Treyarch has revealed how the setting of Black Ops 2 is allowing the development team to come up with new ideas and keep the series fresh by pointing out that Black Ops themselves can take place during any time period.
Call of Duty: Black Ops is the second fastest-selling video game of all time, coming in second only to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Treyarch, one of the developers of the Call of Duty series have pretty much done every era they possibly could.
World at War covered World War II while Black Ops let players take part in the Cold War. Treyarch could not infringe on friendly Modern Warfare territory so it seems to have jumped ahead of their fellow developers into the future.
Speaking in a recent interview Mark Lamia, the head of Treyarch studios explained that the move to take the setting of the game to the future was, “actually something that we've talked about doing for a while," before specifying the time period when the
studio actually decided that the future was the way to go. "We settled on it about the time of Black Ops' (development) ending.
Lamia also explained how the branding of Black Ops allowed the developers the freedom to set the game wherever they wanted. He said, "We'd just made this Black Ops fiction. And as you know, it isn't called Cold Warfare, it's called Black Ops, which doesn't
denote any particular time period. “
He explained that “Black Ops exist(ed) in the past, they exist in modern day, and presumably they exist in the future.”
As for what the developer’s vision was for the future of the game series he explained that Treyarch “wanted to do new sorts of gameplay and we wanted to have new experiences. We went from World War II to a completely different era inside the studio: there
was all this new creativity.”
It will be interesting to see how the creativity shapes the game as the Call of Duty series was becoming very stagnant very fast over the past few years.
The latest trailer for Black Ops 2 is set to premier during the half time interval in the Champions League final between Chelsea and Bayern Munich.
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