It has been three years since game developer Treyarch came out with the second installment to "Call of Duty: Black Ops" and fans have been looking forward to see what's next for the third iteration of the series. In a recent interview Official PlayStation Magazine with studio head Mark Lamia, new details about the game and its development were revealed.

Before "Call of Duty: Black Ops 3," the developers at the studio adhered to a two-year development cycle for Call of Duty titles. While this has worked for majority of the titles, Lamia said in an interview published on the PlayStation Magazine that the quick turnaround time for new titles has affected the quality of the game.

Treyarch has then decided to add one more year in its titles development period to further improve and enhance the gameplay.

Lamia told the Official PlayStation Magazine that, "Without a three-year cycle, we wouldn't have been able to take the kind of risks that we took on this game, frankly."

"We would not have been able to overhaul our entire AI system that supports the kind of engagements in an open-playspace like we have," the studio chief added.

The additional time to develop the game gave developers the opportunity to establish a bigger vision for the Black Ops series, which included new features and designs for the game's robots.

"We would not have been able to overhaul our rendering technology to make it as advanced as it is to be able to render the size of the environments or the volume and density of activity and art in it in that amount of time," continued Lamia.

According to Gameranx, the upcoming "Call of Duty: Black Ops 3" would see the return of the population map feature for gamers to know and see how many are playing the game in a given time.

The popularity of the video game has seen more people take interest on it. The third title in the Black Ops series is set to bring new changes and features to how people play the game.

Black Ops 3, which is set in the future at around 40 years after the cold war in its predecessor, would introduce new technology for the military that would see soldiers with "cybernetic limbs and other tech-based augmentations."

Most fights would also happen on the ground as airborne battles have been prohibited and up to four players could participate in a new co-operative mode for the game. The new game is also the first in the series to make both a male and female lead playable character.

Lamia stressed that all these new things are a direct fruit of the three-year development cycle.

"We wouldn't have gone as deep as we have in every single are of the game. I don't think that could have been done in less time," he noted.

"Call of Duty: Black Ops 3" is set to hit current generation consoles on October 6.