Call of Duty deleted post-credit scene implies darker ending to a classic trilogy

A Name of Obligation modder has purportedly found a post-credits scene to the unique Name of Obligation: Trendy Warfare 3 that adjustments the sport’s narrative, primarily based on its interpretation.

It’s an sudden nugget for a trilogy that virtually remade the sequence whereas additionally setting a brand new commonplace for navy first-person shooters. Within the recreation’s single-player marketing campaign, gamers conquer the first dangerous man, terrorist Vladimir Makarov, ending with one of many protagonists, Capt. John Worth, dropping a cigar as Makarov’s physique swings from an improvised hangman’s noose. Worth dies from his wounds within the encounter, nonetheless.

Within the purportedly lower post-credits scene that surfaced over the weekend, an “ominous stranger” seems within the distance, peering down the hallway at each as they die.

The lower sequence suggests a far completely different, and larger, metaphorical ending to the sequence — principally that the “shadowman” represents Loss of life, who involves take Worth as Worth has taken Makarov.

Right here’s the clip.

Developer Infinity Ward in all probability peeled again from this type of a finale in an effort to go away open the potential of Worth returning later within the sequence, or a minimum of not ending the storyline altogether.

And the landmark Trendy Warfare sequence was certainly rebooted with 2019’s Name of Obligation: Trendy Warfare, persevering with to current day’s Modern Warfare 3.

When is the following Name of Obligation popping out?

Name of Obligation’s subsequent installment just isn’t confirmed however contemplating the rotation of studios that develop the sport, Treyarch is believed to be engaged on an journey set during the early 1990s offensive america launched into the Persian Gulf area.

This recreation would match into the throwback “Black Ops” timeline Treyarch established with 2008’s Name of Obligation: World at Battle and continued with 2010’s unique Name of Obligation: Black Ops.