You can play Black Ops 3 backwards, so we did

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SPOILER ALERT: This is an article about playing the Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 campaign backwards, so expect serious spoilers from the start.
I like the idea of playing Call of Duty backwards. You ease in with a climactic gunfight and maybe even a hectic race through a burning installation of some kind. You travel onwards, ducking endless monologuing hypervillains and navigating artfully scattered thickets of betrayal until you eventually get to meet the people who have just betrayed you. And then, at the very last moment, as the wreckage thins out and the music starts to suggest impending doom, somebody finally teaches you how to crouch. Game over.
For years I had this dream. And then Black Ops 3 came along and granted it. An entire campaign unlocked from the start, its chapters playable in any order. Why not dive in, eh? Why not dive in right at the end - headed for Zurich, apparently, a metropolis in flames and besieged by killer robots. Zurich! Sweet Zurich! One of only 25 cities, I have since discovered by reading Wikipedia, to make it onto Monocle's coveted (and rather oddly titled) list of the best cities in the world to "make a base within". Clearly a place in need of rescuing.
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