Black Ops 3 quickly flails at ideas of AI consciousness and the "evils" of interconnectedness, and it's peppered with predictable "twists." There are scenes that I'm sure were meant to be edgy and morally gray instead, it's just a lot of hyper-earnest swearing and glaring. The story also just isn't very interesting. But Black Ops 3 strangely fails to capitalize on the big narrative beats of the series. The story starts with some promise, featuring a scenery-chewing performance by former Law & Order: SVU (and True Blood) star Christopher Meloni as he explains how vital total informational awareness is, and reveals the power and necessity of the cyber rig, a set of cybernetic enhancements your character quickly finds themselves dependent on. In another first for the series, you also can elect to be a male or female protagonist, each of which is fully voiced and acted within the most cutscene-driven Call of Duty campaign I can remember. It's another future teetering on the brink of chaos, where lines between military and corporate interests are blurred.įor the first time in the series, the campaign allows you to create a character, with a variety of ethnicities represented. In a first for the series, you can elect to play as a female protagonistĬall of Duty: Black Ops 3 takes place in the same world that Treyarch's previous Call of Duty games have, though that doesn't make much difference. But in its efforts to bring player choice to more of the fundamental gameplay aspects of Call of Duty, Treyarch has made a game that doesn't really excel at any one thing. With Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, Treyarch has shifted direction again, with a major investment in cooperative play in the game's campaign and the introduction of new mobility and character creation tools. It wasn't that Black Ops 2 was perfect, exactly, but it had ambition leaking out of its ears, changing what people could expect from a Call of Duty campaign while introducing the first major changes to the series' world-conquering multiplayer system. Oh, and if you're playing online, you might want to mute some of the players, as there are many underage players.Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 has the same challenge as Advanced Warfare and Ghosts before it: How do you take the biggest thing going for one console generation and meaningfully evolve it for the next?ĭeveloper Treyarch took the Call of Duty franchise in weird new directions with Cold War conspiracy in Black Ops back in 2010, and in 2012 it picked up the slack left by series originator Infinity Ward's implosion, taking the lead with Black Ops 2. Zombies mode was fun, but I barely played it, so I don't have much to say about it. I liked the pre-made emblems much more, and to me it felt like the developers wanted to put less effort into the callsigns. I also thought the emblem creator was awful. There's different maps, weapons, killstreaks and titles, but still the game is very similar to other Call of Duty games. While it's fun and addictive, the multiplayer is almost exactly the same as previous titles in the franchise. With a horrendous campaign, not many changes from the previous entries in the series, a few removed game types/modes and bad graphics (for a With a horrendous campaign, not many changes from the previous entries in the series, a few removed game types/modes and bad graphics (for a AAA title), the only reason to purchase this game would be for the multiplayer and/or zombies mode. Seriously you might as well be playing on Xbox 360 or PS3. After playing the crap out of it for a while I may go back to World At War. Honestly this is a great game with a huge but, in it. To be honest I knew the zombies would be worth most of the money for this game and that is why I got it. Granted I love being able to have full controller support for menus and gameplay so if I am sick of using keyboard and mouse that is a great option. You have to listen to annoying people with mics unlike if I go back and play World At War. Oh man, don't get me started on how it's just like the console version. You cannot rent a server or choose from a dedicated server list as far as I know it's all just matchmaking. Yes people say it is dedicated server but, hello people, it's matchmaking just like what you get on console, not what you should get on pc. I do however have some major gripes about this. Yes people say it is First let me say i'm not gonna troll this game with a bad review. First let me say i'm not gonna troll this game with a bad review.
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