During an interview with Eurogamer TV, Treyarch’s Noah Heller made some rather curt observations of Gearbox’s upcoming Brother’s In Arms: Hell’s Highway.
He said, much to Activision’s ire, that the Treyarch team doesn’t look at a studio ”just making a crappy war game.” An apology has already been issued on the Xbox forums.
”I watched the trailer and I was like ‘These guys aren’t even in the same league.’,” Heller said of the Ubisoft shooter’s developer.
”We don’t even think about them… They’re not a game we even think about when we’re playing, we think about the best shooters, we play Modern Warfare, we play… Gears of War, we play Halo, you know, that’s the competition. We want to look at the games that do great storytelling.”
”We don’t want to look at someone who’s just making a crappy war game.”
Ouch. After learning of Heller’s words of ‘disparagement’ an Activision representative moved quickly to seal themselves off from their colleagues inflammatory comments by posting an apology on the official Xbox forums.
”Over the weekend, we learned that some disparaging comments were made by an Activision rep at a recent Call of Duty: World at War press event. We want to let everyone know that we found those remarks offensive, and they do not in any way represent the feelings of any developer at this studio or at Activision. We hold all of our peers in the development community in the highest regard. We have nothing but respect for the guys and gals at Gearbox,” wrote Treyarch’s community manager JD.
”We offer our sincerest apologies to anybody who was offended.”
Well it looks like war was averted but not before some of the BIA community fired off a few disparaging lines themselves regarding a certain senior producer’s body mass index, and his level of ‘douche-ness’.
Click here to view the Eurogamer TV interview with Treyarch’s Noah Heller.
Treyarch’s Call of Duty: World At WarSource: videogaming247
