If it’s at all like Black Ops, the sequel will be disturbing and it will screw with your mind, making you question what is real. The original Black Ops had brainwashing, betrayal, and the sort of things you expect to see in a Bourne Identity movie or a Far Cry game, rather than a Call of Duty title. Playing as Adler and other characters, the player will see locations like the White House, KGB headquarters in Moscow, the jungles and rice paddies of Vietnam, Latin America, Turkey, and Germany. So the combat will include both stealth and the action that inevitably ensues when sneaking around fails and all hell breaks loose.

Adler is part-spy, part-special operations soldier. The mission falls to Russ Adler, a CIA operative and a Vietnam veteran. Reagan says “plausible deniability” is the backbone of the enterprise, noting that the entire free world depends on a few people who can get things done in secret. The Iran-Contra affair is a stain on the Reagan presidency, and here we have Reagan explicitly authorizing a deniable covert operation. If you know your history, Reagan got into trouble for allegedly trading arms for hostages, selling weapons to Iran in order to free hostages in Lebanon, and then turning around and using the money to illegally fund the Contras in Nicaragua. It’s jarring to see Reagan in a video game, but the animated version of him looks quite good, and the dialogue captures Reagan’s essence. The president explicitly authorizes a black operation, or covert mission, to go after Perseus. Reagan learns in a top-secret briefing that Perseus, a Soviet spy based on an actual historical conspiracy, is back as a threat. It was about reading between the lines, conspiracy theories, propaganda, disinformation, and active measures.”Ĭall of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War’s story is set in 1981, during the presidency of Ronald Reagan, a character who appears in the cinematics. “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. Three top investment pros open up about what it takes to get your video game funded.

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