Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 co-op campaign could have been amazing
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 may be long forgotten, especially as we speed towards the launch of Modern Warfare 2 and its multiplayer beta, but a treasure trove of leaked documents now reveals that the maligned, multiplayer FPS from Treyarch originally contained an amazing-sounding co-op campaign.
You might remember that, by the time Black Ops 4 launched in 2018, it was largely multiplayer only, incorporating traditional deathmatches, zombies, and the battle royale mode Blackout. However, at one time, the shooter was set to feature a fully fledged campaign, centred around co-op and 2v2 gameplay. And from what we’ve seen, it could have been very good.
In Black Ops 4’s apocalyptic near future, two factions would compete for the final vestiges of Earth’s natural resources: the authoritarian World United Nations, and the upstart Free People’s Army. At the beginning of the campaign, you would select which faction you would like to fight for, and then partner up with a friend online. However, as you battled AI enemies, completed objectives, and finished missions, an opposing pair of players, representing the other faction, would be playing against you.
A typical level would involve some straightforward PvE co-op, but there would be designated areas – a room, a battlefield, a vehicle section – where the gameplay would transition into PvP, as you and your pal went toe-to-toe with the opposing co-op partnership. Depending who won, the narrative of the campaign would branch in different directions, with multiple plotlines and endings available.
You could earn XP through finishing the campaign, and as well as drafting four complete missions, and characters to represent each faction, Treyarch apparently got so far as planning DLC and
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