Treyarch wrote:

This was awful when Grim Fandango did it. You've already committed yourself to a 3rd person perspective, why the switch the immersive crotch cam for inventory?

Noir wrote:

You can switch from first to third person at any point during the gameplay except for when you’re shooting which is done in first person and for certain other situations where we fix the camera to work best with the context. The first part of the game you play in first person and you have to blink your eyes repeatedly to clear blurred vision, so we’ve really tried to put you in the shoes of Carnby.

Noir wrote:

The inventory is in real time in Carnby’s jacket, so he can only carry what you could realistically carry in real life, and you don’t want to spend too long browsing if there’s something nasty coming at you fast. To make sure gameplay stays fast and fluid we added a couple of systems – a quick draw button lets you pull out or put back the last thing in your inventory and also scroll through what you’ve got, then a shortcut system lets you assign favourite combinations of items to a single button on the pad so a Molotov cocktail is never more than a button push away, if you’ve got all the stuff you need in your inventory already that is.