The latest entry in the venerable Call of Duty series, Black Ops 6 serves as a major revitalization for the franchise’s typical formula. Between its reinvigorating campaign that’s among the most varied in the franchise to date, along with solid changes to the multiplayer gameplay, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 serves as a phenomenal bounceback from a rough entry in 2023’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Being the first title in the franchise released since Microsoft’s acquisition of publisher Activision, it feels like this new game sets a nice groundwork for future entries to follow.
One other major area of improvement for Black Ops 6 has been in the form of the Zombies mode. Where Modern Warfare 3 opted for an open-world Zombies mode, Black Ops 6 takes players back to the classic round-based gameplay format that made this mode so popular in its formative days. The changes to Zombies may also be worth jumping into for fans of another zombie-based video game franchise, Resident Evil.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Zombies has made some excellent gameplay strides since release, although one big issue is still holding the mode back.
Black Ops 6 Zombies Is A Perfect Holdover For Resident Evil Fans
Black Ops 6’s Third-Person Option Is Reminiscent Of Resident Evil
A major change that Black Ops 6 makes that should be familiar to Resident Evil fans is the ability to change the view to third-person in Zombies mode. It’s far from the first time Call of Duty has experimented with third-person gameplay, but it continues a tradition set in Modern Warfare 3 where a third-person view can specifically be used in the Zombies mode. Combined with the game’s new omnidirectional movement, it makes for one of Call of Duty’s most unique gameplay styles yet.
What it also does is make Call of Duty: Black Ops 6’s Zombies mode feel like a classic Resident Evil game in and of itself. Up until the most recent entries, Resident Evil has long existed as a third-person horror game, even innovating in a big way in that area with 2005’s Resident Evil 4. Call of Duty’s Zombies mode offering a third-person viewpoint is a satisfying combination of styles that should satiate Resident Evil fans while they wait for the franchise’s next entry.
Black Ops 6 Brings Resident Evil’s Puzzle Gameplay To The Forefront
Another way that Call of Duty: Black Ops 6’s Zombies mode hearkens back to Resident Evil is in its puzzle-focused gameplay. Beyond its zombie-killing action and horror gameplay, puzzle-solving has long been one of the biggest pillars of the Resident Evil series. Between story-based puzzles and side puzzles to earn collectibles, Resident Evil succeeds just as much for its sense of discovery as it does for its survival gameplay.
Across Black Ops 6’s Zombies mode, the maps are absolutely loaded with puzzles for players to solve. These puzzles help players to find Easter Eggs – one of the most prominent parts of the Zombies experience – to help unlock amazing rewards and even uncover pieces of the Zombies story. Putting all of this together, it feels like Black Ops 6’s Zombies mode was designed to pay homage to the success of the Resident Evil series.
Call of Duty’s Zombies mode offering a third-person viewpoint is a satisfying combination of styles that should satiate Resident Evil fans while they wait for the franchise’s next entry.
Even Black Ops 6’s Campaign Throws Back To Resident Evil
Even beyond the Zombies mode, the Black Ops 6 campaign even has a mission called Emergence that takes a full-blown jump into horror. In the chapter, you explore an underground facility where, in a series of gas-induced hallucinations, the player character is forced to face off against undead creatures. Beyond being one of the campaign’s best missions, it’s also a very clear homage to Resident Evil, which makes it worth a try for hardcore fans of Capcom’s horror franchise.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is a major return to form in several ways, most especially in its revitalization of the Zombies gameplay style. Combining all of its new and old elements together, this new iteration of Zombies feels tailor-made for the hardcore Resident Evil fan. While those fans wait patiently for Capcom’s next move with the franchise, Black Ops 6 could provide a zombie-killing fix for horror game fans.
Forced to go rogue. Hunted from within. This is Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.
Developed by Treyarch and Raven, Black Ops 6 is a spy action thriller set in the early 90s, a period of transition and upheaval in global politics, characterized by the end of the Cold War and the rise of the United States as a single superpower. With a mind-bending narrative, and unbound by the rules of engagement, this is signature Black Ops.
The Black Ops 6 Campaign provides dynamic moment-to-moment gameplay that includes a variety of play spaces with blockbuster set pieces and action-packed moments, high-stakes heists, and cloak-and-dagger spy activity.
In a best-in-class Multiplayer experience, players will test their skills across 16 new maps at launch, including 12 core 6v6 maps and 4 Strike maps that can be played 2v2 or 6v6.
Black Ops 6 also marks the epic return of Round-Based Zombies, the fan-favorite mode where players will take down hordes of the undead in two brand-new maps at launch. Post-launch, players can look forward to even more exciting maps and groundbreaking experiences dropping into both Multiplayer and Zombies.
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October 25, 2024