We’re almost in the summer season of 2025 already, if you may believe it. The hype train will power up for all sorts of new gaming releases soon, and that includesCall of Duty.
Year in and year out, theCoDcycle chugs on.Black Ops 6’sdays will soon be numbered, and a newCoDwill be revealed, with all signs pointing to the 2025 title being anotherBlack Opsgame and potentially a direct sequel toBlack Ops 2.
The full reveal of the newCoDmay not be for a while, but we have already gotten a taste of how the formula may be changing this time around, and it’s good news for a specific section of the fanbase: welcome back, wall-running.
It started witha TikTok video, as is usually the case these days. The video in question showed a player wall-running in Verdansk, teasing a gameplay mechanic that was a staple in the series for a few entries, namely games likeBlack Ops 3, Black Ops 4, andInfinite Warfare.With viral videos like this, you always have to question their validity, but it appears to be real.
This morning,data miners have found strings of datawithinBO6itself that likely explain the TikTok and how the player was able to pull off the wall-running in the first place. Somehow, likely because the newCoDwill replaceBO6in CoD HQ, the controversial movement mechanic is already in place, and players who hack or manipulate data somehow may be able to use it.
While not quite the jetpack movement of games likeAdvanced Warfare, wall-running may introduce another skill gap to movement, similar to howBO6’somnimovement changed up the franchise this year. And it’ll be a love-it-or-hate-it situation, just as it was in past games.
CoDleakers have several things to say about what the new game, including that it will be led again by Treyarch, include remasteredBO2maps, mark the return of round-based Zombies, and re-introduce a Pick-10 create-a-class system similar toBO2’s.
The earliest we could see the newCoDtitle would be on June 9 at the Xbox Games Showcase, so potential confirmation of the above rumors may be just weeks away.
