Call of Duty: WWII Story Is Mostly Told In-Game, Not in Cutscenes; Walking Simulators Inspired Devs

The story in Call of Duty: WWII will be mostly told in-game rather than cutscenes. The devs also said that titles like Firewatch, Gone Home and Virginia inspired them.

[XiNatsuDragnel]

Nice

[KaiPow]

That could help make the campaign feel more cohesive. CoD campaigns always feel like they're barely connected.

[Palitera]

Yeah, but my first thought is "this is not something they know how to do"...
But as the second thought is "whatever, I won't play the rehashed turbo game anyway"... Whatever...

[Aurenar]

I have good feelings about this game.

[Relientk77]

I think this campaign is gonna be sick

[Erik7357]

Look at Prey if you want a game for camapign.

[ccgr]

Sounds promising

[Chris_Wray]

A bit of organic storytelling is something that Call of Duty could seriously do with. The series lost the ability to create engrossing elements that occured during gameplay. Even if it's railroaded gameplay, ala CoD4's opening car ride, it's still better than the overdone screenshots they've relied on.

[Phil32]

Will this make repeat play-throughs annoying due to being forced to stand around and wait for dialogue to be spoken?

[Jakens]

Valid point. You can skip a cut scene easily in another game.

[Trekster_Gamer]

This game I feel will be great. I think it will be emotional given the event really happened and are part of our history. With today's advances in games in just about every way they should be able to capture the atmosphere of WWII.

[FullmetalRoyale]

That is nice. I like when games do story in game. I'd prefer to stay in first person as much as possible.

[opinionated]

Lmao inspired by walking simulators.. I never thought I would hear that from anyone let alone the cod devs.

[StormLegend]

This is sounding awesome! I need it!!

[oof46]

I've never had a problem with that kind of story telling. Keeps things at a nice pace.

[Jaqen_Hghar]

Good. Also a man first remembers no cutscenes in the Half-Life games.

[Skankinruby]

Nothing wrong with cutscenes as long as they're done right. The last of us was perfect, metal gear solid 4 was waaay over the top. Not sure about 'in game' storytelling, just hope the campaign is good unlike battlefield 1 which had a trash campaign.

[victorMaje]

Good

[TheOttomatic91]

Not too sure how I feel about this Since I loved the cinematic storytelling in AW and IW, AW is noteworthy as it is done by the same team as WW2 and the writing and cutscenes was surprisingly well done.