Black Ops 1 & 2 PS5 Trophies Hint at Missing Modes on New Releases

Call of Duty: Black Ops 1 and Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 may be arriving on PS4 and PS5 later this month without a handful of modes and pieces of content that were present in their original releases.

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Freshly surfaced trophy lists for both titles suggest some features won’t return exactly as they did on the original PS3 versions. While the lists are largely the same, there are notable gaps. A comparison shared by an X user, ForwardLeaks, points to several trophies tied to theater mode, League Play, and wager match wins that appear to have been removed entirely.

Theater mode was one of Black Ops’ more creative tools. It let players review earlier matches and then reposition the camera to get different angles and perspectives—something that was especially helpful for making content during YouTube’s earlier growth years.

Wager matches were a separate playlist focused on “gambling” in the form of wagering in-game currency on more unusual match types. Those playlists included Gun Game, where your weapon changes every time you secure a kill, and One in the Chamber, where you start with a single bullet and can only reload by eliminating other players. These modes were a blast back then, and they’ve influenced later Call of Duty entries over the years—often showing up without the wagering aspect.

Still, with the trophies for these specific features and modes missing from the newer lists, it’s likely the re-releases are also missing the content itself rather than just changing how players unlock achievements.

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There’s also one League Play-related trophy tied to Black Ops 2 that seems to be gone as well. That absence is perhaps more understandable, since sustaining a meaningful competitive League Play scene years after launch can be difficult. One possibility is that some version of these features remains but the trophy requirements were removed or reworked. However, since the majority of trophies appear unchanged, the more probable outcome is that these modes won’t be included.

If there’s any silver lining, it could be that modes like One in the Chamber and Gun Game still make it in—just without the wagering layer that turned them into something closer to a gamble. There’s also a broader reason Activision might want to avoid that system: since the first Black Ops launched in 2010, multiple governments have introduced rules around gambling mechanics in games. That kind of regulatory pressure could have pushed the publisher to remove the feature rather than modify it.

Activision hasn’t published the precise release date yet, but both Black Ops re-releases are slated to land on modern PlayStation hardware in July. The publisher has also confirmed that each game will include campaign, multiplayer, and Zombies modes.