Treyarch says futuristic Black Ops 2 is “something we’ve talked about for a while”

The various Call of Duty titles have been criticized for being a little bit of more of the same, despite the varying settings of each game.

However Treyarch’s decision to put the hero of Black Ops 2 into the year 2025 has apparently set off a burst of creativity in the studio (although the same was said of Black Ops). According to Studio head Mark Lamia however, the futuristic style is something they’ve wanted to do ever since the original Black Ops was finished.

“It was actually something that we’ve talked about doing for a while,” he said in the July issue of GamesMaster magazine. “We settled on it about the time of Black Ops’ [development] ending.

“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. That was intentional on our part when we were creating it, because Black Ops exist in the past, they exist in modern day, and presumably they exist in the future.

“So from the beginning, we wanted to take this game to the future. What that future was and how it was defined took a little bit of time [to settle on].

“We wanted to do new sorts of gameplay and we wanted to have new experiences. We saw what happened when we went from World War II to a completely different era inside the studio: there was all this new creativity. And so we wanted some of that again.”

Black Ops 2 will be getting a new trailer in a prime time – during tonight’s UEFA final between Chelsea and Bayern Munich.