Call of Duty: Blacks Ops 7 shares new multiplayer gameplay and details in lengthy new showcase

With Call of Duty: Blacks Ops 7’s 14th November release date looming and its early access beta just days away, Activision has aired a big old Call of Duty Next showcase, featuring – amid the enthusiastic shouting and endless “official partner” promotion – a heap of multiplayer news and gameplay, including a look at Warzone’s new Resurgence map, and more.

Call of Duty Black Op 7’s open beta, as you probably already know, runs 5th-8th October, with early access beginning Thursday, 2nd October. Things kick off at 6pm in the UK/10am PDT and those taking part will have access to six 6v6 maps. There’s Blackheart (an off-shore oilrig), The Forge (a Tokyo R&D facility), Toshin’s downtown Tokyo, Exposure (the Australian outback), Imprint (an Alaskan weapons manufacturing facility), and Cortex’s human testing site. Zombies fans, meanwhile, can try out the Vandorn Farm survival map, with beta pre-loading starting tomorrow, 1st October.

Still on maps, Activision also used its showcase to whizz through a few of Black Ops 7’s 18 launch maps (16 for 6v6 matches, two for the series’ new 20v20 Skirmish mode). Colossus, for instance, is a Black Ops 2 “callback”, while Den takes players to a Japanese castle full of 2035 tech. There’s Express, set in a Tokyo train station; Hijacked, whose action unfolds on a Tokyo Bay yacht; Homestead, set in and around David Mason’s Alaskan childhood home, plus Paranoia – a more fantastical map inspired by the nightmare of David Mason’s mind. You can see those and more in the flythrough trailer above, but if your mappetite still isn’t sated, Activision says a further seven multiplayer maps will arrive as part of Black Ops 7’s post-launch Season 1 plans, alongside two Survival maps and one round-based map for Zombies mode. Nuketown 2025, for instance, is due “shortly after launch”.