Seize some pizza and prepare for a probably radical collaboration arising in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6’s season two, which is about to start subsequent week.
In response to knowledge miner @PlayStationSize on X/Twitter, season two’s key artwork has been revealed to showcase an operator wielding what seems to be like two katanas (CoD formally confirmed season two’s artwork not a lot later). The artwork is superior and the operator seems to be very cool, however that’s simply half the story.
One other prolific and trusted leaker within the CoD neighborhood, @TheGhostOfHope, quickly adopted up by posting a picture of the 4 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (that’s Donatello, Raphael, Leonardo, and Michelangelo from left to proper, for the uncultured amongst us), which might make the twin katanas much more attention-grabbing. Leonardo, the blue mask-wearing chief of the group, famously wields the identical weapons. Nevertheless it doesn’t even finish there, as a result of one other set of leaks in early December discovered references to a number of different melee weapons in BO6’s recordsdata. And that’s the place the path will get hotter than a recent slice of pizza.
The recordsdata referenced these identical katanas, together with a skateboard, sais, nunchaku, and bo employees. Yep, you guessed it. These weapons all additionally correspond to TMNT as effectively, as Michelangelo wields nun chucks, Donatello has a bo employees, and my private favourite Raphael wields sais. And all of them are kickass skate boarders.
It doesn’t take a detective, or a reporter in a yellow jumpsuit, to determine that that is all pointing to the turtles becoming a member of BO6 sooner or later in time. And given the timing of Hope’s publish this morning, it positive looks as if they are going to be season two’s collaboration.
Season one featured (*2*)a collab with Squid Recreation, the Netflix present, and every season of CoD over the previous few years has had appearances by characters from different IP. In MW3, these characters included Rick from The Strolling Lifeless, Paul Atreides and extra from Dune: Half II, and characters from The Boys.
Curiously, although, the Turtles have already type of made an look in CoD. Approach again in March 2023, the TMNT‘s archenemy The Shredder joined Trendy Warfare II and Warzone 2.0 as an operator pores and skin. Now, he may get his want for some turtle soup a pair years later.
With TMNT all however confirmed, the one query left is how they’ll seem within the sport. In any case, they’re big humanoid turtles, so their aesthetic and artwork model shall be one thing to maintain an eye fixed out for. Will CoD go for a stylized model of the turtles, or perhaps one thing extra lifelike, akin to the films from the Nineteen Nineties? As a 90s child who grew up with these movies (my first phrase as a child was “turtle,” for actual), I can solely hope that they appear much like these foolish costumes that may be seen in the video for Vanilla Ice’s traditional turtle jam, “Ninja Rap.”
The official artwork from CoD additionally seems to be prefer it confirms the PPSh-41 SMG is returning, together with what would be the FN FAL assault rifle, however that’s simply primarily based off glancing on the imagery, and affirmation of what shall be in season two just isn’t distant.
With season two set to kick off on Jan. 28, we’ll know extra concerning the potential collab and no matter else the season has in retailer on prime of the brand new Zombies map, The Tomb, that has already been introduced.
