#MODERN WARFARE CALL OF DUTY BLACK OPS SERIES#
Kravchenko is a long-running Black Ops series antagonist who appears in the 1980s-set Black Ops Cold War as a somewhat minor character in the ninth campaign mission, Desperate Measures. Watch the ending cutscene in the video below from YouTuber MrRoflWaffles: The ending cutscene revolves around a character called Lev Kravchenko, who is revealed as leader of Omega group. Now players have had a chance to run through the map, they have discovered a raft of Easter eggs as well as an ending cutscene that connects to Infinity Ward's Modern Warfare series. This week, developer Treyarch released a new map for Black Ops Cold War's hugely popular Zombies mode called Firebase Z. But if Treyarch and Infinity Ward mean for us to take the Zakhaev cameo at face value, it might imply that we'll see the two franchises tying together in more ways in the future.Watch on YouTube Eurogamer Next-Gen News Cast - Will PlayStation Studios publish more games on Xbox? Then again, this could just be a fun Easter egg, implying a connection between Modern Warfare and Black Ops that doesn't really make a ton of sense-after all, the rest of Modern Warfare trilogy included a Russian invasion of the US. If Infinity Ward and Treyarch really are bridging the two franchises, it seems likely we could see a rebooted Black Ops II to retcon the timeline discrepancy. The rebooted Modern Warfare adjusts the series' original timeline pretty significantly-the original was set in 2011, but the reboot moves its setting up to 2019-so if this line of thinking continues, a rebooted Modern Warfare 2 and 3 will probably overlap Black Ops II's story in 2025. He's later also on an elevator occupied by two other allied characters and briefly speaks to them before giving a cold goodbye and leaving. In Black Ops Cold War, he first is seen at a table speaking with the player-character and Gorbachev. It's this mission that causes him to lose his arm in the original trilogy. The first Modern Warfare mission to feature Zakhaev only take place about a decade after Black Ops Cold War, which could set up another encounter. And it suggests that, if Infinity Ward continues to reboot the complete Modern Warfare trilogy, we might see more connections to Black Ops. Though he's not a huge part of the story, Zakhaev's presence in 1981 serves as a pretty solid tether between the two franchises.
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It's a particularly interesting mission, actually-one that makes a few changes from the regular CoD formula that we don't want to spoil. There, they briefly encounter Imran Zakhaev in his role as a Soviet military officer. In the latter, you take part in a mission that takes them to the headquarters of the KGB. Now we know that Modern Warfare, or at least the reboot, takes place in the same timeline as Black Ops 1, 2, and Cold War. His son Victor becomes a major antagonist following Imran's death. He's the mastermind behind the events of the first game, and although he's killed in both Modern Warfare and the reboot by Captain Price, it's Zakhaev's machinations that fuel the rest of the original Modern Warfare trilogy. Zakhaev is a Russian ultranationalist in both Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and the 2019 reboot game.
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If you're a Modern Warfare fan, that name will sound familiar. That connection is a character: Imran Zakhaev. Now Playing: Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Story So Far By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's