Black Ops 3 campaign missions are completely unlocked

Treyarch tells us you can start at the end, and explains the increased focus on co-op.

There's some fairly significant changes coming in Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, with Treyarch making some alterations to the structure of the campaign.

During a recent hands-on event, campaign director Jason Blundell explained to us a bit about the evolution of the narrative:

"The first one, Black Ops, was about man corrupts man, Victor Reznov corrupts Alex Mason with the brainwashing to kill the people that had wronged him. You can look at the second one as being like man corrupts machine, so Raul Menendez corrupts the US drones to take them and do his thing. This one you can think as being machine corrupts machine."

Co-op is going to be more central in this year's offering, with Blundell telling us how they "made a co-op game, which means that everything from the ground up was considered with co-op in mind. I think World at War was very much a demonstration of putting four players into a singleplayer game and Black Ops 3 is a truly ground up, foundation up, co-op mentality."

Call of Duty's campaigns are usually shorter then your average action game, but if you feel they could be made even shorter, you may like what Treyarch are doing regarding progress in the campaign: all missions are unlocked from the start, which means you can jump directly to the end of the game, if you want to.

According to Blundell, having to unlock the campaign as you play is an archaic form of design, one that doesn't fit the requirements of a modern gamer.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 will be released on November 6 for PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One, although the old-gen versions will launch without the single-player campaign.

Our preview, which includes more on the incoming campaign, and additional thoughts from Jason Blundell, will be live on the site soon.