In fact, Black Ops started development a full year before Modern Warfare 2.
Treyarch executive, Mark Lamia spoke to CVG and had this to say:
Treyarch is showing a lot of confidence in their product and rightfully so, the game is impressive.
We obviously had a lot of confidence that Infinity Ward would make a great game but that game hadn’t come out yet so we couldn’t draw anything from it and weren’t going to.It was all about what we wanted to create and what that was is something new and fresh - give players some variety, give people a reason to come back to Call of Duty and get some new experiences."
I’m looking at Black Ops as a separate experience all together from Modern Warfare 2 - which is what Lamia wants for any gamer interested in the title. The design philosophy, of giving gamers something fresh (yet still familiar) looks like a successful strategy. I can’t wait to play it and I’m sure you can’t either.
Call of Duty: Black Ops is scheduled for release on November 9, 2010 for Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, and PC.
Source: CVG
