Sledgehammer Talks About Canceled Third-person Call of Duty

Development on a Call of Duty set in the Vietnam War stopped in order to finish Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

In a new interview, Sledgehammer cofounders Michael Condrey and Glen Schofield talked about their canceled third-person Call of Duty game.

They said that the project was started after leaving Viceral Games, but development was halted in order to help finish Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

"We had spent six or eight months on it, and were really getting into the story," Schofield said. "We had some really cool mechanics. 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."

He also revealed that a large part of the game took place in underground tunnels, and that the team was “going for some Dead Space moments.”

"It was part of our culture that we were all gonna make that decision together. We would have loved to make that [third-person] game. It was in a space that we enjoyed, but how does anything compare to the first-person blockbuster release of 2011?"

Sledgehammer’s Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare launches November 4.