10 Video Games That Are Totally Different By The End

Call of Duty: Black Ops III touts one of the most ambitious and divisive campaigns of the entire series, taking a bold leap away from mere militaristic fetishism to consider notions of existentialism and human transcendence.

Set in 2065, the game begins with the unnamed player character being brutally wounded in combat and having their life saved through cybernetic surgery.

They're fitted with a direct neural interface (DNI), allowing them to interface with technology and in turn granting them massive battlefield advantages.

And while this seems like a pretty reasonable advancement of the series' increasingly tendency towards neato sci-fi upgrades, by story's end Black Ops III has become something else entirely.

The game eventually becomes a sci-fi psychological horror romp, as the player faces off against Corvus, a rogue A.I. created due to a bug in the DNI software, which attempts to corrupt the player and their teammates to its own nefarious ends.

Though it certainly gets points for originality, many players were nevertheless left frustrated and confused by the intentionally muddy, opaque storytelling, which ultimately left fans to figure out what was real and what wasn't for themselves.

Still, for a campaign that could've easily just been a standard fare shooter with a nifty tech upgrade, it certainly went places by the end.