Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 revealed, arrives this October

polygon.com:

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will be released on Oct. 25, Activision and developers Treyarch and Raven Software confirmed Sunday during Microsoft’s Xbox Game Showcase and Call of Duty Direct. This year’s Call of Duty promises to deliver “the most breathtaking and spectacular Black Ops action to date,” Activision says, with an increasing scope that will span a globetrotting campaign, robust multiplayer offerings, and the return of round-based Zombies gameplay.

As previously announced, Black Ops 6 will be set in the aftermath of the Cold War era, in the early 1990s. The game’s campaign will be an “epic spy thriller,” Activision said in a news release, that blends stealth-based gameplay with blockbuster action in locations across Russia, the Middle East, southern Europe, and the United States. Black Ops series mainstays Frank Woods and Russell Adler will be joined by newcomers, including Troy Marshall and Jane Harrow, in the narrative.

In the first screenshots released for Black Ops 6, we get a tease of some of that action and a look at the franchise’s new characters. We also get to see Adler do a sick motorcycle jump off of a cop car in what appears to be Washington, D.C. under siege.

Here’s what else we know about this year’s Call of Duty:

Activision promises a new, refined movement model called Omnimovement, which the company says will let players “move realistically and seamlessly chain movements like a real action hero.” Omnimovement will let players sprint, slide, and dive in any direction, and new Supine Prone positioning will let them rotate while prone. Black Ops 6 will also include other new movement options, including “corner slicing” abilities, “where as you round a corner or go through a doorway, your weapon is going to dynamically rotate in the direction that you’re rounding that corner.”

Treyarch promises 16 new maps when Black Ops 6 launches, including 12 core 6v6 maps and four Strike maps that can be played as 2v2 or 6v6 . Black Ops 6 will also see the