Activision: World at War ‘feels better’ than other CoDs

Speaking to VideoGamer.com Activision senior producer Noah Heller said that World at War’s multiplayer “feels much better than any Call of Duty I’ve had a chance to play”.

Infinity Ward’s Modern Warfare has proven a massive success online following its late 2007 release. It regularly swaps top spot on the most-played Xbox LIVE leaderboard with Bungie’s Halo 3, and is considered by many to be the best online competitive multiplayer FPS currently available.

World at War, due out on November 14, is developed by Treyarch, the developer responsible for Call of Duty 3 and the upcoming Bond game Quantum of Solace. In the run up to the game’s release Treyarch has endured a degree of cynicism from CoD4 fans regarding the possibility of World at War being as good or better than Infinity Ward’s hit title.

However, Heller believes that World at War will prove a hit with fans and will convince the doubters of the studio’s credentials.

“Infinity Ward is a great studio and there’s always going to be great studios,” he said. “I think that the game will speak for itself and it will show people that we’re a serious studio that people should take notice of. I’m not going to compare us to Infinity Ward but I will say that everyone who is involved in the CoD brand holds it to the highest degree and we feel like we’re finally approaching the bar that we needed to approach, and that’s a significant thing for us. So when it comes to the time for us to make our next game, or even when it comes time to make the next map packs or anything else connected to this game, we’re going to know that that bar is set pretty high.”

He added: “It was hard coming out to see people six or seven months ago and say, ‘we know the bar is set very low, let us convince you why we can raise the bar’, but we’d much rather know that the bar is high and have to meet a new bar. Basically I think we’re happy to say the game speaks for itself and we hope when people look at future Treyarch games they’ll say, ‘you need to give us a game as good as World at War’.”

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