Every Alternate Ending In Black Ops Cold War

The Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War campaign contains alternative endings within the game’s story mode. This Call of Duty campaign is interesting, as it takes place during the 1980s right in the middle of the Cold War while also taking place between Black Ops and Black Ops 2. In the campaign, the player is a CIA agent who is supposed to put a stop to a Soviet spy, taking down the Soviet Union in the process. Players create their own character, and their decisions throughout Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War’s story affect the ending. To go over all of these endings, there will be major spoilers featured below.

Being one of the most popular annual video game releases alongside NBA 2k, Madden NFL, and FIFA, Call of Duty always has a new story, new features, and new characters. However, players still are able to experience the same concepts and ideas that they enjoyed from previous Call of Duty releases, while still getting a new campaign, competitive multiplayer, and fun zombies mode each year. This year, the campaign is slightly different, allowing players to make choices that affect the ending of the story. There are many twists and turns and plot twists that will probably surprise anyone playing the game.

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War features multiple endings that will change based on what choices the player makes. There are three main endings, but there are also minor changes within each ending that depend on much smaller choices that the player made, such as letting certain characters live or die and certain outcomes from side missions. However, the main ending the player will get is mainly based on the final choice, which completely alters the final mission. Throughout the campaign of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, the player will learn about Operation Greenlight, a nuclear weapons program that planned to install nukes across Europe. This would help the United States during the Cold War, acting as a quick response in case the Soviet Union tried an attack. Perseus, the antagonist, plans to detonate all of these nukes, ruining the Unite States’ reputation. The ending the player chooses decides the outcome of Perseus’ mission.

Black Ops Cold War: The Good Ending

If the player chooses to tell the truth during the Cold War mission called Interrogation, and reveal Perseus’ location, then they will play the good ending, titled the Final Countdown. In this ending mission for Black Ops Cold War, the player will join the CIA in raiding Perseus’ location, disabling any anti-air guns that are around. This way, air support could bomb the radar dishes that Perseus planned to use to set off nukes across Europe. With this mission, the player will have no further interaction with Perseus, and instead Adler will have an interesting reaction.

After completing this mission, the player will regroup with their comrades and celebrate their recent victory. Black Ops Cold War will give the player a recap of their decisions throughout the campaign, and then they will join Adler on some nearby cliffs. Adler congratulates the player and confirms that what they did was for a greater cause, but then pulls a pistol out and Adler and the player appear to shoot each other. Adler says that the player knows too much, so this is likely the reason he pulls a pistol out.

Black Ops Cold War: The First Bad Ending

Black Ops Cold War’s bad ending is shown if the player decides to lie instead of tell the truth during the Interrogation mission. Adler will believe the lie and help the player up. Then, the player will have to tell Perseus the plan in order to betray Adler and the CIA. The CIA will then raid and sweep the fake location, and find nothing. When this happens, Adler’s suspicion on the player will rise, and he begins to think of the possibility of the player lying to him.

Adler will approach the player and ask them if they lied, leaving the player with two options. They can either immediately signal an ambush, or go through all dialogue options until they’re eventually forced to signal it. Once the player chooses to signal an ambush, Perseus and his team will attack the CIA. The player will then be tasked to find and eliminate Mason, Woods, Lazar or Park (whichever character they chose to save in an earlier mission), and finally Adler, who can be found wounded in a nearby building. Adler will try to stab the player, but will ultimately get stabbed in the chest, dying instantly. Perseus will congratulate the player, allowing them to detonate the nukes themselves. This mission is called Ashes to Ashes.

Black Ops Cold War: The Second Bad Ending

There is an alternative to the first Black Ops Cold War bad ending above, which involves the player not informing Perseus of the plan and the ambush. Instead of being in a fight with the CIA, they will simply kill the player once they learn of their betrayal. However, Perseus will still detonate the nukes across Europe, making it more or less the same ending as the other one if the player lies. In this one, though, the player will end up dead instead of alive. This is also the same Ashes to Ashes mission, just with a slightly different ending.

Depending on the ending that the player chooses, they’ll receive a voiceover from either Perseus or Hudson that shows some of the decisions the players made throughout the campaign. What happened to Anton Volkov and Qasim Javadi will be revealed. Also, what happened to the operative who was either saved or left in Cuba will be revealed. Finally, the outcome of the Operation Chaos mission and the Operation Red Circus mission will both also be revealed to the player at the end of Black Ops Cold War’s campaign.

Many are speculating how the future Call of Duty games will continue the Black Ops plot with these kinds of endings, as it seems almost impossible to continue the storyline. However, nobody can know for sure exactly what the game developers have in mind for the future of the story. Some players also think this might be the final Call of Duty in the Black Ops series, but others think that the player will just continue from a different character, but without Woods or Mason, Call of Duty: Black Ops may never feel the same.

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