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In a recent interview with CVG, Treyarch head Mark Lamia has made it clear that the company isn't just reusing Modern Warfare 2's development platform for the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops, but rather that the developer has been working on creating their very own Call of Duty experience.

"We started Black Ops a year before Modern Warfare 2 came out... We're two totally different developments, two totally different creatives," he said. "What we did think was we're going to make a Call of Duty game and people expect another great experience. We obviously had a lot of confidence that Infinity Ward would make a great game but that game hadn't come out yet so we couldn't draw anything from it and weren't going to."

So Black Ops is entirely its own thing, everyone. Any resemblance to other games, living or dead, or maybe released by another developer, is purely coincidental.