You deal with MK-Ultra, talk with former United States’ President Ronald Reagan and listen to a rant from former Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. Over the course of about three hours, you fight your way through various places behind the Iron Curtain, engage in a handful of flashback missions, make a few moral choices and listen to a narrative that’s about what you’d expect from a Call of Duty campaign set in the 1980s. Then, you’re set loose to destroy the communist threat in what boils down to a pretty bog-standard Call of Duty campaign.ĭoes anyone want to tell him that he has something on his head?

You choose from a handful of perks, give your agent a first and last name, you decide their gender (or don’t, if you so choose) and give them a brief origin story. Following an unfortunate event in the tutorial mission, where you play as one of the Black Ops series’ mainstays, you find yourself making your agent from scratch in an RPG-lite creation screen. Although this setting obviously applies to both the single and multiplayer portions of the game, in the campaign, you don the combat shoes of a CIA agent named Bell. In this latest iteration of the world’s best-selling war crimes simulator, you take control of a soldier in the 1980s. This year that franchise goes under the name Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War. Every November, gamers all around the world indulge in the latest Assassin's Creeds, the one-off indie darlings, and you guessed it, the Call of Duties.

It’s the autumn release season, the period that happens once every 12 months where Ubisoft, Codemasters and Activision each put their best foot forward so that they can earn enough money to hopefully not lay off all their employees. It’s the one that parents hate, the one that editors love, the one that game developers dread and one that gamers look forward to each year. Well, it’s officially that time of year again.

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