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The next Call of Duty is a Black Ops game set during the first Gulf War, according to reportsBeating around the George Bush
Beating around the George Bush
If rumour speak true, the next Call of Duty game will be another entry in the Black Ops series. It’ll also, allegedly, take place during the first Gulf War across 1990 and 1991, in which a US-led coalition of countries including the UK, Saudi Arabia and Egypt invaded Iraq in response to the Saddam Hussein government’s conquest of Kuwait.
The new Call of Duty doesn’t have a title as yet, the report continues - it probably won’t be calledBlack Ops 6. Internal codenames for the project include “Cerberus”, according to Windows Central. “Call of Duty: Black OpsGulf War” is the obvious choice, following in the footsteps ofCall of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, but maybe they’ll just call it “Black Ops” and continue Activision’s recent very irritating habit of giving sequels the same names as previous games.
I don’t trust Activision’s pseudo-military forever-shooter to do this subject much justice. The series has a track record for distorting the facts - it hasalready misrepresented the events of the Gulf War, with 2019’s Modern Warfare reboot blaming the Russians for the US bombardment of Iraqi troops along the notorious “Highway of Death” in February 1991. But if a Call of Duty game is going to do it, I’d rather it were Black Ops, the one Call of Duty subfranchise that actually makes “fucking up history” an explicit narrative preoccupation, though it seldom comes to any conclusions more productive than “oh the humanity”.
Mind you, the biggest question to answer here is whether we’ll have to reckon with a CGI Margaret Thatcher.
