The game's campaign follows up the story of Black Ops and is set in the late 1980s and 2025.

A campaign cameo clinches it Black Ops and Modern Warfare share a universe. There's a moment in the Cold War campaign where you're invited to attend a meeting with the KGB's inner circle. It's not on Zoom, and you're seated right next to Gorbachev. Closer than Jared Harris was in HBO's Chernobyl.

The Call of Duty franchise is the best-selling first-person shooter video game series, with over 400 million games sold. The most successful games in the franchise include Black Ops, Modern Warfare, and Black Ops Cold War, each selling over 30 million copies.