Sunday was Microsoft’s Xbox Video games Showcase, the place it revealed its upcoming moveable handheld, the ROG Xbox Ally, and a slew of upcoming video games. The present ended with the primary take a look at the subsequent Name of Obligation title, Black Ops 7.
The trailer for Black Ops 7 was brief, displaying a futuristic setting with robots and holographic shows. David Mason, performed by Milo Ventimiglia, is featured all through the trailer, which shortly shifts to an odd panorama — on par with the Black Ops sequence, the place hallucinations brought on by army weapons and torture are widespread themes.
In keeping with the sport’s official web page, the yr is 2035 and violent battle and psychological warfare have thrown the world into chaos. The sport follows the occasions of 2012’s Black Ops 2, the place Mason was launched as a personality, and 2024’s Black Ops 6. Whereas different Name of Obligation video games are inclined to concentrate on sure eras of warfare, resembling World Warfare II and the Iraq Warfare, the Black Ops sequence focuses on secret missions sometimes carried out by the US and vary from the Chilly Warfare period to extra fashionable and even futuristic instances. Black Ops 2 came about in 2025, whereas Black Ops 6 was set in 1991.
All of the Black Ops video games have sure storyline ties with returning characters and antagonists. Within the trailer, David says “Menendez,” which is probably going Raul Menendez, the villain of Black Ops 2. In that recreation, he was a Nicaraguan drug lord and chief of the terrorist group Cordis Die. On the finish of the sport, gamers in the end determined whether or not to spare or kill Menendez, which raises the query of whether or not Mendez is alive or if that is some hallucination by David.
No official launch date for Black Ops 7 has been introduced, but when it follows the identical launch sample as different Name of Obligation video games, count on it to come back out in October. As Microsoft owns the rights to the Name of Obligation franchise, the sport must be obtainable on Recreation Move when it is launched on PC, Xbox One and Xbox Collection consoles. It is going to even be obtainable on PS4 and PS5.
