Respawn: Titanfall had to be very different from COD

Respawn Entertainment attempted to make upcoming shooter Titanfall as different from Call of Duty as possible.

Comparisons with Activision's money-maker were always inevitable, seeing as many of the development team working on Titanfall previously had a hand in crafting earlier versions of Call of Duty.

However lead artist Joel Emslie - someone who worked on previous CODs - claims that any similarities are unintentional.

"We've worked hard to be as different as possible from that game," Emslie told ArabicGamers.

"When you have a past life doing something as big as [Call of Duty], we wanted to do something completely new and different.

"We worked towards making it as different as possible."

Meanwhile the buzz for Titanfall is as big as any game for the new consoles, and Emslie is hopeful that excitement can lead to big things for the game's future.

"I really hope people like it on a large scale and it builds up a really large fanbase," he added.

Titanfall will launch on the Xbox One and PC on 13 March, before heading to the Xbox 360 later in the month.