Cancelled Call of Duty: Fog of War would have had you playing hide and seek with a B52 bomber crashing in "a scary version of Vietnam"

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A soldier in a jungle setting and a bandana in Call of Duty: Black Ops
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Time is littered with the ghosts of video games that never quite managed to come to life. One of these is Call of Duty: Fog of War, a third-person Vietnam shooter filled with dread and horror. While we already knew about the game, in a new interview, Glen Schofield explains some of the set pieces he was working on.

"We wanted to make a scary version of Vietnam," Schofield tells our friends at PC Gamer. He was one of the core designers of Dead Space, so he has a solid horror pedigree.

Call of Duty: Black Ops features several missions in Vietnam, and some even have you fighting in tunnels, but I'd be curious to see what a more horror-focused vibe looked like – what we got was more action-packed.

"There's another sequence where you get to a river," Schofield says, "and you just decide you have to follow the river down. I think you're trying to get away. And we turned the camera, so now you're running towards it, right? And the camera’s moving with you. But what we do is, in the background of the jungle, we see this giant American bomber, the B-52, on fire."

"[The character] looks behind him and sees it’s coming down," Schofield continues. "And it looks like it's coming down close, but you see it dip down behind the trees. It's disappeared, and you're waiting for the explosion. It doesn't happen. And now it is coming towards you. Then you jump, and we turn the camera off this cliff, into the waterfall and the water below. You’re looking up now, so you're diving backwards, and you see the plane go over your head, dropping pieces into the water, and then crash. It was good."

Issy van der Velde
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I'm Issy, a freelancer who you'll now occasionally see over here covering news on GamesRadar. I've always had a passion for playing games, but I learned how to write about them while doing my Film and TV degrees at the University of Warwick and contributing to the student paper, The Boar. After university I worked at TheGamer before heading up the news section at Dot Esports. Now you'll find me freelancing for Rolling Stone, NME, Inverse, and many more places. I love all things horror, narrative-driven, and indie, and I mainly play on my PS5. I'm currently clearing my backlog and loving Dishonored 2.

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