Call of Duty: Black Ops III

Call of Duty: Black Ops III is a first-person shooter game developed by Treyarch and published by Activision for the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Microsoft Windows. The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions were developed by Beenox and Mercenary Technologies. It’s the twelfth game in the Call of Duty franchise and a sequel to Call of Duty: Black Ops II.

This page will focus on the Treyarch/8th gen consoles & PC versions of the game.

Good Qualities

 * 1) Great graphics for a 2015 title.
 * 2) Amazing soundtrack composed by Jack Wall.
 * 3) Introduced the new specialists with their own amazing abilities.
 * 4) Gives sweet references to older titles of the Black Ops series like when Khalil mentioned Raul Menendez, the main antagonist of Black Ops 2 and if you go in the database you can find old letters from Hudson and Alex Mason.
 * 5) More detailed Zombies mode than the previous games.
 * 6) Unlike the collectibles in previous COD games, the collectibles you find can be put up as decoration in your hub room.
 * 7) You can customize the protagonist's appearance.
 * 8) Der Eisendrache became one of the best Zombie maps in the game.
 * 9) Stellar voice acting, especially Nolan North reprising his role as Richtofen.
 * 10) Introduced Nightmares mode which replaced all of the campaign’s enemies with zombies which was quite neat.
 * 11) There are also Cyber Cores in the campaign, which are a set of cybernetically-implanted offensive abilities. There are three skill trees worth of Cyber Cores available to the player. Each type has a total of six abilities, along with one passive melee ability.
 * 12) *Control: This tree is useful for missions that have heavy robot opposition, such as the beginning of Life or the latter half of Hypocenter. It has limited use against human enemies, but can still be effective.
 * 13) *Chaos: This tree includes a variety of abilities to cause havoc among groups of enemies, especially on humans.
 * 14) *Martial: A melee-focused tree that involves getting up close and personal with enemies to do serious damage. It also comes with a few diversion abilities to make sure the player survives.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Supply Drops return from Advanced Warfare and are repetitive as ever.
 * 2) The campaign forgot to follow up on the original Black Ops games. Even though it does mention Raul Menendez and has messages from BO1, there's hardly has any indication that this is a part of the Black Ops series.
 * 3) The campaign is also lackluster and overall confusing since it has a bunch of plot twists. It seems like this is because the writers wanted to make a more complex story with a lot more depth like Spec Ops: The Line, however, the presentation and execution of these elements makes the story really confusing and at times not making any sense, most likely due to time constraints.
 * 4) The hitmarkers are a bit off.
 * 5) The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions are not great and have many limitations.
 * 6) Many of the fan-favorite characters of the series (excluding Dempsey, Nikolai, Takeo, and Richtofen) are absent.
 * 7) The game (specifically on consoles) has some annoying loading times when players are loading in and out of matches.
 * 8) Realistic difficulty is a nightmare. It makes the campaign practically unplayable because it's veteran mode, but you die in one (two, if you're lucky) hit.

Reception
Call of Duty: Black Ops III received "generally favorable" critic reviews for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and "mixed or average" critic reviews for PC. The PS3 and Xbox 360 versions received less praise than the other versions. IGN's Brian Albert criticized the lack of the campaign in these versions, as well as the poor graphics and long waiting times, but concluded that despite these versions issues, they were still very fun to play.

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