Call of Duty: WWII certainly has a lot going for it, including a strong single player campaign, stacked-up multiplayer options, and the ability to fight alongside your cohorts in co-op style, taking on a horde of new Nazi Zombies. But that’s not all, as the co-founder of Sledgehammer Games (the developer behind WWII), Michael Condrey, has confirmed another addition – female characters.

Female characters have played a vital part in Call of Duty games over the past few years, starting with the addition of female specialists in Call of Duty: Black Ops III (along with a strong female character in the campaign, voiced by Katee Sackhoff of Battlestar Galactica fame), and continuing on through Infinite Warfare. Well, this year will be no exception, as we’ll see some female faces join the cast.

“Yes, for sure!” Condrey said when asked if female characters would be included in multiplayer. While certain names haven’t been confirmed just yet, it appears that the folks at Reddit did some digging and came up with a few answers.

Some of the pieces of early artwork for the game have confirmed a character named Rousseau, a female leader of the Resistance. Hints indicate that she could be a playable character, more than likely with the game’s Nazi Zombies co-op mode, though that isn’t confirmed just yet. A Steam listing seems to have confirmed her involvement as well, so it’ll be great having her on the team.

And that isn’t all. GamesRadar also had a chance to chat with Condrey about certain characters, and another German woman seems to have been confirmed as well. He noted that "we really wanted to capture that it was a global cause, right? The Allied force was a global force, the German force, the Axis force, was more than just the Nazis. It was Germans as well as other nations involved, and so it was important for us to not... this isn’t an American war, this isn’t a story of an American squad – this is a global cast and so you’ll see some really powerful performances on both sides of the war."

In addition, he also said that the characters revealed thus far do include “two sisters” involved with a German family, who could take part in the campaign or some other part of the game at some point.

As for Rousseau, Condrey noted that she has a particularly cool moment, “that moment where you join with the French Resistance is a really nice moment." So it sounds like she may be in the main story, too.



Posted: May 01, 2017 9:34 am
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Source: http://wwg.com/2017/04/30/call-of-duty-wwii-will-have-female-characters/