They created 2008's critically acclaimed Dead Space before leaving to start Sledgehammer in 2009. "It really made us committed to honoring what we came to realize was an incredible sacrifice."Ĭondrey and Schofield, both in their mid-40s, first met while working together at EA's Visceral Games. "After three hours, I was ready to get in the car and turn the heater on," Condrey said later. They wanted to come as close as possible to understanding a soldier's experience of what Condrey calls "the last great war."
They wanted to walk on the same ground as Allied soldiers during the liberation of Paris, drive the same tanks, fire the same weapons. They wanted to sit in the same foxholes where hundreds of young Allied and German soldiers had sat during the winter of 1944, braving blizzards, hunger, and the constant fear of death. Sledgehammer had just started work on a new Call of Duty game that would, for the first time in a decade, return to a WWII setting, and Condrey and Schofield wanted to see the battlefields for themselves. He was examining a squat, pyramid-like structure made of concrete-what was left of an entire row of so-called "dragon's teeth," fortifications made by soldiers to stop advancing tanks.Ĭondrey and Schofield had hired Morgan to bring them here, to the site of one of the biggest clashes of WWII, The Battle of Hürtgen Forest. The only one who seemed to be enjoying himself was Condrey and Schofield's guide, Martin Morgan, a war historian who leads battlefield tours around Europe. In a nearby foxhole, buried under five feet of snow, Condrey's fellow co-founder, Glen Schofield, was dreaming of the heated van they'd left on the side of the highway three hours earlier. Some time around last Christmas, Michael Condrey, the co-founder of Sledgehammer Games, huddled in a foxhole in Hürtgen forest, on the border of Germany and Belgium.
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