Call of Duty: Black Ops III

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3.7

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 1426 Ratings

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  1. Legicey
    Mar 2, 2022
    4
    Story: Big story, Bad story, Make no sense story. I don't care about any of the characters and I don't think Treyarch did either. 1.5/10

    Gameplay: What you would expect from COD. Generic shooty shooty with added jet packs (although it is better than the "boosters" from AW). I HATE the maps, they are way too linear to have any fun and they don't really go well with the ""advanced    Story: Big story, Bad story, Make no sense story. I don't care about any of the characters and I don't think Treyarch did either. 1.5/10

    Gameplay: What you would expect from COD. Generic shooty shooty with added jet packs (although it is better than the "boosters" from AW). I HATE the maps, they are way too linear to have any fun and they don't really go well with the ""advanced movement*"". Although it is still fun to shoot things because the gunplay is alright. 5/10

    Graphics: The kind that looks meh when the game first comes out but also doesn't really age with time. 5.5/10 (for 2022) 6.5/10 (for 2015).

    Sound: Generic Call of Duty sounds. 5/10

    Stability: Alright now, but I heard it was a broken mess at launch (however that doesn't really affect my score) 7/10

    Zombies: Better than BO1. 8/10

    Overall: I really don't care about this game. BO3 does some stuff alright but it also does some stuff horribly. I would give it a 5 but the campaign is just so bad that the zombies would have to be perfect to get that score so I have to give it a 4/10 instead.    … Expand
  2. Finisher
    Feb 15, 2022
    1
    Legit trash people are **** invisible now they have not done anything to patch the works and whatever you report them it never gets seen people are legitimately invisible and they won't do nothing about it
  3. r03vg
    Oct 22, 2021
    4
    Проходняк обычный. Персонажи скучные, сюжет глупый, да ещё и растянут ордами врагов.
  4. Fallconex
    Jun 16, 2021
    4
    This game is a disaster. The campaign is a mess. The ending is ridiculous. I didn't like the atmosphere, it's weird. Graphics and action are maybe OK, but the gameplay ideas were not so good.
    P.S.: поезд сделал БУМ
  5. RealMonster2
    Nov 6, 2020
    3
    This game has worst story of call of duty series and but normal multi player .
    Remember if love story mode of games ; This game is ****
  6. mutemeister
    May 23, 2021
    0
    Multiplayer is really fun, i don't like the campaign but this game is where zombies was at its peak.
  7. kaanelif
    Feb 14, 2021
    1
    Worst call of duty game in my life. Starting with save problems, after solving them:
    Can not get weapons from enemies, the game dont let you move everywhere before the npc goes first Cannot open doors as soon as possible. Its real garbage.
  8. VigilanteOito
    Jan 27, 2021
    3
    Eu curti todos os COD que joguei, mas esse não tem como.
    Pior campanha, personagens sem graça alguma, historia nada haver.
    Bugs e bugs.
  9. DivineDDT
    Dec 9, 2020
    3
    The fact that it's only white character they have when you want to select your characters in campaign is a no for me. They got like 6 or maybe more characters both make and female each and they are all white. Plus gameplay is too Arcady, like wtf is wall run and double jump
  10. UmaSenpai
    Nov 29, 2020
    0
    This game is unplayable in PC. It was performing well during the first two weeks then it starts disconnecting, lagging, stuttering and there is this one time that my PC stops working cos of the lag. I needed to force restart my PC. Hey Treyarch fix your game!
  11. Gdstas
    Jul 6, 2020
    0
    Поезд сделал бум! Игра тупое говно тупого говна!!
  12. N0ri_K1dden
    Jul 1, 2020
    0
    поезд сделал бум. Слава Шевцову! Слава Банану! Слава библейским отсылкам!
  13. LimitedEdition
    Mar 7, 2020
    4
    Singleplayer has a bad story and a very boring, repetitive setting. The new gameplay elements do not really enrich the game but rather make the overall gaming experience more inconstistent. Multiplayer is not really to recommend these days anymore, as player count is too low for having a solid reliable experience matchmaking-wise.
  14. ultraviper
    Sep 10, 2019
    3
    I only played this for the single player and it was buggy as all hell. I would get lag. In single player. Not talking about frames per second or video here, but actual lag. The game kept telling me "connection interrupted" which is very strange because I only ever used the "play offline" option from the game's main menu.

    Another big bug happens the game gets paused. Yes, pausing the    I only played this for the single player and it was buggy as all hell. I would get lag. In single player. Not talking about frames per second or video here, but actual lag. The game kept telling me "connection interrupted" which is very strange because I only ever used the "play offline" option from the game's main menu.

    Another big bug happens the game gets paused. Yes, pausing the game, something that basically every game in the last 30 years has managed to implement without screwing the game up, will screw the game up. Scripted cutscenes will continue playing while paused, or will fail to play when the game is unpaused. Unpausing also makes animations of enemies stop playing and they just float around frozen.

    Also... why the ops gotta be black?    … Expand
  15. kimchiwarrior
    Jul 11, 2019
    2
    Black Ops 1 and 2 are Korean-language support, but suddenly 3 not support? It's a series game, the production company is too bad. :(
  16. miccael
    May 27, 2019
    4
    Wow this game is a mess on PC. Finally they added MOD support but oh my it was horrible on launch.
  17. megumin_OwO
    Mar 31, 2019
    4
    hahahhahahhahhahahahahhahahahahhaahahhahahahahhahhahahhahahahahhahahaah funny
  18. ThatBenGuy
    Jan 5, 2019
    0
    The gameplay sucks big time and the storyline is just so confusing, it's not even funny. Call of Duty has been losing its charm as years have been going on, with a few mere exceptions, but they are just that - exceptions!
  19. muzmuz
    Jan 27, 2018
    4
    A technical unoptimized cesspit of a Call of Duty game with generic/incomprehensive story line, clunky controls, and disappointing gameplay.
  20. TitaniumDragon
    Jan 3, 2018
    4
    Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 is a game that really wants you to know that it is pretty. The game’s splash screen is nice looking, the menus look nice, and the characters all are quite high-fidelity and mostly look quite good, though the odd NPC has a case of plastic face. The explosions are pretty, the guns are pretty, the robots are pretty…

    But while all of this is nice, the eternal    Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 is a game that really wants you to know that it is pretty. The game’s splash screen is nice looking, the menus look nice, and the characters all are quite high-fidelity and mostly look quite good, though the odd NPC has a case of plastic face. The explosions are pretty, the guns are pretty, the robots are pretty…

    But while all of this is nice, the eternal question facing me when I’m playing a game is “am I having fun?” And when I was playing this game, for much of its length, my response to that would be “Kind of?” at best.

    This is a game I put down for a year between playing the first three missions and completing the game. That isn’t to say I didn’t try to play it again; I remember picking it up about four months after putting it down, deciding to replay the second (tutorial) mission because I’d forgotten the controls, then doing so again several months later, because both times, while I had beaten the tutorial mission again, I just sort of didn’t feel terribly compelled to play the rest of the game.

    Indeed, I think it is safe to say that the only reason why I actually bothered beating this game is because it was eating up over 90 gigs of hard drive space, and thus, if I ever was going to beat it, I’d better do it now, because there was no way I was going to redownload it.

    And this is kind of telling, I think. I had to make myself play through the game, and while it was never actually bad, it was never really compelling, either. There were lots of pretty battles in exploding and falling apart places - in fact, every single level after the first two missions features at least some part of the level falling apart around you, and some of the later levels, the whole level is falling apart around you. This trick gets a bit old after a while, doubly so as these are never actually threatening – I never once had the level fall apart under me and actually kill me, despite the game trying to seem threatening about it.

    And this sort of faux spectacle held through much of the game – there were a lot of theoretically spectacular battles, but almost the entire game consisted of fighting just some dudes with guns or robots with guns, dressed up to try and look pretty. But I wanted the gameplay to be pretty too, and despite the fact that you can double jump and run on the walls, this was almost never useful in actual combat.

    This is, I think, a big part of what made the game feel dull – you are a cybernetic supersoldier, but throughout the game, just a few bullets will kill you, forcing you to retreat to cover and gradually shoot out from it. This is not a game with click-to-cover mechanics – you have to organically take cover behind environment objects by moving/ducking/going prone behind them and then shifting around to take potshots before retreating – but in the end, it doesn’t matter much. Most of the game is spent hiding in cover, trying to avoid getting shot while your health regenerates, and almost every battle is fought in this exact same way.

    This is a big problem, because it means that, for all the set dressing, the core of the game is pretty samey. There’s only a few battles where a boss (of which there are a couple) will actually either destroy the environment around you or move around to force you to react, and a small number of setpiece battles where enemies move to flank you or appear from various directions, forcing you to react.

    Most of the time, you can just sit behind cover, shoot people, then go back to the cover while you regain your health, making it feel like a pretty standard FPS. Your cool cybernetic movement enhancements are only occaisionally useful in battle, and then, it is mostly just jumping up to a higher level, rather than making your way around the environment in an agile manner and raining down death on your foes while running along walls.

    This lack of dynamicism carries over to the powers as well – in theory, the cybernetic powers are supposed to make you feel different from a standard soldier. Some were reminiscent of the plasmids from the Bioshock series.

    But ultimately, these largely weren’t that interesting in actual gameplay. The problem was that a lot of them ultimately trivialized encounters. Fireflies, for instance, would fly out and set enemies on fire and distract them from firing – a very powerful ability, that only took a few seconds to recharge after it had run. I used this power through much of the campaign. But the problem was it was never really fun to use; I’d use the power, duck behind cover, then move out and shoot people (who mostly died anyway due to the fireflies, no further involvement necessary from me).

    All in all, this is a game that I never felt like I needed to play. It was not terrible, but it was never great, and when I walked away from it, I never felt like I was missing anything.    … Expand
  21. limpchrisdude
    Aug 31, 2017
    0
    This is the worst game ever. I'd rather eat a diaeraskunk and down it with beer. I want my money back. I say no morea asd asd asd asd asd asd asd asd asd sad aw rswgf derg edrg retdg edrg drg drgdrg drg drg drg
  22. Xxdaniels751xX
    May 10, 2017
    1
    I bought it almost out for about 50 euros and was not disappointed, the good thing is that it complies with what it offers; Quick games, very simple and little more, a CoD like the ones of each year, I do not recommend the purchase to date because there are almost no people playing. If you liked the zombies of Black Ops or you happen to buy this game.
  23. lhmtgame
    Feb 27, 2017
    1
    The BO3's story is not impressed. Finishing the game without any feeling!
    Game's graphics look like COD 2006. Just like Activision convert COD from Console to PC without optimized it. A lot of people get FPS drop while playing and have no any support to fix it... me neither.
  24. Shatter77
    Dec 3, 2016
    3
    *Single player only review*

    Words can barely convey how awful the campaign is. It attempts to tell a kind of cyberpunk story of technology run amok. It is utterly inept at even keeping your attention while at it. Right off the bat, you have no clue who the good or bad guys are or why you're doing what you're doing, or even what the game tries to tell you is happening. As the plot gets    *Single player only review*

    Words can barely convey how awful the campaign is. It attempts to tell a kind of cyberpunk story of technology run amok. It is utterly inept at even keeping your attention while at it. Right off the bat, you have no clue who the good or bad guys are or why you're doing what you're doing, or even what the game tries to tell you is happening. As the plot gets clearer though, it becomes obvious how derivative and pedestrian it is. Treyarch delivers the story with totally misplaced bombast and freighted with emotion and meaning as if you haven't seen this stuff many times before in other games and film. The final mission, with your character railing and ranting is particularly cringe worthy. This is by far the worst Call of Duty I have ever played.

    Also, the music is terrible. I had all sorts of technical issues, like your gun not producing any sound, crashes to desktop, this a year after release. What a piece of ****    … Expand
  25. Shekky
    Nov 3, 2016
    3
    This game is a total rip off of titanfall 2 without the mechs portion. The Gameplay is somewhat decent but still in the same boat of futuristic shooter that is not at all what activision should be working on.
  26. MegamanAT
    Oct 28, 2016
    1
    By far the most stupid, idiotic game I have ever played! The story is so dump, that I got headaches, even when skipping every single cut scene as fast as possible. I forced myself to finish it only because of the 30 bucks I have spent for it. It was a horrible torture! And whenever I thought it's over and I am ready to uninstall it, another dumb ass mission had to be run through -> ABy far the most stupid, idiotic game I have ever played! The story is so dump, that I got headaches, even when skipping every single cut scene as fast as possible. I forced myself to finish it only because of the 30 bucks I have spent for it. It was a horrible torture! And whenever I thought it's over and I am ready to uninstall it, another dumb ass mission had to be run through -> A nightmare!

    Can' wait for Infinite Warfare! ;-) I am already counting the days! :-D

    BTW: Graphics are fine.    … Expand
  27. vasak
    Oct 4, 2016
    0
    The most big ridiculous ending game never seen....

    Bad Performance, maybe this game is developed under some type of drugs... cant understand how can they think, anyone want this.
  28. gladenben10
    Sep 10, 2016
    0
    terrible game first offf its bad just bad its not cod anymore this thing is straight garbo .....................................................................................................
  29. Greggg
    Sep 4, 2016
    3
    This is an excellent game, but the servers forced me to rate it so low. They are many times disconnected at zombies. I dont know for multi. It's so annoying
  30. Lone_Wolf_Sones
    Aug 7, 2016
    2
    For a series that has prided itself on its 60 fps gunplay Black Ops III on PC is another shoddy port that suffers from lack of optimization. Stuttering is so frequent as to render the game unplayable. Highly recommend waiting to see if the issues are fixed. If you already have bought it you can get a refund through Steam.
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 10
  3. Negative: 1 out of 10
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Dec 3, 2015
    60
    A bit better than the Ghosts, but worse than Advanced Warfare – new Call of Duty is awkwardly trying to make some changes in single player, but adding a bunch of technical problems in the same time. Multiplayer it is flawless as usual. [Issue#258]
  2. Riot Pixels
    Nov 30, 2015
    60
    Treyarch should have created one awesome sci-fi campaign instead of three mediocre ones.
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  3. Ragequit.gr
    Nov 14, 2015
    81
    Treyarch gives us a Call of Duty game that is brimming with content and is sure to provide hundreds of hours of entertainment to its buyers. It’s just a shame that the focus on the quantity of content ended up causing a lack of polish in some areas.
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