Although Call of Duty is making its debut on the PlayStation Vita this November, with a storyline that takes place between the narrative's of it's big screen brothers, Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified --as the portable version is titled-- won't feature the Black Ops series' popular zombies mode.

According to Activision Community Manager Dan Amrich, handheld players won't be shooting any undead, on account of development of the game's regular multiplayer taking priority.

This is the first Call of Duty game on Vita, and it needs to deliver on its core strengths — arguably, multiplayer gaming with twin-stick controls in a portable format. That’s the core experience, and that simply needs to come first. There’s always a list of things you want to do and things you need to do, and at the end of the day, realistic goals are the ones that people actually attain.

Declassified will offer a Hostiles Mode, which challenges you to defeat waves of enemies, but alas, those enemies are not shambling corpses. So we’ll see what the future brings for Zombies, but for Declassified, it’s an MP focus first and foremost.

Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified is due on PlayStation Vita on November 13th 2012.