“Operators are only as strong as the oaths they keep,” the official said Call of Duty Twitter Account, by announcing skins based on the gothic space satire Warhammer 40,000 are coming to Warzone and Modern Warfare 3. Expect skins based on the Adeptus Astartes, Adepta Sororitas and Astra Militarum, i.e. the superhuman space marines and Battle Sisters as well as the poor, doomed common soldiers of the Imperial Guard. I suspect that the Marines won't actually be 8 feet tall, as that might make it a little too easy to photograph them without a scope.
Before the word “Fortnite-ification” comes out of your mouth, it's worth noting that this is far from the first Call of Duty crossover. CoD has already completed cross-branding exercises with Tomb Raider, The Boys, Godzilla and King Kong, Diablo, Spawn, Evil Dead and He-Man, real person Nicki Minaj and more. There is some precedent in the market, I say.
I've played Quake as various Transformers and characters from the Snorks – which were basically the Smurfs but underwater – so I understand the appeal. However, these were unofficial skins that could be downloaded for free and not for real money.
In other surprising 40K crossover news, the first-person PowerWash simulator was recently blessed with an expansion that lets you clean various vehicles from the 41st Millennium. Sean Martin called it surprisingly fun and praised the way it “puts you in the shoes of a tech-priest of the Mechanicum who spends his days performing 'Rites of Cleansing' – the fancy 40K kind too.” say, 'Jum a Dreadnought that looks like him took a deep hit in Nurgle's asshole.'”
