Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is an upcoming first-person shooter video game developed by Treyarch and Raven Software and published by Activision. It is the sixth installment of the Black Ops series, and the seventeenth installment in the overall Call of Duty series.

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Outline

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War

Plot

Campaign

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is set during the Cold War in the early 1980s, "inspired by actual events"

The campaign "will come face-to-face with historical figures and hard truths, as they battle around the globe through iconic locales like East Berlin, Vietnam, Turkey, Soviet KGB headquarters and more.

Multiplayer

Black Ops Cold War "bring a Cold War arsenal of weapons and equipment into the next generation of Multiplayer."

The worldwide reveal of Black Ops Cold War multiplayer is on September 9.

Development

On May 18, 2019, Kotaku reported that the game was in upheaval as developers Sledgehammer Games and Raven Software had increasing tensions between the studios.

Two sources described the game as a "mess". In response, Activision assigned Treyarch to lead development alongside Raven.

On August 4, 2020, Activision in their Q2 earnings call confirmed that a new Call of Duty title was planned to be released in 2020 and that Treyarch and Raven were developing the game.

It will be the first Call of Duty game since Modern Warfare 3 to be co-developed by two studios, as well as the first time Raven Software being the main developer, as in previous games they assisted on the multiplayer and extra features.

Marketing

Announcements and marketing relating to a Call of Duty game have traditionally been around April or May prior to the game's fall release

However, Activision began teasing Black Ops Cold War with an alternate reality game (ARG) in August 2020. Various YouTubers prevalent to the Call of Duty community on YouTube were shipped crates.

Once authorized to open on August 10, 2020, they were greeted by a slide projector, 10 different slides per crate, and a manifest

Starting on August 14, 2020, Black Ops Cold War was marketed, after ciphers being solved, by enticing fans to solve ciphers and puzzles on a website called pawntakespawn.com.

Censorship

CBR.com reported that the teaser trailer had been banned in China due to a one second depiction of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. An edited trailer was released instead.