The subsequent Call of Duty recreation, set for launch in 2024, could also be one other entry within the Black Ops sequence of video games and set within the Gulf War, based on a brand new report.
As reported by Windows Central, the Treyarch-developed subsequent launch within the Call of Duty franchise will likely be a brand new Black Ops recreation, although its official title continues to be being determined internally. It will happen in the course of the Gulf War, moreover relating the worldwide political fallout after the Cold War. Windows Central describes the method as having a “nuanced” narrative, specializing in completely different individuals within the Gulf War.
This largely corroborates related studies of the Gulf War setting inadvertently leaked by an actor earlier this yr.
Additionally, the report suggests the brand new recreation will lean again into extra conventional army fight tech and Black Ops devices, relatively than specializing in the futuristic tech a few of the more moderen Call of Duty video games have embraced.
Currently, this new Black Ops recreation is deliberate for a launch in 2024 round roughly the standard time in late fall/early winter. Windows Central means that some sort of main pre-order bonus is in consideration at Activision, which would come with a number of days and even weeks of early entry to the sport.
Call of Duty faces difficult occasions
We simply noticed the discharge of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, which our IGN reviewers have been a bit underwhelmed by. We gave the single-player marketing campaign a 4/10, calling it “underbaked, rehashed, and cobbled collectively from multiplayer components,” whereas the multiplayer itself was a 6/10 that we mentioned “reheats and reserves the identical multiplayer from Modern Warfare 2 with some additional maps and tweaks as garnishes.”
The builders have since mentioned deliberate adjustments and tweaks to the sport which can be being made based mostly on neighborhood suggestions, although some hoped-for fixes have been delayed to future patches.
Meanwhile, the final Treyarch-developed Call of Duty recreation was additionally the latest Black Ops recreation, Black Ops Cold War, and it fared considerably higher in our single-player evaluation and roughly the identical in multiplayer.
Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. Got a narrative tip? Send it to [email protected].
