So earlier today JKH13 posted about a recent interview from eurogamer.net with Treyarch regarding the new game, Call of Duty: World at War. During the interview, Noah Heller took it upon himself to bash Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway a fair amount, going so far as to say...

"We don't want to look at someone who's just making a crappy war game."

Owch.

Now at first, I had assumed the mudslinging was just standard competition slander and hype for their own game, I find myself at fault for thinking so and would like to apologize to JKH13 for trying to defend the harsh words said in the first place.

In reaction to the harsh words, JD, a community manager at Treyarch, quickly jumped on the situation after realizing what had been said. He made the following post on the Xbox.com forums...



At first, Noah Heller was thought to be a senior producer at Treyarch, but it's now revealed that he works for Activision, not Treyarch. While it was a bad call on Treyarch's part to leave the interview to some random senior producer at their parent company, it was a very good call to take the high road and apologize for his foolish statements.

With a the mutual respect from Treyarch toward their competition I feel that they at least deserve a pat on the shoulder. Who knows, it's a longshot, but maybe this apology is the start of Treyarch moving in the right direction from their catastrophe that was COD3? Lets hope so.

The apology can be found here: http://forums.xbox.com/21173868/ShowPost.aspx

The original interview can be found here:
http://www.eurogamer.net/tv_video.php?playlist_id=11656