Many missions allow you to take different paths to an objective, and you're also given dialogue options at some points in the story. The campaign itself also involves a greater level of player autonomy. As well as options that affect your in-game appearance and dialogue, some options have gameplay ramifications - so a psychological profile of "paranoid" halves the time it takes to aim down your sights, while the "lone wolf" profile allows you to sprint for twice as long. Choosing to not divulge your character's gender provides you with gender-neutral pronouns, which is a nice touch. While you can specify all of these options if you like to create a character suits your preferences, you can also leave them as 'classified' to end up with more of a blank slate like Call of Duties past.
There are eight stages in all, including options for skin tone and gender. That starts with the character creator, which allows you to design your own single-player operator for the first time. These are some of the best characters the series has produced, so it's no surprise to see them return.Īs well as choosing an interesting setting, the development team at Raven Software is offering a much greater degree of freedom than we've ever seen in a Call of Duty campaign.
On the team are Hudson, Woods and Mason, with some other familiar faces from the original Black Ops making supporting appearances. Your group operates at the behest of Ronald Reagan and under the leadership of the mysterious Russell Adler. The game follows a US task force that aims to resist the plans of Perseus, a mysterious Soviet agent attempting to topple the established world order. Call of Duty generally does a great job of portraying the flavour of its settings, even if its stories tend to be far from subtle, so it'll be fascinating to see how Cold War deals with the neon stripes of the 1980s.
There are some clear parallels between the prevailing attitudes of that time and our own - a kind of deep unease with the state of the world, with distrust and the prospect of global war juxtaposed against an explosion in culture and technology. Here's what we learned, centring around the game's setting and story, a cast of new and returning characters and a newfound focus on player freedom - one that even manifests in a character creator, dialogue options and Hitman-style nonlinear levels.Īs leaked information suggested yesterday, the Black Ops Cold War is a direct sequel to Black Ops 1, starting in 1981 and continuing throughout the decade. The first Black Ops Cold War trailer debuted in Warzone today, unveiling a lot more information about the next Call of Duty game - including a release date of November 13th for current-gen consoles and PC, with next-gen versions for PS5 and Xbox Series X to arrive alongside the consoles themselves.
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