[STEAM] Call of Duty 2025 Reportedly a Black Ops 2 Sequel Set 'Around 2030'

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The Call of Duty series looks set to take players back to the future in 2025 with a ****** Ops 2 sequel set in the early 2030s.

Fans were alerted to leaked information about next year’s unannounced Call of Duty game after details allegedly revealed in a focus group meeting hit

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. Some of these details were then corroborated by

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. Activision declined to comment when contacted by IGN.

While 2024’s

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is set in the 90s to the backdrop of the Gulf War, 2025’s ****** Ops game reportedly shoots forward to the 2030s, picking up where 2012’s

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, set in 2025, left off.

It reportedly continues the ****** Ops storyline from that point, with David Mason from ****** Ops 2 as the protagonist. Mechanics from ****** Ops 6 said to return include the new

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and Omnimovement, with some tweaks such as human shields with grenades stuck to them that can be thrown at enemies, and wall jumping. Zombies mode, meanwhile, is said to introduce an eight-player mode.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Infinity Ward is reportedly hard at work on the next Modern Warfare game, presumably Modern Warfare 4. Perhaps that’s due out in 2026.

Developer Treyarch has had four years to work on ****** Ops 6, the longest development ******* of a mainline Call of Duty game yet. Expectations are high then after 2023’s

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, which is perhaps the most poorly received campaign in Call of Duty history. (

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.)

Modern Warfare 3, originally conceived as an expansion pack for 2022’s

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, reportedly imposed crunch on its developers as they battled to create a fully-fledged sequel in just 16 months.

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Assuming the reports of next year’s Call of Duty being another ****** Ops game hot on the heels of this year’s ****** Ops 6 are true, Activision will once again face tough questions around its value as a fully-fledged sequel.

In the shorter term, ****** Ops 6 launches on October 25 and straight into Game Pass. It’s the first Call of Duty game to do so since

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