CoD Black Ops 4 Reveal: Blackout Mode brings Battle Royale to Call of Duty

Activision and Treyarch hosted their “Community Reveal” for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 earlier today, and they delivered a massive amount of information during the livestream.

As expected, Call of Duty is diving headfirst into the “Battle Royale” genre with Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s Blackout Mode. We don’t know how many players will be able to compete in Blackout Mode, but we do know it’ll feature “the largest map ever built in Call of Duty,” as well as the ability to play as classic characters from the entire Black Ops series:

[In] today’s world premiere, the team also introduced Blackout… the new battle royale-style experience that combines Black Ops’ signature fast, fluid, guns-up combat, with fierce new levels of survival competition across iconic Black Ops settings re-imagined at a colossal scale. Blackout is an experience unlike any other game or mode in Call of Duty history, where players will have to scavenge, strategize, compete and survive to win.

Featuring the largest map ever built in Call of Duty… 1,500 times bigger than Nuketown… Blackout thrusts players into a collision course as they play as classic characters spanning the history of the Black Ops series including the original Call of Duty Zombies Origins cast.

Battling solo or in teams, players will engage in diverse combat complete with ground, air, and sea vehicles across a gamespace unlike anything ever in Call of Duty. Players will encounter fan-favorite Black Ops map locations and call upon a massive arsenal of Black Ops weaponry and equipment as the winner-takes-all action creates a new way to play Call of Duty.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 will be released for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One on October 12. And the first trailer for Blackout Mode has been embedded above.

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