Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 has just been released. After completing the Modern Warfare trilogy, Activision is now looking to revive its Black Ops series. The last game in the series, Black Ops Cold War, didn’t get a proper reception from the fans, which is why all the honors lay on the shoulders of the recently launched title.
However, things are not going very well for BO6, as the game is heavily criticized for the new movement mechanics and launch maps. Still, the game features one of the best campaign missions in franchise history, one department in which Modern Warfare 3 failed miserably. There are even campaign missions that can literally give you chills in your bones, just like any full-fledged horror title.
One Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Mission Is Literally Giving ‘Horror Game’ Vibes
Recently, a dedicated Call of Duty fan has shared his dreadful experience of playing the campaign mission. Unlike the previous year’s Modern Warfare 3, Black Ops 6 is getting high acclaim from the fans for its campaign missions.
However, no one thought the recently launched title would come out to give nightmares of a horror title. There is a specific campaign mission called Emergence, which is giving chills to the spines of the players. The penultimate mission of the game, Separation Anxiety, is also pretty terrifying, but Emergence edges it.
The campaign is genuinely terrifying.
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This mission has every aspect of a horror game, like scary aesthetics, creepy sounds, sudden face-offs, and whatnot! With this mission, fans can pretty well root for Activision for future horror elements in the upcoming Call of Duty titles. This single level has made the fans very scared.
This fan doesn’t even play horror games, but BO6 broke his streak.
This fan too was very scared to play those two missions.
This fan is not the only one who is getting jump-scared.
The sudden and scary movements of the mannequins in Emergence scared every player’s hell off.
The fact that Emergence is basically one large Zombies level is the brain-sucking elephant in the room. Their bites hurt just as much as those of their cousins in Liberty Falls, despite the fact that the undead here are hallucinations caused by clouds of psychotropic gas. However, Emergence forgoes the survival game mode of Call of Duty in favor of an attempt at authentic horror through arcade-style blasting.
How Scary is Emergence in Black Ops 6?
Cognitive Research, Administration, Joint Projects, and Advanced Combat Research are the four divisions of the lab itself, a futuristic complex that looks like it belongs in Control or Prey. The corridors connecting each zone up trade thrills for chills, but each area has a zombified boss fight to complete for a keycard. Like a wheelchair that wasn’t there just a second ago, some of it is subtle.
Moments that are more on the nose—or, in the case of one mannequin that moves in for a much closer look when your back is to it—occur at other times. I didn’t think Call of Duty could have these quiet unsettling moments, and while Black Ops 6‘s campaign centers around similarly looser level structures, this is the most subversive of the bunch.
The creep factor isn’t the only thing that makes Emergence stand out. While the nostalgic World at War track 115 roars around you, one boss fight starts with a tentacled horror removing itself from a camera lens, setting up a battle that is half wave survival and half Gary’s Mod Prop Hunt.
Treyarch, however, is horrified by the Administration branch, which sounds surprisingly ordinary. Finding stray reports and filing them for the director—a red mannequin in a locked office room—is your mission. After you get the first report, the other mannequins that are positioned around the bullpen in the area start to groan.
Have you played the Emergence level in Black Ops 6? If you haven’t, then don’t play at night.
