Call of Duty: Warzone Transforms To 1984
April 22 2021 - 3:00PM
Business Wire
Call of Duty: Warzone Experiences Biggest
Update Yet as Season Three of Warzone and Black Ops Cold War
Kicks-Off Most Ambitious Free Content Offering in Call of Duty
History
Warzone Crosses 100 Million Players, Call of
Duty Franchise Premium Game Sales Surpass 400 Million Units Life to
Date
Call of Duty®: Warzone™ and Call of Duty®: Black Ops
Cold War Season Three launches today with the most ambitious
free content offering in Call of Duty® history. Season Three marks
a huge celebration for Call of Duty: Warzone™, which has crossed
100 million players since its launch last year. The free-to-play,
free-for-everyone battle royale experience that fans know and love,
receives its biggest transformation yet, traveling back to 1984 and
the Cold War.
The new Warzone features massive changes, including new and
reimagined locations, new gameplay options and deep optimizations
across the entire map as nearly every building, surface and object
has been touched to provide a more seamless gameplay experience.
Across Black Ops Cold War, throughout Season Three players will
experience new multiplayer maps and modes, the next chapter of Call
of Duty Zombies in Outbreak and a host of new gear to use in the
battles ahead. This is just the beginning with more content, events
and surprises to come this season and beyond.
“The launch of Warzone has reinvented Call of Duty. In just over
a year, more than 100 million players around the world have jumped
in to play Warzone together, and starting today we’re taking it to
a new level,” said Rob Kostich, President, Activision. “Season
Three brings a massive amount of content and new updates – the most
since launch – to Warzone as it transforms to 1984, while we’re
also bringing a tremendous amount of new, free content to Black Ops
Cold War. Thank you to our fans everywhere, today is a celebration
for our community. There’s so much more coming this season and
beyond, get ready.”
The massive Season Three community celebration taking place
today is the culmination of weeks of events inside Warzone that led
to waves of Zombies overtaking Verdansk, its eventual nuclear
detonation and ultimate transformation – and Call of Duty players
were there for every part of it.
- For weeks, players have fought-off Zombies throughout Warzone,
while tracking their progress via Containment Protocols and
Corruption Zones.
- Yesterday, as the Zombies horde reached its tipping point,
millions of players experienced an event in-game that triggered a
nuclear blast decimating the entire Warzone map, as Verdansk went
dark.
- In its aftermath, Warzone players were transported to Rebirth
Island, where a series of mysterious in-game clues and hidden
messages helped players unlock the remaining secrets of the event
and understand what really happened to Warzone, ultimately
transporting everyone to Verdansk in the year 1984, and the highly
anticipated launch of Season Three.
- As the new Warzone experience officially launches today, the
community celebration continues as players head online to play all
the new Season Three content, including the new-look Verdansk 1984
Warzone map and a host of new Multiplayer and Zombies content
across Black Ops Cold War.
- Fans can follow the latest intel @CallofDuty on Twitter,
Instagram and Facebook, or visit www.callofduty.com. Viewers can
also head to Twitch.tv/callofduty for live action, including the
Atlanta FaZe $100,000 Gold Rush Tournament.
Fans of all walks of life embody the “Let’s Go!” spirit when
they squad up to play Call of Duty together. To celebrate the
launch of Season Three, a number of Warzone super fans across the
worlds of hip-hop, gaming, and professional sports, including AJ
Tracey, Dennis Schroder, Druski, Gunna, Jack Grealish, Jack Harlow,
Michelle Viscusi, Mookie Betts, Nadeshot owner of CDL Team LA
Thieves, Rocky No Hands, Saweetie, Swae Lee and Young Thug have
come together with famed music video director Gibson Hazard in a
new campaign called “Squad up the World” that captures the #Let’s
Go! thrill we all experience when playing Call of Duty together
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPEDbmP-Lx4).
Call of Duty: Warzone is integrated with Call of Duty: Black Ops
Cold War and Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare®. Call of Duty and its
titles are published by Activision, a wholly-owned subsidiary of
Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI), and developed by studios (in
alphabetical order) Activision Shanghai, Beenox, Demonware, High
Moon Studios, Infinity Ward, Raven Software, Treyarch and
Sledgehammer Games.
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