Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 devs had military advisors help during the story writing process
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It turns out that the writing behindCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 3(2023)’s campaign was supported by a team of real military advisors, who were able to explain to the developers at Sledgehammer Games how planned in-game scenarios would be carried out in real life.
In aninterviewwith The Guardian, creative director Dave Swenson spoke about this process, and how it impacted the missions that fans have seen in already-revealed footage of the upcoming title.
“When we were talking about that level, we sat down with these advisors and we said, ‘OK, if you’re going to break into the Gulag, how do you do that?’” Swenson said, referring to thefirst campaign level which was shown during Gamescom2023’s Opening Night Live. “And they were like: ‘Well, we’d probably have a team that would go in via submarine and they would climb the outside. But it wouldn’t be just one team. We’d always have a backup. We’d probably send them via parachutes.’ And we’re like: ‘This is cool. This sounds like aCall of Dutylevel!’”
This isn’t the first time that Sledgehammer Games called on the help of military advisors for a game - the studio previously did the exact same thing during the development of 2014’sCall of Duty: Advanced Warfare, as was revealed in adifferent interviewwith The Guardian at the time.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3is set to release on November 10 onPS5, PS4,Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC, but fans will be able toaccess the campaign up to one week earlyif they pre-order a digital version of the game.
For more games like Call of Duty, be sure to take a look at our list of thebest FPS gamesavailable to play now. You can also keep an eye on the rest of 2023’s releases with our roundup ofupcoming games.
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