User blog comment:Cainelee20156/Call of duty World at War 2 IN 2015?/@comment-356904-20150103232157/@comment-3967954-20150107133457

I've refuted the Indiana Jones thing already. Indiana Jones movies have always focused on the story of the title character, whereas Black Ops had a single level that focused on Reznov's story. Dunno why you're brining that up - a movie/book/TV show/video game that shares characters, settings and certain plot elements from another work, but does not centre around them, is a spin-off. There is pretty much no argument to be had here. You're acting like I'm denying that Black Ops is related to WaW at all.

Black Ops is essentially a big-budget spin-off - it's set in the same universe as WaW, and borrows some of the characters from WaW, but does not center around them and barely even references the events of WaW. If Treyarch intended it to be a true sequel to WaW, I imagine they would have pitched it as such.

I suppose it is a sequel of sorts - but it's definitely not a direct sequel and doesn't deserve to be treated as such. Calling it WaW 2 implies it is a direct sequel.

Black Ops is basically what Torchwood was to Doctor Who. It's a spin-off. Nobody considers CoD3 to be a sequel to FH, and nobody considers The Avengers to be a sequel to Iron Man or Captain America. Same characters, same universes, different story focus. Sometimes it's not as simple as "but they reference X, therefore it must be a sequel!"