[GameSpot] - CoD: Black Ops Cold War Is A Direct Sequel To Black Ops 1, Set In The '80s (Mostly)

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With the full official reveal of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and a recent briefing we received about the game, we have plenty of details about the game's single-player campaign. It's confirmed that Black Ops Cold War is a direct sequel to the original Black Ops, picking up the story 13 years after the events of the first game.

Familiar characters like Mason, Woods, and Hudson return, and another global conspiracy takes center stage after the failure of the numbers program. As the name implies, it's based on the tensions between the United States and Soviet Russia. Black Ops Cold War is predominately set in 1981 and takes you around the world in covert ops and espionage missions in what seems to be a hunt for an elusive Soviet spy named Perseus. And in a story cutscene, Perseus is said to have helped Vietcong soldiers get a hold of a nuclear weapon during the Vietnam War.

Lead narrative designer Murray Kraft from Raven Software mentioned in a presentation that the game's story has many real-world connections despite the wild conspiracy elements at play. "Drawing key narrative elements from history, we used recently declassified US government documents from just the last four or five years for a key piece of the plot's puzzle," Kraft mentioned. He continued, "When I was researching, I was shocked at some of the things I was learning. We're really messing with people's heads and having them question what is real."

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