After all eyes were on the Battlefield 6 trailer a few days ago, now’s the time that Call of Duty announces the new Season for Black Ops 6 and Warzone. Finally, the Stadium POI is about to open up in the next major update, we get a glimpse of least three new Multiplayer maps, and well, we have a new Zombies map called The Reckoning coming to Black Ops 6 Zombies Season 5. But, there’s a catch. Zombies mode is still not purged from the curse of Warzone.
It’s been years since the Zombies gameplay, HUD, and even maps looked exactly the same as the ones in Multiplayer and Warzone. My heart is begging for those unique HUDs we had for each map back in the BO3 era, and the darkness of the tone in BO1 and BO2. However, even though Black Ops 6 Zombies is still so enjoyable, it’s still borrowing more from Warzone.
One good reason why some of the classic fans are not playing Zombies anymore is the armor plate system. The fact that Zombies can’t kill you with 14 hits when fully armored is just crazy and makes the game feel super casual. Two hits and you’re dead, that’s how the classic used to work, and I miss those days. The Warzone armor plate system is in CoD Campaigns, Zombies, and even some game modes in the Multiplayer. If that’s not enough, we’ve now got parachutes in Zombies now!
After MWZ, Black Ops 6 Zombies Season 5’s the Reckoning map is the second time the developer has introduced parachute gliding to this game mode. I only have one question: If you looked at the image above without watching the trailer, would you realize that this is a Zombies map and not Warzone? I don’t know about the inside areas, but the map’s exterior doesn’t exactly look like a place where some evil AI is trying to manipulate time and space to gain full control over the Dark Aether.
Black Ops 6 Season 5 sets the finale for the Zombies mode, meaning that the Reckoning is the last map we get before Black Ops 7. There should be a big twist in the plot, a huge cutscene revealing something that drops our jaws, and maybe some of our characters may die because of what we saw in the MW3 Zombies intro cutscene. Only time will tell.
