The Verge have reported
on a top secret Call of Duty game that was in development five months
before the release of the first Modern Warfare. Call of Duty: Devil’s
Brigade was cancelled nine months in to development, was a third-person
affair, and focused on the “superheroes” of WWII who later inspired the
formation of the Green Berets and the Canadian Special Operations forces
Command.
Activision cancelled the project in 2007. The dev team included Jason
VandenBerghe, current creative director on Far Cry 3, along with Scott
Bandy and Trevor Jalowitz, who now work for Activision. They called
themselves Underground Development.
VandenBerghe quotes Infinity Ward’s dominance as one of the reasons
for the cancellation: “If the IW guys say they want to control the Call
of Duty IP, they don’t even have to say our name. We just got
sideswiped. And that happens. I don’t begrudge them for that.”
Lead designer, Kyle Brink says the Vivendi/Blizzard merger was also a
factor: “As is normal in a merger, you do everything you can to clean up
your balance sheet. A studio that isn’t in full production on a title
with major revenue attached to it, which is about to ask for tens of
millions in development dollars, is a great candidate for closure.”
Here are a bundle of screenshots and a few seconds of footage.
Warning: console commands feature below. As do low-res textures and
basic geometry.
Can you imagine an alternate reality where Devil’s Brigade exists? What’s it like?
Cancelled COD by u64backup
No comments:
Post a Comment