Call of Duty enlists Love Island loser and YouTuber-turned-boxer for head-scratching Black Ops 7 trailer

Remember that Battlefield 6 trailer that made fun of Call of Duty’s incessant need for celebrity cameos in its marketing? This Black Ops 7 trailer proves their point in a big way.

The BO7 launch trailer brings back Peter Stormare as “The Replacer,” AKA the guy who replaces you at your job so you can stay home and play CoD. But this time, he’s joined by a very interesting selection of celebrity cameos that have been a hit or miss with fans.

First up, we have Love Island season seven’s Huda Mustafa (“first baddie in space”), who has continued on the path of her lucrative influencer career even after losing out on the show in its finale. And honestly? Good for her. But then there’s Jake Paul, the short-form video creator who’s gone on to terrorize the world as a very selective boxer.

In the video, the crew heads into space to inhabit Mars to “populate a Martian colony that will become the bedrock for humanity’s future,” and these two are humanity’s best and brightest to do the job. The Replacer has taken the place of the actual spaceship pilot, which causes hijinks, and gives us the best part of the video when he “accidentally” ejects Paul into space.

That’s when the Replacer puts in a call to Earth for more Replacers, who are comedian Nikki Glaser and beloved actor Terry Crews, the latter of whom CoD fans seem to be actually enjoying in the video (and hoping to see him as an operator). And so now it appears Crews and Glaser will take Stormare’s place for the time being as he attempts to navigate outer space with Huda. Have fun, buddy.

I’ve never been the biggest fan of gratuitous celeb cameos in these CoD videos, and this one is missing the mark for many and seemingly proving BF6’s point. What does any of this video have to do with BO7? Nothing at all, really, but I guess you have the liberty to create something like this when everyone knows exactly what CoD is bringing to the table with its yearly releases.

In previous years, CoD launch trailers have enlisted celebs like Robert Downey Jr., Kobe Bryant, Jonah Hill, Michael Phelps, and more, all cosplaying as soldiers and fighting each other. This one’s quite different (probably for a variety of reasons), and I’m not digging it.

I’m actually decently optimistic and excited about BO7 after playing the beta and its limited skill-based matchmaking that will come to the game on day one, so I’m going to politely choose to forget that this trailer exists and hop online with a fresh mindset on Nov. 14.

Like our content? Set Destructoid as a Preferred Source on Google in just one step to ensure you see us more frequently in your Google searches!