2024's Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare II featured 2-player co-op missions and 3-player Raids, for instance. In Call Of Duty: Ghosts, players faced off against alien monsters in that game's co-op Extinction mode. But Sledgehammer Games is behind this year's upcoming title and it appears Zombies will make a return.

MW3 does not feature traditional round-based zombies gameplay. Instead, the game mode combines Modern Warfare map features with the familiar Treyarch gameplay loop fans know and love. The mode is PvE only. Every team works together to complete missions, collect essence, and extract.