In an interview with Eurogamer Call of Duty: World at War’s senior producer, Noah Heller, had some choice words for the Gearbox developed Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway. Here are a few highlights:
We don’t even think about them. Like, that’s not the kind of game… they’re not a game we even think about when we’re playing. We think about the best shooters, you know: we play Modern Warfare, we play, um, you know, uhh — I’m blanking out on all our competitor’s games — we play Gears of War, we play Halo, you know, that’s the competition, because what we want to — Bioshock — we want to look at the games that do great storytelling, you know? We don’t want to look at, you know, someone that’s just making a crappy war game… I watched their trailer, and I was like, “These guys aren’t even in the same league”
He continues on to say that Treyarch looked to the movie Aliens because they only, “take their inspiration from the best”. Well that’s interesting, does Mr. Heller realize that Gearbox are actually deep in development on Aliens: Colonial Marines? And speaking of crappy war games, has he played his own Call of Duty 3?
You can watch the full interview at Eurogamer.
UPDATE: Thanks to Kotaku for Pointing out that Mr. Heller is a Senior Producer employed at Activision. So it could very well be that this is a prime example of the poor judgement and belief that any press is good press.
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