Call of Duty Modern Warfare will feature its own version of a Tamagotchi — the TomaGUNchi — in multiplayer. Those who wish to care for their virtual pet will be able to do so with kills on the battlefield.
Speaking with The Daily Star, Infinity Ward’s Joel Emslie said the TomaGUNchi was designed to replace the game’s vanilla wristwatch in multiplayer and is indeed an (obvious) homage to the popular 90’s virtual pet.
“People have really picked up on [our wristwatches], and they’re curious to know more about how things are going to be developed with that,” Emslie said.
“For example, we’ve got one we call the TomaGUNchi – it’s a Tamagotchi that feeds on kills. It’s a one-off we got creative with. I said to our engineers: ‘Can you make it so that whilst we’re playing and I get kills in multiplayer, it kinda lives and grows?’
“If you get kills, you can keep it alive. And it’ll ultimately sit on your Gunsmith workbench and you can see how it’s doing. So you can check in on it [whilst you’re customising guns] from time to time and think ‘oh sh*t, I gotta feed the TomaGUNchi [laughs].”
There’s no word on whether or not players like me — those who can’t seem to hit the broad side of a barn — will find their TomaGUNchi dead on arrival. We’ll keep you posted.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare heads to Windows PC, Xbox One and PS4 on 25 October. We previewed the multiplayer aspects of the game here.
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