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- Black Ops 6 revitalizes the franchise with a semi-open world, revamped movement, and a focus on spy espionage.
- Heavily influenced by Mission Impossible and the Hitman games, Black Ops 6 offers various missions focusing on infiltrating and targeting high-level targets.
- With its longest campaign yet at 8 hours, Black Ops 6 blends diverse missions, such as a casino heist, with traditional frontline battles, setting the stage for more expansive storytelling in future entries.
The Black Ops series is back with a bang and is one of the strongest entries in the Call of Duty franchise since 2019’s Modern Warfare. There’s a lot of new stuff around this time with the game, with a revamped movement system and tons of new features.
Finally beating the same old game allegations, Black Ops 6 excels in all 3 main game departments: Campaign, Multiplayer, and Zombies. However, in my playthrough, I found the game’s story mode fully revamped.
Exploring the proper theme of Black Ops missions, the game delves into Spy Spionage missions with a more semi-open world setting. Combined with a decent storyline featuring the series’ strongest characters, Black Ops 6 is the most refreshing campaign I’ve played in years.
Why It Matters: For a franchise that was getting stale due to yearly releases and not much change with each entry, Black Ops 6 brings promising changes for the future and keeps us optimistic.
The Game Has A Lot of Mission Impossible And Hitman Influence
Jumping straight in, I noticed a lot of Mission Impossible and Hitman influence in Black Ops 6, although the latter one is in terms of mission design. While still not a sandbox-level design, Black Ops 6 has tons of freedom in playstyle and how to approach each objective and side mission.
The game also features a wide variety of gadgets this time. A swaying throwing knife reminiscent of the remote-controlled Batarang from the Arkham games and RC bombs makes you really feel like a spy.
The premise is quite simple, though. As rogue agents, you’ll have to hunt down high-target individuals without official government backing and dig up friendly and enemy secrets.
As such, Black Ops 6 features some memorable real-life figures from the Gulf War era, such as Bill Clinton, whose political gala you’d have to infiltrate in one mission. Saddam Hussein also appears in the game, and one mission involves raiding his palace.
After every mission, you return to your safehouse, which is a hub for all the game’s missions and progress. You can learn more about your comrades and buy upgrades, too. While this feature has been around for the last few entries, Black Ops 6 expands on this.
One Of The Longest Campaigns In The Franchise
Despite their good quality, call of Duty’s campaigns are never the most memorable part of the game. Those games usually offer a 4-6 hours campaign that can be completed within one sitting.
With Black Ops 6, however, things have changed for the better. While not a significant margin, the new campaign now clocks around 8 hours.
There’s a lot of mission variety in the game, which will have you roaming around different environments and parts of the world. For instance, one mission is a casino heist with multiple points of infiltration that won’t affect the mission’s outcome but are different playstyles, opening new opportunities and interaction with other NPCs.
That said, the campaign has its frontline moments, too, with bits of it set at the frontlines of the battles. There’s enough variety to please old-school Call of Duty fans as well as newer fans while giving them a much fresh outlook on the game.
New Beginnings For Call Of Duty
While the Microsoft acquisition of Activision didn’t play a part in this, the franchise is about to change forever. It’s actually evolving, and Black Ops 6 was just testing grounds for the series’ campaign, which I speculate will be given more attention in the future.
Potentially, future Call of Duty campaigns will be even more engaging and take a much more expansive take on its mission style, something closer to the Hitman games. That is a welcome change; however, I want that strictly for the Black Ops series. The Modern Warfare games are best to stick towards the frontline action.
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