Travel through Time with Black Ops 4's Zombie Mode

The latest version of Call of Duty’s Zombie mode is keeping some things traditional, while other things are taking a wild spin. Four players will still be doing their best to survive the ravenous hordes, though the under-arching story seems to have a few surprises up its sleeves.

Black Ops 4’s Zombie mode will take place over three new maps: IX, which will see the players doing battle in a gladiatorial Arena, Voyage of Despair which seems to be a Titanic-esque Cruise Liner, and Blood of the Dead, which appears to take place in a prison locale. The story is a new take on the franchise, weaving the plot through all three maps to tell the tale of “an ancient order hell-bent on transforming the world to fulfil their nefarious agenda,” said Zombies director Jason Blundell during the event. The four characters are Scarlet, Bruno, Diego and Shaw, forced to travel through time in order to secure some sort of artefact that will shut down whatever mysterious organisation is trying to summon the dead.

Treyarch isn’t just satisfied to provide the game and walk away however, with promises of a new feature referred to as Callings, a wave of post-launch updates and features to spice things up as time goes on. Additionally, there is the ability to customise the Zombie experience, with tones of mutations on offer for fans to play around with.

The new take on the Zombie mode isn’t the only new thing coming with Call of Duty Black Ops 4, with the Battle Royale genre getting a new player in the form of Blackout. For more information on the new game mode, check out our breakdown here, and for more information on the game itself, check out the official website, here.