Pas geleden konden we zien hoe ex general Oliver North het gezicht is van Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. Wat niet zo heel erg vreemd is aangezien hij in de jaren 80 verantwoordelijk was voor het zo genaamde 'contra schandaal'. Waar mee hij liet zien juist NIET zo goed in de kunst van Black Ops te zijn. De Amerikaanse website Kotaku had een developers interview en daar gingen deze wat dieper in op Oliver North en de makers van de game zijn niet zo blij met de reacties op die site.

Kotaku: Let's talk about Oliver North. That was controversial when you guys used him in the roll-out. A lot of our readers and even some of our writers had strong reactions to him, felt he was a politicized figure and some of our readers were angry about his inclusion in the promotion. Did you guys expect it to be controversial to be using Oliver North as a consultant?

Mark Lamia, head of Black Ops II development studio Treyarch: So, we used him for the game. When we create the fictions that we create, we do a bunch of research and try to talk to subject matter experts on it. And part of that research is reading and watching documentaries and movies and everything else. What can be a part of it is talking to people who've been through the experiences, people like Hank, and when you're talking about doing something in the '80s, black ops, when we were doing research in the conflicts that we were covering and everything else and some of our conflicts ... in any event he rises to the top as someone who was probably, obviously the most well-known covert operations [person]. So it made sense for us from a game development point of view to spend the time and be able to talk to [him]. One of the things we do is we have these brushes with history in our Black Ops fiction. That's a signature, I think, to the way we create our historical fiction. We set you up with that. We put you in this place where it's, 'Ok, I'm in that part of history,' and we have sort of that fiction we weave right through. Part of doing that has been and is getting a first-hand account whether that was last time in Black Ops, when we were highlighting parts of Vietnam, meeting with someone who was a real S.O.G. who did black operations in Vietnam and in this case with Lt. Col Oliver North.