If Call of Duty 2025 Is Another Black Ops Game, One Thing Can Be Expected

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If Call of Duty 2025 Is Another Black Ops Game, One Thing Can Be Expected



This article contains MAJOR SPOILERS for every mainline
Call of Duty: Black Ops
game, including
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
.



The Call of Duty: Black Ops series’ campaigns have been home to some of the most memorable missions and moments in franchise history, from Black Ops 1‘s gunship escape in Vietnam to Black Ops 2‘s climactic confrontation with Raul Menendez. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 continues this exciting pattern for the franchise, delivering mind-bending missions like ‘Separation Anxiety’ and ‘Emergence’ that are sure to be remembered for years to come.


The Call of Duty: Black Ops 6‘s successor is really going to have to go above and beyond to surpass what came before it, and that might have to come sooner than fans think. According to recently leaked images originally posted to Twitter by user @FumoLeaks, 2025’s Call of Duty entry could be a sequel to Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, set in the 2030s. But regardless of when it’s set or even when it hits store shelves, the next Call of Duty: Black Ops campaign will likely feature one staple of the series, and that’s a twist concerning the protagonist’s identity.


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Every mainline Call of Duty: Black Ops campaign features a twist regarding the game’s protagonist, and the first entry’s twist is arguably the most famous. 2010’s Call of Duty: Black Ops sees players take control of Alex Mason, a former US Marine and current CIA operative who begins the game tied to a chair in a dark room. Mason is asked to recount some major events of the last few years, including all the times his Russian cellmate Viktor Reznov assisted him on mission. Of course, it’s eventually revealed that Reznov was never on these missions with Mason, and that it was Mason himself carrying out acts like killing the ex-Nazi scientist Steiner.


Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 didn’t imitate its predecessor directly, but it contained a protagonist-related twist of its own. Players control Alex Mason again for most of the campaign’s 1980s flashback missions, but that comes to an abrupt end with the mission ‘Suffer With Me.’ In this mission, players take control of Frank Woods as he’s tasked with executing a restrained target he believes is antagonist Raul Menendez. Unfortunately, Woods is deceived, and the target he kills is none other than Alex Mason.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 3‘s campaign twist is much more subtle than the ones that precede it, and also far more confusing. Without getting into the weeds too much, Black Ops 3‘s campaign is essentially two stories in one, with the player actually controlling a character whose physical body has died, and whose consciousness lives on in a teammate’s high-tech neural interface.


Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War pulled back from the complexity of Black Ops 3‘s twist, but still carried forward some similar mind-bending, identity-shattering themes. In Cold War, players control a CIA operative named “Bell” who’s been hired by Russell Adler to hunt down a rogue Soviet spy known as Perseus. At the end of the game, it’s revealed that Bell was actually working for Perseus at the start of the campaign, and that the CIA had brainwashed him into thinking he was one of them in an attempt to find Perseus’ hidden base.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Continues The Series’ Protagonist Trend

Taking a page out of Cold War‘s playbook, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6‘s campaign twist also revolves around the protagonist’s identity and backstory. During the mission ‘Emergence,’ it’s revealed that player-character “Case” was the first and only human test subject for a powerful super-soldier substance called The Cradle. Due to the severe side effects, Case was essentially brainwashed into forgetting he ever took part in the experiment.


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How Call of Duty 2025 Could Put a Unique Spin on the Protagonist Twist

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As evidenced above, protagonist twists have been a staple of every mainline Call of Duty: Black Ops game since the very beginning, and they’ve remained a surprising and exciting part of the experience. But if recent rumors are true and Call of Duty 2025 is indeed another Black Ops entry, it might feel a little repetitive to get another protagonist-related twist so soon.

But there are some ways the next Black Ops entry can avoid this potential issue. While Black Ops has explored secret identities, sudden deaths, and subconscious stories within stories, it hasn’t brought a playable protagonist back from the dead before (Woods doesn’t count as he wasn’t playable in Black Ops 1). Call of Duty 2025 could work with its close release proximity to Black Ops 6, and bring Case back.


Presumed dead at the end of Black Ops 6‘s campaign, Case could return in Call of Duty 2025, perhaps appearing at the halfway point of the campaign and taking over from a new playable character. That way, the next Black Ops would still have its trademark protagonist twist while avoiding the pitfall of repeating itself too early.

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