Warzone Season 5 live event is the first step towards the game's redemption
I'm just going to say it: after months of uninspiring – and sometimes downright strange – seasonal updates, Call of Duty: Warzone Season 5 could be genuinely exciting.
Call of Duty: Warzone has been a pretty miserable experience for quite a while now and, despite Activision's attempts to conjure another Mandela Effect example after dropping the Warzone 2 branding, most players are now looking ahead to Call of Duty 2023.
And it seems Activision knows this too, because the publisher announced in a blog post that Warzone Season 5 will feature an in-game live event where players can experience the worldwide reveal of the upcoming Call of Duty title, which is very likely to be called Modern Warfare 3 according to recent leaks.
For once, Activision is being quite clever with the impending update. An in-game reveal during a Warzone Season 5 live event is one of the only ways it could bring the entire community together in the game, while simultaneously building intrigue and interest in Call of Duty 2023. upcoming title.
I personally haven't touched Warzone since Season 4 Reloaded, which featured a phenomenally ridiculous The Boys crossover that also introduced laser eyes, teleporting and other super powers into the game. Why, Activision? Why?
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Live events in games, when done right, can be spectacular. Fortnite was once the master of this, with the Chapter 1 Season 10 'The End' event making players watch as the map was destroyed before their very eyes, before Epic actually took the game offline completely, pretending it was gone forever. That was short-lived of course, with a brand new map launching for Fortnite Chapter 2. It was an iconic event, and one that showed how live events should be done.
But even Fortnite has dropped the ball; its last live event was for Chapter 3 Season 4, back in December 2022. and players are wondering if we'll see a Fortnite Chapter 4 live event at all. There was a Fortnite Kid Laroi concert back in January, but it' doesn't really qualify.
Last month's debut of Warzone Season 4 was the last time I felt genuinely compelled to jump in and play, following the launch of the Vondel resurgence map and the long-awaited health buff. Sure, it was more enjoyable than previous seasons, but the game's flawed fundamental mechanics and constant bugs meant my return was short-lived.
New skins and operators are all well and good, but even Nicki Minaj and Snoop Dogg aren't enough on their own to draw me back in – and neither is the new Al-Mazrah-themed resurgence map. But a properly thought out, dramatic Warzone Season 5 live event absolutely would.
Every single Warzone player will remember the moment when Verdansk was nuked in April, 2021 during it's live event, with players then jumping into a 1984 version of the same map once the dust had settled. I would argue that Warzone has never been the same since. That nuke set off a chain reaction – a downward spiral that led to Warzone Caldera and the mess that was the Warzone 2 launch.
But, if Activision is able to pull off an impressive Warzone Season 5 live event it would undoubtedly prompt every Warzone group chat around the world to burst back into life and pull players back in see what's in store for their next game. If it could do that, well, maybe the Warzone magic could return after all.
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