A few years ago, when ex-EA employees Michael Condrey and Glen Schofield formed Sledgehammer Studios, their primary goal was to develop an action adventure Call of Duty game for Activision.<\/p>\n
However, things over at Activision HQ got a little ugly the following year when primary CoD developer Infinity Ward all but fell apart completely, losing studio heads Jason West and Vince Zampela.<\/p>\n
As a result, Sledgehammer Games was forced to refocus on helping Infinity Ward develop Modern Warfare 3, which is due out next month. In a surprising turn, it seems that Sledgehammer will not be diverting back to its original path, with studio general manager Glen Schofield telling CVG<\/a> that “We’ll probably cancel it,” and saying “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’s 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.”<\/p>\n The game was never officially confirmed, and practically nothing concrete was known about it other than it would take place in the CoD universe and would be a third-person action-adventure.<\/p>\n It would seem that following the release of Modern Warfare 3 Sledgehammer will move onto a new project, with Schofield saying “I think that we will work alone on our next project,” explaining that Modern Warfare 3 has allowed the developer to hire additional staff.<\/p>\n “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.”<\/p>\n