IW wanted COD2 to be Modern Warfare

[Maynard]

http://www.xbox360achievements.org/news/news-3653-Activision-

Activision "Didn't Want Modern Warfare"
Written Tuesday, October 06, 2009 by Dan Webb

Infinity Ward told the Official PlayStation Mag in the UK that Activision didn't want Infinity Ward to make a modern day combat game and instead wanted the US based developer to create another World War II title.

"With Call of Duty 2, we were dead set against it being World War 2," Zampella told OPM, "but 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."

Zampella also mentions how Activision saw their studio as a PC developer, "We always wanted to be on consoles and Activision saw us as more of a PC developer."

"And something I'll add to that, Activision also did not want Modern Warfare. 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 stated. Project Lead Jason West piped up and said, "They wanted it to be World War II. Again."

Of course Activision must be pretty grateful that they eventually caved into Infinity Ward's ambitions, especially considering that Call of Duty 4 sold around 14 million copies, and the follow up is looking to smash that record.

 

[Blade]

I am hoping that Developers like IW and Naughty Dog can finally help publishers learn that, the devs know what they are talking about more than not. Maybe then we can go pack to more IPs being released. Instead of the same chicken fodder again and again. I understand the publisher's job is the bottom line, but its not much of a bottomline when you hang on to the same idea again and again.

I feel like same thing has happened to stuff Resistance 2, it was essentially the same game as the first one. Similar stuff is going down all the 3rd person shooter games that do all the action similar to Stranglehold, i.e. bullet time, and crazy wall climbing BS.