How Activision came up with Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 | developer interview

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The new Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is going to be unlike anything we’ve seen so far in the series. For one, it will have an ending to the single-player campaign that requires you to play co-op missions in multiplayer for the final endgame of the story.

It will have round-based Zombies with a deep narrative. It also has things like Skirmish mode in multiplayer — something I have played but will have to talk about later. And it will have a Black Ops single-player narrative that has combat soldiers fighting robots and questioning whether the reality that they’re seeing is really where the action is happening.

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