Call of Duty: Black Ops III

Story

Set on October 27, 2065, the game begins with the player and his new commander Jacob Hendricks infiltrating an NRC airbase in Ethiopia to rescue Egyptian Prime Minister Said with the help of John Taylor and his team of cybernetically enhanced soldiers from Winslow Accord's Black Cyber-Ops Division. To distract the NRC, the player and Hendricks, along with the Winslow Accord Special Forces Team Alpha, use the base's D.E.A.D. system to shoot down an NRC aircraft. Disguised as NRC soldiers, the player and Hendricks manage to infiltrate the base and free Said from the NRC, although they realize there are more prisoners than they have been told. The team soon find themselves in danger after Said persuades them to rescue Lt. Khalil, an Egyptian army veteran and war hero who the NRC want to use as a tool in their campaign against the Egyptian people. After being cornered by the NRC forces, they rendezvous with Taylor's team and escape the base, managing to procure an enemy APC. Before they leave, Hendricks convinces Taylor to rescue the other hostages after reminding him that a part of him must still be human. While their escape is successful, the Player and Team Alpha are left behind after their Evac Harrier comes under heavy fire and makes a run for it to avoid being shot down, despite Hendricks urging them to return. The player and Team Alpha are eventually overrun by enemy forces and the members of Team Alpha are killed. The player is brutally attacked by an NRC Grunt who rips off both of his arms and breaks his right leg until they are found and rescued by Taylor. Taylor believes it is the player's best chance of survival and takes them to a research facility that specializes in the advanced cybernetic enhancements Taylor and his team use and decides to use the same cybernetics to save the player's life. Later, the player is awakened on a train by Taylor, who informs him that he survived the mission but was critically injured in the field. The player soon learns that the train he is on is a simulation created in his DNI. Taylor explains that the player has received a DNI and is currently in an induced coma. He explains that their DNI allows them to communicate with each other on a subconscious level and tells the player that they still have a long way to go. Taylor then introduces them to his unit, which consists of cyber agents Sebastian Diaz, Sarah Hall and Peter Maretti, during a series of simulations of past battles involving a terrorist attack on a Coalescence train in the player's mind. Each of the agents helps the player utilize their new cybernetic abilities in combat while helping them survive the simulated terrorist attack. Although the player proves to be an efficient soldier, he suffers a minor setback when he encounters a group of simulated soldiers, which briefly destabilizes the simulation until he is reassured by Diaz, who reveals to him that his DNI can make certain traumatic memories seem real, which can have damaging long-term consequences if left untreated. The player eventually reaches the final stage of the simulated train bombing and manages to reach the bomb, but is unable to defuse it in time, even with his DNI. The player doesn't know what to do until he gets help from Taylor, who tells him that the solution is actually quite simple. He finds out that the carriage containing the bomb can be detached from the rest of the train using his DNI and sacrifices himself by detaching the carriage while still on the train, whereupon the bomb explodes and the simulation ends. Taylor then informs the player that despite the player's new abilities, there was no way to stop the train. He tells him that while his DNI can show him all the answers, it's up to him to decide what to sacrifice and that sometimes he has to let go. The player then wakes up in the real world and learns from Taylor that he is being prepared for an operation. Although Hendricks was not injured on the mission, he volunteers for the cybernetic operation and both he and the player are recruited into Taylor's unit. In the year 2070, the player and Hendricks, now close friends, are recruited by CIA agent Rachel Kane to investigate the CIA Black Station in Singapore, which has lost communications. Along the way, they encounter foot soldiers from the ruthless criminal organization the 54 Immortals, who have access to military-grade weapons. The agents must fight their way through the 54 Immortals to reach their destination and are temporarily stopped by a heavily armored cyborg, the "Warlord," before being rescued by Kane, who joins Hendricks and the player to reach the safe house. Upon their arrival, the team discovers that the CIA Black Station employees have been brutally murdered.