Sunday was Microsoft’s Xbox Games Showcase, the place the corporate revealed its upcoming transportable handheld, the ROG Xbox Ally, and a slew of upcoming video games. The present ended with the primary take a look at the subsequent Name of Obligation title, Black Ops 7.
The trailer for Name of Obligation: Black Ops 7 was quick, going down in a futuristic setting with robots and holographic shows. David Mason, performed by Milo Ventimiglia, is featured all through the trailer, which shortly shifts to an odd panorama — on par with the Black Ops sequence, the place hallucinations brought on by army weapons and torture are widespread themes.
In keeping with the sport’s official page, the 12 months is 2035 and violent battle and psychological warfare have thrown the world into chaos. The sport follows the occasions of 2012’s Black Ops 2, the place Mason was launched as a personality, and 2024’s Black Ops 6. Whereas different Name of Obligation video games are inclined to give attention to sure eras of warfare, reminiscent of World Warfare II and the Iraq Warfare, the Black Ops sequence focuses on secret missions sometimes performed by the US and vary from the Chilly Warfare period to extra fashionable and even futuristic occasions. Black Ops 2 occurred in 2025, whereas Black Ops 6 was set in 1991.
All of the Black Ops video games have sure storyline ties with returning characters and antagonists. Within the trailer, David says “Menendez,” which is probably going Raul Menendez, the villain of Black Ops 2. In that sport, he was a Nicaraguan drug lord and chief of the terrorist group Cordis Die. On the finish of the sport, gamers finally determined whether or not to spare or kill Menendez, which raises the query of whether or not Mendez is alive or if that is some hallucination by David.
No official launch date for Black Ops 7 has been introduced, but when it follows the identical launch sample as different Name of Obligation video games, count on it to return out in October. As Microsoft owns the rights to the Name of Obligation franchise, the sport must be out there on Game Pass when it is launched on PC, Xbox One and Xbox Collection consoles. It’ll even be out there on PS4 and PS5.
