Black Ops 6 continues a problem with modern Call of Duty campaigns

This article contains MAJOR SPOILERS for
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
s campaign.

The Golden Age Call of Duty saw campaigns filled with bombastic action gameplay, high-stakes story beats, beautifully crafted environments, shocking betrayals, returning characters, and plenty of twists and turns. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6s campaign does its very best to hearken back to this golden age Call of Duty franchise.

Comes in around 8-10 hours, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6The campaign has its fair share of dramatic twists, plenty of over-the-top vehicle chases and intense firefights, a world-ending MacGuffin, and a few cameos from previous games, which all add up to Black Ops 6s campaign one of the best in franchise history. But Call of Duty: Black Ops 6The campaign isn't perfect, as it suffers from a problem that has plagued the franchise since 2019.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6's Ending Falls Into a Familiar Pitfall

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6's Ending Leaves The Door Wide Open

After covert missions in Iraq, chasing through a Kuwaiti airport in a tank, and mind-bending levels inside the main antagonist's brain, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6The campaign reaches its climactic end when Frank Woods and the rest of his team of rogue CIA agents put a stop to The Pantheon organization's plan to drop a bioweapon on the US Capitol building.

After this rather dry ending, players are treated to a final cutscene that shows Woods, Marshall and Adler meeting their former CIA chief, Daniel Livingstone. Livingstone tells the team that he needs their help to fight an emerging war, a new type of conflict where the enemy's goals are not clear. The first step in their new mission is to go back to Avalon and find out everything they can about the Pantheon. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6The campaign then ends on a cliffhanger, with a mysterious figure having broken into Livingstone's office at the CIA.

Fixed Black Ops 6technically the main story comes to an end, its final moments leaving the door wide open for a continuation of the story. And about Black Ops 6 follows in the footsteps of its predecessors, that continuation will take place in Call of Duty: Warzone.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
s campaign cliffhanger isn't nearly as bad as
Modern Warfare 3
's, which left all its plot threads hanging.

The latest issue with Call of Duty's campaign ending

From the earliest days Call of Duty: Warzonelaunch in 2020, developers have attempted to integrate story content into Battle Royale, often using seasonal cutscenes and in-game events to recount the major events of a chapter. While it's great to get story content in a Battle Royale, the topic has often been a point of contention among some fans.

It started with Ghost's appearance in Call of Duty: Warzone in May 2020, marking the character's debut in Modern warfare restart the timeline. Then there was Alex Keller's resurrection from the dead after Modern warfare (2019) end. And more recently, Phillip Graves also got the resurrection treatment, bringing the antagonist back from the dead a year after his boss brawl in Modern Warfare 2.

These major events have only appeared in Call of Duty: Warzoneeven if they connect directly to the events of Modern warfare restart the series. If any fans are missing out on these key story moments because they aren't playing War zonethey are left in the dark, which can be quite confusing when previously dead characters like Alex and Graves show up Modern Warfare 3. While War zone players deserve good story content, that content shouldn't revolve around plot points that are directly related to ongoing Call of Duty campaign stories.