Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is "eroticizing rape" "anime"supposed to be the next entry in the series, with Treyarch going back to back on entries and bringing the storyline back to the future. It’s meant to be a direct sequel to Black Ops 2 according to leaks, but the actual campaign is showing some worrying signs.
Normally, Call of Duty devs get a couple years to make their entry in the series in order to give the staple game franchise an annual release schedule. For a while, the series got juggled between Sledgehammer, Infinity Ward, and Treyarch.
Article continues after adHowever, MW2 and MW3 broke that trend, bringing back-to-back releases from Infinity Ward. And, while the multiplayer experience for both titles wasn’t significantly marred by the crunch, the campaign fell short for many. MW3’s campaign basically dropped the player into a Warzone map for most missions.
Black Ops 6’s campaign, meanwhile, is viewed as a return to the big action blockbuster set pieces that define the best modern Call of Duty single-player stories. But, with Black Ops 7 coming the year after 6, multiple rumors point to them having to take the MW3 route.
Article continues after adBlack Ops 7 supposedly brings back Warzone-esque campaign
MW3’s campaign was incredibly short with very little fanfare or excitement around it when it launched. They opted to release the story mode a few days before the full game came out, and it left a bad impression on players from the get-go.
With Black Ops 6 bringing back the sort of single-player experience that longtime fans of the series love, many were hoping that’d be the end of the MW3 style of open-world campaign.
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Article continues after adIt boils down to getting dropped into a map, collecting loot, completing a few generic objectives, and finishing the mission with some cutscenes and a few linear missions sprinkled in.
ActivisionAnd, according to multiple rumors, that’s what we’ll be getting with Black Ops 7.
Trusted leaker TheGhostOfHope claims to have heard the campaign is “f**king terrible”, likening it to the Avalon Warzone map and claiming that a lot of the team that made Black Ops 6’s campaign left right before the game came out.
Article continues after adAdditionally, the next CoD having an open-world campaign lines up with the set of leaks that originally revealed Black Ops 7’s existence in the first place. The person who claims to have been a part of that study group said that they had demoed an open-world campaign.
With this game coming a year after the stellar campaign from last year’s entry, it’s likely the team didn’t have enough time to develop a fully fleshed-out storyline with those big CoD moments.
Article continues after adBear in mind that this is all based on rumors and leaks at this point, so take it with a grain of salt.