Call of Duty is currently at a crossroads. With Black Ops 6 really going hard on licensed-based IP crossovers, many fans feel like the addition of Seth Rogen and Beavis & Butthead skins took the series far away from its original intent, among other issues. A former Call of Duty director agrees, based on a new interview.
Speaking to VGC, famed game director Glen Schofield had some choice words for Call of Duty in its modern era. In fact, Schofield called out basically every COD entry since he left Sledgehammer Games, which worked on many mainline games in the series.
In the interview, Schofield laments the current state of Call of Duty, having worked on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Advanced Warfare, and WWII as co-director. He participated in the multi-developer initiative of the 2010s, where Activision tasked Treyarch, Infinity Ward, and Sledgehammer with making a rotating series of games. Although COD is technically an annual franchise, each studio at least had breathing room.
Here is how Schofield sees it: "I hate doing this, but since I left Sledgehammer, none of the games have been very good. I mean, the last one [Modern Warfare 3 (2023)]...
