Is Call of Duty about to finally cross the proverbial Rubicon and finally touch on the events of September 11, 2001? Making my newsgathering rounds this morning, as I do each day, I came upon this piece by TheGamer , which points to a post by a Call of Duty news account . In it, OP points to numbers that appear in the recent marketing for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 that appear to spell out 9 11 2001 . Fans have also noticed that the game’s marketing posters only seem to have appeared in New York so far, further cementing the theory.
The Black Ops series is no stranger to incorporating historical events into its storyline. These are games in which the main character, Alex Mason, was brainwashed by the Soviets to kill President John F Kennedy. In the more recent Black Ops: Cold War , Mason takes his orders from Ronald Reagan.
In Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, it appears the game is set in the 1990s; its first teaser trailer features both Presidents of the era — George Bush Sr and Bill Clinton — along with its great villain, Iraqi prime minister and frequent human rights violator, Saddam Hussein (also rumoured to appear in the game). Based on this, and numerous rumours about the game, it seems fairly safe to assume COD is tackling the Gulf War, which occurred between 1990-1991 and the decade of fallout that followed. That of course, takes us right to the doorstep of the event that defined the 21st Century.
Which brings me back to Paragraph 1. Have we reached, or are we about to.
