Pentagon Key Advisors in the Making of 'Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare'
"Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare" is the sequence of the "Call of Duty" shooter video game series. The game has been created with extensive research and advice from the military and futurologists to give the feeling of reality and to conceive war strategy. Popular among gamers, this game is packed with plenty of action. The game takes place in a shootout at the Golden Gate Bridge 45 years into the future. Soldiers in the game wear bionic exoskeletons and carry weapons that fire direct energy, sending out fatal force waves.
"Advanced Warfare" is on the same lines of the "Call of Duty" series. In the game the world is plunged into chaos as the terrorist organisation KVA has detonated nuclear power plants. Unable to rebuild their military, nations are hiring private military contractors to continue the war for them. However, they have their own interests. The founder of the largest Atlas is Jonathan Irons, played by Kevin Spacey.
According to Michael Condrey, co-founder of Sledgehammer Games, the studio behind "Advanced Warfare," "Three years ago, right after we finished Modern Warfare 3, we started thinking about how to change 'Call of Duty.' We brought in a lot of outside help -- military advisers, futurologists -- we got together with a scenario planner from the Department of Defence, who is active in the Pentagon. His job is to think about future threats and prepare 'what if' scenarios for the US government. So we asked him, what do you think will be the conflict of tomorrow?"
The expert advice they received from the people they contacted in Pentagon said that the next security threat the U.S. would face would not be from China or the islamic extremists and neither from Russia. But the real threat would come from contract military troops. A billion-dollar contract that would go bad with a private military company ensuing a war between the national military and the contracted forces.
After the Iraq war, a company in the U.S called Blackwaters was given a contract to provide security to the Coalition Provincial Authority as their personnel travelled in the war torn country of Iraq. A controversy was sparked when 17 civilian in Iraq were killed by the contract guards who pleaded not guilty to manslaughter.
The Call of Duty team did research on modern Project Management Contract (PMC) to come up with a game plan.
Sledgehammer used military advisors for the weaponry. They also worked with Mark Bohl the writer of "Hurt Locker" and he asked them to contact retired Navy Seal Team 6 advisor.
All weaponry, vehicle, gun and aircraft are on the lines of current weapon research. The game does not have any elements of science fiction.
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare launches November 4 for Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and PC.