

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is a first-person shooter co-developed by Treyarch and Raven Software, published by Activision in October 2024. It is the seventh entry in the Black Ops sub-series, set during the early 1990s Gulf War era. The game features a single-player campaign, competitive multiplayer with an omnidirectional movement system allowing players to sprint, dive, and slide in any direction, and a cooperative round-based Zombies mode. It had the longest development cycle in Call of Duty history at four years, during which the team rebuilt core Black Ops systems in a new shared engine. During Operation Desert Storm, CIA operatives Troy Marshall and William ""Case"" Calderon are deployed to the Iraq-Kuwait border to extract an Iraqi official. The mission goes sideways when the target claims he is being hunted by a shadowy paramilitary force called Pantheon. After the extraction fails, a rogue former agent named Russell Adler surfaces with a cryptic message pointing to an old KGB safe house in Bulgaria. Suspended from duty and with no official support, Marshall, Case, and veteran operative Frank Woods assemble a team of outcasts, including an ex-Stasi technician and a skilled assassin. As they dig into Pantheon's operations, they uncover links between the group and CIA leadership itself, along with a dangerous psychochemical weapon called the Cradle. Declared fugitives after being framed for a Pantheon attack, the team must unravel a conspiracy that reaches into the highest levels of American intelligence.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and plot-driven.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Platforms
- Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One
- Developer
- Treyarch, Raven Software
- Publisher
- Activision
- Released
- October 25, 2024
- Modes
- Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
- Perspective
- First person
- Engine
- IW Engine
- Time to beat
- 3469 h rushed · 1758 h main story · 205 h completionist
IGDB rating 7.8/10 from 193 ratings.
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