Sledgehammer Games ambition to make a more authentic World War II game will not pull too far back on sensitive matters. It's unclear how detailed the atrocities from WWII will be in Call of Duty: WWII, but the studio has confirmed that there will be racism and there will be female soldiers.
The inclusion of female characters shouldn't be too shocking to Call of Duty fans – they were featured in Black Ops 3 after all. As for WWII, female characters will be available in multiplayer, but will likely be exclusive to the French Resistance – a move that is historically accurate, seeing as females represented 15 to 20% of the French Resistance (though there were plenty of female soldiers in the Soviet Armed Forces during the war too, around 800,000).
(Note: You will also be encountering the French Resistance in the game's campaign)
As far as racism is concerned, in WWII there was plenty of that. In Call of Duty: WWII, Sledgehammer won't be tiptoeing around reality.
"In America, it was a segregated army, but the African American troops were indispensable. The part of the story is that we… they cross paths and we work together and that's the way it was. Now, we don't hide the racism. We don't shy away from it."
You can hear the quote in the video below (courtesy of Reddit):
Call of Duty: WWII is set to release on November 3rd, 2017 on PS4, Xbox One, and PC. The game will have timed-exclusive DLC for the PS4 (30 days) and will get a beta on the PS4 first as well (pre-ordering will get you access to a private beta that will be at least three days long and on all available platforms). Other platforms will be getting the DLC and beta afterward.
