

He continued to preface the answer, saying, "The option to leave classified was super important because there are only so many backgrounds or places of birth we can have listed in the game.

"We didn't want to exclude anybody," Vondrak said. He cited his gaming experiences in the '80s where character identities lived in his head, but that idea clashed with Call of Duty's history of predefined characters. When asked about the classified gender option further during a roundtable discussion, creative director Dan Vondrak explained the decision-making process for the character creator. The game will treat the classified option as gender-neutral and refer to you using they/them pronouns, which includes voiced dialogue from other characters. With gender options, you have male, female, and classified.

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