About a couple of months ago, Activision and Treyarch held a live press conference to officially reveal that the forthcoming first-person shooterCall of Duty: Black Ops 4would contain3 different Zombies experiences at launch. Now, the studio has decided to offer up a closer look at two of those modes – that is, Voyage of Despair and IX – by releasing a brand new trailer that details how their stories are connected.
As seen below in the Chaos Story Trailer forCall of Duty: Black Ops 4’s Zombies, potential players are introduced to Scarlett Rhodes, who has become determined to solve the reasons behind her worldly and eccentric father’s mysterious disappearance. Instead of going it alone, though, she will be accompanied by three others with likes of Diego, Bruno, and Shaw joining her to fight what seems to be innumerable waves of the undead and uncover a prized relic that contains “an extraordinary power that threatens all of humanity.”
Throughout the course of the adventure, Scarlett and her cohorts manage to inadvertently time travel. To be specific, the group is initially squaring off against the undead on the Titanic inCall of Duty: Black Ops 4’s Voyage of Despair, only to then end up in what is IX’s presumed setting of ninth century Rome. While the former appears to contain its fair share of thrills, chills, and spills, what’s shown off of IX will likely be more appealing toBlack Ops 4fans, as there’s not only a bloodthirsty zombie Bengal tiger to fight, but also the trailer confirms firearms will be accessible even though it’s set in the distant past.
Taking all of this into consideration, it will be interesting to see if Activision and Treyarch’s plan to focus more so onCall of Duty: Black Ops 4’s multiplayer and Zombiesinstead of including a more traditional story campaignwill pay off in the long run. Of course, we will simply have to wait and see how first-person shooter aficionados respond and how the game itself fares in sales once the sequel comes out later this year.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4is set to launch on July 30, 2025 for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
