Treyarch has unveiled the first look and story for its Call of Duty: Vanguard — Zombies mode for the latest title coming on November 5.
Treyarch has unveiled the first look and story for its Call of Duty: Vanguard — Zombies mode for the latest title coming on November 5. Sledgehammer Games is taking us back to World War II with the rise of special forces in its Call of Duty: Vanguard premium game and multiplayer combat. On top of that, Activision will be shipping the Treyarch-developed Zombies mode for release with Vanguard on the consoles and the PC at the Vanguard launch. In a video today, Treyarch’s leaders Craig Houston, Tony Bedard, and Gavin Locke answered some of the pressing fan questions about “Der Anfang,” the next chapter in the Dark Aether sag that has driven Zombies lore. This sort of gameplay is sticky for Call of Duty fans, and it’s the kind of thing that will keep them from spending too much time in rival games like Halo: Infinite and Battlefield 2042. In the video released today, professor Gabriel Krafft said Stalingrad has a problem, as the Nazis found a way to win the war using the Dark Aether entity in service of the Third Reich. In Zombies, special forces operatives will need all the help they can get to survive the undead. Vanguard Zombies reveals that entities from the Dark Aether dimension had contact with humans, going back centuries. Players will find out what was happening in the Dark Aether before the events at Projekt Endstation changed everything. In fact, the cyclotron incident at Endstation is what sparks the events in Vanguard Zombies. The dimensional breach activates long-dormant artifacts collected by the Nazis, granting SS commander Wolfram Von List an opportunity to bond with a lord of the Dark Aether and single-handedly win WWII for the Third Reich. Only a small band of Allied Special Forces soldiers who have forged a similar bond with their own Dark Aether entities stand in his way. So, the new characters are in a different setting than last year’s Call of Duty: Black Ops — Cold War Zombies, but they still have the same level of high stakes with global implications.
