Call of Duty: Black Ops 1 and 2 Are Coming to PS5 This Month, and the Trophy Leaks Point to Missing Features

Call of Duty: Black Ops 1 and 2 are coming back. Leaked trophy lists on PSN confirm that both games are being ported natively to PS4 and PS5, with a release window that lands somewhere between July 10 and 17. Treyarch is expected to make an official announcement on July 8. The whole thing has the community excited, but there is a catch already generating real frustration: the leaked trophies suggest that some of the most beloved features from both games might not survive the move to modern hardware.

What the Trophy Leaks Actually Show

Each game gets its own separate trophy list with full platinum support, which means these are proper standalone releases and not some backward compatibility update. The BO1 list is a close match to the original game, but a couple of trophies are conspicuously absent. There is no trophy tied to Theater Mode, which was BO1's built-in replay system that let players record and share their best clips, and there is also no trophy for Wager Matches, the side mode where players bet in-game currency against each other in wild challenge variants like Gun Game, Sticks and Stones, and One in the Chamber. Neither absence confirms a full removal, but trophy lists in modern ports tend to mirror what is actually in the game.

Black Ops 2 tells a similar story. The leaked list replaces the original League Play trophy with a Campaign-related trophy. League Play was BO2's ranked competitive ladder, the part of the game that hardcore players gravitated toward once they burned out on regular multiplayer. Swapping it out for a Campaign trophy could mean League Play is gone entirely, or restructured so heavily that it no longer supports the same progression framework. Both games still include 4 DLC bundles each, covering zombie content and extra multiplayer maps, so at least the content side of things looks complete.

Wager Matches and Theater Mode Were Not Minor Features

Stripping Wager Matches from a Black Ops 1 port would be removing the mode that gave the game its personality. You queued up, risked your CoD Points, and played game types that were purely chaotic. Sticks and Stones, Sharpshooter, One in the Chamber. These were not filler modes. They were the reason players stayed on the game for months after hitting max prestige. Treyarch created something there that no other Call of Duty has matched before or since, and cutting it to simplify a port would be a straight downgrade from a 16-year-old game.

Theater Mode is a different kind of loss. Back in 2010, it was genuinely ahead of its time. It let you rewind an entire match from any angle, set up cinematic shots, and export clips before YouTube gaming montages were even a normalized thing. The tool gave the community creative ownership over their own gameplay in a way that mattered. Cutting it now would read as pure laziness, especially since the mode already exists in its original form and has never needed to be rebuilt from scratch.

Community Reaction Is Already Skeptical

Multiple players flagged the missing trophies on social media within hours of the lists leaking. One fan wrote that they hoped the missing Wager Matches trophy did not mean the mode was actually gone, calling it the part of the game they were most looking forward to revisiting. Others noted that without Theater Mode, the nostalgia pitch that Activision is clearly leaning on for this re-release loses its most memorable piece. The reaction has not reached full outrage yet because Treyarch has not officially confirmed anything, but the tone is already skeptical.

What IS confirmed at this point: native PS5 and PS4 builds, not emulation. Both titles include platinum trophies. All DLC is bundled in. That is a solid foundation for a proper re-release, and it is more care than some older CoD ports have received. The question is what Activision and Treyarch decided to skip on their way to the finish line, and whether those cuts were made for technical reasons or just to ship faster.

Treyarch Needs to Answer Before Launch

If these cuts are real, they need to be explained before the games ship, not buried in a post-launch FAQ. Announcing a classic re-release with the nostalgia pitch and then quietly removing the modes that defined the originals is the kind of publisher move that burns goodwill fast. People are not buying these games to play a stripped version of something they already own. They are buying them to revisit the full experience on hardware that is actually supported and online infrastructure that still works.

Treyarch's July 8 reveal is the moment to either confirm the cuts and explain why they happened, or put the rumors to rest entirely. Silence after the announcement drops will be read as confirmation. At $30 to $40 for games that are over a decade old, players have every right to know what they are paying for before that money leaves their account.

The Wider Problem With Classic CoD Ports

This would not be the first time Activision trimmed a re-release. The Modern Warfare remasters had their own content adjustments over the years, and the PC versions of older CoD titles have been maintained inconsistently for over a decade. Activision clearly sees value in bringing the classic era back to modern platforms, and the market clearly wants these games. But the execution keeps running into the same problem: the publisher treats the back catalog as a monetization opportunity first and a preservation effort second.

Black Ops 1 and 2 are two of the best shooters ever made. The campaigns, the zombies, the multiplayer, Wager Matches, Theater Mode, League Play: all of it contributed to games that people still talk about 15 years later. They deserve a complete re-release, not a curated version of themselves where the rougher, weirder, more beloved edges get sanded off to meet a launch deadline. Whether they are actually getting that complete treatment is a question Treyarch owes the community a straight answer to right now.