Activision showed off the first gameplay scenes for the version of Call of Duty: Warzone with Call of Duty: Black Ops — Cold War.
The game is getting its big Season One update on December 16, and it will include a new map for the first time since the battle royale mode debuted in March. Warzone has been extremely successful with 80 million downloads and counting. Along with Call of Duty: Mobile, it helped boost the Call of Duty franchise to $3 billion in the past year and become a year-round franchise.
The announcement was made at The Game Awards, the big awards program created by Geoff Keighley to celebrate gaming. In the trailer, we saw a hooded bad guy going after CIA agent Russell Adler, the main character of Cold War’s single-player campaign. The fighting arena included something that looked like the KGB headquarters, and the game had a lot of new weapons and vehicles. Adler was riding in an attack helicopter, and soldiers were riding jetski-like skimmers across a river.
The map change will be a big deal for players, who have been addicted to existing map but are probably eager for something new. That means that Warzone itself has become a major project within Activision, where thousands of developers are working on various Call of Duty titles. There were motorcycles, boats, and nukes scattered throughout the video.
