Warzone 2's DMZ mode is a story-driven fight for survival

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At long last, Activision has revealed more information about Warzone 2’s mysterious DMZ Mode: the highly-anticipated new game type releasing on November 16.

DMZ mode turns Warzone from its battle royale free-for-all, where 100 players duke it out to be the lone survivors, into a more directed, objective-based game. You’ll fight human players, and AI, in a desperate rush to escape Warzone’s island.

More a companion piece than a spin-off necessarily, Warzone 2 holds many links to its mainline sibling Modern Warfare 2. As stated by Activision in the roadmap(opens in new tab) for the two games, DMZ is just one of many new features offered in the all-new iteration of the series’ battle royale playground.

DMZ, according to the roadmap, “is an open-world, narrative-focused extraction mode where Operator squads have free rein to complete faction-based missions”. With AI enemies around every corner, side missions aplenty, and not much time to get them all done before your team’s extraction, DMZ taps the vein of some of the best survival games – especially the 2017 gem Escape from Tarkov, which combines elements of survival horror, action, and FPS goodness.

New to Warzone 2 will be the Third-Person Playlist, a series of missions that can only be played via the new third-person view rather than the typical FPS stylings of Call of Duty. This is supposedly going to facilitate “different visibility tactics and an altered, but still action-packed gameplay feel”. If you want to try it out early, you can use a third-person perspective in Modern Warfare 2 and get a hang of it before Warzone 2 lands.

One of the larger maps in Modern Warfare 2, Al Mizrah, will be also available in Warzone 2 to play with friends and frenemies alike, meaning you