What? Call of Duty is skipping over Modern Warfare 4 and releasing Black Ops 7 this year instead
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The sacred Call of Duty calendar dictates that every few years, Infinity Ward makes a Modern Warfare game. This year that changes: Microsoft announced Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 at the Xbox Games Showcase, releasing just a year after Black Ops 6.
Respectfully, what the heck is going on? Treyarch and Raven are heading up their second Call of Duty in a row, a thing that Activision has always expressively avoided because, well, releasing a game every year is a recipe for mediocrity.
Even weirder is that Black Ops 7 is bouncing back from the past to the future. Set in 2035, the campaign stars David Mason (son of the "Numbers" Mason) and picks up the thread of Black Ops 2, a game released 13 years ago. Activsion says campaign co-op is making a comeback, which sounds neat.
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