What To Expect From 'Call Of Duty: Black Ops 4' At E3

It's one of the best-selling games every year, but in 2018 the franchise is making some of the biggest changes ever in its 14-year history. Activision and Treyarch recently announced Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, a game with some notable additions and one big subtraction. Black Ops 4 will be the first full Call of Duty game to ship without a single-player campaign, instead leaning on traditional multiplayer, the cooperative zombie mode and the new battle royale mode "Blackout." I recently spoke with Activision's head of Call of Duty Rob Kostich, who said that the Black Ops sub-franchise was the right opportunity for branching out from the usual campaign, multiplayer and zombies format. "Black Ops has been really unique from a franchise, perspective," says Kostich. "The campaign in Black Ops 3 was always designed to be played cooperatively, designed to bring people together in new and unique ways. This opportunity of battle royale came up at that point: we took a look at what we had and where we wanted to go and thought this was a great opportunity."