Marshawn Lynch to Appear in Call of Duty: Black Ops 3

Are you ready to get your Beast Mode on? Well the good folks at Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 will let you take your game to another level by playing the Seattle Seahawks superstar, Marshawn Lynch. This is not the first time athletes and gaming have shared the stage (just take a look at some of the winners at this years ESPN Espy Awards), but the marriage of Lynch, who is notoriously known to ignore press requests and interviews, seems like a match made in cyber-heaven.

Marshawn Lynch is featured on the cover of this months double-issue of ESPN The Magazine, which will be the first-ever video game issued and one dedicated to the world-wide phenomena of eSports. Lynchs in-depth interview talks about his in-game character in Call of Duty: Black Ops 3. Lynch recently visited Activisions motion capture studio for facial scanning and performance capture, in addition to getting plenty of early hands-on with Black Ops 3.

The cover of ESPN The Magazine is above and a video clip showing how Lynch’s body was scanned to make the character, along with the body suit that was used to chart his movements, is here. Lynch recently visited Activisions motion capture studio for facial scanning and performance capture, in addition to getting plenty of early hands-on with Black Ops 3.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 will be available on November 6, 2015.