Black Ops 6 Campaign’s Most Disturbing Mission isn’t ‘Emergence’ But One That Exposes the Dark Face of US Politics

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.

Although, 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. However, there is a controversial mission that is getting huge criticisms for its setting.

‘Most Wanted’-The Most Controversial Mission in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6

Some missions like ‘Emergence’ and ‘Checkmate’ in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 can literally give you chills in your bones. Sometimes it feels like the recently launched COD title is a horror game. That is why those two levels are one of the most talked about aspects of the game. However, the ‘Most Wanted’ mission is making fans more frenzy. This mission is actually exposing the dark side of US politics.

In the mission ‘Most Wanted’, you and your team break Russell Adler out of a CIA facility by first breaking into a Bill Clinton campaign dinner. Pantheon breaks into the establishment and attacks the dinner as the mission comes to a close. Somehow, Pantheon is able to place the blame on you and the group.

However, an assault of that magnitude would impact the nation nearly as much as Pantheon’s eventual scheme to free Cradle in the Capital. Although assassinations and attacks on presidential candidates have occurred in real life, a massive attack that spreads into the streets, like the one in Most Wanted, would have rocked the nation to its foundation, exactly as Pantheon intended. Fans are going absolutely frenzy after playing the mission.

Talking about this mission, a long-standing fan has brought up the reference of probably the most controversial mission in the COD history.

This is the same franchise that somehow Russians shooting up an airport causes world war 3, while shooting a kgb headquarters does not

— BeeAggressive 🇵🇸 (@BeePlayingGames) November 10, 2024

Just like ‘No Russian,’ the player doesn’t have any choice.

This is the same franchise that somehow Russians shooting up an airport causes world war 3, while shooting a kgb headquarters does not

— BeeAggressive 🇵🇸 (@BeePlayingGames) November 10, 2024

You can’t hurt Bil Clinton in the mission.

it’s because you don’t actually get to put bill clinton in danger, I tried to charge at him but the game puts you into a fail state as soon as you start physically assaulting his security, lame

— mako/agent (@makochthonic) November 10, 2024

On the other hand, a fan doesn’t think this mission to be controversial.

it’s because you don’t actually get to put bill clinton in danger, I tried to charge at him but the game puts you into a fail state as soon as you start physically assaulting his security, lame

— mako/agent (@makochthonic) November 10, 2024

There are several side quests in the mission. In many of those side quests, the secretary has an affair with a senator, the senator’s wife is aware of it, and you are working for the wife to give the wife the evidence she needs to look after the secretary in order to save the senator’s reputation. These side missions appear to have been intentional, aside from the primary goal of the Bill Clinton campaign. And it was evident.

How Scary Is Emergence in Call of Duty: 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 in Black Ops 6. 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.