


“With our release of Call of Duty: Black Ops in 2010, Treyarch established a shadowy world of deniable covert operations,” said studio co-head Dan Bunting in a press briefing. The other Black Ops games move forward in time.

That 2010 Treyarch game is about a conspiracy and the shadow war the superpowers waged in the 1960s. This is a direct sequel to Call of Duty: Black Ops. Treyarch and Raven Software studios unveiled the new game to the public inside Warzone today. See our coverage of the developer Q&A, gameplay, and the Warzone/Zombies post. This is one of four stories about the Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War reveal. It feels like how, decades from now, video games will examine 2020 to understand what’s important for future generations. I like it because it reaches back to tumultuous times and tries to reinterpret what that history meant, through the lens of decades of available research. Black Ops: Cold War is about deniable covert operations during the Cold War, the Vietnam War, and the Reagan presidency, which takes place in the later half of the 20th century.
