Call of Duty: Black Ops developer Treyarch has indicated it is unlikely to return to a World War II setting for future instalments in the series following three 1940s-based efforts in CoD: Big Red One, CoD 3 and CoD: World at War.
Chatting with Spong at GamesCom last week, community boss Josh Olin commented, “I don’t think we would go back, because we’ve done a lot of World War II.”
However, Olin went on to say that a revisit to WWII would still be on the cards providing that it would offer players something “fresh”, pointing to the developer’s efforts with World at War, which offered a new perspective on the conflict by setting the action in the South Pacific.
“I’m not saying that the genre’s done. It would be important that, if there ever were to be another game set in the World War II era, it would have to be something that’s fresh and new. You still have to by that code and do something players haven’t seen before,” he said.
“So, World at War was one example of that. We brought the players for the first time to the South Pacific to fight the imperial Japanese army. It was a different game to the other World War II shooters in the franchise. So, as long as there’s new experiences people will still play them.”
Call of Duty: Black Ops represents Treyarch’s first foray in to a post-WWII setting, taking place during the Cold War. The game hits store shelves for PS3, PC, 360, Wii and DS on November 9.