Nicki Minaj is coming to Call of Duty: Warzone and Modern Warfare 2 as an Operator — the franchise’s first “self-named female Operator,” writer Activision revealed Thursday. While quite a few real-life celebrities have appeared in Call of Duty video games over time, together with Snoop Dogg, Lionel Messi, and Kevin Durant, the one ladies to seem as Operators have been fictional. Until Nicki.
Minaj will probably be featured in Warzone and Modern Warfare 2 as half of the sport’s “50 Years of Hip Hop Celebration,” the place she’ll be joined by Snoop Dogg and 21 Savage as Operators. Call of Duty’s builders warned that Minaj’s look within the sport “is not ‘Chill Nicki’; this is Red Ruby Da Sleeze” — a reference to the artist’s newest alter ego from her current music video.
Minaj may have her personal retailer bundle in some unspecified time in the future throughout season 5 of Warzone and Modern Warfare 2 — which can doubtless embrace that Barbie-pink assault rifle. (Fitting for “The Harajuku Barbie,” one other of Nicki’s personas.)
Nicki’s arrival in Call of Duty was heralded throughout a promo video launched final 12 months forward of Modern Warfare 2’s launch. That clip, “Squad Up,” featured the rapper alongside fellow artists, athletes, and actors, together with Lil Baby, Bukayo Saka, and Pete Davidson, providing a glimmer of hope that the Bupkis star might additionally come to Call of Duty some day.
Snoop Dogg’s new Operator in Warzone and Modern Warfare 2 marks his third look within the shooter collection. Back in 2014, Snoop broke floor as one of the primary movie star voice packs for multiplayer in Call of Duty: Ghosts. The rapper returned to the franchise final 12 months, in World War II type, as an Operator for Call of Duty: Vanguard and Warzone.
Season 5 of Call of Duty will even embrace a reveal of this 12 months’s new sport — aka Call of Duty 2023, aka Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 — in Warzone.
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