COD Black Ops Cold War Trailer Brings Back Mason Woods (& Ronald Reagan)

COD: Black Ops Cold War Trailer Brings Back Mason, Woods (& Ronald Reagan)

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War dropped a story trailer onto players today, teasing the return of COD: Black Ops characters and a dead president.

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As promised by a lengthy string of teases, leaks, and a surprisingly intricate Cold War-themed ARG, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War released a story trailer and release date for this year’s franchise entry, teasing the return of Call of Duty: Black Ops’ protagonists Alex Mason and Frank Woods, as well as former US President Ronald Reagan.

Being an annualized, billion-dollar series, it’s never a question of “if” with the next Call of Duty’s announcement so much as “when,” even though predictable release cycles and more leaks than an antique faucet take much of the guesswork out of even that. So far, players have felt fairly confident about Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War’s release date, open beta details, and pre-order bonuses, and many of those and other leaked specifics were – to varying degrees – confirmed by today’s hyped trailer.

Triggered by an in-game Call of Duty: Warzone event, Activision dropped Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War’s first major story trailer onto expectant players after a mad dash to the former game’s Stadium location. Starring none other than Call of Duty: Black Ops’ CIA operative protagonists Alex Mason and Frank Woods, the new title is a direct sequel of sorts to the original Call of Duty: Black Ops, possibly retreading and/or rewriting part of that game’s covert plot in the process. In an almost uncanny inclusion, Activision surprised viewers with a well-rendered and well-voiced Ronald Reagan character, who is presumably in direct command of the good guys’ efforts to stop some nuclear scheme or other in the conspiracy-driven narrative. Most notably, the trailer reveals a fast-approaching release date of November 13, 2020.

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This action-packed (but predictably formulaic, as the series’ scripted set piece-reliant campaigns go) trailer comes ahead of an impending multiplayer gameplay reveal at Gamescom’s well-hyped Opening Night Live. Of course, games based on war, especially those based in exclusively on the skewed worldviews of Activision development studios, are always inherently political in every facet of their presentation and gameplay. However, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War seems particularly eager to lean ever more heavily into seemingly every direction at once along the political spectrum with its likely unsubtle story about Russian infiltration into and active destabilization of the West – particularly, the US.

This would be a reasonable and timely take were it not for Activision Blizzard’s own CEO somewhat recently claiming that gaming is no place for politics when it was convenient for the publisher, as well as the fact that Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War’s previous anti-communist trailer was just self-censored globally in order to placate none other than the Chinese Communist Party. While modern China is anything but communist, the next Call of Duty’s plot so far sends some wildly mixed signals when deifying Ronald Reagan and the policing of the world by the US government in one breath and the merits of capitulating to totalitarian powers in the next.

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