Call of Duty: Black Ops 6

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is the twentieth game in the series and the seventh part of the Black Ops sub-series, released on October 25, 2024 by Treyarch and Raven Software (Activision/Microsoft). The launch set a historic record: no game had previously brought in as many new Xbox Game Pass subscribers in a single day, as confirmed personally by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. PC sales in the first two weeks exceeded those of Modern Warfare 3 by 60%.

The main part of BO6 is multiplayer. At launch there are 16 maps (12 classic 6v6 maps and 4 Strike maps for 2v2/FaceOff), and the legendary Nuketown was added on November 1. The key addition is Omnimovement: sprint, slide and dive in any direction, including backward and diagonally. The mechanic fully reshapes the dynamics of combat. Ranked play started in Season 1, and RICOCHET Anti-Cheat has been active from day one.

The single-player campaign takes place in 1991: the Cold War is ending, but inside the CIA a secret organization called the Pantheon is hiding, with a plan to deploy an apocalyptic weapon. The renegades Troy Marshall, Frank Woods and Russell Adler from Black Ops Cold War act outside the law to stop the threat from within. Playing on normal difficulty takes about 8 hours.

The Zombies mode, a classic round-based survival mode, returns with two maps. Terminus is a prison island in the Pacific Ocean (Philippines, 1986) with underground tunnels, sea caves and a narrative story quest. Liberty Falls is a small town in West Virginia with a fast pace and a trap in the form of a statue of the superheroine Aetherella, well suited to short sessions.

Warzone (a free battle royale, downloaded separately) is fully integrated with BO6: the Omnimovement mechanic arrived in Season 1, and operators and weapons carry over between the games. The critics' score is Metacritic PC 83. The Steam rating of Mixed (~40% positive from ~8,677 reviews) is explained by the Battle.net requirement, phone linking and technical problems at launch, not by the quality of the game itself.

There is no Russian voice-over: BO6 is the first numbered CoD without Russian dubbing since CoD 3 (2006), but Russian subtitles and interface are included. The game requires a constant internet connection, and Multiplayer requires linking a phone to the Activision account.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (2024, Treyarch/Raven Software), a record launch in the history of the series and the first CoD in Xbox Game Pass from day one. Multiplayer with Omnimovement, a single-player campaign about the CIA in 1991 and Zombies with two maps. Metacritic PC 83. Russian subtitles, English voice-over. Cross-play between PC, PlayStation and Xbox is included.