Call of Duty doesn’t need to “step further into the future”

Call of Duty's very own studio head, Mark Lamia, has sensationally claimed that aside from including laser shooters, elevating EXO suits and invisibility cloaks…  the game doesn't need to step further into the future, moving forward.

During a recent sit-down interview with Polygon, Lamia talked about the Call of Duty story as he was pressed on the brand's recent jolt towards a rather futuristic gaming experience.

He said: "I don't feel like we have to. Fortunately we're in a position where we don't have to do any particular setting that we don't want to. When we start a project we get together as leadership and we talk a lot. What's the right setting for the game?

"With Black Ops 2 we hadn't finished telling this story we were telling. We'd introduced elements of mind control, manipulation, the dark side of things that are about more than just military might. That's all that plays out on the battlefield, but there was something going on inside Black Ops, whether you were being brainwashed and manipulated as Alex Mason, or whether you were being manipulated and twisted by Raul Menendez. Even though it's a future story, there's a relevancy in today's society to the story we're telling that I think will surprise people."

The Call of Duty franchise is arguably the most successful in console gaming history, crafting storylines based on previous wars and battles, but now seemingly based on their own interpretation of conflict moving forward. Since moving from PC to consoles the game has taken several twists and turns during all kinds of different spin-offs, such as the Modern Warfare and Black Ops titles.

Lamia added: "One of the things that made Black Ops so surprising for people was that it unfolded before them. They didn't know where we were going to end up with that game. That was exciting and fun. They didn't know everything about a Call of Duty game. We're trying to hold that back on this game. It's going to be incredibly surprising. We think people are going to talk about this game. It's an interesting fiction. The subject matter we're going to touch on, you can draw a line from today … or not even draw the line, but talk about the issues of technology and the integration of that into every single part of our lives, and how it just happens, and the unintended consequences and how that could even occur. Is that OK or not? Sometimes it's okay. It depends on how you feel about how that technology is getting used in our lives right now. There's a whole very interesting thread to that. I think people will spend a lot of time talking about it."

The latest addition of the Treyarch series, Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, will be at the San Diego Comic-Con event (July 9/12,) releasing must-see Zombies footage. The highly anticipated game will be released on November 6th this year.

[Polygon]