Call of Duty calls it as it is, Cold War is upon us, and with it they are putting back the Call of Duty: Black Ops Series. They just dropped the teaser video of the Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War and they say it is inspired by “actual events.”

After World War II and until the fall of dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the world faced a tensed geopolitical situation in which the world’s super powers, the USA and the Soviet Union and their allies vie for global influence. Both armed with nuclear weapons that can destroy the Earth many times over never went into a global war but instead resorted to proxy wars, and it was called the “Cold War”. The nuclear arsenals were insurance of mutually assured destruction to ensure that the other side does not resort to any preemptive strike.  

With the Soviet Union gone, the world went unipolar with the USA being undisputed world power. But the rise of China and Putin leading a resurgent Russia is set to challenge the USA’s hegemony. These days, we China building a high-tech military with the aim of matching the USA ship by ship, plane by plane, and is assertive globally with its newfound economic power. Russia is also exerting its muscles hear its borders, meddling in Ukraine and in the Middle East as well as playing cat and mouse games with NATO. Is this about a new Cold War that Black Ops will be delving on, or will it go back into the past again when the Cold War was blowing hot?

ActiVision dropped a trailer yesterday giving a teaser on the storyline of upcoming game. “Know Your History” with real life KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov featured in the video in which he mentions a Codename “Perseus” who has infiltrated Western intelligence and in real life CIA mentions him to be one of those who stole secrets from the Los Alamos labs during Project Manhattan that built the first atomic bombs used in World War II.

According to Polygon, the release of the teaser was time with members of the Call of Duty community completing a multi-day ARG that involved various forms of Cold War-style code breaking. This then led them to secret rooms inside the Verdansk map in Call of Duty: Warzone which implies there is a connection between Warzone and Cold War. The ARG included a variety of video tapes that corresponded to a year in Cold War history.

We are wondering what Cold War will this be. In reality we are already in the mids of “Cold War 2” given the geopolitical manoeuvrings of the three world powers right now but then ActiVision may be thinking of a different storyline for this game. We’ll find out when they make a full reveal on August 26.