The last expansion for Call Of Duty: Black Ops 3 will answer years-old fan questions about the series’ Zombies content, Treyarch executive producer Jason Blundell told GameSpot this week, but it’s not clear what that might mean for the future of Call of Duty’s popular cooperative mode.
PC and Xbox One owners are still awaiting the arrival of Descent, the third of four planned Black Ops 3 expansion that originally debuted on PS4 last month. But that isn’t stopping Treyarch from focusing some portion of its attention on the next (and final) round of downloadable content for the third entry in the Black Ops trilogy. It may not have a name yet, instead referred to as “DLC 4” outside of the studio, but Blundell says the next Zombies map coming to Black Ops 3 will answer some of the questions fans have been asking since the final chapter of the Black Ops 2 Zombies campaign.
“At the end of Black Ops 2, I think I enraged the community some when I put in this video that showed Samantha in a house with a boy called Edward. They were playing with zombie toys,” Blundell told GameSpot. “The characters say, 'I wish our heroes in our stories were real.' Then we dropped to black….People lost their shit."
Blundell doesn’t seem to expect the same reaction this time around, though. The current Zombies storyline is nearly eight years old at this point, dating back to Call of Duty: World At War, and BO3 is expected to be the last entry in the Black Ops series. And Blundell says fans can expect a more resolute ending this time, theoretically answering the many questions left by the cliffhanger at the end of BO2. But that doesn’t mean we’re necessarily seeing the end of Zombies mode. We’ll just have to wait and see what form (if any) Call of Duty’s beloved cooperative mode takes when Infinite Warfare debuts November 4.
Black Ops 3 is currently available on PlayStation 3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and PC. The game’s final expansion is expected to hit PC and current-gen platforms before November.
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