![]() ![]() In designing the campaign’s concentration camp visit, the team looked at how other media set during World War II handled depictions of the Holocaust’s horrors. “To not touch on the subject would have been remiss, but it would have been really hard to do it justice in the way we would want to,” Michael Condrey, co-studio head and game director of Sledgehammer Games, told Polygon. It feels like a compromise between ignoring the reality of the Holocaust and running the risk of turning historical genocide into just another spectacle in the game’s campaign. ![]() The tone is one of numb horror, as one character takes pictures to show others what they’ve found. The game steps away from showing a death camp in operation, instead giving you a sort of guided tour through a burning, abandoned environment. So how does Call of Duty: WWII deal with the Holocaust? But they also can’t ignore certain topics when their latest game is set during the Second World War, especially if the developers want their story to be taken seriously. ![]() Franchises that are this large and part of a marketing machine that’s this powerful can’t become dour looks at the bleakness of war. Call of Duty: WWII is a game that has to, on some level, be enjoyable for the player. ![]()
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