Finally, our lengthy global nightmare is over. After years of waiting and suffering, I can confirm that the next Call of Duty: Black Ops game will bring back the franchise’s iconic “Dude with guns sitting on the cover” iconography. Truly, a time for celebration.
A new year, of course, means a new entry in Activision’s long-running and super-popular first-person shooter series, Call of Duty . As revealed last week,the next game is Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 , a new entry in the franchise’s sub-series about spies, future warfare, and conspiracy theories. Weirdly this game is still arriving on last-gen consoles .
But I’m not here to chat about that or Black Ops 6 launching on Game Pass. Instead, I’m here to talk about something much more important. Something that was missing in the last two entries.
Of course, I’m referring to the random guy sitting and holding pistols on the cover of many Black Ops entries. This all started in 2010. That’s the year Treyarch and Activision released the original Call of Duty: Black Ops .
Black Ops and its cover introduced the world to something new. Before that entry, previous Call of Duty covers featured men standing, fighting, running, or yelling. Black Ops did something different.
It let its cover star chill. “Hey, take a load off dude,” Treyarch told the cover star. “But, hold on to your guns still.
..this is Call of Duty .
” And thus, the Black Ops franchise began its run of having dudes sitting on the cover holding pi.
