The outlines around the next Call of Duty are currently taking shape. To begin with, you should know that Microsoft has confirmed that the game will be one of the highlights of its next Xbox Games Showcase which will take place on June 9, the one which will replace the annual E3 conference, RIP. This will be the first Call of Duty which will therefore be managed by Microsoft in terms of communication since the acquisition of Activision Blizzard last year for, as we recall, the tidy sum of 69 billion dollars, and thousands of developers put the door just after. We’re not going to rekindle this controversy, we’ve already talked about it, because I have another one to offer you, one that may also cause a lot of noise. According to several sources and clues found on official teasing elements, the next Call of Duty Black Ops 6 will allow us to relive the day of September 11, 2001, the attack on the World Trade Center towers.
The name of the Call of Duty 2024 vintage is now known, and it is called Call of Duty Black Ops 6. A title which has decided to return to a more common name, certainly, but more explicit. This is the 6th episode of the Black Ops saga and it is still the Treyarch studio which is in charge of the project and like the Cold War episode of 2020, the developers were accompanied by their friends from Raven Software to support them in the works. And according to what is being said behind the scenes, it is that the game has been ready for 2 years already, and that the studios have been refining the game down to the smallest details for 2 years, that it has been in beta testing . The most polished Call of Duty in the saga? We’ll see, but until now, there has never been a buggy episode, to the point that it made the headlines.
In the meantime, we can already take a look at the fake website that Activision has opened, just to start teasing and open up speculation around the story and themes that will be covered in this episode. The site is called “The Truth Lies”, which should not be confused with the excellent James Cameron film, since there we can see two activists preparing to do something on Mount Rushmore, it is that is, to blindfold these former leaders of America. The truth lies, the government tells lies to its citizens, people are being manipulated, this is the message that this small group which calls itself Cerberus is trying to convey. The name Cerberus is interesting because it is also the code name of this Call of Duty internally when Treyarch and Raven were working on it in secret just a few days ago.
What seems to be confirmed, however, is that this Black Ops 6 will take place during the period of the Gulf War, that is to say in the early 90s and could well extend over several years. Clues have been disseminated by the developers and there is no longer any doubt that the saga will now touch on historical moments in the United States. This is something that the Black Ops series has always done, often with flashback moments to resituate certain key moments in the past of our protagonists. And then, we remember that a few months ago, insiders had also talked about this new Call of Duty should have been called Call of Duty Black Ops Gulf War, but it was decided to simplify the name instead. last minute. What will also be interesting is that this Call of Duty should also be linked to our present, something that Black Ops has also always done, especially with all the conspiracy movement which continues to grow on the networks social, such themes in a Call of Duty will have great resonance.
And obviously, when we talk about this period of the Gulf War and the beginning of the emerging conspiracy, how can we not mention the attacks of September 11, 2001? The fall of the two World Trade Center towers live on television is a traumatic moment and it could well be that Call of Duty decides to make us relive that moment. But the question we are all asking ourselves at this stage is how to make us relive these attacks? A question that could not be more delicate than the developers have undoubtedly returned in all directions. It’s true ? How to do ? Through the good side, that is to say the firefighters who will try to save the people stuck in the towers, or downright shock by making us embody the terrorists and crashing the planes in the towers? Admit that it’s a touchy proposition, but if they decide to do it, it will cause more talk than ever. Much more than the scene of the massacre of innocent people in the airport by Makarov in Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 in 2009. Especially since at the time, social networks were not as developed as today , that Twitter was not yet this breeding ground for toxicity. In short, the world has changed and to propose such a scenario in 2024 is to expose oneself to controversy, bordering on bad buzz. Without forgetting the reaction of the families of the victims of these attacks. It’s a complex subject indeed.
And then, why is reliving September 11 still plausible? Also because in the last Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3, last year’s, there was already this connection with this mission where terrorists wanted to hijack an airliner. They were neutralized, but it proves that Call of Duty is trying to go into this somewhat touchy territory. In any case, many rumors point to the invasion of Iraq by the United States in this Call of Duty, with political names that will be mentioned and present in the game, such as Saddam Hussein, George Bush and Margaret Tatcher. Missions where American troops are deployed there are mentioned and all this will obviously lead us to Bin Laden and everything that happened in the early 2000s. All this is very plausible since the character of Russell Adler, who we saw in Cold War, will probably be in this Black Ops 6, since his name appears in the official elements of the game. So I know that he can be seen at the end of Black Ops Cold War, but maybe not in the end , maybe he survived, we don’t really know. In any case, with a complex character like him, it is not impossible that this could feed story ideas for the developers and make him one of the terrorists of the World Trade Center in reality. No matter the path taken, the controversy will be there, the controversy will arise and everyone will be talking about this Call of Duty Black Ops 6.
In any case, we have the strong impression that Treyarch, Raven, Software and Activision have never been so confident about a Call of Duty in a long time. There will be a single player campaign, multiplayer, zombies no doubt and the scenario seems to be at the heart of speculation at the moment, with many theories emerging over the last 24 hours. We can also see that the main illustration, the key art, uses the famous pose of the US soldier from the first Black Ops. This too is the mark of a certain confidence on the part of the creators of the game.
