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Modern Warfare Zombies Release Date
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Modern Warfare Zombies (MWZ) release date, Operation Deadbolt, and story lore

When can we play MWZ?

I don’t know about you, but the upcoming Call of Duty game I’m most excited about is Modern Warfare Zombies. If you share my excitement, then you’ll want to know when the MWZ release date is and what the story is going to be about. Let’s dive into it.

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When is the Modern Warfare Zombies (MWZ) release date?

Modern Warfare Zombies, or MWZ as I hope everybody starts calling it, is officially releasing on November 10, 2023. This is the same exact day MW3 releases and we get a new Warzone map, which is the same map we’ll play MWZ on.

Modern Warfare Zombies is a massive open-world extraction survival game mode that’ll play like DMZ, but there will be familiar Call of Duty Zombies features like wall buy guns, special weapons like the Ray Gun, bug bosses, Easter eggs, and story missions. I can’t wait.

What is Operation Deadbolt in Modern Warfare Zombies (MWZ)?

Modern Warfare Zombies Story Lore
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Operation Deadbolt is Task Force 141’s mission to explore the outbreak area and find intel on what Victor Zakhaev, an enemy arms dealer of Task Force 141, is planning. The first set of missions we play through in Modern Warfare Zombies will be Operation Deadbolt.

In the trailer, Operation Deadbolt consists of Soap, Kate Laswell, Sergei Ravenov, Selma Greene, and your own unnamed Operator. I’m guessing that we’ll play as any Operator we’d like and maybe Soap, Kate Laswell, and/or Sergei Ravenov will be ally AI in MWZ or appear for a few missions here and there.

If you didn’t already have enough hype, check out the MWZ cinematic trailer.

The vial that breaks in the trailer contains Aetherium, which is what creates zombies. What Zakhaev plans to do with it is exactly what we need to find out. Along with zombies, MWZ features Zakhaev’s hired guns called PMC. This group is hostile and has been hired to protect Zakhaev’s plans. Let’s put a stop to it.

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Noah Nelson
From his early days of blog-style music, movie, and game reviews to working as the Esports Writer at Coastline Community College, Noah Nelson now works fulltime as a Staff Writer for Attack of the Fanboy and PC Invasion. He has been helping gamers everywhere with Destiny 2 god rolls, Warzone 2 DMZ missions, and collectibles in any indie game for over a year and a half. His Bachelor's Degree in English Rhetoric and Composition with a minor in Journalism from CSULB has shaped him to be a strong writer and editor. His fondest gaming memory is playing Sly Cooper 2 after begging his mom (for hours) to play it before his birthday and he still cries myself to sleep remembering the time he accidentally saved over his 99% completion save file in Kingdom Hearts 2.