Nightfall

"A New Era"

- Official Tagline Call of Duty: The First Demise is an open-world first-person shooter game developed by NINE100 Studios, in conjunction with Treyarch and Sledgehammer Games. It is set in a new timeline, non-canon to the Modern Warfare and Black Ops arcs. The game is the beginning of what is known as the Survival story arc.

Gameplay
While the basic gameplay is largely unchanged, the feel of the game is massively different from previous Call of Duty games. While there are a couple of linear missions, the gameplay is largely free-roaming. It takes inspiration from the Fallout series, Metro 2033, Crysis and the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series. DayZ was also the prime inspiration for the multiplayer mode.

The game emphasizes the theme of survival, particularly looting and searching for survivors. The game also introduces a Weapon Experience mechanic, which forces the player to train their character, and can't expect them to be proficient with every weapon at the beginning of the game. However, across the course of the game, you can encounter people who can train you faster than doing it on your own, although it will cost money.

The player can also enter one of twenty multiplayer worlds, which can hold up to 1000 onlines players each. Each world is void of NPCs and only features enemies and other players. In about three quarters of the worlds, players are free to trade weapons, food and money, and are also able to engage in voluntary combat situations. However, there are also five worlds where all players are free to kill each other and loot all of their equipment.

There is also a multiplayer mode called Classic CoD, which features multiplayer gameplay featured in previous Call of Duty titles. The maps featured in the game are mostly enclosed versions of locations featured in the game. It uses the Pick 10 system featured in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, and features an array of weaponry featured in the game, along with new perks and wildcards.

Plot
The game opens with Nathaniel Redwood, a Delta Team operative, and a few teammates entering a Pakistani nuclear facility near Kasur in 2014. After reaching the control centre of the facility, Nathaniel finds Adnan Salik, Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army, about to launch a nuclear strike. Noticing Delta Team, Salik faintly laughs and launches the strike, before being shot fatally by Nathaniel. This nuclear attack hits the Americas, Great Britain, Europe, Africa and most of Asia, near demolishing the entire land and killing around 3 billion people.

The game then shifts to Redwood, Nathaniel's child that was evacuated to a government bunker after the news of a nuclear strike reached the US. After emerging from the bunker, Redwood finds themselves in a destroyed version of Des Moines, Iowa. The story goes forward a few months and it is seen the Des Moines survivors have formed a group known as the Iowa Connection, which is led by Joseph Webber, the Mayor of Des Moines.

While only this much of the main plot has been revealed so far, it has also been confirmed that the player, as Nathaniel, will witness the Second Battle of Massawa, one of the final parts of the /Eritrean War of Independance/.

Missions

 * /A New Era/
 * /Operation Fenkil/