard of what a shooter should look like if tiwants to be successful and subsequently it has worked even world at war was a better game because of what they learned in makn modern warfare you have to realize as well saving private ryan came out and thn all of a sudden boom out came medal of honor and call of duty its understandable to not want to break away form a formula tht works but the truth is war games shouldve gone modern light years ago because you cant constantly revisit the same ww2 battles and expect t keep it fresh for the player besides the things you can do now in video games are ridiculous!! look at 5 secs worth of the cod mw2 trailer and its clear we killn terrorists in better ways every year w every iteration of a game watch out guys cuz when part 2 comes out their going to take all the awards they can grab!!
ABXPuPpeT
its like activision is saying "we dont want money anymore, lets just keep making old games that we already sold to people in the past"
Redd75
Oh Activision, silly Activision...when will you 'smarten' up?
DASOBERONE
IDIOTS...
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