Call of Duty: Warzone may have spilled the rest of the one Call of Duty franchise, with the battle generously raising 75 million downloads starting this month – but of course Activision also wants to develop a new flagship Call of Duty campaign, and the name is just as public as Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War.
That’s according to the official YouTube teaser you can watch above, which provided us with a lot, many questions, in the first place 1) what does the game actually look like, 2) is the next gene, and 3) how do you support the name of the game properly? (Is it Call of Duty: Black Ops: Cold War? Probably not.)
However, it promises that the game will be “inspired by actual events”, and has a real speech by a real KGB defector to help illustrate its point. Compare with this video:
And here are some old articles about Bezmenov chasing away the real CIA in their reading library.
According to pieces of text that flashed during the teaser video, players may play – or interact with – a suspected Soviet spy named “Perseus”, whose purpose was to “undermine the US to guarantee Soviet dominance in the arms race. ” The real CIA also has at least one article about a ‘Perseus’, which was plausible among the spies who stole American nuclear secrets from the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos. That part, however, would have happened during World War II.
The game will be formally unveiled on August 26th. Until then, there is not much more to share – except perhaps the game’s tagline, “Know your history or be domed to repeat it,” and that his YouTube description calls it “Verdansk”, which just so happens the location is from Warzone‘s primary map and was also featured in Modern warfare.
Activision has promised that Warzone will be tied to future games in the Call of Duty series, and it sounds like it might start now. As Polygon points out, there was also an ARG that led to this teaser:
The teaser release was timed with members of the Call of Duty community completing a multi-day ARG involving various forms of Cold War code-breaking, leading to secret rooms within the map of Verdansk in Call of Duty: Warzone – which seems to imply that there could be a connection between Black Ops: Cold War en Warzone. The ARG also included a variety of videotapes, each corresponding to a year in the history of the Cold War, with similar clips as those in this teaser.
The game will be developed by Treyarch and Raven Software, who previously owned each tweeted that they worked with each other, and Raven specifically said that it developed “this year’s his Call of Duty” – suggested that Cold War can ship before the year is out.
We actually knew that too.
