The release of one of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6's most unique and ambitious crossover events is just around the corner, with the Squid Game event arriving on January 3. The amount of content that is set to come to the title through the Squid Game crossover is quite impressive. The event even includes its own premium rewards tied to in-game purchases, causing quite the controversy before the event has even launched.
As expected, the Squid Game crossover for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 has leaned heavily into the characters and events of the massively popular Netflix show, with many of the show's elimination events being recreated as limited-time modes, which is just one example of what this fresh content will look like. If the event turns out to be a success, then Call of Duty could easily expand on the crossover potential with Squid Game. The show can still get a huge amount of new content in the way of subsequent seasons and possible spin-offs in the near future.

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Call of Duty's Squid Game Crossover Could Have a Lot of Future Potential
The Squid Game collaboration for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 comes in the wake of the record-breaking Netflix show's anticipated second season, which itself launched on December 26. The content for this collaborative event is spread across Black Ops 6's core multipayer, Zombies, and Warzone, with players also being able to work towards a vast range of event rewards like operator skins, weapon blueprints, emblems, and much more.
The Squid Game crossover content with Black Ops 6 smartly leans into the battle royale premise of the show itself, with its most iconic elimination games like Red Light, Green Light being available across multiplayer and the dedicated Squid Game playlist for Warzone as limited-time modes. There's also a spin on the mode in Zombies as Dead Light, Green Light. Alongside the grueling and tense Pentathlon endurance mode for core multiplayer, it is clear to see how conducive the premise of Squid Game is to fun limited-time Call of Duty experiences, and there is no reason for Activision to stop there.
If the Squid Game collaboration with Black Ops 6 proves to be a success, then future events could be released alongside the promising future roadmap of content that Squid Game itself is aiming for in the near future. Despite the long three-year wait between the first two seasons of Squid Game, the third season of the Netflix show is set for a 2025 release window as things stand. Reports of an English-language version of Squid Game directed by David Fincher have also surfaced over the past few weeks.
If Done Correctly, Squid Game Events Could Become a Staple of the Next Few Call of Duty Releases
Of course, these upcoming projects for Squid Game would come with their own unique characters and elimination tasks, which could be the key to some great mutually-beneficial future collaborative content between the franchise and Call of Duty. If these future Squid Game projects are to release in late 2025 and beyond, then future Call of Duty titles could put their own unique spin on new crossover events, establishing their own identity away from the Black Ops 6 collaboration with the added benefit of things like new limited-time modes and operators.
It is difficult to ignore the controversy surrounding the Squid Game Black Ops 6 event and its premium rewards pass, however, and it remains to be seen if this new approach to major events will be a successful one for CoD as a whole. If the expansive crossover for Black Ops 6 is received well by the community, then Activision has a clear avenue to carry it forward to future Call of Duty releases alongside the next season and spin-off projects of Squid Game itself.

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Forced to go rogue. Hunted from within. This is Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.
Developed by Treyarch and Raven, Black Ops 6 is a spy action thriller set in the early 90s, a period of transition and upheaval in global politics, characterized by the end of the Cold War and the rise of the United States as a single superpower. With a mind-bending narrative, and unbound by the rules of engagement, this is signature Black Ops.
The Black Ops 6 Campaign provides dynamic moment-to-moment gameplay that includes a variety of play spaces with blockbuster set pieces and action-packed moments, high-stakes heists, and cloak-and-dagger spy activity.
In a best-in-class Multiplayer experience, players will test their skills across 16 new maps at launch, including 12 core 6v6 maps and 4 Strike maps that can be played 2v2 or 6v6.
Black Ops 6 also marks the epic return of Round-Based Zombies, the fan-favorite mode where players will take down hordes of the undead in two brand-new maps at launch. Post-launch, players can look forward to even more exciting maps and groundbreaking experiences dropping into both Multiplayer and Zombies.
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- Top Critic Rating: 83/100 Critics Recommend: 92%
- Franchise
- Call of Duty
- Platform(s)
- PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, Xbox One, PC
- Released
- October 25, 2024
- Developer(s)
- Treyarch, Raven Software
- Publisher(s)
- Activision
- Multiplayer
- Online Multiplayer, Online Co-Op
- Engine
- IW 9.0
- ESRB
- Mature 17+ // Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Suggestive Themes, Strong Language, Use of Drugs
- How Long To Beat
- 8 Hours
- Steam Deck Compatibility
- Unknown
- X|S Optimized
- Yes
- PS Plus Availability
- N/A
- Prequel(s)
- Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, Call of Duty: Black Ops III, Call of Duty: Black Ops II, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Call of Duty: World at War
- File Size Xbox Series
- 216 GB (October 2024)
- Split Screen Orientation
- Vertical or Horizontal
- Number of Players
- 1-4
- Local Co-Op Support
- 1-2 Players
- OpenCritic Rating
- Strong
- Cross Save
- Yes - PlayStation, Xbox, PC
- Cross-Platform Play
- Yes - PlayStation, Xbox, PC
- PC Release Date
- October 25, 2024
- PS5 Release Date
- October 25, 2024
- Xbox Series X|S Release Date
- October 25, 2024
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