Black Ops 4 never had a campaign “as people usually refer to it”

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 won’t have a campaign, and developer Treyarch says that’s in keeping with its vision for the game. From the earliest stages of development, co-studio head Dan Bunting says “It was a multiplayer game, top to bottom.” Some sort of campaign-like feature was in development, but it sounds like it wasn’t the sort of traditional single-player experience you might’ve expected. “It wasn’t a campaign as people usually refer to it anyway,” design director David Vonderhaar says. “So when people say ‘what happened to the campaign,’ it’s like it wasn’t ‘campaign’ in the first place. How can you say ‘what happened to’ this thing that it wasn’t?” In the full interview with Game Informer - which you can see below - Vonderhaar and Bunting point to the prototyping process as the point where ideas ill-suited to the final game get culled early in development. They aren’t specific about what form campaign was taking, but it was a direction that fit with their social-focused vision for the game - and one that didn’t end up working out.

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