Name of Responsibility’s monitor file with collaborations runs deep, together with every thing from movie characters to online game heroes. And with Black Ops 6, the growth continues.
This morning, CoD introduced the primary collab for BO6, and it’s with one of the vital widespread new exhibits in current reminiscence. Squid Sport will be a part of the ranks of collabs this January to have fun the premiere of the present’s long-anticipated second season.
Within the sequence, contestants on a sport present trying to win an enormous money prize play twisted takes on youngsters’s video games the place should you win, you proceed within the video games. However should you lose, nicely, let’s simply say you’re taking dwelling greater than disgrace. Spoiler alert: You die.
This idea brings up some enjoyable potentialities for the collab past the assumed retailer bundles. Earlier collabs contained skins impressed by the IPs, together with weapon blueprints, weapon stickers, and different cosmetics. However the potential for Squid Sport-like restricted time modes is sufficient to trigger hype.
For those who haven’t seen the present, there’s a sport the place the contestants play one thing much like “Crimson Gentle, Inexperienced Gentle,” the place anybody caught shifting is shot useless immediately. Different video video games have used this idea earlier than, however it might be enjoyable to see how it’s iterated in CoD.
Squid Sport‘s second season premieres on Dec. 26, over three years because the premiere of the unique hit season again in September 2021. The present had a finances of simply over $21 million, however was so profitable that it was valued at over $900 million, in accordance with a CNBC report.
Activision didn’t announce a lot else in regards to the collab apart from the brief teaser above, however the wait for more information possible isn’t lengthy. CoD’s Season One Reloaded replace hits this Thursday, Dec. 5 with the collab and different content material like an all-new Zombies map, and extra might be revealed this week forward of it.
