

It’s Michael Bay, the video game, with development studios Raven and Treyarch teaming up to usher this entry out the door under a hail of bullets and blasts. It’s gung-ho, it’s reflex-reliant, and it’s loud. Here’s the rundown of what it'll take to earn it all.If you’ve picked up any Call Of Duty game in the past decade, you know what you’re in for the second you boot up Black Ops: Cold War. You can spend your Prestige Keys to change the appearance of your prestige icon, including throwback icons to past CoD games. Prestige levels and Prestige Shopĭedicated players who blaze through the Season 1 prestige levels earn special emblems, calling cards, battle pass tier skips, and challenges. This is essentially the Advanced UAV from Modern Warfare that pierces through the Ghost perk and also displays player direction on the minimap. New vehicle & scorestreakĪ new “fast-moving” boat found on the Sanatorium Fireteam map.

Go too long without killing a zombie and boom, you’re dead. Cranked Zombies is almost exactly the same as the standard multiplayer mode, but applied to Zombies. Jingle Hells gives Dis Maschine a festive makeover and litters the map with a “variety of festive firepower” like snowballs that can freeze zombies where they stand. Zombies isn't getting a new map in Season 1, but it is getting a few holiday treats that sound fun.

Dropkick rounds out the modes with a twist on VIP that limits the player holding the “special” briefcase to a pistol. The gloriously goofy Prop Hunt mode is also making a triumphant return with what looks like the option to become an entire arcade machine. Since small maps are required for the mode to work, four Gunfight-specific maps are also on the way (more on that below). Three new modesĪs previously announced by Treyarch, Cold War is getting one of Modern Warfare’s standout hit modes: the intense 2v2 Gunfight. What is this, Rainbow Six Siege? It’s too bad that both melee weapons and the shotgun are coming later in the season. I can’t wait to try out the Groza and Streetsweeper shotguns that I remember fondly from other Black Ops games, but I'm most excited to run around the map with a damn sledgehammer.

The first weapon pack coming to Cold War is a bundle of series classics. He’s also got a bone to pick with Russel Adler (probably because Adler took his eye during a torture sesh). The marquee day one op is Stitch, an agent of Perseus tasked with restoring Rebirth Island following the events of Black Ops 1's campaign. Three new operators are coming to Cold War/Warzone with one at launch and two more to be released throughout the season.
