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Call of Duty 3 is often considered to be the weakest entry in the respected WWII (until COD4) shooter series, but the developers don’t blame it on themselves – they blame it on the title’s blistering eight month development schedule.

Quelling fears that Call of Duty: World at War, the upcoming fifth installment, may suck, Treyarch senior producer Noah Heller told Videogamer that they are “polishing and pouring love” into the development of the title, and that “it’s the time to actually iterate and get things right, to make things feel right.”

Apparently publisher Activision had arranged a development rotation in which series creator Infinity Ward could work on Call of Duty 4 while Treyarch completed COD3 in a span of just eight months.

“I don’t think [Call of Duty 3] was a filler title,” said creative lead Rich Farrelly. “Because we were so focused on making the best game we can, sometimes we, at least in that case, we tried maybe to put too much in the game for the amount of time we had to develop.”

The studio notes that it has had much more time to work on World at War since development on the game begun after the completion of Call of Duty 3.

“A player doesn’t know when he buys a game that this game was a year cycle or a two year cycle. He just knows about the quality of the game… This is a game where we really wanted to show what we can do when we have time,” Heller commented.

Call of Duty: World at War will ship to stores this Fall on PC, PS2, PS3, Wii, DS and Xbox 360.