10 Video Games Way Weirder Than Advertised
7. Call Of Duty: Black Ops III
It's absolutely fair to say that the Call of Duty franchise started to get noticeably stranger with the release of 2012's Call of Duty: Black Ops II, which began the series' overt pivot into futuristic and increasingly ridiculous sci-fi-action territory.
Even so, Black Ops III's glossy marketing failed to imply how utterly bats**t crazy and wildly out-there its infamous campaign mode would be.
Even for the Michael Bay-on-steroids sci-fi stylings of the prior few games, Black Ops III made a hard left-turn to tackle subjects of transhumanism and the very essence of human existence.
Though making head or trail of the story isn't easy, at its most base level it revolves around life's potential to endure in the virtual realm, and a malevolent A.I. by the name of Corvus. Yup.
Presented in confusingly non-linear fashion to boot, Black Ops III's campaign is surely the most divisive of the entire series, lauded for its creativity and mesmerising visuals, but also lambasted for making such a violent departure from what fans expected.
Either way, none of the pre-release trailers or gameplay footage made it clear that the story mode would be a deeply weird meditation on what it means to be human.