The game would have unfolded in the days of Ancient Rome.
It turns out that in the area of 2008 the Call of Duty series could go in a completely different direction. Vicarious Visions, a subsidiary Studio of Activision, seriously planned to take on Call of Duty: Roman Wars — third-person shooter, which is unfolding in the days of Ancient Rome. The staff even prepared a prototype of the footage from the day before appeared online.
One of the employees of Vicarious Visions, who wishes to remain anonymous, leaked information portal GamesRadar. According to him, in 2008 Activision wanted to expand the franchise Call of Duty and offered internal studios to experiment with ideas.
Vicarious Visions decided that the series will look great in the entourage of Ancient Rome, and quickly built a prototype to demonstrate the concept. The video shows gameplay from a slightly improved build: slightly later Roman Wars were offered the publisher Ubisoft (without title Call of Duty, of course).
Together with the prototype developers made cuts of “references”, that is, the instigators of the Roman Wars. The overall tone of the game was created under the impression from the films “Gladiator” and “300”, and the combat mechanics are focused on Condemned: Criminal Origins, Assassin’s Creed and Zeno Clash.
Fights had to turn on the water, in the woods, in the Coliseum, on the plains. The story adhered to the “Notes on the Gallic war of Julius Caesar. As with all Call of Duty of those times, in Roman Wars story was told on behalf of several characters, including the Julius Caesar.
Gameplay Roman Wars were a third-party action, although the developers planned to implement and episodes of “eyes”. For the basics of the prototype took the battle of Alesia. The main task in the demo is to deal with the archers. Hero could do this in three ways: to fire at enemy soldiers from the catapults, climb the siege tower or to go on the attack on the military elephants, the local equivalent of tanks.
The prototype is very like Activision, he saw even the CEO Bobby Kotick (Bobby Kotick). If Roman Wars launched, it would have left the district in 2013, the year and possibly would have been one of the first games for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, although originally created only for the Xbox 360.
However, Activision was afraid that Roman Wars is too radically departs from the precepts of the Call of Duty, so the prototype was refused. Instead, the publisher has given the “green light” game, which then turned into Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.
