A while back we teased that you can expect plenty of gore in Call of Duty: WWII. At first that seems like a no-brainer, but you should keep in mind that most Call of Duty games, while violent, don't feature a lot of blood. Subtle pops of red are the most you'll see in most Call of Duty games, Treyarch games and Infinite Warfare excepted. Call of Duty: WWII is going to be different, though, and one German journalist got to see just how dark this war story is willing to get during a special preview.

Over on Games Aktuell, a German gaming site, Matti Sandqvist described death scene in the course of gameplay so graphic, it caused him to lose his appetite. What follows below is a direct (and therefore imperfect and slightly awkward) Google translation of what we wrote in his article.

"After a short trip to Hürtgendwald the developers showed us two sections from the Normandy landing mission. As already mentioned, the scenes in the landing craft and the subsequent storm on the German defenses were very authentic. But when it comes to the brutality of the war, the whole thing was even blown out later: in the hard fighting inside the bunker it came several times to close combat. Unlike their predecessors, they are treated in really brutal quicktime events.


"For example, our protagonist reached for a helmet with which he struck the head of his adversary - from the ego perspective, the whole thing was so bloody and disgusting that we would have waited well for the breakfast before the event. We hope that these quicktime events do not happen too often. Not because they were bad, but we think that such scenes should be unique, so that they do not become mass goods and thus lose their meaning."

In the Reddit thread where we first stumbled across the article, the topic creator translated a sentence to read that "the face was beaten with a helmet to mash." Either way, it sounds intense and a little gross. Sledgehammer Games is going to earn that M rating this time around, and I have a feeling that we're in for a war story that may surprise us in more ways than one. It's hard to depict war in a way that isn't shocking if you're trying to be authentic, but I do hope that they'll manage to keep it tasteful. I guess we'll see!

Posted: May 02, 2017 11:59 am
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Source: http://wwg.com/2017/05/02/call-of-duty-wwii-death-scene-described-as-shockingly-graphic/