Activision has released a new trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 featuring Peter Stormare's fan-favorite fictional character, The Replacer. But the twist with this new ad is that The Replacer is busy on a space flight to Mars with celebrities, so he needs to call in "Replacer replacers."
Activision said in a news release that the video is a "tongue-in-cheek play on the Blue Origin celebrity space adventure we saw unfold this year, but this time things go sideways…"
That's a reference to Jeff Bezos' space company, which sent celebrities like Katy Perry, Gayle King, and his now-wife, Lauren Sanchez, to low orbit. The mission was roundly mocked for being tone-deaf and cringey, and now Activision is joining in and making a lighthearted jab at it as well.
The celebrities aboard this fictional flight for the Black Ops 7 ad include Jake Paul ("first problem child on Mars") and Love Island's Huda Mustafa ("first baddie on Mars"). With The Replacer flying to Mars with the celebrities, Terry Crews and Nikki Glaser from "Replacer HQ" get the call to step in to become the next Replacers. Here's the video:
The Replacer has been a Call of Duty fixture for years, and in Black Ops 6 he became a playable character for the first time.
Black Ops 7 launches on November 14 for PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC. It'll be available at launch on Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, like all of Microsoft's other first-party games.
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Activision said in a news release that the video is a "tongue-in-cheek play on the Blue Origin celebrity space adventure we saw unfold this year, but this time things go sideways…"
That's a reference to Jeff Bezos' space company, which sent celebrities like Katy Perry, Gayle King, and his now-wife, Lauren Sanchez, to low orbit. The mission was roundly mocked for being tone-deaf and cringey, and now Activision is joining in and making a lighthearted jab at it as well.
The celebrities aboard this fictional flight for the Black Ops 7 ad include Jake Paul ("first problem child on Mars") and Love Island's Huda Mustafa ("first baddie on Mars"). With The Replacer flying to Mars with the celebrities, Terry Crews and Nikki Glaser from "Replacer HQ" get the call to step in to become the next Replacers. Here's the video:
The Replacer has been a Call of Duty fixture for years, and in Black Ops 6 he became a playable character for the first time.
Black Ops 7 launches on November 14 for PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC. It'll be available at launch on Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, like all of Microsoft's other first-party games.
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