Producer Says Missing Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Campaign is Only Temporary
By Nicholas Barth ·
The recent reveal of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 showed that the upcoming Call of Duty would not include a single player campaign at release, but a Treyarch Producer says not all hope is lost in regards for the future.
The recent announcement of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 not including a traditional single player campaign in the recent Community Reveal Event for the upcoming Call of Duty game has caused a stir in the community, as some players are not happy with the decision by Treyarch to forgo the development of a single player campaign and opting to create the Blackout Battle Royale mode for Black Ops 4 instead.
However, even with Treyarch's focus on the multiplayer aspect of Black Ops 4 in its Zombies, Blackout and traditional online multiplayer modes, all hope is not lost for the inclusion of a single player campaign in future Call of Duty games. In an interview with the Daily Star, Senior Producer at Treyarch Yale Miller stated that the missing single player campaign for the franchise is only temporary.
“The single player mode is only missing at this moment in time," said Miller. “I really think with every game we make, we finish that title and then we ask ‘what is it fans are gonna love the most?’ If that’s another traditional campaign, then we’ll make another traditional campaign. But right now, for what our goals were for Black Ops 4, it was just multiplayer, Zombies and Blackout that we were focused on."
“In terms of the future of the franchise, Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer are their own awesome teams, they’re doing their own thing," Miller continued. "And I have no idea what they’re doing!”
With the official confirmation that Black Ops 4 would be the first Call of Duty game in the first person shooter franchise to not have a single player campaign, many believed that this would be the same direction that the future titles would also take, as the majority of Call of Duty's players has shifted its focus to the multiplayer aspect of the franchise over the years. However, with the removal of a campaign being Treyarch's decision, it is highly possible that Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer Games could develop single player campaigns for the next Call of Duty titles they develop in the future.
Unfortunately, Call of Duty players who enjoy the single player campaign experience will have to stick with past titles once Black Ops 4 hits the market.
(cover photo courtesy of Treyarch)