Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold Warwill offer features that have never before been seen in previousCall of Dutygames. One of the most surprising new features is the ability for players to customize their character for the game’s campaign mode.
While pastCall of Dutygames gave players customization options in multiplayer,Black Ops Cold Waris the first in the series to allow players to customize their player for the campaign. The new feature is a sign of developers Treyarch and Raven Software’s efforts to provide a more personalized experience forCall of Dutyfans. Players will create and customize their own protagonist, who will join returningfan-favorite characters Frank Woods, Alex Mason, and Jason Hudson for a campaign set in the early 1980s.
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Players choose their character’s name, psychological profile, gender, and background, including small details such as where their character was born. The character customization menu is modeled after a CIA dossier and gives players the choice to redact part of their character’s identity and background.
Raven Software’s Senior Creative Director Dan Vondrake said that players can also choose to play as a gender neural character by selecting the “they” pronoun in the character customization menu. In an immersive touch, players can even choose to keep the gender of their character classified by redacting it on their dossier. Whichever gender they choose will determine the voice of their character, which will be heard in voice-overs and cut scenes throughout the campaign.Black Ops Cold War’s recent trailer revealedthat the campaign will take player to several Cold War-inspired locations, including East Berlin, Vietnam and a secret Soviet headquarters.
Besides the psychological profile, which will grant players small gameplay bonuses, the customization options are purely cosmetic and will not affect the progression of the campaign. What will affect the campaign are the choices that players make.Black Ops Cold War’s campaign is intended to make players feel the weight of their decisions. Choices such as choosing to bribe, poison or sneak past a guard will impact the outcome of the game’s ending. While it is confirmed thatBlack Ops Cold Warwill feature multiple endings, the exact number is not known.
The new feature is sure to please fans who were disappointed thatCall of Duty: Black Ops 4lacked a campaign. WhileCall of Dutygames are mostly known forcompetitive and fast-paced multiplayer matches, several fans still yearned for a cinematic single player experience. Multiple endings likely means branching story paths, which will likely giveBlack Ops Cold War’s campaign more replay value than any previousCall of Dutytitle.
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold Warlaunches November 13 for PC, PS4, and Xbox One, with PS5 and Xbox Series X versions also in development.
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