It was also revealed that Sledgehammer Games was once working on a third-person Call of Duty game that was inspired by Naughty Dog’s Uncharted series.
Sledgehammer Games, the development studio behind the Call of Duty franchise, was once working on a third-person Call of Duty game that was inspired by Naughty Dog’s Uncharted series. According to former Senior Creative Director, Bret Robbins, the game was meant to be a “brutal war experience”. Robbins mentioned that the development team had made a prototype for the project, but it was ultimately an experiment that was scrapped.
The idea behind the game was to bring a gritty and brutal third-person war experience to the fans of the Call of Duty franchise. Unfortunately, the project didn’t go far and was eventually abandoned by the development team in order to work on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
The news of Sledgehammer Games’ third-person Call of Duty game comes at a time when Sony has expressed concern to the CMA about the possibility of Microsoft deliberately leaving bugs in the PlayStation version of future Call of Duty releases.
Although Sledgehammer Games’ third-person Call of Duty game was never released, it’s still interesting to see what the studio was working on at the time. With the success of the Uncharted series, it’s no surprise that the studio was inspired to create a similar game with a “brutal war experience”. Unfortunately, the project didn’t go far, and we’ll never know what could have been.