Argh! Seeing as how this takes place before modern warfare, chances are the US had already moved out the nukes out of Europe after the fall of the USSR.
@Silent One Adler is probably concerned that Bell will want to get some amount of revenge for everything the CIA did, so he wanted to kill him. I guess Adler had a good amount of respect for Bell though, and because of this he decided to take him elsewhere and kill him himself instead of leaving him to die. Bell caught on, though, so he tried to defend himself. this definitely is the canon ending as both likely shot and killed each other, seeing how neither man shows up in BO2 (obviously).
Perseus is like an uncle to bell, treats him kindly, does not betray, and gives you the order to detonate the nukes Adler used you as an object, did not treat you nice, makes you go through Vietnam, and kills you I think Perseus is the better option
@@thefelon8027 but Perseus was doing something bad starting a nuclear war while Adler and his crew were doing the right thing and only shooting bell bcs they can't trust him
Let's be realistic, even for mason, Hudson, woods, and all the badass soldiers from cod. None of them would have survived fighting that many man and bullets.
I really like the detail that immediately after you decide to lie to Adler his name goes red to signify he is now the enemy. I find it even more nerving how he states that "Your still one of us" just a few seconds after, almost like a verbal kick to gut for the player's deception.
Exactly what I thought when I got to that point playing the game. I felt horrible when Adler said that. Good thing my first playthrough was the good ending.
@@cockashe1363 Adler wasn’t bad though. It’s hard to explain but Adler knew Bell would turn on the U.S. at some point. He was brain washed by Perseus and used as an asset. The CIA gave him a false identity in order to make them there asset for good reason but Bell was so badly brain washed by the Soviets that in the back of his head, he would turn on them. So Adler was essentially tieing up loose ends.
@@UsamaBeenHidin I'm pretty sure bell was Soviet in the first place, he was brainwashed by the CIA to help them. But I think Adler realised that the brainwashing/conditioning might wear off and the Bell after that might not actually be their ally. Either that or the CIA asked him to tie up loose ends
@@bingus6437 nukes hidden in the world by America, Adler says they’re there for defense but he’s not the one that determines that. Perseus could’ve just leaked the information and location of the nukes but blowing them up is a way to prevent American government cover up
remember when the USSR deployed nukes to Cuba ?? US went nuts why should the USSR be happy with nukes on their door step ? the US is the one and only country that used Nukes in War and that is a fact ..
Honestly the ambush ending makes alot of sense to me. It makes me think of assassin's creed rogue. In rogue the assassin's treated shay like shit and showed that the assassin's were just as bad at times as the templars. I see alot of that here. There really isn't no good and evil especially during the cold war the West did things that were just as bad and sketchy as the Soviets.
I really enjoyed how in this game they made being a good guy a way tougher choice. Like despite your efforts they kill you in the name of general safety, but most of the enemies value each other as family. Perseus sees you like a brother but he didn’t order to kill you as the guy at the beginning only leaves you for dead because he sees you as competition. It’s a really good campaign not gonna lie despite being short.
The "Perseus" is refering that after you kill Adler in the first ending. The fact that they think that Perseus as an individual instead of a group. And then mock them afterward
@@ethanpullan3917 A character from the show “The office” pretty funny character. In the show he’s a weird, random character. The voice acting he does in the game is so much more serious lol
@@kwardak I just thought he sounded like Creed and checked imdb and it really is Creed lol. Also Black is Hudson's supervisor or something from what I understand
In the “American” ending I don’t get why you’re not given the chance to kill Adler at the end if you’re quicker on the draw, when in the Russian ending you can kill Adler, & WOODS & MASON???
its either lazyness in writing, or they just want that ending to be the canon one, where every other cod game takes place... this game was... interresting. at least its not vanguard. But whatever. man was vanguard shittier in writing than this. this had at least cod black ops 1 vibes.
explaining why adler and bell don't appear in bo2 as they both draw guns and kill each other is really cool. plus the perseus ending shows treyarch they have the balls to have you kill every main character.
@@bruh3722 so is multiplayer structurally the same as mw 2019 where each season is continuing the story? Because if not and he's just an operator then i don't think it counts. Please correct me if I'm wrong
As I expected in a game that takes place in the Cold War era, as all intelligence agencies do: Manipulation, cover ups and betrayal is the game for the "greater good"
The call to go against the team really is a tough call to make, due to having to go after Woods and Mason. But still, I honestly prefer the Russian ending, seeing as Adler, even after Bell helps save the world, treats them as a loose end. Perseus however, is happy to see that Bell is still alive and in once piece, allows Bell to deal with Adler as they please, and even allows Bell to make the call to continue what they started as a way of almost saying 'I can't imagine what you've been put through, but like I said, this is your time for retribution. Whatever they put you through, you stayed loyal to us, you deserve this.' Considering the damage that is caused, yeah, realistically, it's bad. But to see the real brotherhood between Bell, Perseus and the whole wave of Russians that come to help Bell, instead of the fabricated brotherhood from Adler and the rest...
I love how the "good" ending has a cringey cut scene before the actual mission but the "bad" ending just goes straight to the point. No BS like the slow mo walk.
The thing I love about this game, is that it doesn’t paint the soviets as bad guys, because you see on both sides that they are fighting for what they believe in, personally I chose the betrayal ending, killing mason, woods and the rest. It felt strange shooting at mason and woods, it almost felt good. And then when I finally came face to face with Adler dying, I don’t know why but I instantly plugged him in the head. And then the speech Perseus gives to you at the end. Its all so good I love this game
I chose the bad ending. Although it’s bad that the nukes go off and you kill your team, you need to realize something. From bells point of view he had a life and decided to help the union. He went through with it and he knows what he was going to do. It may seem bad but that is what he decided to do. With them brainwashing him and bell finding out what happened, i would believe that he would go through and stay loyal to his goal. If the roles were reversed(IK IT CANT CAUSE OF HELLA STUFF THAT WOULDNT HAPPEN BUT JUST SAY IT DID) and you were a us soldier and get brainwashed by the union and you find out, wouldn’t you stay loyal to the US as you were fighting for them in the first place? Just my thoughts personally.
He/she was the main bad guy the whole time and knew that the whole time just playing with the CIA to think that he/she was being controlled. Then puts a bullet into the head of Perseus becoming the new head and orders an assassin to put a bullet in the head of the US president to tie up loose ends. After that he/she gets every nuke from the Soviets and the US to blow the entire world into a nuclear winter. Dun…Dun…DUNN
I feel like the ambush ending is the most satisfying in terms of character arc Think about it, Bell was one of the high brass in the Perseus ring, why in the absolute fuck would they just turn back on that for the sake of those who tortured, lied, and stole from them? It makes sense for their character to go back to their old ways once regaining their memories.
Yes I know because Perseus will treat you like an uncle, welcome you while Adler cannot trust you and will kill you but the reason I like the good one is because it focuses on being on the good side, does not kill your favorite black ops characters and succeeding the mission.
I hope there will be another blackops game called "Call of Duty Blackops: Cartel War" where we will see the CIA with Woods, Mason and Hudson hunting Raul Menendez and how Woods got captured in Angola and how all the things happened during the Invasion of Panama.
@@Deathmare235 So is BO2 canon?.. Hard to say since the future part of it doesn't make sense.. 2025 and MWs 2019 are worlds different in their technology.. but Menendez's family is mentioned to be an ally of perseus on the Cartel map.. so he does exist?.. Woods also didn't die and neither did Kravchenko.. lol..
Hed be sickened by the full us plans ... op Greenlight is a monsterous idea and they went through with it . His fathers music still haunts him but it was beautiful . Dimitri killed like a dog . His families forced to starve (innocent Jewish people / sound familiar) --Mason , his one last brother . Forced to be a mindless killing machine for the suits . Mother Russia is but a faint memory now made a mad demon by a country and rogue organization that killed hundreds of millions of Native Americans and now poisons it's public with fluoride and chemicals . Yeah "good guys" , were the" good "guys... But hey it's just a game right ? I'm remembering masons words from the bo4 multiplayer trailer , ["no one gives a Fuck about u , you're a number , an asset "" ] Reagan made all the right wing lobbyists trillions . Just a game...
I see people hating on Adler for betraying Bell at the end up but we have to understand he did it for the greater good, bell was a soviet after all and though he seemed reformed anything could've happened. I did feel betrayed but in the end I understood why Adler did what he did.
I mean if you look at Weavers background in BO1 it says that the government is hunting down Mason because he was apart of MK-Ultra and Woods/Hudson. The person that was supposed to hunt them was SAS John redacted.
@@extinctiongaming3556 Unfortunately Cold war didn't folow through on that ending detail of BO1. It was called Operation Charybdis, and I guarantee that's where BO2 would have been if it didn't have to take place in the future as well. I hoped this game would, and the beginning part was solid, but none of these endings are satisfying in the slighted
I completely understand why he did it and I would’ve probably done the same but I still picked the ending to kill him and everyone because they deserved it for what they did
Omg ladies gentlemen that is the mercy of the great leg dancing fever oh my goodness wel you look at that them bullets can’t touch his feet I bet that person who’s head is underground might be dancing to you can’t touch this
I honestly went with the "bad ending." It felt somewhat satisfying gutting Adler in the end after all that BS he pulled with the added benefit of feeling like a triple agent.
My experience with the ending is, when I was given the choice, I did feel angry and saddened by what happened to Bell, but at the same time, I'm American, and Russia has brought a lot of shit to the US as a whole, so I thought about what Perseus wanted to do, and I knew it was wrong, despite Bell working with him from the start. The Soviet Union detonating those Nukes would have been an atrocious choice to let them get away with. Besides, I did appreciate Adler's decisions to more of an external factor, and Mason and Woods felt more like friends to me personally, even if Bell was more family with Perseus and Co. I was even saddened when I had to choose between saving Park or Lazar (I chose Park) cause I knew I had to leave a man behind, which is literally breaking the first rule of COD. So bottom line: I take the good ending more. I played the campaign to stop Perseus, so that's what I do.
The bad ending is so fucking amazing and scary at the same time You get such a satisfying end at being the worst case scenario that it gets frightening to have to participate to all of this bad stuff Good job on that
Wwe commentary would be like with the first ending like: “there you have it ladies and gentlemen this seems it’s going to be woods and his teams favor... wa-wait a minute look at this is bell switching sides.....oh shit woods finally gets killed in a battlefield I can’t believe what I’m even seeing jbl: goddamit no no! Why bell the crowd: boooooooo oh now goes mason his body flying backwards and landing on his stomach like he just failed the dm’s. Booker t: that shit was gangsta. Jbl: what well happen next on raw. What does this even mean now. Micheal: I don’t know but the fans may be crying 😢.
Seeing as how Solovetsky was awaiting "Perseus" signal to detonate, I honestly thought there's be an ending where you could run the Russian ambush into a CIA trap, kill Perseus AND stop the bombs in time, or let the ambush kill Adler and the rest of the team for what they did to Bell, then kill Perseus afterwards and choose to detonate the bombs and become the new leader of the Soviet revolution or cancel the detonation and have a mysterious ending where everyone dies except Bell who after a post credit mission goes after Hudson since he's as much of a mastermind in all of this as Perseus was
Yeah they basically revealed that they would nuke the entire world just so that they can work for "mother russia", like c'mon do the right thing for Frick's sake.
@@ghostssquad6187 I know but I’m just saying in an alternate timeline, if we DID kill Woods and Mason in Cold War, Black ops 2 would never have happened, meeting with Savimbi would not have happen, Section wouldn’t exist.
I find this campaign quite entertaining it really points out how thin the line of good and bad really is. In my opinion all sides in this have their fair share of evil. I find it interesting that a lot of people are trying to pick a side as inherently good despite the point of the story, while everyone can see whats wrong with persues's plan by killing millions of civilians it seems that people are quick to ignore how inherently immoral the US sponsored plan to put the nukes there to begin with is. Its basically we'd rather slaughter millions of civllians than let them fall under communist rule, and as pointed out what you are really doing is covering up the CIA planning mass genocide and the "saving the world" part is completely secondary. You can argue about the politics that the end justify the means or whatever but if you're killing millions of innocents making a sacrifice on their behalf with no choice given then what you have protected isn't freedom, its just the illusion of freedom. On a side note tho Bell as a character might have had their memory taken but dont forget they were a close ally of perseus. You can have no doubt that they had done some f'ed up shit. As far as i see this aspect if you get involved in plans of mass genocide you are fair game for this stuff
"Good" is only matter of perspective, saving your homeland and yourself also a good choice. This is why it's a good game, you get consequences of your every action, no utopian choice.
@@riuqpijfkdls it's saving millions of people vs being loyal to your motherland. I prefer the latter anyway, as it makes much more sense for someone as loyal as bell
Wait what no one realizes us that you got the ending where both Park and Lazar died the first time. Pretty epic. I've heard few people have gotten it so far.
If you can sneak past Mason, Woods and Lazar, you can execute them in an unique way. I did the mission 3 times to get them. First shoot 2 of them, and sneak past the third and kill him from behind.
@@mxhir but then why is Adler playable after the campaign in multiplayer? And see in cod modern warfare 2019,we all assumed that Alex is KIA in Barkov's factory but he returned with his prosthetic leg in the multiplayer/warzone after the campaign and he didn't die there. Maybe the same case here too, then Bell should also be a playable character in the multiplayer if they both died.
@@mxhir I think Adler is alive and if you check fandom wiki page of Russell Adler, his status says "Unknown/KIA" and when it says death location, it gives the location "Krai, USSR", besides this it's written "non canon, player determined",so I am not sure about Adler and by the way my main question to treyarch is........... Where is William Bowman??!
