Summary
- A new Call of Duty game for 2024 is rumored to have an open-world format, and that could mesh perfectly with a co-op campaign experience.
- The game, rumored to be titled Call of Duty: Black Ops Gulf War and supposedly set during the Gulf War, will apparently have vehicles and fast travel.
- Treyarch's Call of Duty campaigns have tried featuring co-op gameplay in both Black Ops 3 and World at War, and though Raven is developing the singleplayer mode for Treyarch's 2024 CoD, there is still precedent for such a feature to be present.
There aren't too many certainties in the world of video games, but one definite is that there will be a new Call of Duty release this year. Though it hasn't been officially confirmed yet, a 2024 iteration of Call of Duty is all but guaranteed at this point, with it likely marking the 20th annual release in a row for the military shooter franchise. And if Call of Duty's long-running release pattern wasn't enough evidence that a new game is probably coming in 2024, then the wealth of rumors and leaks currently surrounding the project might be.
With a project as big as a new Call of Duty game, it's a simple expectation that some information is going to be leaked about the game before its official reveal, and long before its eventual launch, and that's certainly been the case for Call of Duty's 2024 entry. Allegedly titled Call of Duty: Black Ops Gulf War, this year's installment will once again be helmed by Treyarch, but Raven Software will reportedly be taking the reins of its campaign, and if the rumors are to be believed, it's making a big change by shifting to an open-world format. With this already being a big change, taking another leap to add co-op could be worth the risk.
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Call of Duty 2024's Campaign Should Be Co-Op
Call of Duty 2024's Campaign Rumors Explained
Back at the start of February 2024, renowned industry leaker Tom Henderson - writing for Insider Gaming - posted a report that claimed that Call of Duty 2024 would feature an open-world campaign. Though Call of Duty has dabbled with more open-ended campaign structures in the past, such as Modern Warfare 3's Open Combat missions, Call of Duty 2024 will apparently be fully embracing an open-world structure, allegedly being more akin to Far Cry than anything Call of Duty has tackled before.
According to this report from Insider Gaming's Tom Henderson, and a number they've written both before and after, Call of Duty 2024 will also be set during the Gulf War, hence its rumored title Call of Duty: Black Ops Gulf War. Players will be able to travel around the map via vehicles as well as access fast travel points dotted around the open-world. Henderson also mentioned that Call of Duty 2024's open-world campaign will feature linear missions as well, but it was unclear how many would be in the game upon its rumored October 2024 release.
It's Time for Another Co-Op Call of Duty
Generally speaking, an open-world Call of Duty could show a great deal of promise, just as long as it is handled correctly. Call of Duty: Warzone has proven that open-world traversal and map design comes naturally to Raven Software, so tasking the studio with the series' first open-world campaign seems like a smart choice. But this isn't the only bold feature that Call of Duty 2024 should add to its campaign.
Though Call of Duty almost always features some kind of cooperative third mode, it's very rarely offered a co-op campaign experience. In fact, there have only been two co-op campaigns in Call of Duty's 20-year lifetime, both of which have come from Treyarch. While Call of Duty: World at War and Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 didn't have the greatest co-op campaign experiences, they were still fun enough, and though Treyarch apparently isn't working on this year's campaign, it would be great to see its penchant for co-op gameplay filter its way down into Call of Duty 2024's campaign. An open-world structure just feels like the perfect place to bring co-op back to Call of Duty's campaigns.
