Black Ops 4 may not have a campaign, but it has some dreadful cinematic scenes

Black Ops 4 is the first Call of Duty without a traditional narrative campaign, but the game still offers us some of the best cutscenes in the series. At first, I was annoyed that they were locked behind tutorials that I did not need, but I'm happy to have them all explored to discover interesting stories told through beautiful cutscenes.

The cutscenes are unlocked by playing through Black Ops 4HQ specialist. This mode is a tutorial for multiplayer, played against bots, which teaches players how to best use each of the 10 characters specialized in the game, game modes and management of various series of scores. By completing each tutorial, you open a small cinematic, and even if you are a Call of Duty veteran, these scenes are always rewarding.

Although this campaign is not a complete story, every cinematic is beautiful and helps to give character to these specialists.

For example, that of Danny "Ruin" Walsh shows that he is a man willing to defy the order to save another soldier. Leave no man behind.

Play Katsumi "Recon" Kimura's tutorial opens a pretty disturbing cinematic. You can see the horror and conflict in Recon's eyes when he is ordered to shoot a child. His finger hesitates on the trigger, while Erin "Battery" Baker urges him to follow his order.

All these cinematics are visually steller. The characters really look really good.

Specialized cinematics follow two different deadlines. Both deadlines take place before the events of Black Ops 3, a game that took place in the year 2065. The opening Black Ops 4 The cinematic shows Savannah Mason and his niece in mourning on his sister's grave bearing the date 2043. These scenes to be unlocked later take place shortly before or after this period. This makes this fourth installment of the series a prequel to Black Ops 3. Some scenes are content to develop stories from the free one-shot movie Black Ops 4 BD, where each issue is dedicated to a different specialist. We glimpse a glimpse of the character's life before being recruited as a specialist for Savannah Mason.

After the death of Savannah's sister, Jessica, other scenes were created, connecting specialists to characters from previous years. Secret operations games for the biggest picture.

These skilled men and women were recruited by Savannah Mason. Savannah seems to be the shady daughter of David Mason and the granddaughter of Alex Mason, who appeared in the first Secret operations Games. This sets up a prequel to Black Ops 3but the stories here are still vague enough to let you scratch your head and want to know why Savannah Mason was recruiting all these specialists. Some scenes even show that scholars are beginning to question and lose confidence in Savannah's intentions.

Complementing additional objectives in the Specialist HQ allows you to unlock audio files containing animated discussions between Savannah and Jessica and secret conversations between specialists. Some audio files suggest that Savannah was working with Raul Menendez, the main antagonist of Black Ops 2. Is the daughter of the heroic David Mason a villain? The files leave you more questions than answers. They also present the possibility that even Black Ops 4The Blackout mode of the royal battle is canon. Characters refer to a Blackout project, and Battery speaks of numbers, which is the hallucination you see when you are caught in the Blackout Blackout storm.

The completion of the 10 missions of specialists opens an interesting kinematics between Sgt. Frank Woods and Alex Mason, who were first introduced as playable protagonists of Black Ops 1. They chat briefly with the Verruckt asylum, a zombie card also located at Blackout. Woods tells Mason, "No, it's you in the box, it's always been you. Do not blacken the man. I'm on it. "

The room used for the kinematics is the bathroom located on the upper level of the building. In the Blackout version of Asylum, players can see that four pictures are pasted on a board in the room. The names of four specialists appear on the photos after unlocking Mason and Woods' hidden kinematics. The names of the specialists do not correspond to the photos presented. The specialists are much younger in the photos and Ruin, Torque and Prophet were mislabeled. This could be part of a Treyarch Easter egg, or perhaps the start of a quest needed to unlock Alex Mason or one of the specialists as a playable character in Blackout. At present, characters such as Crash and Ajax can be unlocked, but the community still does not know how to unlock the appearances of Alex Mason, Prophet and Ruin.

Specialists and characters from previous game campaigns can be unlocked in Blackout by completing mission objectives. Specialist cinematics can also help explain the meaning of Blackout's unique elements of the specialists. For example, Jarrah's "Crash" Bazley scene, unlocked at the specialists' headquarters, shows that he's a gambler who bets more than he can afford. This is thematically consistent with the fact that you can unlock it for Blackout by doing well while keeping a poker chip in your inventory.

the Secret operations Treyarch developers have always been drawn to weaving complex stories within their Zombies fashion. So I like to see that these specialists are not just random characters with great abilities, Secret operations tradition of the countryside. And maybe Blackout too.

I hope all these teasing in cutscenes and audio files mean that we will have more Secret operations history with additional comics, or a campaign return in a possible Black Ops 5.