The successful first-person shooter video game franchise, Call of Duty, has changed completely since the introduction of Warzone, its popular Battle Royale mode. Nowadays, it is not uncommon to see them make collaborations with countless intellectual properties that may come from the world of film, television or other video games. And the new collaboration that Activision Blizzard just announced took everyone by surprise.
Call of Duty will soon join forces with Gundam
This event was announced via the video game’s official Twitter account, with a tweet that read, “It’s time for the shadows to rise. Gundam comes to Call of Duty Season 4.” This text was accompanied by a short video of a Japanese-themed map where you can see the shadow of the iconic RX-78-2 Gundam from the original series – Mobile Suit Gundam. A few hours later, this same Twitter account revealed what specific items we can expect in this collaboration.
The Gundam event in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III and Warzone will bring with it 3 special operator skins that will be based on 3 iconic models from different stages of the franchise: RX-78-2 Gundam from the original series (and the most iconic of all), MS-06S Zaku II, also from the original series, and XVX-016 Gundam Aerial from the most recent series, Mobile Suit Gundam the Witch from Mercury. While that was all they announced for now, we wouldn’t be surprised if they include more Gundam skins, and maybe even some combat items themed to this legendary mecha franchise.
At first glance, a crossover between Call of Duty (a hyper-realistic war video game franchise from the United States) and Gundam (a giant mecha anime franchise from Japan) may seem somewhat strange and incompatible, but the truth is that these two intellectual properties have more in common than you might think, as both have a focus on themes of war and geopolitical conflict. And while the Gundam themselves may be too big to enter the Call of Duty battlefield, Call of Duty has already done collaborations with Godzilla and King Kong, both of which introduced items based on both giant monsters. So that shouldn’t present a problem.
Season 4 of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III and Warzone starts next May 29, so you won’t have to wait much longer. However, this doesn’t mean that the Gundam skins will be added on the same day, as it’s possible that they’ll appear in the store some time later. This FPS franchise from Activision Blizzard doesn’t usually do collaborations with iconic anime like Gundam, so hopefully this is just the beginning of a new wave of events based on Japanese intellectual properties, which one would you like to see in the game?
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