Call of Duty-serien er mer kjent for bombastisk action enn tankevekkende historier. Ikke desto mindre er det verdt å merke seg at det kommende Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 angivelig vil få den dypeste og mest intrikate historien i serien så langt. Det kommenterer sjefen for utvikler Treyarch, Mark Lamia, til Polygon:
- We create a very rich fiction. We look at Black Ops 2 and say,‘OK, these drone strikes in 2025 occurred. What happens next in the world? We have a detailed wiki-like thing in the game. You might remember. You could hack into the computer in Black Ops. It's in your safe house. It's in your safe house. We have detailed out the world. We have a full history of where the EU goes. It's our fiction, but it's as we have projected it out, literally, in more detail than we've ever done, kommenterer Lamia.
Han fortsetter:
- How do we come up with these settings? We literally just did our research and project out. We're fortunate to have experts we can talk to. We've become futurist experts ourselves, living in this subject matter for so long. That's going to be there for the player. It's important, avslutter Lamia.
Forhåpentligvis har de også brukt tid på å gjøre spillet spennende og friskt på andre områder enn historien også, slik fjorårets Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare på mange måter var.