How Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 devs view competition with Battlefield | interview

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The developers at Treyarch and the nine or ten other game studios finishing up Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 are under pressure this year.

Their game is going up against Battlefield 6 from Electronic Arts, which spent four years putting together a cinematic experience with massive battles and large maps. By contrast, Black Ops 7 is going to be a classic package of a lot of different things. That includes a new Endgame co-op experience, a co-op campaign, Zombies, multiplayer and Dead Ops Arcade 4.

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