Speaking to Eurogamer’s Johnny Minkley, current Call of Duty reins-holder Treyarch have claimed that their upcoming Black Ops iteration of the famed series will be “the best Call of Duty in the franchise.” So, that’s better than the first Modern Warfare, a game so well-received that it catapulted developer Infinity Ward into the stratosphere and confirmed their status as one of the best creators of FPS titles around. Also better than its follow-up, Modern Warfare 2, a game that grossed a billion dollars, fuelled media events usually only seen for blockbuster gala openings, and a game that – though polarising the gaming community in terms of quality – is still one of the most widely played online games today.
The source of the bravado comes from Treyarch’s community manager Josh Olin, quoting Black Ops’ triple treat of multiplayer, offline single-player and co-op – three elements regarded as fully-fledged games in themselves – as the foundation of the title’s impending future success.
We were incredibly impressed with Black Ops from what we saw at E3, but whether or not it will be the “best” Call of Duty in the series is obviously subjective. Nonetheless, it’s refreshing to hear Treyarch bravely make such rousing if impossible to verify exclamations. We’ll find out just how good Black Ops is compared to its predecessors this November.
Source: Eurogamer
Amateratsu
we will wait and see
pitchforkdisney
That’s like Fabio telling us that the next England team he picks with be the ‘best ever’.
xYLeinen
Hey. Just registered on this site after being a daily reader for about 2 months >_>
About Black Obs I think I’ll say that in all fairness, when Activision plan to release a CoD game every year their games should preceed the older iteration of the game. But that is just my humble opinion.
Bilbo_bobbins
well done for signing up, good idea, it’s a great site. I agree, Treyarch are never going to come out and say, this is an ok game, might be better than COD4, might not be.
Bilbo_bobbins
lol funniest article I’ve read in a long time. Best COD yet? I don’t think so, if WAW is anything to go by, I’ll pass.
Foxhound_Solid
Waw is my fave codsoi think this one will be good. I won’t buy it day one but I’ll give it a bash when I see it in the pre owned section.
jikomanzoku
I love when people who make stuff tell me that their product is the best thing ever – must be true. I’ll be the judge of that thank you and based on what I’ve seen so far, I’m as yet unimpressed.
DRCD1
Well, if they have a soundtrack as good as
Stargate Atlantis’sCoD 3’s soundtrack, I’m sold. My favorite single-player campaign in CoD was the one from 3 so I have high hopes for this one. And I’m hoping for ZOMBIESjcor
Did anyone else actually see the interview? Johnny Minkley asked him if it was going to be the best CoD ever and he replied
“well I think its going to be the best CoD Treyarch has ever made”.
So Johnny asked him again and said “are you not confident” about the game. So after a bit of pressing he eventually, somewhat reluctantly, said “yeah its going to be the best CoD ever”.
PriceKitty
BFBC2 and Medal of Honor blow all CoD games right out of the water.
xYLeinen
Doubt it.. CoD fans seems to be very loyal.
hazelam
there’s nothing like an impartial assessment of a title’s quality, and that’s nothing like an impartial assessment. :)
doesn’t mean they can’t be right though.