First Look at the Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Campaign | gamescom 2024

Activision has shown off the Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 campaign during Opening Night Live, kicking off gamescom 2024 in the process.

After the criticism the campaign for Modern Warfare 3 received last year, the pressure was on Black Ops 6 campaign developer Raven Software to deliver with this follow-up to Black Ops Cold War. This time, the action is set in the early 1990s, a period of transition and upheaval in global politics, characterized by the end of the Cold War and the rise of the United States as a single superpower.

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The trailer revealed Black Ops 6's new omnimovement feature, with the player throwing a knife from behind cover in a back prone position. The mission on show is called Most Wanted, in which the rogue team needs to rescue one of their own from a top-secret black site underneath Washington, D.C.

Here's the official blurb, from Activision:

Playing the role of “Case”, a key member of the Black Ops team led by Frank Woods, your cohorts on the ground are comprised of Woods’ protégé Troy Marshall, backed up by technical guru Felix Neumann, and Sevati “Sev” Dumas, an infiltration and assassination specialist. As the action begins, Troy and Felix have commandeered a S.W.A.T. truck parked on the edge of the Capitol Station grounds, and the two are confirming Felix’s latest gadget – a camera with retinal scanning capabilities – is operational. Now the time has come for its first field test.

Marshall sums up the mission succinctly: You’re to show up to a political fundraiser, obtain retinal identification from a senator who has the clearance to enter the Black Site, and grab Adler from the Black Site before anyone knows what’s happening.

Naturally, that’s easier said than done.

Black Ops 6, the first mainline Call of Duty to release following Microsoft's $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, launches day one into subscription service Game Pass as well as in the normal, premium fashion, on October 25, 2024.

For more, check out everything announced during Opening Night Live 2024.

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