famousringo said:
Credit where it's due. I loathe Activision too, but even if the setting was IW's idea, Activision went along with it as publisher and came up with the unique idea of letting two completely different developers tag team a franchise (after stumbling over CoD 3's 7 month dev cycle). |
Well, IW actually wanted to take CoD 2 into the modern era on consoles, but activision wanted to keep it in WWII on PC, so the compromise was WW II on PC and consoles. They then thought they should release it on PS2 as well to cash it, and that was where they got the idea of the 2nd developer, and then they just thought about milking it to death. Activision were very reluctant to take it into the modern setting
All this is with an interview with Vince Zampella (the head of IW), so you may want to take some of itwith a pinch of salt
