Post Description

Single-player campaign

Setting and Characters

Call of Duty: Black Ops III takes place in a dystopian future set in 2065, 40 years after the events of Black Ops II. Several countries around the world have developed high-tech air defenses that render air assaults useless. As such, most of the warfare between countries is done by covert operatives fighting behind enemy lines. Science and technology have radically changed both the landscape as well as the future of the human race, with society violently protesting and attempting to halt further advancements touted by scientists as "progress". Military technology has progressed to the point where robotics play a main role in combat, and supersoldiers have been developed to fight in the battlefield. Humans have reached the point where they are considered to be more machine than flesh and blood. As a result, there is speculation and fear about an eventual robotic takeover. The game follows a team of black ops soldiers, like previous installments in the Black Ops series, with supersoldier capabilities.[4]

The campaign stars Christopher Meloni as Commander John Taylor, Katee Sackhoff as Sarah Hall, Sean Douglas as Jacob Hendricks, Rachel Kimsey as Rachel Kane, and Tony Amendola as Dr. Yousef Salim. Ben Browder and Abby Brammell respectively voice the male and female versions of the Player character. Other characters include Ary Katz as Peter Maretti, Rey Gallegos as Sebastian Diaz, Lynn Chen as Goh Xiulan, and Robert Picardo as Sebastian Krueger. Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch makes a cameo as a villain.[5][6]

Story

On October 27, 2065, the Player and their partner, Jacob Hendricks, infiltrating Ethiopia to rescue hostages from the tyrannical NCR. They are assisted by Commander John Taylor and his team of cybernetically enhanced soldiers. While the rescue is successful, the Player is critically wounded by a combat robot, necessitating the installation of advanced cybernetic enhancements to save the Player's life. The Player is also given a Direct Neural Interface (DNI), which allows them to not only control their cybernetics, but allows them to directly communicate with other machines. Hendricks decides to undergo cybernetic enhancements as well.

Five years later, the Player and Hendricks are put under the command of CIA Agent Rachel Kane and tasked with investigating a CIA black site in Singapore that has gone quiet. While investigating, they find that the black site has been attacked by the 54 Immortals, Singapore's largest and most powerful criminal organization. After recovering the black site's stolen servers, the Player, Hendricks, and Kane find out that Taylor and his team were responsible for the attack on the CIA black site. They go to investigate the last location Taylor's team visited: the ruins of Coalescence Corporation's Singapore headquarters, which had been destroyed in a mysterious explosion that killed 300,000 people. The Player and Hendricks discover a secret CIA lab hidden under the building, and Diaz, one of Taylor's men. The Player is forced to kill Diaz to prevent him from leaking secrets to the public. Hendricks connects to Diaz's DNI to try and find information, and discovers Taylor is trying to find the survivors of the Singapore explosion. Taylor then publicly releases the locations of every CIA safehouse in the world, forcing the Player and Hendricks to rescue Kane from 54 Immortals' retaliation in the Singapore safe zone. The Immortals' leader, Goh Xiulan, attempts to kill the player to avenge her brother, who was killed in an earlier encounter, but is killed by the player instead. Hendricks begins to suspect that Kane is hiding something them.

The team then heads to Egypt to find Dr. Yousef Salim, one of the two survivors of the explosion. Dr. Salim reveals that he had worked on a secret project involving illegal DNI experiments on humans, and that his job was to comfort the emotionally unstable test subjects. Taylor and his team then capture Dr. Salim, interrogate him, and then execute him. With the help of the Egyptian army, the Player, Hendricks, and Kane chase after Taylor, killing his remaining team members Hall and Maretti. The Player connects with Hall's DNI and discovers that Taylor and his team were infected by an Artificial Intelligence called Corvus, which was inadvertently created during the secret CIA experiments that resulted in the Singapore explosion. Corvus' influence eventually turned Taylor and his team mad, making them obsessed with finding the "Frozen Forest" no matter the cost. The Player realizes that both they and Hendricks are infected with by Corvus as well, and it is only a matter of time before they fall under its control. The Player and Hendricks pursue and confront Taylor in Cairo, where Taylor briefly regains his senses and tears his own DNI out of his head before being killed by Hendricks. However, Hendricks succumbs to the infection and heads for Coalescence Corporation's headquarters in Zurich with the intention of spreading Corvus to every computer in the world.

The Player and Kane head to Zurich to stop Hendricks, but are hampered when Hendricks hijacks the entire city's computer systems and robotic defenders. The Player and Kane manage to breach the Coalescence HQ, but Kane is killed when Corvus traps her in a room full of the deadly nerve gas Nova 6. The Player continues on and encounters Hendricks, along with the other Coalescence survivor Sebastian Krueger. Just as Hendricks kills Krueger, the Player also kills Hendricks. In order to stop Corvus' infection, the Player tries to kill themselves, but ends up inside a simulated world created within their own DNI. There, the Player is reunited with Taylor, who agrees to help the Player fight Corvus. Taylor explains that the only way for the Player to defeat Corvus for good is to initiate a system purge in their DNI. After fighting their way through Corvus' illusory forces, the Player manages to regain control of their body and purges their DNI. As the Player stumbles out of the building, security forces arrive and ask the the Player to identify themselves. The Player then responds that their name is "Taylor".

The briefing of each mission, written in the form of Taylor's journal, reveals that the Player was actually dead shortly after their surgery, indicating that every event that happens afterwards is a figment of the Player's dying dream, based on Taylor's real experience as he and his squad mates went on a hunt for a rogue agent, Dylan Stone, as well as his team, all of whom were replaced with Taylor, Hall, Diaz and Maretti in the Player's dream.

Zombies

There are two confirmed Zombies storylines in Call of Duty: Black Ops III at the time of its reveal. One story, Shadows of Evil, focuses on a new group of characters: Nero Blackstone (Jeff Goldblum), Jessica Rose (Heather Graham), Jack Vincent (Neal McDonough) and Floyd Campbell (Ron Perlman), who reside in the fictional Morg City. Treyarch describes the new characters as "troubled individuals" with "a long and sordid history of past misdeeds". The four characters are thrown into a twisted version of the city, overrun by zombies, and are guided by a mysterious, unreliable figure called the Shadowman (Robert Picardo).[7]

The second story, The Giant, focuses on the alternate versions of the original characters: Tank Dempsey (Steven Blum), Nikolai Belinski (Fred Tatasciore), Takeo Masaki (Tom Kane) and Edward Richtofen (Nolan North), who were introduced in the Black Ops II map "Origins". Their story continues from where "Origins" left off, as they attempt to rewrite the other timelines' history. Other characters include the leader of Group 935, Doctor Ludvig Maxis (also voiced by Tatasciore), and his daughter Samantha.[8]

Story

In the year 1942, in Morg City, resides four individuals: Jessica Rose, Jack Vincent, Floyd Campbell and Nero Blackstone, all of whom have done heinous misdeeds in the past. Jessica, who intends to pursue a career in motion pictures, had an affair with a film producer, but then it was discovered by a photographer of the press, resulting in her inviting the photographer over to kill him. Vincent, who has been a crooked cop for a long period in his career, attempts to stop the mayor of the city from tracking him down, by silencing all his associates who could rat him out. Campbell, a boxer who hasn't fought for eighteen months, sought to defeat his number one contender, Tony King, by any means necessary, leading him to wearing brass knuckles beneath his gloves in their fight. Nero, a formerly successful magician, was caught up in large amounts of debts, accumulated by his wife, prompting him to set up an accident in order to kill his wife and recover her insurance money to pay off all the debts.

At one point, as all four of them gather under the Black Lace burlesque club, they are somehow put to sleep. They then wake up in separate areas of Mor