The unique Call of Duty: Black Ops and Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 are being ported to PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 in July, with Iron Galaxy handling the work. Each ports will include the complete package each game originally shipped with: Campaign, Multiplayer, and Zombies.
The primary Call of Duty: Black Ops launched in 2010 and is ready through the Cold War, with a single-player campaign that follows CIA operative Alex Mason through a series of interrogation-framed flashbacks as he tries to recall a numbers broadcast tied to a Soviet sleeper-agent plot. Its missions run through hotspots like Cuba, Vietnam, and the Soviet Union, while the multiplayer built on the series’ customization and progression with additions like Wager Matches and a deeper Create-a-Class system. Zombies, the round-based co-op survival mode carried over from World at War, rounds out the package.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 followed in 2012 and split its campaign across two timelines, jumping between a Eighties Cold War thread and a near-future 2025 setting (lol), with David Mason squaring off against antagonist Raul Menendez. It was the series’ first campaign with branching paths and multiple endings, alongside optional Strike Force missions, while its multiplayer introduced the Pick 10 loadout system and swapped killstreaks for Scorestreaks. Zombies expanded into modes just like the bus-traversing Tranzit and the competitive Grief.
Greater than a decade after they first launched on hardware just like the PlayStation 3 and XBOX 360, each are heading to modern PlayStation. To be clear, these are ports of the unique games, not remakes. The franchise’s most up-to-date entry is Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, which builds its near-future storyline partly on the events of Black Ops 2.