Summary

  • 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.

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.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
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Top Critic Avg: 83 /100 Critics Rec: 91%
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Released
October 25, 2024
ESRB
Mature 17+ // Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Suggestive Themes, Strong Language, Use of Drugs
Developer(s)
Treyarch, Raven Software
Publisher(s)
Activision
Engine
IW 9.0
Multiplayer
Online Multiplayer, Online Co-Op
Cross-Platform Play
Yes - PlayStation, Xbox, PC
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Forced to go rogue. Hunted from within. This is Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.

Developed by Treyarch and Raven, Black Ops 6 is a spy action thriller set in the early 90s, a period of transition and upheaval in global politics, characterized by the end of the Cold War and the rise of the United States as a single superpower. With a mind-bending narrative, and unbound by the rules of engagement, this is signature Black Ops.

The Black Ops 6 Campaign provides dynamic moment-to-moment gameplay that includes a variety of play spaces with blockbuster set pieces and action-packed moments, high-stakes heists, and cloak-and-dagger spy activity.

In a best-in-class Multiplayer experience, players will test their skills across 16 new maps at launch, including 12 core 6v6 maps and 4 Strike maps that can be played 2v2 or 6v6.

Black Ops 6 also marks the epic return of Round-Based Zombies, the fan-favorite mode where players will take down hordes of the undead in two brand-new maps at launch. Post-launch, players can look forward to even more exciting maps and groundbreaking experiences dropping into both Multiplayer and Zombies.

Franchise
Call of Duty
Genre(s)
FPS