{"id":82284,"date":"2015-10-13T09:30:49","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T07:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=82284"},"modified":"2015-10-13T09:34:35","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T07:34:35","slug":"treyarch-elaborates-on-why-theres-no-black-ops-3-campaign-for-360-ps3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/82284-treyarch-elaborates-on-why-theres-no-black-ops-3-campaign-for-360-ps3","title":{"rendered":"Treyarch elaborates on why there’s no Black Ops 3 campaign for 360, PS3"},"content":{"rendered":"

As with every annual Call of Duty<\/em> entry, Black Ops 3<\/em> is looking to be one of the biggest games of the year and the most ambitious of the series to date. So much so that the game, developed primarily for Xbox One, PS4 and PC, won\u2019t feature the campaign mode on the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions.<\/p>\n

MyGaming previously reported on the original statement<\/a> from publisher Activision, which explained: \u201cThe ambitious scope of the 1-4 player co-op campaign design of the PS4, Xbox One and PC versions could not be faithfully recreated on old generation hardware”.<\/p>\n

Following up the rather disappointing news,\u00a0Treyarch\u2019s Jason Blundell, director of campaign and Zombies mode for Black Ops 3, spoke with Eurogamer<\/a>\u00a0to explain exactly why the campaign has been\u00a0omitted from\u00a0the last-gen systems.<\/p>\n

We being Treyarch, we\u2019re only looking at the current-gen stuff, so PS4 and Xbox One. And when we hear the old-gen stuff start having to take things away to be able to make it perform on those machines\u2026 they\u2019re like, \u2018okay, we\u2019re going to have to lose this, and lose that, and bring this back in,\u2019 from a purely selfish point of view, I completely agreed with Activision\u2019s decision to cut the campaign, because I don\u2019t want you to get a second-rate experience. So I agreed on that level.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Blundell continued: \u201cIt took us three years to make this thing and craft that experience. I would hate for someone to get something that isn\u2019t true to the vision. That sounds a bit arty, but that\u2019s how I feel about it. I agreed with Activision\u2019s decision on not going there. I don\u2019t think they could have faithfully conveyed some of the concepts I wanted into the campaign experience.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIf we took something and started cutting it up into pieces and taking those bits away, that would have made me more upset, to be honest.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Blundell attributed the core problems of trying to run the campaign on the last-gen systems to the implementation of co-op play in the story mode, as well as the levels just being too large to render on 360 and PS3.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery level is bigger than any previous level we\u2019ve done,<\/em>\u201d Blundell explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe take advantage of longer draw distances. So certain scenes you just couldn\u2019t do. You\u2019d have to bring in the clipping distance and do some fogging. I\u2019m trying to give you a feeling of size and scale. On the previous generation you\u2019d have to do a bunch of smoke and mirrors to convey the idea.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n