Call Of Duty Director Says Players Don't Realise What Goes Into Making The Games

An ex-director of the Call of Duty series has spoken about how difficult it is to make the games. In a new interview, Glen Schofield - who co-directed several CoD titles including Modern Warfare 3, Advanced Warfare, and WWII - says that the players of the series don't realise how much work goes into the CoD titles.

Spotted by VGC and originally reported in Edge, the former general manager of Sledgehammer Games has come forward to talk about how hard it is to make the Call of Duty games. Although every new Call of Duty game is one of the biggest releases of each year, he thinks people undervalue the hard work put into the projects simply because they're CoD branded.

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Schofield says to Edge: "People nowadays [think] a Call of Duty is... you know, just put it through the grinder and another one will come out. They don't realise how much work goes into making a Call of Duty game. There's just a ton of research. You're working with experts - I studied World War Two for three years. I worked with historians. I spent eight days in a van in Europe going to all the places that were going to be in the game. I shot different old weapons. All of these things that you have to do when you're working on a Call of Duty game."

The developer goes on to say: "And, you know, to become an expert - we worked with Navy SEALS and Delta Force people to learn [the] tactics and techniques and get them into the game, right? You had to learn about the Special Forces from different countries like England and France and Spain and Italy and all that, because they were all in the game. So, a lot of learning, constantly reading, constantly watching videos and constantly working with experts."

It's probably fair to say that a lot of people do undervalue the amount of effort that goes into the CoD series. Many gamers are guilty of waving the work aside because a new Call of Duty game comes out almost every year and it feels like a lot of it retreads old ground, but that doesn't mean there isn't a lot of blood, sweat, and tears present in the final product.

However, I would like to say that next time Activision is taking a bus around Europe to sightsee, I'm happy to go instead.

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