User blog comment:Damac1214/Back in Black - Call of Duty: Black Ops III teased, reveal trailer coming April 26th/@comment-6343006-20150409174651/@comment-1187559-20150409195713

WaW ends with Japan being nuked. Then BO has a mission set in the Arctic right after WW2. For all intents and purposes it is a direct sequel. Just because the name is different doesn't mean anything. I mean BOII hardly even follows off anything related to BO aside from having Mason in it, but we're still happy calling that a direct sequel.