Call of Duty: Black Ops 6’s teaser trailer sure loves the 1990s

Straight up, there isn’t a body of gameplay from Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, within the official teaser trailer Treyarch and Activision launched on Monday (Memorial Day, no much less). It’s nonetheless a bananas, paranoid tour of the deep state, laced with all types of Nineteen Nineties references for individuals who have nice affection for that decade of peace and prosperity. I do know I do; I graduated each highschool and school that decade.

So, let’s see, we’ve bought Invoice Clinton, Margaret Thatcher, Al Gore, Dan Quayle, George Bush the elder, Saddam Hussein, Chia Pets, Professional Bull Riders (based 1992, for the report), McMansions galore, and a pretend Associates-style dramedy referred to as “Frank’s Woods” which is plainly a reference to Black Ops’ founding protagonist. All we’d like from right here is Blockbuster Video and your Mother bringing dwelling a Pizza Hut Big New Yorker (a product conceived by former Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime, by the way in which).

The Black Ops line of Call of Duty games have at all times gotten the showier advertising items through the years, primarily as a result of everybody loves old school conspiracy idea. Although most folk purchase Name of Responsibility for the multiplayer, and absolutely will for this recreation, the nostalgic touches and interval references have at all times made Black Ops’ single-player campaigns value a playthrough.

That’s why it was such a criminal offense that Name of Responsibility: Black Ops 4 (2018) had no marketing campaign. Treyarch, the lead developer of the sub-series, realized its lesson and got here again with a correct marketing campaign for 2020’s Name of Responsibility: Black Ops Chilly Struggle, returning the sequence to the completely fabulous Nineteen Eighties after two editions set sooner or later. Name of Responsibility: Black Ops 6 due to this fact continues that storyline, simply in a decade we haven’t but explored.

Name of Responsibility Black Ops 6 was formally announced May 23; rumor and hypothesis for months had recommended Treyarch would take the sport to the Gulf Struggle period. The sport could have a devoted deep-dive livestream after the Xbox Games Showcase on June 9, 2024, beginning at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm BST. The sport’s launch date has not but been introduced, however when it arrives, it would launch on PlayStation 5, Home windows PC and Xbox Sequence X — and, as reported by CharlieIntel, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.