Call of Duty: WW2 Features Playable Female Characters, Diverse Cast

J Station X: Call of Duty: WW2 features playable female characters, as well as characters of different ethnicities, confirms developer Sledgehammer Games.

[annoyedgamer]

This website is stupid, just like newnormative and cliqst..all owned by the same people.

And if the post is true and the game is indeed engaging in revisionist history, I will not buy it. They may as well deny the holocaust while they're at it.

[UCForce]

Well, Star war Battlefront 2 and COD WW2 going to have one of those. That's the world we always been live and struggle. People want to take these personal for their own term.

[UCForce]

I'm not gonna lie here. Some people have some concerns about BF 1 that there are too many Black Soldiers in BF1 multiplayer.

[annoyedgamer]

I did too and im brown myself. Its part of the same agenda. All I ever ask for is accuracy and some basic respect. These are, after all, real conflicts where real lives were lost.

[slavish0]

Wft it's a game! It's not really. it never will be real. Its a video game. You will never know the horror of a war by seating on a couch pressing "x". Don't buy the game then or join the damn military if u want to see how real war is. @annoyedgamer u r a entitled idiot what respect have u earned from play a game? Basic respect? Wow, u need to evaluate what comes with a $59.99 purchase.

[Allsystemgamer]

Hey slavish

Why not include t rexes with machine guns?

I mean. It's just a video game right?

Battlefield 1 should have had AK 47 wielding Mexican trans midgets. It's just a game right?

[Bathyj]

@slavish
Yeah its a game, but its a game that is striving for authenticity so it ok to question these things. Or if Tom Hanks had a Plasma Rifle in Saving Private Ryan would we say who cares, its only a movie?

[BlacKJesu5]

No such thing

[_-EDMIX-_]

@ann-accuracy? I don't understand? So are you doubting that African Americans fought in World War 1?

I had zero concerns regarding accuracy in regards to Battlefield one in terms of the demographics they showed because all of those demographics of actually fought in World War 1 so I'm not entirely sure what you would seriously be concerned about.

@sla- we all understand it's a video game but it's also referencing something that actually happened in real life so why would anybody want to play something that's heavily altered?

I mean when you play a video game is it okay that the game is based on Earth but the sky is green? Or yellow? Do you seriously think the excuse that it's a game flies when the game for fact is based on a factual place and brings no reference to the inaccuracy?

What your actually confusing is making the game like real life with making the game accurate to the references it's trying to actually properly convey.

That's like saying we're watching a biography of someone's life and basically the city ,the state and none of the actual characters behave the way they did in real life ,despite it being a biography, did you seriously think that anyone's as stupid as they use the excuse that it's not real life to have such good inaccuracies? Do you not fully understand that you're actually not comparing the video game to real life but the actual Source material itself?

That's like saying if Gran Turismo releases tomorrow and they are a handful of cars that are factually represented inaccurately in the game that it's okay because if it's a video game , do not fully understand that we're upset about the reference and not that it is a fake game?

LMFAO!!!

If I paid full price for video game based on World War II I would expect that the developers would at least have the courtesy and respect to make sure the people in that game we're representative of the real life people that actually fought in that war it actually doesn't make sense to have a whole bunch of cookie cutter characters when there's tons of source material to display the demographics.

It being a video game is not an excuse to be lazy I don't even understand your point so you're basically saying make it like crap because it's fake?

Buddy if you're an artist trust me don't create things using Source material if you're seriously telling me you're this slow...

But to you apparently it's okay if none of the Nazi soldiers actually look or even sound German because it's a video game right? That's the perfect excuse to for Crappie development correct?

[Lennoxb63]

Aren't the only black soldiers the sniper class on the American side?

[asm120]

Since it's just a game, how about we add jetpacks and wall running while we're at it

[DaigotheKing]

Slavish is some kind of idiot, the guy never said anything about anyone respecting them, they were asking for respect for the conflict itself and the people who died in it.

[ShadowWolf712]

You-uh... you do know there were female resistance fighters throughout Europe, yes?

[Bathyj]

sigh, of course it is. Were there even female combat soldiers in WWII?

I dont give a damn if games have females characters or not. I like playing with female characters, but dont shove them in where it makes no sense.

[The 10th Rider]

From what I can find there weren't really women combat soldiers during WW2. On the US side only 400-500 women died during WW2, mostly nurses who died from bombardments and stuff like that. (Not to demean what they do, especially as a nursing student myself, but at least on the US side there shouldn't be women in combat roles in the game).

[The 10th Rider]

To expand a bit. It sounds like women were utilized primarily for auxiliary roles during the war. In the Soviet Union, roughly 3% of the military was female. Most of those women were in auxiliary roles, but a small umber did fight in the air force and anti-aircraft units. I couldn't find a whole lot about Germany, but women did serve in auxiliary roles there and from the sound of things some may have seen combat as the war drew closer to a close and the Allied forces starting invading German land.

In countries that were occupied by the Axis there was a fair share of women who participated in resistance fighting in various roles. However the majority of that was of course, not direct combat.

If anyone finds anything else it'd be great to hear more.

[_-EDMIX-_]

We don't really know the accuracy of such information and we also don't really know entirely how they're going to have women in this Call of Duty.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/...

It is greatly believed that Sniper Wolf character was modeled after this lady.

So I'm not entirely sure how they're going to use women in Call of Duty but they were plenty of women in World War II enough to justify some characters.

[Bathyj]

Yeah thats what I mean. I'll reserve judgement till I see it but it seems like shoehorning just to have a woman in there. I havent complained in other games because its usually fine if they want a woman have a woman, either makes sense, but this feels like too much. But like I said, I'll wait and see. Maybe shes some French Resistance fighter, not a military Soldier. That could actually work, but if shes some GI in combat fatigues fighting alongside the guys in the line I call BS.

Good luck with your studies,

EDIT, ah, you just said the same thing below.

[UCForce]

I have to agree with you.

[Allsystemgamer]

It's a French resistance soldier and yes there were women. Not many but they did exist.

[Bathyj]

Ha, I actually didnt know. Looks like I made a lucky guess. I suppose its about the only thing that would make sense.

[UCForce]

Another thing, COD 3 did had one female fighter in Campaign. I think that you played as Polish Special Forces. That's about it. Here : https://youtu.be/vfvWKpSdiY...

[47]

As 10th Rider stated, there were VERY few female combatants in WWII, none on the front lines(not counting resistance fighters). Womens roles in WWII were extremely important, however, it wasn't due to fighting. It was primarily in the production and medical sectors of the war.

[Rimeskeem]

There were no females in battle; however, they may be talking about at home or working during the war. Who knows, no WW2 game has ever paid much attention to what was going on at home.

[ShadowWolf712]

There were several women in resistance cells throughout Europe, so there's that. Also many who worked as spies for the OSS.

[ZombieGamerMan]

Okay I can understand different ethnicities cause it was WW2 and you had everyone taking part but I draw the line on lady soldiers cause women did not fight in WW2

[ShadowWolf712]

That's demonstrably false, my dude.

[The 10th Rider]

Having "a French Resistance fighter named Rousseau . . . playable during the game’s campaign" as a female character sounds okay. But I swear to God, if I purchase the game and I'm playing Omaha beach and there's even one female soldier running around . . . I will break the game disk in half, burn it, and mail it to activision. There's no need to revise history to push agendas.

EDIT: "As Sledgehammer itself noted during the event, World War 2 was not just an American conflict and featured a diverse set of people, including men, women and people of all different ethnicities, and it’s important to represent that."

GTFO, the game's campaign doesn't even open until after the Americans join the war . . . 5 years after it began. It's not just an American conflict, but the campaign focuses almost entirely on the American part of the war? I mean, I'd be fine if they chose that because it's the setting they want, but them for them to try and talk about how it's "not just an American conflict" and how "it’s important to represent that" while blatantly focusing on the American part of the war is just a complete joke.

[dRanzer]

Really hope for massive scales combat and not something like "you are superhero, go to the frontline alone,destroy the AA gun so the allies can be win in the war"
Most be authentic and just epic as well

[_-EDMIX-_]

LMFAO!!!

They're going pull a Mulan on us!

[DefenderOfDoom2]

Wow , went to my local GAMESTOP today and the whole store has COD WW2 on all windows and everywhere in the store . They even had COD WW2 baseball hats everywhere with all the GAMESTOP employees wearing them and camouflage netting everywhere. Wow, ACTIVISION spends a ton of money promoting the COD franchise .

[_-EDMIX-_]

Activision are masters of marketing they have marketed Call of Duty to Heights I don't really believe any person ever believe a game could be marketed EVERY SINGLE YEAR!

I think I heard somewhere that they once spent over two hundred million dollars to Market a Call of Duty.

Whether anybody likes Call of Duty or not they definitely changed the industry in regards to help people now see games on a very equal footing as film if not even surpassing in many regards.

[fatbastard11]

Political corectness at it's finest here.This will break immersion for many people including myself.

[FunAndGun]

You people are ridiculous, it is a game about shooting your opponent. if you are playing Battlefield or CoD for a real WW2 experience and accuracy than you are fooling yourself.

I can not believe you guys...I swear you cry more than the PC crowd.

[The7Reaper]

Google some WW2 history before you pout buddy.

[Sciurus_vulgaris]

Woman pretty much never serve in combat roles. Even to this day female combat infantry are extremely rare. Nearly all the infantry deployed in Europe, were white males. Enough pandering.

[BadElf]

No.......why?
Please no

[Cy]

Just like all those female soldiers that fought in the real WW2 right?

I guess that "two years of research" Sledgehammer claimed to have done about WW2 didn't involve anything about how the military actually operated back then. Unless part of the game turns into Surgeon Simulator with WW2 nurses.

[BadElf]

So it will show a Female at home, with 2 Generals driving up letting her know her husband has died?? That's the only thing that would make sense

[The 10th Rider]

Well, not literally the only thing . . . But sad enough that's about the most likely thing that a woman married to an active serviceman in a combat role from the US or UK would have experienced during WW2.

[47]

Female combatants in WWII were extremely rare. Im sorry, thats just a fact. Id assume Sledgehammer knows this and we won't be seeing any females storm the beaches at Normandy or fighting on the front lines in Bastogne. Female roles will prob be relegated to specific modes or circumstances, which they should.

[_-EDMIX-_]

That's actually what I believe specifically how Battlefield one sort of handled its main story is how I believe they might possibly do with this game.

[masterfox]

So you will be a manufacturing operator creating supplies for the soldiers ?, historically in WWII most women worked in manufacturing supporting the troops with supplies, others where nurses, agriculture, this around all the nations involved. but almost more than 95 %(if not 99 %) were men fighting the enemy.

Adding this to the game is just to pleased all those SJW Feminist outhere sadly.

[Pintheshadows]

Just to cement this fact my two grandmothers worked building Spitfires. As did all 7 of their sisters and almost all of their friends.

[The7Reaper]

Women did fight in WW2 Russia had a whole air force unite made up of women Nick naned the Night Witches so how about some of you idiots kindly shut the hell up and pick up a history book

[The7Reaper]

The Soviets deployed a lot of female troops one woman Lyudmila Pavlichenko nicknamed Lady Death was an amazing sniper who had over 300 kills so yeah people googling isn't hard.

[_-EDMIX-_]

Beat me to it.

Many believe that is the inspiration for Sniper Wolf in the Metal Gear Solid series.

[Aenea]

And that's the thing many people here seem to forget, there were female soldiers, not many, but there were, so it IS okay to include them in the game and makes it as accurate as all the African American characters running around in Battlefield 1 because let's face it, not many were there. If you're okay with what BF1 does then you should be okay with adding women as well but somehow many are okay with one inaccuracy but not with the other....

[The 10th Rider]

Only about 3% of the Soviet's military was female, and even then most of those women were in supportive roles. Nearly 10 times more male Soviet soldiers died in the war than there were women in the Soviet's military.

[_-EDMIX-_]

Nice.

Some of the best snipers in World War II were female snipers.

[chrisoadamson]

whats the obsession with female characters. I'd get there were feck all in WW2 . it's sad