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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Has Created the Perfect Storm For 2025’s CoD

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The recent launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 appears to have been quite a successful one for Treyarch and Activision, receiving a lot of early praise across its campaign, multiplayer, and Zombies modes. The release of the project has been one of the most unique that the franchise has seen in some time, with its comparatively long four years of development time and its day-one presence on the Xbox Game Pass service putting a lot of eyes on the title before it was even released.




Huge amounts of anticipation existed around Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 purely due to the longstanding focus that the wider franchise has had on the Modern Warfare series in recent years, with the presence of Black Ops now once again being in the driver’s seat for the IP. The early general positivity surrounding Black Ops 6 seems like perfect news for the near future of the franchise, with reports suggesting that 2025’s CoD release will be a direct sequel to 2012’s Black Ops 2. This move was a real risk for CoD given its recent history of successive releases for the same sub-franchise, but Black Ops 6 has seemingly offered the perfect setup for what 2025 will reportedly bring.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Has Done a Huge Amount of Leg Work For 2025’s CoD Release


Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 marks a triumphant return to the sub-franchise in the wider context of CoD, with the last Black Ops game coming four years ago with the 2020 launch of Cold War. While the Modern Warfare series has been enjoying a lot of attention during this downtime, it is clear that Treyarch has a detailed plan for the near future, with the four years of development for Black Ops 6 clearly having paid off.

Black Ops 6 has opened up a huge demographic of new players to the themes, narratives, characters, and gameplay experiences of the BO franchise, with the Xbox Game Pass market of players being one example of where some of these fresh eyes have come from. This could prove invaluable for Call of Duty‘s plans for 2025, with a huge number of early reports and leaks pointing towards the game being a full narrative sequel to Black Ops 2.


With over a decade having passed since the release of Black Ops 2, it seems like a smart move that Treyarch spent so much time fine-tuning the development of Black Ops 6, giving a great impression to some modern CoD fans who may have never played the 2012 title. Reports suggest that 2025’s Call of Duty will borrow the same near-future setting as most of Black Ops 2, carrying forward the story of David Mason following an attempted world takeover at the hands of Raul Menendez.

2025’s Call of Duty Can Succeed Where Modern Warfare 3 Failed

While this setting will be quite different from that of Black Ops 6, it seems invaluable that so many players will spend the next year getting familiar with the single-player themes, Zombies experiences, and multiplayer identity of Black Ops as a franchise in the run-up to this long-anticipated sequel. If the positive reception to Black Ops 6 continues deep into 2025, then fans will be eager to jump right into a new BO experience with all the bells and whistles of a more futuristic theme.


This could have been a very different story given the recent controversy surrounding Modern Warfare 3, with the game releasing right after MW2 and lacking a serious level of quality as a result. MW3 featured remastered maps and an infamously short campaign, which led to a very underwhelming two-year consecutive run for the rebooted Modern Warfare franchise, yet Treyarch is in a very good position to avoid this same fate. As long as the development for 2025’s CoD keeps up consistency over the next year, then Black Ops 6 can easily lend an eager audience to the project and atone for the borderline disastrous sequential releases that the franchise recently produced.

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