Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is set to deliver a rich and varied single-player campaign, as showcased during the Gamescom 2024 Opening Night Live event. The campaign mission “Most Wanted” highlights the game’s emphasis on strategic gameplay, offering players multiple ways to complete their objectives. Set in the 1990s, the mission combines a spy thriller atmosphere with modern weaponry, creating an engaging experience that blends historical context with cutting-edge action.
With its release slated for October 25, 2024, Black Ops 6 is shaping up to be an exciting addition to the acclaimed series.
Highlights
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 showcases a detailed single-player campaign mission, offering multiple approaches for players to complete their objectives.
- The campaign level “Most Wanted” features a quieter infiltration with a spy thriller focus, set in the 1990s and includes various ways to accomplish tasks.
- Black Ops 6 introduces modern weaponry in a historically-rooted storyline, promising an engaging and exciting experience for fans of the series.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 has shown a nearly full playthrough of one of the in-game campaign missions. The Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 single-player gameplay showcase debuted during Gamescom 2024”s Opening Night Live stream event on August 20, 2024.
Though some time remains until the game releases on October 25, more has already been revealed about Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, and in some cases, not intentionally. Earlier in August, a massive leak of footage, screenshots, and data exposed details from almost every aspect of the game, including portions of the Black Ops 6 campaign. Despite the setbacks, Microsoft and Activision are pressing forward with scheduled reveals, filling the gaps for fans in the hopes of drumming up excitement for the next major Call of Duty series installment.
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The latest reveal showed off more from the single-player campaign, in the form of a playthrough for the campaign level “Most Wanted.” Shared onstage during Gamescom 2024”s opening event, the campaign shows players and their companions attempting to obtain data from a United States politician during a crowded fundraiser event, in order to extract returning Black Ops Cold War character Russel Adler.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Campaign Playthrough Shows Off Multiple Approaches
In contrast to the typical bombastic reputation of Call of Duty campaign missions, the “Most Wanted” mission playthrough starts with a quieter infiltration, in keeping with the spy thriller focus of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6. Set in 1991, the player must infiltrate a fundraiser for real-life U.S. Presidential candidate Bill Clinton. Their objective: To secretly obtain a retinal scan from a U.S. Senator, use it to enter a black site underneath the building, and rescue Adler. Notably, the mission shows off a number of different ways the player can go about that task, ranging from accosting the senator directly and restraining him, to approaching the senator with blackmail material in the form of an illicit videotape.Close
The playthrough concludes with an infiltration of the black site itself, where players engage armed soldiers from “Pantheon,” a mysterious organization at the center of Black Ops 6”s plot. Even here, players are offered a choice of a “quiet” or “loud” approach. When rescued, Adler even makes a reference to longtime Black Ops alumni Frank Woods, who also appears in Black Ops 6. The rescue escalates in a more typical Call of Duty fashion, with the player demonstrating some interesting gadgets, like a taser-like disruptor grenade and an explosive homing knife, before concluding with a motorcycle chase through crowded nighttime streets.
Black Ops 6 looks like it”s giving fans of the popular Call of Duty subseries much to look forward to, especially in terms of having an engaging and detailed single-player campaign. The shift of time frame to the 1990s will also allow players to enjoy more modern weaponry while still appreciating the historically-rooted characteristics of Black Ops stories.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is the next entry in Activision”s FPS franchise, and includes all the modes fans know and love – from an extensive campaign to 2v2 and 6v6 multiplayer, plus the popular Zombies mode.
FPS
Systems
Franchise
Call of Duty
Platform(s)
PS5
, PS4
, Xbox Series X
, Xbox Series S
, Xbox One
, PC
Released
October 25, 2024
Developer(s)
Treyarch
, Raven Software
Publisher(s)
Activision
Multiplayer
Online Multiplayer
Engine
IW 9.0
ESRB
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