Post-Black Ops 7, Call of Duty puts a bullet in releasing Modern Warfare or Black Ops entries back-to-back

Activision are keen to present "an perfectly unsocial acquisition each and each year"

With Call of Duty Black Ops 7 present retired successful the chaotic and having earned a mostly mixed reception, Activision person said right, that's it, clip to bash a thing. Said happening is committing to nary longer releasing entries successful the aforesaid sub-series, beryllium that Modern Warfare oregon Black Ops, successful back-to-back years going forwards.

This alteration was relayed via a the latest CoD blog post, the archetypal paragraph of which acts arsenic a mea culpa of sorts for Blops 7 not hitting the heights erstwhile entries person successful presumption of keeping shooty folks happy. Or, arsenic Activision enactment it: "We besides cognize that for immoderate of you, the Franchise has not met your expectations fully." Ah yes, the superior F franchise, bully occupation of not sounding similar a robot there.

"To beryllium precise clear, we cognize what you expect and remainder assured we volition deliver, and overdeliver, connected those expectations arsenic we determination forward," the publishers added, successful a enactment that sounds somewhat much human.

So, nary much releasing Black Ops 7s close aft Black Ops 6es, oregon Modern Warfare 3 reboots close aft Modern Warfare 2 reboots, successful the sanction of providing "an perfectly unsocial acquisition each and each year". "We volition thrust innovation that is meaningful, not incremental," Activision added. "While we aren’t sharing those plans today, we look guardant to doing truthful erstwhile the clip is right."

For now, the publishers reaffirmed their committedness to support connected adding caller seasonal worldly to Black Ops 7 and moving to crook astir sentiment connected the shooter, declaring: "We won’t remainder until Black Ops 7 earns its spot arsenic 1 of the champion Black Ops games we’ve ever made." They're besides keeping their chins up astir the series' future, asserting that they "believe our champion days are up of america fixed the extent and endowment of our improvement teams.

If you've yet to spot however Blops 7 stacks up successful the large pantheon of games astir subject radical crouch walking and utilizing sniper rifles to termination enemies astatine constituent blank range, Rick Lane kindly reviewed some its "hideous messiness of a campaign" and its somewhat better, but besides "overshadowed by the spectre of generative AI" multiplayer for us.