Before being called up to work with Infinity Ward on “Modern Warfare 3”, Sledgehammer was working on their original first Call Of Duty, which would have turned out to be a third person shooter. Sledgehammer’s Glen Schofield revealed some of the details regarding this third person COD with Game Informer. There’s no word on if Sledgehammer scrapped the game, if they will continue it once they go back to the drawing board for their next COD or not, but would you be interested in a 3rd person Call Of Duty? Infinity Ward changed the game with MW2, so is Sledgehammer thinking it’s time for a new change? For now we have to await their “Advanced Warfare” to see if they nailed and exceeded the expectations a COD FPS brings to the table, but in the meantime stick with us for anymore news that may arise on this third person shooter.
Sledgehammer co-founder Glen Schofield told Game Informer (which has a cover story on Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare) that the studio was about six to eight months into the third-person Call of Duty project, which was set during the Vietnam War. “… We were really getting into the story,” Schofield said. “We had a big moment that I would love to get into a game someday, but it’s not something we could do in first-person.”
Regarding the project’s setting, Schofield said that while everyone only thinks about Vietnam regarding the 1960s and ’70s war, it was in Cambodia and Laos as well. “We did a lot of research on that war,” explained Schofield, who helped create Dead Space. “… We were definitely going for some Dead Space moments. It was going to be a fresh take on war, that’s for sure.”
Ultimately, about 15 minutes of the third-person Call of Duty project were playable after a half-year of development, and that’s when Activision asked Sledgehammer if it was interested in helping out with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. The rest — as they say — is history.
Via. IGN
