With More than 200 Million Players to date, The
Black Ops Series Returns with All-New Blockbuster October 12th
Call of Duty Partners with Blizzard
Entertainment to Bring Black Ops 4 to Battle.net
Pre-Order Now and Receive Access to the Call of
Duty: Black Ops 4 Private Beta
Global Livestream Community Event Caps Biggest
Call of Duty Reveal Ever
It’s time to soldier up because Black Ops is back! The series
which has become the most played in Call of Duty® history as
well as a cultural phenomenon around the globe returns October 12th
with the release of Call of Duty®: Black Ops 4, a gritty,
grounded, all-out combat experience. Black Ops 4 raises the
bar for Multiplayer mode that increases tactical gameplay and
player choice, along with the biggest Zombies offering ever with
three full experiences at launch, and Blackout, where the Black Ops
universe comes to life in a massive battle royale experience
featuring iconic characters and locations from all four Black Ops
games in a one-of-a-kind offering that is uniquely Black Ops.
Published by Activision and developed by award-winning studio
Treyarch, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 transforms the
established universe played by hundreds of millions of fans with
the largest gameplay experience ever created in the series.
“Black Ops 4 gives our community more ways to have fun
with their friends than anything Treyarch has ever created and
introduces meaningful innovations to every element of the game,
including next level tactical team-based multiplayer, the biggest
zombies offering yet and Blackout, where the largest map in Call of
Duty history brings together the rich universe of Black Ops,” said
Rob Kostich, EVP and GM, Call of Duty. “More than 200 million
players have called Black Ops home, and they’ve played for more
than 15 billion hours. This is an incredible community that has
inspired the development team to take their innovative gameplay
design to new heights.”
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is scheduled for release on
PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC on October 12th. Fans can pre-order
now and get access to the Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Private
Beta*. Black Ops 4 for the PC delivers a fully-optimized
experience, which for the first time in Call of Duty’s history will
be available exclusively on Battle.net, Blizzard Entertainment’s
online gaming service.
The game was revealed earlier today in a livestreamed community
event broadcast worldwide across 10 languages, as Activision and
Treyarch unveiled an unprecedented first look along with a trove of
detailed game information.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 features gritty, grounded
combat, along with new levels of customization and tactical
gameplay, and a variety of new weaponry, maps and modes for the
ultimate Black Ops multiplayer experience. The game features the
return of the iconic Pick 10 system, along with a series of
innovations in weapon controls, combat flow, health regeneration,
and player movement. Black Ops 4 goes deeper than ever
before into the fiction of multiplayer, where players will explore
the world of Specialists – who they are, why they exist, and what
battles they fight together – while mastering their gameplay
through solo and multiplayer combat experiences. Black Ops 4
features a combination of new and returning Specialists, each with
their own unique weapons, equipment and playstyles. Players will be
powerful alone, but devastating as a team working together.
“Black Ops 4 is by far the most ambitious title our team
has ever created,” said Dan Bunting, Co-Studio Head, Treyarch. “At
its core Black Ops has always been about challenging convention and
boldly taking our gameplay in new directions. With Black Ops
4, we’ve designed an experience for all play styles and skill
levels from casual to competitive. It brings a layer of tactical
depth that rewards players for mastery, and just feels so good to
play.”
Celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the original Call of Duty
Zombies, Black Ops 4 also debuts an entirely new and
unprecedented Zombies experience that’s the biggest Day One
offering in franchise history – with three fully-featured Zombies
experiences at launch – IX, Voyage of Despair and Blood of the
Dead. With immersive new adventures, a brand new cast of characters
and a nefarious new enemy, Black Ops 4 Zombies will
feature the deep gameplay and easter eggs that the rabid community
of fans devours. It also includes the most customizable action to
date, new systems for creating and completing community challenges,
and social systems designed to connect players. Black Ops 4
also reintroduces difficulty levels and an in-game tutorial to
onboard new players to the Zombies universe, while giving hardcore
players the option of ratcheting up the challenge. Additionally,
Zombie Rush is a brand new mode that streamlines the gameplay
experience, introducing enticing new challenges to grizzled
veterans, while creating a whole new tempo of gameplay for
newcomers.
In addition to unveiling Multiplayer and Zombies in today’s
world premiere, the team also introduced Blackout – the new battle
royale-style experience that combines Black Ops’ signature fast,
fluid, guns-up combat, with fierce new levels of survival
competition across iconic Black Ops settings re-imagined at a
colossal scale. Blackout is an experience unlike any other game or
mode in Call of Duty history, where players will have to scavenge,
strategize, compete and survive to win. Featuring the largest map
ever built in Call of Duty – 1,500 times bigger than Nuketown –
Blackout thrusts players into a collision course as they play as
classic characters spanning the history of the Black Ops series
including the original Call of Duty Zombies Origins cast. Battling
solo or in teams, players will engage in diverse combat complete
with ground, air and sea vehicles across a gamespace unlike
anything ever in Call of Duty. Players will encounter fan-favorite
Black Ops map locations and call upon a massive arsenal of Black
Ops weaponry and equipment as the winner-takes-all action creates a
new way to play Call of Duty.
“The Black Ops community means everything to us, so we knew in
order to deliver something really special for our fans like
Blackout, with the biggest map we’ve ever created in Call of Duty,
we had to push ourselves and our tech to the absolute limits,” said
Mark Gordon, Co-Studio Head, Treyarch. “The same goes for our PC
community. They have inspired and fueled us to set a new standard
on PC across every aspect from dedicated servers and security to
full optimization and polish that’s worthy of both Black Ops and
Battle.net.”
For the PC, Treyarch is co-developing with Beenox, who together
are working closely with Blizzard to optimize Black Ops 4
for Battle.net. Black Ops 4 represents the largest
development team assembled for a PC title in the series. Black
Ops 4 on PC will have uncapped framerate, 4K resolution and
HDR, support for ultra-wide monitors and the ability for players to
extensively customize the performance and visual quality for their
specific hardware. In addition, players will be able to select from
pre-set control options, including options for left-handed players,
or fully customize the keyboard and mouse controls to their
preference. In addition, Treyarch and Beenox worked closely with
the team at Blizzard to incorporate Battle.net’s social systems,
security, and server stability into Black Ops 4 to prepare
for the release on Battle.net on October 12th.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is published by Activision, a
wholly-owned subsidiary of Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI), and
developed by Treyarch with additional development support from
Raven Software and PC development with Beenox. For more information
and the latest intel check out: www.callofduty.com,
www.youtube.com/callofduty and follow @Treyarch and @CallofDuty on
Twitter and Instagram and Facebook.
About Treyarch
Treyarch is an award-winning video game studio, driven by the
desire to create epic gameplay experiences that are enjoyed by as
many video game fans as possible. It is an approach that has helped
to make the studio behind the Call of Duty: Black Ops series of
games, an industry-leading developer. Call of Duty: Black Ops set
an entertainment launch opening record upon its release in 2010 and
continues to be one of the best-selling games of all time,
according to NPD and GfK Chart-Track; Call of Duty: Black Ops II
set world-wide launch day records; and the studio’s most recent
Call of Duty: Black Ops III held the biggest entertainment opening
weekend of 2015, and was the #1 console game globally for the
calendar year. Additionally, Treyarch is the birthplace of Call of
Duty’s Zombies. Treyarch is wholly owned by Activision.
About Blizzard
Entertainment
Best known for blockbuster hits including World of
Warcraft®, Hearthstone®, Overwatch®,
the Warcraft®, StarCraft®, and Diablo® franchises,
and the multi-franchise Heroes of the Storm®, Blizzard
Entertainment, Inc. (www.blizzard.com), a division of Activision
Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI), is a premier developer and publisher of
entertainment software renowned for creating some of the industry's
most critically acclaimed games. Blizzard Entertainment's track
record includes twenty-one #1 games† and multiple Game of the Year
awards. The company's online gaming service is one of the largest
in the world, with millions of active players.
About Activision
Headquartered in Santa Monica, California, Activision
is a leading global producer and publisher of interactive
entertainment. Activision maintains operations throughout the world
and is a division of Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI),
an S&P 500 company. More information about Activision and its
products can be found on the company's website,
www.activision.com or by following @Activision.
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