När Activision och utvecklarna Treyarch utannonserade årets Call of Duty-spel; Black Ops 3, var det många som noterade att designen i spelet påminner väldigt mycket om den i Deus Ex: Human Revolution (och till viss del även kommande Mankind Divided). Något som Treyarch inte alls gillade. Multiplayer director Dan Bunting sade såhär i en intervju med Gamesradar:
"I was actually shocked by that. 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. 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. 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".
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