Regardless of your stance on plundering graves, whether your anaconda does or not, Lara Croft and Nicki Minaj are coming to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone 2.0. It's the kind of straightforward, surreal video game news we enjoy indulging in, and it's just a small part of what's in store for Call of Duty fans, with Season 5 rolling out on 2nd August.
Lara Croft of Tomb Raider fame is officially done just surviving, getting another gritty reboot, this time into the military. The legendary treasure hunter will arrive in a new Operator bundle in the mid-season.
Nicki Minaj, aside from being a triple-platinum mega-star, is also the most-followed rapper on Instagram, which we found mildly interesting; the Super Bass star has amassed more than 200 million adoring fans on that platform alone. Minaj joins less-followed rappers Snoop Dogg and 21 Savage as playable characters, part of Call of Duty's 50 Years of Hip Hop celebration.
Which of the two is more out of place in the Tom Clancy-esque Call of Duty universe, full of PMCs and WMDs? Or are these stone-cold killers perfectly placed? Debate all of this and more in the comments section below.
[source twitter.com]
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Are they predicting World War 3 at this point?
This seems very Fortnite to me. And I just can’t picture Snoop Dog in CoD. Is he just like sitting in a beach chair drinking a Corona and lighting up? 🤷🏻♂️
Have all the incel bros started screaming “women can’t fight, go woke go broke” and smashing all of their consoles yet? 😂
Call of Duty is now chasing Fortnite.
This is such a fortnite move and I hate it.
Are the outfits transferable to Captain Price?
Wow thats a realistic portrayal of minaj.
Next they should include Jaws so we can jump it
@rjejr he was in Vanguard
There's no greater camouflage than neon pink hair, she'll be a tough one to spot in battle🤔
They might as well add Ronald McDonald, Spongebob, Fonzi etc while they're at it. As AgentMantis said, the shark has been cleared😅
Is this what they call...Jumping the shark?
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I just hope the FTC can stop the Activision deal because I would not want to miss out on this glorious game and its DLC
@Arnna Maybe. But making a derogatory racial generalization is.
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Not fair. We never got that blonde from Outrun and Sinitta to feature in Commando back in our day.
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Yet another questionable decision for our poor Lara. I had hoped it would get better after SE sold off the rights, if anything it’s getting worse.
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Well that’s it, video games officially died at 7:01pm on 27/07/23. Their demise was not anticipated. They left this world suddenly and in the most tragic way imaginable. We will miss them.
@Arnna I'm interested by what you mean by that. Is being against the Fortnitification of COD automatically bad in your opinion or is it just being against these women specifically?
Because if its option 1 then I am perfectly entitled to hate everything about this.
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This is the dumbest ***** I swear 🤦♂️
Weird. Very weird... though we do already got evil super heroes in COD now so this is actually pretty tame.😄
Most of these people seem like cowards who would leave you to die in a fire and save their skin. Why use them in a team based shooter?
How have we gone from games like WaW to whatever the hell this is.
This is hilarious. And somehow less egregious than it was when Messi and Neymar were put into the first one.
Fortnite meets COD
Wow this just reeks of desperation...
@rjejr tell me you don’t play cod without telling me…
Snoop Dogg was in Vanguard.
This is depressing.
Gaz died for this?!
Absolutely worthless crossovers that should've never happened.
@AgentMantis no it's not, she looks like a dead corpse so this is not likely to be anywhere close LOL
@AgentMantis hahaha a shark with a gun, now that is something i would laugh to see 🤣🤣🤣
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Call of duty really is a clown show huh, could barely handle the stupid mlg skins in cold war now they got this? Horror characters in some easter egg like on ghosts is fine, snoop dogg as a personal announcer is fine but these irl people playable in the game? Nope.
That MW 2019 story was so boring and took itself so serious likely MW2 one does too but then they add miss wet p-word? They should just make a campaign of all celebrities running around like the avengers but with zero superpowers only money instead of trying to pretend they making a serious game and totally bamboozling the poor adults that buy this game expecting a modern military shooter.
I heard If enough people buy these skins, little scrappy underdog Activision will be able to finally afford to use decent servers
Such an odd crossover.
Honestly I feel like if Nicki Minaj and Snoop Dogg were in Fortnite it would feel more normal, but in Call of Duty? It's strange.
Go Go Go I’ll cover yo’ ass 😅 snoop we need smoke, light a blunt
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I sorta wanna play COD now.
@danzoEX @Jacko11 I can do you 1 better, I don't even know what "Vanguard" is. 🤷♂️
Congrats to the 3 of us for not having posts removed though. 👍
Why....
Such a terrible move. Can we keep celebrities out of COD.
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Of duty has been dead for ages , the same recycled rubbish but this lol this shows how bad the game has got , pushing someone like her don’t even look like her she’s a fat mess , I guess they have ran out of ideas and this is the next step, but you may as well play Fortnite at this point . Amazing , no original ideas no creativity any more .. who even wants to be her ? Or snoop for that matter lol
Homogenised game industry all trying to emulate Fortnite, why the **** would we want Nicki Minaj in Call of Duty, the series is becoming a joke and I wager its on its descent finally. I traded in MW2 as the core PREMIUM title I paid £60 for was woefully supported, with it becoming extremely clear that the F2P Warzone aspect is prioritised above the premium core game that people went out and purchased. I honestly think XBOX have just spent alot of money on declining IP, with systemic company culture issues - good luck to them.
This appeals to literally no one
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Kind of makes me feel happy that have only got 10 years and then no more CoD on PlayStation anymore, phew what a relief!
Another typically measured response from the comments haha
I really miss playing as nameless soldiers in a shooter game.
It allowed one to pretend that each respawn was a new replacement soldier.
Damn.. what happened to cod? And who actually pays for this 🤦🏻♂️
@z0d15g0d You are a 100% correct my friend none of these celebrities I would won't on my team in real life or in game they would straight leave your ass stuck. Don't get me wrong at all I think nikki/megan the stallion/Cardi B are hot asf but I would not trust them to have my back lol in a video game or real life .
@PlasmaticSnake Lmao 🤣 their going to have a gun called Wap and for melee a mop and bucket haha
WTF is this?! If this is the future of CoD, maybe Sony’s better off without.
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