TLDR:
- Call of Duty Warzone and Modern Warfare 3 Season 5 will introduce even more weird-looking skins.
- One of the skin bundles replaces the player’s head with a fish head and adds a fish weapon skin.
- Another set delivers a goofy-looking cartoonish character to life.
- The bundles will be available throughout the season, but a few will launch on July 24 with Season 5.
Although Call of Duty‘s gameplay might not feel like a hardcore realistic shooter, at least the visuals give off similar vibes to everyone who plays. Almost every Call of Duty entry, however, looks like a light-hearted shooter with fantasy themes only a few months after launch, thanks to all the goofy-looking skins that Activision offers.
These weird bundles peaked with Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 and it seems like the revenue stream from these bundles is good enough for Activision to continue to offer more of them with every new season, without considering how this could affect the overall tone of the game.
With Warzone and Modern Warfare 3 Season 5 launching on July 24, Activision has prepared four new bundles to launch throughout the season, and well, at least two of them are completely hilarious for a game that revolves around fighting terrorists.
Sock Puppets and CODFish Mastercraft are the new season’s goofy skins, with the former introducing a puppet character similar to those of Sesame Street with googly eyes, and the latter replacing your operator’s head with a giant fish head. Both bundles are too far away from Call of Duty’s theme that we can barely fit them in any kind of logical scenarios, but they will both probably sell quite well due to how funny they look.
The other two bundles for Season 5, Obon Festival and Black Hole, are not too goofy, but even they don’t seem to be a good fit for an intense action game like Call of Duty. Especially the Black Hole set that comes with a bright black hole at the chest piece of the set, giving the skin an otherworldly look.
For a game like Fortnite, goofy skins will never look out of place, as Fortnite’s universe doesn’t take itself too seriously, and it doesn’t even have a campaign mode. However, things are a little bit different for Call of Duty.
The campaign mode for Call of Duty usually revolves around counter-terrorism and narrates stories with action-packed scenes and intense themes. Even the background story for Warzone follows a similar tone, except for some limited-time events, which is why the addition of hilarious skins feels a bit out of place.
Back in the previous seasons of Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone, Activision introduced even more goofy-looking skins such as Stonely Sloth, Emoting Ultra, Bite Me, and Wubz and Friendz. Although a part of the community reacted to such hilarious bundles back then, it is obvious that Activision doesn’t want to back off from its stance on the Tracer Bundles, and the goofy skins are probably here to stay!
