Treyarch Studio Head: “Black Ops is its own thing.”

Mark Lamia, studio head over at Treyarch, spoke today on his feelings regarding the Call of Duty franchise – specifically, the Black Ops games, and how they differ from the other games.

“Black Ops is its own thing. It’s inside the Call of Duty franchise, but it’s its own fiction,” said Lamia. “It’s sort of its own brand of fiction as well; it’s this historical fiction where we root things in a historical setting and context and we weave our fiction through it.”

He then discussed how they were doing research for Black Ops 2.

 “Obviously there are books written on where things are headed and technology, but we were fortunate to work with some experts and one of those experts was Peter Singer, who is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute. We approached him because he has written a book about advanced robotics and drones and future warfare, which is really important,” said the developer.

“We wanted to make sure that this is Call of Duty, it can’t be too sci-fi, it’s gotta feel like this is plausible. It’s part of the DNA of Black Ops where we set up these plausible scenarios and then we have our fiction going through it and our story. ”

The perspective from which Lamia is looking at the Black Ops franchise is an interesting one, and could produce some stellar games in the future – maybe Black Ops 2 will give us a taste of this developmental fervor.

Via VG247