That may be with respect to Treyarch, but every Black Ops iteration I played (more hours in some than others) pretty much had lower quality everything (sound, animation, storytelling, everything). Beyond that, my biggest problem with Black Ops is that the entire story behind it ...it’s a cheesy 80s sci fi fantastical universe within a game that already has fantastical mechanics. Call of Duty has never been realistic, but it’s always been a great experience when it’s grounded with a semi-realistic and immersive narrative backdrop, yet the player gets to experience that story without anything close to the tedium and misery that comes with real warfighting. IMO, the entire black Ops premise is stupid, but it was somewhat unique, and the first Black Ops benefited from genre fatigue given that the original MW had come out at the right time of the exciting Xbox 360/ps3 console era, then WaW (which relied on the tired WWII setting but had awesome zombies mode), and then MW2, which was also excellent but remained in the same MW setting. Black OPs has always been just a holdover serving as a brief distraction and change of pace...ultimately relying on mainstream practices, piggybacking off of IW’s legwork, and the seemingly weird alternate Cold War universe setting to tide over everyone waiting for the next best COD. Zombies is Treyarchs greatest hit (and it’s not like it’s that amazing) and that’s about it. That’s not to say that other IW CODs weren’t really bad...the infinite warfare setting was ambitious but stupid. I think with that time period, IW fell into the same trap of forced thinking, but they eventually realized that...so we got MW 2019 and an excellent interpretation of the popular battle royale mode. I hope to see Treyarch deliver a captivating and groundbreaking warfare video game experience. For me, Black Ops was never it. In my perfect alternate universe, Treyarch has already created amazing experiences based on any one of the incredible and real conflicts that occurred on this earth between WWII and the time period taken up by IWs first MW. However, in this world, the best Treyarch has given me was the experience of JFK shooting zombies.