GamesBeat: So the backstory still has some relation to the Nazi interest in the occult, some of that history.
They show up in this village not expecting much trouble, and then they happen to stumble on the Nazi operation to build the army of the undead. Elodie Yung is our actress playing Olivia Durant, a local guide. We have a couple of these people and a guide. They’re out in Europe looking for Nazi loot. These particular zombies, in our lore, were really destined for the Russians, the eastern front, but the players are fictionally part of a Monuments Men contingent. GamesBeat: The Nazis have more dead than living. They’re built to turn around the war for the Germans, who at this point in the timeline - things are going badly for them and they need to rally. They’re soldiers created for a certain mission - battlefield zombies. The rest of it, if you look at the zombies, they’re bolted together. That was the only thing we wanted to grant ourselves. The central creative conceit we had was, well, somehow the Germans have figured out how to make undead soldiers. WWII, back to the roots, a more grounded experience. Horsley: Our initial charter was connected to the larger charter of the franchise in this release. GamesBeat: Did you have any sort of charter or starting point? It’s the first Zombies game for me, and for most of the team. I’ve been with Sledgehammer itself for about a year and half. We worked together at Crystal Dynamics, Electronic Arts, and now Activision. Horsley: I’ve worked with Sledgehammer people for 20 years. GamesBeat: How many of these have you done? We make bespoke content just for that mode. I work with the Zombies team in particular. We share a lot of code and tools, but we have individual teams connected to single-player, multiplayer, and Zombies. Yeah, we’re a team of teams in the studio. I work with the team, the technical directors, on creating the game. Jon Horsley: They call me the development director at Sledgehammer. GamesBeat: Do you oversee Zombies in particular?
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