Black Ops 3 dev shocked by Deus Ex comparison

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It's not a huge surprise that most people took one look at the new Black Ops 3 trailer and thought 'hmm, looks a bit Deus Ex-y', what with all the augmentations and so on. It was, however, a complete revelation to multiplayer director Dan Bunting.

"I was actually shocked by that," he told me recently at E3. "Because what they’re correlating it to was basically a lot of very common science fiction tropes. If you’re in the future you’re going to instantly be compared to science fiction." Robot arms and bionic eyes will do that, unfortunately.

For Dan, though, it's more about the authenticity of Treyarch's research into potential future tech, than lifting anything from other games. "In our world we build from technology stories of today. What’s the zeitgeist and cutting edge realms that may not have hit the mainstream yet? We never start from looking at what some other game is doing. Especially when many other games are building off of other pre-existing troops and other genres".


"We always start from a position of research into real world technology," he continues. "We did so much research on this game, looking into what’s happening today that’s going indicate where trends are heading tomorrow. It was a lot of fun to draw lines from present day cutting edge technologies and sciences to where they think they might be in 30 years, 40 years time".

Despite the fantastical nature of some of Black Op 3's tech, such as full robot armies and incendiary flying nanobots, Dan says, "we’re probably actually fairly conservative on some fronts. Even today there are nanobots that are at the scale of insects. If you do research into it now and there’s definitely a lot of interest from military organisations to develop that technology further. If you can get something that imperceptible, at a small scale, transmitting information that would be quite a powerful technology".

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DBKPosted:

I can not wait until this game releases so happy they toned down the "future" a bit!

SuperHeroesPosted:

this game gets me so hyped

DeluxeHazardPosted:

ImHypped i don't want to judge , but i still don't think that it will be good


COD has gone downhill since Ghosts. The only reason most people are getting BO3 from what I know is because of zombies.

FirminoPosted:

Game looks awesome, better be better than advanced warfare!

TeravainenPosted:

Hmm I've never played Deus Ex but I think this game will still be good. I always love the Black Ops games and the COD games that Treyarch makes. I didn't care too much for exo suits in Advanced Warfare because people just jump around all the time like little rabbits but I think the jumping in this game won't be as "OP" per-say.

NovhPosted:

I can't wait for this game to come out!

RipPosted:

I can not wayt for bo3. I hope its really good.

SassPosted:

honestly this game looks awesome to me, i couldnt stand the exo in aw, but thats because you could literally jump across the map in 4 seconds, this looks much more reasonable

HeiPosted:

OMG its another CoD, boooo I haven't played it yet but since everyone else hates it I should too so that hopefully more people hate it.

TCARPosted:

zombies , yes (: but it gonna be a let down