Adler: "Ya mind giving me a light?" Bell: *Fires*

Ah yes, how fragile the main characters become without plot armor.

Adler always treats you like dirt, never the same, but Perseus treats you like an equal brother and he compliments you like a son. no wonder the bad ending is more appreciated than the good ending.

Bell: *Shoots his left leg* Mason: "I'd run while you can, Bell" Bell: *shoots his other leg* Also Bell: Can't run?

That shot at Mason’s leg was completely outta pocket 😂😂 man knew what he was doing 😂

Lazar calmly says, "you can change your mind, Bell" as if it's a slight decision he made.

Who else did the *good* ending only to come back to do this smiling after what Adler pulled

Now one might say this is evil... But imagine you're Bell. For your entire life, you valiantly served in the Soviet Union as a high ranking soldier, even being in close contact with Perseus. Then, you get betrayed by an "ally" who wants to get you out of the picture for personal reasons, and to top it off, you're being captured and brainwashed by the literal enemy, tricking you into thinking you're on their side. But apart from the fact that your memory seems askew, no-one really trusts you. Adler is the only one who does, who seems like a guiding figure, but the more frustrated he gets in his pursuit of Perseus, his real disposition towards you starts to show. You're an asset. You're not a friend, or an ally. You've been thrown in there to do your job, and that's it. And then you regain your consciousness: in a moment's notice, you recollect everything mentioned above, and you lie there, in front of Adler, looking him straight in the eye. The one who keeps you from returning to your former life, who even got you into this mess, and who would most likely kill you once your job's done. And you now have the choice. Do you stay in your place? Do you do what you are told to do? Do you continue your alliance with the one's who "saved" you? Or do you return to your true self?

I felt this ending was far better than the other one. The other ending was far too predictable and cliché. This was a huge flip to see that you could actually side with Perseus and get pissed off about the brainwashing.

Ngl, I don’t see this as an evil ending at all. I see this as a “revenge” ending. They brainwashed the man, made him fight and kill his own people, use him as a pawn, puts him through a torture session of trying to break his mind for information, and then after ALL THAT, they are SURPRISED he “betrayed” them? Edit: yes, this is most definitely an “Evil End” however, the fact you get revenge on the people that used you as a tool, that never really even cared what happened to you, that will kill you when you are of no more use, that (figuratively((?))) cut your brain open and shoved their toys into your head to get you to March to their tune, that you get revenge on those people, and that you use their own weapons to do it? Well, that’s a level of irony and cruel justice that can’t really be properly expressed tbh

After finding out what Adler does to Bell in the first play through, I *personally* made sure that all the campaign actions/puzzles was in Perseus’ favor

CIA : Always betrays their 'friends' Bell : UNO reverse card

The only kill I regret in this situation is Lazar. He at the very least felt sympathy towards Bell, noted by dialog. Lazar was a good man serving a terrible man. Adler, my only regret for him was not using a larger caliber.

If the guys at COD are racking their brains around what kind of campaign COD could have, they could do an alternate timeline which tells the story of the consequences of this particular choice. Technically they did mention the aftermath of this, but it'd be better to see it play out by ourselves. I honestly think it would make for a great story, especially for something that hasn't been delved into enough, which can help regain ppl's interest into the franchise.

I love how he shoots mason in the knees . so that the timeline shouldn't change

3:09 I love how he appears out of nowhere.

Therapist: Comrade Shepherd isn't real he can't hurt you Comrade Shepherd: 5:22

End of Credits. Epilogue: You wake up to find your son running to you with excitement in his eyes. "Momma says we're going to get ice-cream by the metro Papa. Do you want to come with." You kneel down and look in his eyes, a single dialog option comes up. "Of course Artyom." *Metro 2033 Guitar plays in the background*

The game may be terrible in its regard, but this part was very well done. Depending on which answer you give, Adler will react differently. As you can see, whem Bell says the base is in Duga, Adler hesitates for a moment and realizes something feels off. He never considered Duga an option and he seems to try to connect the dots on how could he could have missed it. When Bell says it's in Solovetsky, it's more like it was somewhere he thought it could be the real place and reacts like: "of course! It's Solovetsky!", like this place made sense to him because his intel probably considered it a potential hotspot. Some nice details.

Evil is a matter of perspective...

I mean, your (new) friends didn't shoot you after the mission is done, so I say that this is the best ending and also opens a much rich storyline then "murica stopped nuke going off because murica"

“Bad ending” is actualy the good ending 😊😎

Its kinda ironic that if you go for the 'good ending', you actually get betrayed even after proving your loyalty. Whereas in the 'evil ending', you get vengeance for what they did to you. Your comrades then welcome you back as a brother, despite everything you did.

"Mind giving me a light?" "Sure, once you're in hell"

American Ending = You die Vs. Soviet Ending = you live........................It's very easy to choose right?

"Massacaring my old opponents while pumped up kicks plays in the background is truly the ending I deserve in such a game" -The Hide and Seek World Champion Of 1968

4:25 Mason gets shot in the face *still manages to scream*

3:13 Typical of Call Of Duty, being able to survive a missile and walk as if nothing happened.

"On your feet, Comrade! Ready for a little retribution?" That line felt welcoming

4:18 Love how you just see the guy spawn in here and not somewhere in the out of bounds region. Gotta love the attention to detail put into this game…

im not real sure how i felt about this campaign. it felt like a big fever dream lol. The cutscenes are what makes it amazing to me the most though and i loved being Bell though. I still dont know how i like the ending though. either get killed or kill your friends.

3:10 you know what I love about this ending? In their effort to come to save you from Adler they fire a rocket 2 feet from you that they didn’t need to fire almost killing you and missing literally everyone else they’ve been sent to kill

They could continue cod with this storyline and I'd actually play it

Typically an alternate “Bad Ending” option makes you feel sympathetic to the characters you betrayed. I felt no sympathy for killing the main cast. I did feel sympathy for those who died in the crossfire though.

Best ending for bell...XD

The best thing about a blind playthrough of this game is the revelation. Your first playthrough you’ll do everything to bring down Perseus, decipher all the codes, kill all the members. Then you learn that you have actually been destroying your own organization as a member of Perseus. Then you do a second playthrough, cautiously choosing every option to be in the favor of Perseus, it just makes the Soviet ending more satisfying in my opinion. I feel like the US ending was deliberately made more cliche to bring up the Soviet ending, obviously Adler killing you still has weight to it, but the US mission is so bland in comparison to the Soviet ending, it’s a generic CoD final mission, with two or three objectives, destroy the thing, Bell do this, Bell do that, good work Bell we destroyed the evil Russians, another win for the USA as Adler puts his sunglasses on with explosions in the background. The Soviet ending is short and sweet, it’s more cinematic than gameplay focused, it’s a cathartic experience, even more so when you already knew the truth, taking out the remaining team members that manipulated you as their plot armor is finally stripped away, watching Adler bleed out and being congratulated by Perseus at the end for your efforts, planning the next stages of the plan for worldwide Soviet domination, it just feels good, I’d kill for an extension to the Soviet ending.

Saying “where’s Perseus?” is like saying “where’s Negan”

When you hear "comrade" you go God mode

One of the best COD campaigns I've played in literally twelve years

Objectively the better ending

Don't make sense that Bell would find out the truth and still side with Adler

3:10 they survived an RPG at point blank, in real life it would have turned everyone into a fine red mist.

Best ending i've seen ever.. this is the good ending, "the fallen of west-bloc"

I've never seen this ending and im pretty shocked ngl. Its also interesting to know that you learn that Perseus is a group and not just a person, whereas everyone else that doesn't play the campaign learn it at the end of the cold war warzone story when Stitch is killed.

I'm happily surprised Perseus didn't kill Bell like an evil cartoon villain, Well done, Activision, well done. Very mature. This is definitely the good ending in my headcanon

Without the fact that we just detonated nukes, I personally think this is the Best ending for Bell. I mean this is the only ending where he still alive and is not bretrayed or lied too

>massacres friends >joins soviet forces >”you can change your mind bell!”

Mason: nothing's here Enemies hiding in the bushes: (ಠ_ಠ)

What happened to the no support just a light infill squad? Now there's a full platoon on there side

I remember getting lit asf at a mates house and playing this when it was brand new, I was half expecting to die and half expected a cutscene but to my surprise woods got fuckin no scoped from across the map, we blew up mason with a couple hand grenades, then proceeded to point blank range Adler with a sniper the second he said his last line, shit was comedy gold at like 3 am

"Might giving me a light?" *shots Alder "Brothers before liars bruh"

Evil? This is the good ending, hell even the best ending.

This was by far one of the best things I’ve ever experienced in a cod game

You took Alex's quote from MW to heart with this ending lol.

Evil is just a matter of point of view

Lazar: "You can change your mind, Bell!" The 7.62 round rapidly approaching his head:

One thing to note, while I love Mason as a character, I find it crazy how onboard he was with brainwashing a soldier GIVEN THE SAME THING HAPPENED TO HIM! Like, he LITERALLY knows how evil and terrible it is but goes along with the lie anyway. They are not heroes, they are soldiers willing to do evil for their country. This ending is a lot like the OG black ops, but from the Soviet perspective.

"You made the right choice Bell" I just straight up lie to you

Adler: ''Mind giving me a light?' Bell: ''Oh i'll show you a light.''

4:18 dude spawned on the left

Bruh, it's a good ending

I love how Adler uses you and betrays you in the end by the Soviet embraces you and helps you

Honestly any ending where my customized character survives I consider the good ending.

Adler: "Mind giving me a light?" Bell: "Here's your light." *muzzle flash*

While both endings are kinda shitty (either you save the world but die at the hands of your own handler, or you resist the manipulation and make your own choices, but bring down nuclear hellfire), the way they are implemented is done really well. Both twists are believable and logical. I really like this new type of CoD game that's basically a Tom Clancy novel made into a game.

Love how the old man was nicer then alder to bell

This is the one of the best endings in cod series

Adler after truth ending:,,We got rid of Bell.” Meanwhile Bell about to switch to a lie ending:

Good ending.

The only bad part about this ending is killing lazar mason and woods other than that is probably better than the other one

The subtle change in Adler's subtitles from blue to red... good touch.

2:48 - American knowledge of geography in a nutshell

Somebody had the presence of mind to give Igor the company idiot a toy RPG, otherwise he would kill all of them, including Bell, at the very beginning.

The best thing about this ending is when their names go from blue to red like a hostile right after you lie to them about where Perseus is, it’s just cool detail

Alder: "Mind giving me a light." "OOOH VERY poor choice of words there!" *Laughs maniacally*

When choosing the "wrong" dialogue options gets you a better outcome

I love how choosing the Duga option causes their names to become red, but in the last second of signaling the ambush you can see Adlers name still in blue. Never a dull moment in modern gaming development.

I love the reference to bo2 at 4:04 😂😂🙏

"Someone has to be the villian of this story, or there will just be no point"

Cold war definitely had the best plot twist we have ever gotten in a COD game since mw2

But it’s the best choice to the main role,that He could still remain alive after all those caps not get a backstroke by CIA

Bruh i didn't even know you could do a close quarter execution on them That was mad evil

Perseus: We will do it together. Bell: No, I’ll do it alone. Perseus: What? Bell: *shoots him*

Alder: Ya lying to me. Bell: ‘Gets blown up by RPG rocket’

Black ops 2: exists Mason's leg: and I took that personally 😂

honestly this is a better ending that the other one where youre just shot for saving the world

I wish the next cod:bo will continue this storyline. US and Soviet fighting in post apocalyptic europe sounds damn cool to me.

its actually the good ending for a lot of people

"Bad ending" for CIA, Good ending for our protagonist.

The developers need to use some geography software Pripyat was the city the workers at Chernobyl lived in Less than 2 miles from the plant

The "bad" ending - is the real GOOD and true ending!

This is not evil or good ending, this is BASED ending

Killing CIA agents is never evil

I loved this games endings because it really felt like two conflicting endings You could betray adler and detonate the nukes. This ending was awesome for your character, you get revenge on all the people who backstabbed you, and get to work along side someone who respects you. But the world burns Or you can side with adler. You don’t get any respect, and your story ends with you possibly shot, but you’ve saved most of the world. It’s a difficult choice, mostly based on how Adler makes you feel like shit for saving the world

To the non western world: Heroic Ending

This ending is so much sweeter if you do the good one first. Cool move to allow the player to be the bad guy.

If I'm being honest I love this ending

I appreciate Treyarch having these alternate and different endings. Infinity Ward always goes the cookie cutter american hero story route with america good and all else bad

Lazar: You can change your mind Bell! Bell: I'll change your mind by putting a bullet in it :)

The fact the Bad ending is waay more fun and gratifying than the good one