Call Of Duty Is Never Going Into Space, Ever
The Call of Duty series’ latest entry, Black Ops 3, is sure going to some exotic places. The future, the past, a world of zombies…. But there’s one place the creative team has vowed to never go, and that’s outer space.
That’s what Black Ops 3 multiplayer director Dan Bunting recently told Games Radar during an interview. “There’s an element of Call Of Duty as a brand that’s very gritty, it needs to feel believable. Even if it’s not real it needs to feel like it could be,” Bunting said. “I don’t think we’re ever going to reach a point where we just completely ignore finding authenticity to try and ground the world and make it feel believable.” Says the man speaking for a game full of zombies, nanobots and cyborgs that comes with a working refrigerator.
And yet, “authenticity” is really important to him. “The way that we approach the creative on our game? I don’t think we’re ever going to reach a point where we just completely ignore finding authenticity.” Though he admitted anything was possible for the future, and to “never say never.”
Some sticklers are going to point out that Call of Duty has, technically, already BEEN to space: the opening to Call of Duty: Ghosts took place inside a space station. They’ve also considered making a game entirely set in space in the past: a trademark was registered by Activision in 2010 for a game called “Call of Duty: Space Warfare.” That trademark, however, expired in 2014.