Cryptic 'Call of Duty' teaser turns RoboCop into a terrorist
We can't confirm that Mr. Bald Terrorist Man in the above video is actually Peter Weller, the star of RoboCop, but it sure does look like him.
The video surfaced on the official Call of Duty Instagram feed, further fueling the excitement that's built up around rumors of the game's 2016 release, which is said to be titled Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. The video post also turned out to be part of a larger Instagram collage, spread over nine separate posts.
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The same skull image flashes in every now and then during the teaser. The video bears the title "Know Your Enemy" and -- based on what possibly-but-not-definitely-Peter Weller says -- it introduces the next Call of Duty's new villain.
"You will know loss. We will be the architects of your pain, we will build monuments to your destruction. The whole world will bear witness to this, our ascension," possibly-Weller says before revealing himself to be a member of something called the "Settlement Defense Front."
The teaser surfaced on Saturday, one day after a sudden and unexpected transformation occurred in Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, the series' 2015 release.
Some kind of massive airship -- or, possibly, space ship -- appears in the sky at the end of multiplayer matches in the game's "Nuketown" map. If you watch the visual glitches in the Saturday teaser carefully, you can see brief flashes of the same Nuketown scene.
Rumors over the past few months have suggested that the new Call of Duty ventures more confidently into outer space warfare than previous games in the series. We don't know anything concrete about the game yet, but that thing certainly looks like it could get along just fine outside of Earth's atmosphere.
Another Call of Duty Instagram post materialized on Sunday afternoon containing a new video featuring clips and audio from "Know Your Enemy" intercut with images of a soldier wearing a uniform with "S.A.T.O." markings on it. The caption seemingly identifies him as "Lt. Reyes."
Could this be one of your new allies in Infinite Warfare (or whatever the actual title is)?
There are some beeps in the video as well that appear to be Morse code. The sequence translates to "0 4 E" and it plays twice. This is part of an ARG, it seems.
Whatever's going on here, you likely won't have to wait long. It's clear that Activision is spooling up the Call of Duty hype machine for some kind of reveal, and the growing list of teases suggests it's happening very soon.
UPDATED May 1, 1:35 p.m. ET with Instagram post revealing Lt. Reyes.
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Adam Rosenberg is a Senior Games Reporter for Mashable, where he plays all the games. Every single one. From AAA blockbusters to indie darlings to mobile favorites and browser-based oddities, he consumes as much as he can, whenever he can.Adam brings more than a decade of experience working in the space to the Mashable Games team. He previously headed up all games coverage at Digital Trends, and prior to that was a long-time, full-time freelancer, writing for a diverse lineup of outlets that includes Rolling Stone, MTV, G4, Joystiq, IGN, Official Xbox Magazine, EGM, 1UP, UGO and others.Born and raised in the beautiful suburbs of New York, Adam has spent his life in and around the city. He's a New York University graduate with a double major in Journalism and Cinema Studios. He's also a certified audio engineer. Currently, Adam resides in Crown Heights with his dog and his partner's two cats. He's a lover of fine food, adorable animals, video games, all things geeky and shiny gadgets.
