Call of Duty promotional video shows faces of Mount Rushmore blindfolded

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KEVN) – People in the Black Hills and Rapid City area were surprised to see images circulating on social media Wednesday showing the faces of Mount Rushmore blindfolded. Some locals even drove up to the National Monument to see if it had truly been vandalized.

Fortunately, this was not the case, and these images came from a promotional video for the upcoming video game Call of Duty: Black Ops 6. The game is the 21st installment of Activision Publishing’s Call of Duty series.

Activision Senior Vice President & Head of Marketing Tyler Bahl said his team developed the video to fit the themes of espionage and government conspiracy explored in Black Ops games and he’s been happy with the promotion’s success.

“We were out in Rapid City and we went up to Rushmore,” Bahl said. “We did everything on the up and up. We worked with the parks department …