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Catherine Lewis

New Battlefield 6 trailer swiftly puts celebrities to the side and replaces them with marines as EA doubles down on grounded, no-nonsense skins, and fans think it can only be a diss aimed at Call of Duty

Battlefield 6 screenshot.

With Battlefield 6 and Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 both releasing in fairly quick succession over the next couple of months, a big question remains – which of the big AAA first-person shooters is going to be better received? Right now, it's all to play for, but the fires of this rivalry appear to have been stoked by a new Battlefield 6 trailer, which appears to throw shade at Activision's long-running series.

Battlefield 6's live-action launch trailer was posted yesterday, and immediately opens on a group of celebrities – High School Musical (and a few other films, we suppose) star Zac Efron, basketball pro Jimmy Butler, country singer Morgan Wallen, and martial artist Paddy Pimblett – cinematically walking towards a fight, before a missile promptly takes them out.

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