In Black Ops Gulf War we should experience a reunion with old acquaintances.
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Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3's campaign has one major strength: things can only go uphill from there.
And as luck would have it, a new Call of Duty will also be released in 2024. According to leaks, it's called Black Ops Gulf War, is being developed by Raven Software and is set in – brace yourselves – the Second Gulf War between Iraq, Kuwait, the USA and other parties to the conflict.
So far, so known. Well-known insider Tom Henderson published in a new report further details that he said were leaked to him by anonymous sources. The most important information: Black Ops Gulf War is supposed to be an open-world shooter. Literally:
At the moment, the open world is more like a Far Cry than previous Call of Dutys. You navigate the map with your squad, move from A to B with vehicles or use a fast travel system.
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According to Henderson, Black Ops Gulf War does not want to completely forego classic, linear campaign missions, but it is currently unclear how campaign and open-world missions relate to each other.
This open-world trend could be a game changer for Call of Duty. According to Henderson, there are also initial plans to equip the 2025 Call of Duty with a large game world, although no final word has been written yet.
CoD 2025 is still in the concept phase without a permanent development studio, and everything can still change here.
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Quo vadis, Call of Duty?
The current Modern Warfare 3 already advertises its large sandbox missions as open-world missions; However, when it was released, this turned out to be largely marketing nonsense to cover up half-hearted multiplayer maps with bots that were exported from Warzone and sold as campaign content.
You can read about the whole misery in our GameStar test for the MW3 single player.
Cynically speaking, Black Ops Gulf War could of course also face this fate: an open world that ultimately just recycles the Warzone map in order to be able to write open world on the package.
On the other hand, the campaign of the 2024 CoD is being developed by Raven Software, which launched Cold War, the most technically innovative CoD campaign of the last 10 years. According to initial information, Gulf War will continue here; for example, an old acquaintance, Russell Adler, will return.
So it remains exciting to see in which direction the series develops – also in multiplayer, by the way. Will Gulf War take over all the unlocking stuff from MW2 and MW3 or will we expect a tabula rasa like in 2022 that will let everyone start from scratch? Basically a Warzone 3.0 or 4.0?
We expect the official reveal by summer 2024 and will keep you updated on everything.