Nicki Minaj is coming to Name of Obligation: Warzone and Trendy Warfare 2 as an Operator — the franchise’s first “self-named feminine Operator,” writer Activision revealed Thursday. Whereas quite a few real-life celebrities have appeared in Name of Obligation video games through the years, together with Snoop Dogg, Lionel Messi, and Kevin Durant, the one girls to seem as Operators have been fictional. Till Nicki.
Minaj might be featured in Warzone and Trendy Warfare 2 as a part of the sport’s “50 Years of Hip Hop Celebration,” the place she’ll be joined by Snoop Dogg and 21 Savage as Operators. Name of Obligation’s builders warned that Minaj’s look within the sport “will not be ‘Chill Nicki’; that is Purple Ruby Da Sleeze” — a reference to the artist’s newest alter ego from her latest music video.
Minaj could have her personal retailer bundle sooner or later throughout season 5 of Warzone and Trendy Warfare 2 — which can possible embrace that Barbie-pink assault rifle. (Becoming for “The Harajuku Barbie,” one other of Nicki’s personas.)
Nicki’s arrival in Name of Obligation was heralded throughout a promo video launched final yr forward of Trendy Warfare 2’s launch. That clip, “Squad Up,” featured the rapper alongside fellow artists, athletes, and actors, together with Lil Child, Bukayo Saka, and Pete Davidson, providing a glimmer of hope that the Bupkis star might additionally come to Name of Obligation some day.
Snoop Dogg’s new Operator in Warzone and Trendy Warfare 2 marks his third look within the shooter sequence. Again in 2014, Snoop broke floor as one of many first movie star voice packs for multiplayer in Name of Obligation: Ghosts. The rapper returned to the franchise final yr, in World Battle II kind, as an Operator for Name of Obligation: Vanguard and Warzone.
Season 5 of Name of Obligation may even embrace a reveal of this yr’s new sport — aka Name of Obligation 2023, aka Name of Obligation: Trendy Warfare 3 — in Warzone.
