Sledgehammer may cancel their CoD title

Activision had, last year, agreed with Sledgehammer for them to create a third-person Call of Duty title. However, the company are now working with Infinity Ward on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Sledgehammer’s head, Glen Schofield, has now admitted to the fact that his studio’s CoD title may be cancelled.

Talking to CVG, the outspoken boss said:

We’ll probably cancel it. They gave us the choice of: do you want to work on Modern Warfare 3, or do you want to continue working on this? And we really liked that.

We liked what we were doing. It third person, probably set at a time that might have niched it too much. I bet that if we had kept going, within a month or two I probably would have switched the time period, but kept the gameplay. It had some really cool stuff.

He added:

This game has allowed both Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer Games to hire, and we hired really strong teams, both of us. We needed to come together on this one, but since then we’ve both grown, we’re both over 100 people now.

Initially we weren’t fully functional because we had to learn a new engine. Now we have, I think the best thing that could happen for Activision would be for us to both go off and make our own game. Whether that’s a Call of Duty game or not is up in the air. I plan to continue working on Call of Duty.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 releases on November 8th.