As you\u2019d expect, Call of Duty: Ghosts is one of the biggest games of the year, but this time around its not the traditional man-shooter you\u2019d expect from Infinity Ward, and instead has a whole lot of heart and different approach to its post-catastrophic warfare; and MyGaming caught up with Activision Vice President of Production Daniel Suarez to find out more.<\/p>\n
When asked how moving away from the World War history and into more fictional settings (with the likes of Black Ops 2 and now Ghosts) changed the scope of flexibility in development, Suarez explained that the team at Infinity Ward now has a lot more room to experiment with development.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you look at the franchise over the last 10 years, it has evolved,\u201d said Suarez.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe entered this hybrid of past and future with Black Ops 2, and with Ghosts, the setting opens up a bunch of new avenues for us. The post-catastrophic event has changed the tone of the game from other Call of Duty titles. Typically, you\u2019d have all these military resources at your disposal, but in Ghosts, now you\u2019re the underdog.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDue to this, the players have to go in with a lot more stealth, sabotage and strategy in mind, so it\u2019s changed the experience for the players and offered a lot of new creative opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe could\u2019ve done Modern Warfare 4, and that was expected of us, but with the next-gen consoles coming in, we rather wanted a new and different story and experience for the player.\u201d<\/p>\n
Speaking of the next-generation of consoles, MyGaming asked Suarez what the key differences between the current and next-gen version of Ghosts would be, given that the title is a multi-generational release.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe main goal was to make each version of the game, be it PC, 360, Xbox One PS3, Wii U or PS4, the best it can be on those systems,\u201d said Suarez.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe game overall is the same across all platforms; there\u2019s not one unique feature on one system that doesn\u2019t appear on the other. The unique differences however are that the graphical fidelity on next-gen and PC will be much higher than the current-gen\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cSpecific things in the lighting, textures and visual fidelity would be the only key differences.\u201d<\/p>\n