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Modern Warfare 3 Gets “Color Blind Assist Option”

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Modern Warfare 3 Gets “Color Blind Assist Option”

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Six percent of humanity is colorblind. If that six percent plays a grey-brown first-person shooter, they are pretty much out of luck. That’s exactly why Activision is working on a new “Color Blind Assist option” for the upcoming Modern Warfare 3.

Michael Condrey of the Modern Warfare team elaborated on Activision’s research. Supposedly, men are twenty times more likely to be effected by colorblindness than women. Activision’s research stated that 9-12% of the male population is colorblind while 0.25-1% of the female population suffers from it. Considering that more males play Call of Duty than females, Activision has estimated that nearly a million gamers are playing Call of Duty while struggling with colorblindness every day.



The Color Blind Assist option would allow the names of teammates and enemies to be shown in different colors or hues than red and green, and it may even include some other signifier as well. The original question about a Color Blind Assist option came from colorblind gamer Nick Prynn who asked Condrey , “I know it’s a long shot, but I would like to know if the upcoming title, MW3 multiplayer has the option for colour blind gamers. i.e… alternate colours like in Black Ops. As a color blind gamer this will a big influence as to whether I buy the game.”

Condrey’s response was, “Start honing your MP skills, Nick. You won’t be able blame your red-green deficiency for all that friendly-fire come November 8th.”

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