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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6

Treyarch, Raven Software

2024•Shooter•PEGI 18•About 1758 hours

Taste attributes: actionwarmafia/gangstermonster/alien/supernaturalfasttried & testedunsavouryheavyimaginarysimplelineargrittybig & variedall consuming questdeep rivalryhuman spirit/resilience/survivalrescue/escape/jeopardysolving the riddle/not as it seemsunderdog triumphs

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Boxlist takeA sweeping shooter that is morally murky, pacy and straightforward. Best if you like spectacle over intimacy.

Pace: fast · Originality: tried and tested · Tone: very dark · Weight: balanced · Realism: imaginary world · Story: simple · Structure: very linear · Look: balanced · Scale: big and varied · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score

IGDB rating

78 / 100

197 ratings

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About This Game

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.

Summary: IGDB

Story

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...

Characteristics

Where this game sits on each taste spectrum

SlowPACEFast

FamiliarORIGINALITYOriginal

DarkTONEWholesome

LightWEIGHTINESSHeavy

FantasyREALISMRealistic

SimpleINTRICACYIntricate

Non-LinearLINEARITYLinear

UnderstatedSTYLEStylised

IntimateSCALEEpic

RestrainedEMOTIONIntense

Genres and themes

ActionWarMafia/gangsterMonster/alien/supernaturalAll consuming questDeep rivalryHuman spirit/resilience/survivalRescue/escape/jeopardySolving the riddle/not as it seemsUnderdog triumphs

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Details

Developers: Treyarch, Raven Software
Publisher: Activision
Released: 25 October 2024
Series: Call of Duty
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One
Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Perspective: First person
Time to beat: 3469h rushed, 1758h normally, 205h complete
Age rating: PEGI 18
Taste scores: How we score
Source: IGDB

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