Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII originally had a story mode, too.

Call of Duty: Black Ops’ 4th numbered instalment had different plans by Treyarch in the past. They wanted an unusual campaign mode for 2018’s Call of Duty, which launched on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC (Battle.net). It didn’t happen, and instead, all we got were digital comics to progress the game’s plot forward. This is when they ditched the story in favour of riding the battle royale fad that is still strong today.

On Reddit, you can find the footage of Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII that we embedded below.

The 2018’s CoD would have been unusual because it’d have offered a 2v2 campaign. Each player would have selected a different faction to compete against each other in a post-apocalyptic world. It can’t be felt in the two-minute video below, but we do notice that the models are all low poly, meaning this footage is from an early build. The mission here is to extract a CEO. Here, you can find more pre-alpha footage of weapon and environmental damage testing.

Kotaku reported before that Treyarch tried to crunch, crunch, and crunch its employees to have the game ready in time (as Activision Blizzard can’t sit on its ass without an annual Call of Duty game to douche in money each year), but they didn’t have enough time everything, which is why the story got cut in early 2018.

There will be a new Call of Duty late this year, which will either be set in Vietnam or the Cold War era (potentially without the Black Ops words in the title). It’s probably going to be a cross-gen title (PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One).

Source: PCGamer

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