Troy Baker in a fresh interview said that initially in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare there was a different ending.
By the end of the game, the heroes had already pressed the character of Kevin Spacey, but in the release version he died in a rather Hollywood way – being on the verge of death, he asked the protagonist to help him, but he refused and threw him off a high-rise building.
However, initially everything was supposed to end a little differently: being imprisoned in an exo-suit, the main character held a pistol in his high-tech prosthesis and pointed it at the villain’s head. At this point, Spacey’s character, controlling the technique, began to say something like:
“Every movement needs a martyr to be effective. I know what I’m doing“.
After that, a shot occurred – from Baker’s explanation, it seems that it was Spacey who gave the command to the prosthesis to shoot. He ended up killing himself.
Players note that such an ending is much more suitable for a villain who was obsessed with control throughout the game – and as a result, he was the only one who could kill him. As Baker notes, such an ending was “not allowed” to be made.
The ending that ended up in the game
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare was released in 2014 – it was the first full game Sledgehammer, which was founded by the leading developers of the first Dead Space from Visceral… After the release of the second game, Call of Duty: WWII, they both left their own studio.
According to Baker, Spacey is a very talented actor who could deliver excellent acting in one take. At the same time, he did not like many of the moments when they tried to make his character more caricatured Hollywood villain.
In one scene after the first take, the actor was asked to say a phrase more aggressive and angrier, instead of the initial cold and calculating expression, which clearly upset Spacey.
“After the take, he turned to me, saying that he now understands what kind of game we are doing. “Noooo,” I thought to myself. At that moment, a part of me died“.
Commenting on the loud scandal with Spacey, Baker notes that Spacey is far from the first and not the last. A lot of these creative people are constantly being covered up, so until it stops, it will keep happening here and there.
They should be responsible for their actions, even if after that they will not be able to create – this means that this is the price for misconduct and crimes in the name of the common good.
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