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

A Name of Responsibility modder has purportedly found a post-credits scene to the unique Name of Responsibility: Fashionable Warfare 3 that modifications 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 army first-person shooters. Within the recreation’s single-player marketing campaign, gamers conquer the first unhealthy 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 Dying, who involves take Worth as Worth has taken Makarov.

Right here’s the clip.

Developer Infinity Ward most likely peeled again from this type of a finale with the intention to depart open the potential for Worth returning later within the sequence, or not less than not ending the storyline altogether.

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

When is the subsequent Name of Responsibility popping out?

Name of Responsibility’s subsequent installment shouldn’t be 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 Responsibility: World at Struggle and continued with 2010’s authentic Name of Responsibility: Black Ops.