Those controversial ‘Call Of Duty’ skins aren’t going anywhere in ‘Black Ops 7’

It looks like the controversial skins that have split the Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 fanbase will make a return in Black Ops 7.

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Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 is set in the early 1990s with developers doing everything possible to make the first-person shooter as authentic as possible. However, since the game launched last year, Activision Blizzard has released a number of skins that have divided the fanbase.

Black Ops 6 owners can play as a giant shark, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator or one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and have been able to take part in collabs with Squid Game, I Know What You Did Last Summer and American Dad!. Earlier this year, Seth Rogen was added to the game as part of the weed-inspired Blaze Of Glory event.

Now it looks like those controversial crossovers are set to continue in Black Ops 7, which is due to launch later this year. 

According to the recently shared ESRB rating, Black Ops 7 will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and PC alongside the PS4 and the Xbox One. It will also feature mature content. “As players try to prevent a tech titan from gaining power, they use pistols, machine guns, assault rifles, and explosives to kill various enemies (e.g., hostile soldiers, robots, creatures).”

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 officially rated M by ESRB

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The rating also confirms that Black Ops 7 will include “marijuana/joints/paraphernalia: players’ characters inhaling marijuana from a bong-like structure attached to a rifle; players’ characters smoking joints or inhaling through bongs as part of execution sequences,” as previously seen in the Blaze Of Glory event.

Some fans think this also means that items purchased in Black Ops 6 will be carried over into the new game. “Black Ops 7 is fucked from the start. All this carry forward stuff in MW2 to MW3 and BO6 to BO7 means that COD will never be good again. Corporate slop over quality game design and having a theme,” wrote one fan. “Good because fuck buying the same shit again for no reason,” added another. 

More details about Black Ops 7 will reportedly be revealed next month. The game will feature both solo and co-op campaign modes, alongside a “signature” multiplayer experience with brand new maps. The popular ‘Zombies’ mode is also getting a refresh with “the next twisted chapter of round-bases” mayhem. Black Ops 7 “delivers the full Call Of Duty package for our players, and we can’t wait to show the community more,” said COD director Matt Cox earlier this year.

In other news, Borderlands 4’s delayed launch date for the Nintendo Switch 2 has been confirmed by developers Gearbox Software.

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