Treyarch breaks with tradition by giving its upcoming installment of "Call of Duty: Black Ops 3," an additional year of development.

While "Call of Duty Black Ops" fans have been anticipating the third iteration of the series, more details about Call of Duty Black Ops 3 have started to leak, giving fans a sneak peek at what Treyarch is going to offer.

New details about the game and its development were revealed during a recent interview Official PlayStation Magazine with Treyarch's head Mark Lamia.

Prior to Black Ops 3, Treyarch and Activision followed a two-year development cycle for the hit first-person shooter video game, and this has worked for many titles as well.

In an interview reported on the PlayStation Magazine, Lamia explained that the swift turnaround time for new titles has affected the quality of the game.

As a consequence, the developer decided to add one more year in its titles development period in order further enhance the gameplay, Latin Post noted.

Lamia explained that the three-year cycle enabled the studio to take the kind of risks that it took on this game. In addition, they wouldn't have been able to revamp the entire Al system that backs the kind of engagements in an open-playspace like Treyarch has.

Apart from adding new features including its Terminator-style robots, the additional time taken to develop the game also gave developers the chance to create a bigger vision for the Black Ops series.

Lamia explains that the studio wouldn't have been able to render the size of the environments or the volume and density of activity and art in it in the amount of time they had.

The studio wouldn't have been able to overhaul their entire movement system as a bunch of iteration on map development that almost took a year in and of itself goes along with that, according to reports on Game Radar.

The upcoming Black Ops 3 will reportedly see the return of the population map feature that allows gamers to see and know how many are playing the game in a given time. The upcoming game occurs in the future, nearly 40 years after the cold war in its predecessor and would kick off new technology for the military that would see soldiers with cybernetic limbs as well as other tech-based augmentations.

Plus, most of the fights would take place on the ground since airborne battles have been banned and up to four players could participate in a new co-operative mode for the game. The nearing game also marks the introduction of both a male and female lead playable character.

Lamia noted that all these things have been only possible because of the three-year development cycle.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 is hits current generation consoles on Oct. 6.