Call of Duty: Black Ops III

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  1. gamerz4life
    Apr 23, 2023
    1
    Call of Duty: Black Ops III is a game that absolutely never needed to exist. The first two games are great stories that didn’t need a continuation, not that BO3 was a continuation of any sort. In fact, this is a game that should have killed the Call of Duty franchise, but hey when people are willing to buy trash Treyarch and Activison are willing to oblige. For heaven sake they had someCall of Duty: Black Ops III is a game that absolutely never needed to exist. The first two games are great stories that didn’t need a continuation, not that BO3 was a continuation of any sort. In fact, this is a game that should have killed the Call of Duty franchise, but hey when people are willing to buy trash Treyarch and Activison are willing to oblige. For heaven sake they had some other no-name companies come up with an online-only multiplayer so this game could make some extra money on Xbox 360 and PS3.

    I looked long and hard into this wondering whether it was worth buying, whether the campaign was worth it. I found many articles saying what an amazing story this game had. As I’ve now played it, I have to wonder what drugs these people were on. What story? It’s like a computer wrote this story. There are so many story threads here but none of them connect together. It would make you brain dead to try and figure out a cohesive story. What the hell is this story about? Who are we fighting for? Who are we fighting against? Why should I care this guy betrayed us? I never got to know him. The story of the other group would have been more interesting, instead 3/4 of the way through we’re given exposition dumps and weird half-baked WWII and Zombies levels??

    This game is so broken and buggy, Treyarch just threw up the game and turned its back on it. This game hard crashed several times and a few other times froze in the midst of the game where I thought it would crash before continuing. There are no checkpoints, you can’t quit and come back in. When you crash you get to play the entire mission over again, even if you were at the very last stage. My first hard crash made sure the game would never load the correct mission on its own again. If I had to hear about Singapore or the Black Ops site one more time or that damn loading screen video I was going to lose it. There were also mission breaking bugs where you go through thinking everything is okay until you’re near the end and the mission can’t continue, again there’s no checkpoints so you have to start all over and get to witness the moments that were missing the first time, such as a character not talking the entire time and thus isn’t really in the mission despite running around with you. At one point, the game crashed so hard the system thought the disc was a PS4 Format Disc. That was an interesting little surprise I’ve never witnessed in any game ever.

    This is not a game to waste your time with. I only finished because I was playing split-screen LAN and we could laugh about how terrible everything was. But playing in split-screen is one heck of an experience. First you can only play horizontally as though they were convinced you’d play with four people. But the biggest issue is that there are black bars on the sides of the screen. The game doesn’t even take up the whole screen! We had to sit close to the screen to see, everything is so small and cramped. What a disaster of a game. The only thing I can say is that I got this super cheap and it was short, so was our agony.    … Expand
  2. lmtz1618
    Feb 27, 2019
    9
    Black Ops III is excellent and fun and incredible. The Multiplayer is super fun and the gameplay loop is intoxicating. The advanced movement can get tired but the rest of the game far outweighs these sparse moments. Zombies is awesome and tells interesting stories. The campaign hits no stellar notes, and floats along sometimes forgettably, which to this day baffles me beyond reason. (I,Black Ops III is excellent and fun and incredible. The Multiplayer is super fun and the gameplay loop is intoxicating. The advanced movement can get tired but the rest of the game far outweighs these sparse moments. Zombies is awesome and tells interesting stories. The campaign hits no stellar notes, and floats along sometimes forgettably, which to this day baffles me beyond reason. (I, frankly, **** loved BO1's campaign and BO2's was cool) Where the BO1 and 2 level of Campaign storytelling went, I'll never understand. The rest of this title is fantastic though, and plays like a universal truth.… Expand
  3. Diegex
    May 31, 2019
    7
    The Campaing is butt **** the multiplayer is acceptable and little fun sometimes, zombies are good.
  4. Eyes_Grim
    Feb 1, 2021
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game offers a nice and different campaign, the best zombie maps issued so far and a decent multiplayer.
    I strongly recommend it after playing it for 3 years    … Expand
  5. rp1polska
    Aug 6, 2019
    3
    Looks nice. Plot is so random it wasn’t even fun to play. I uninstalled it after like a few hours. I enjoyed playing Modern Warfare 2, it’s a pity.
  6. Flashyboy89
    Mar 9, 2020
    1
    BLOPS 3 has the worst Single Player Campaign I have ever played and the multi-player is so un-grounded it’s a joke. No fun at all. The last good COD game I played was BLOPS 1 on PS3.
  7. PixelGamer115
    Oct 24, 2020
    5
    - Campaign: 1/10
    - Zombies: 9/10
    - Multiplayer: 3/10

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  8. hiddthreat
    Oct 31, 2019
    6
    Понравилась только из-за зомби режима. Сюжет очень тупой, проходить за 5 часов, а сетевой режим с прыжками быстро надоедает.
  9. Titotitan
    Nov 4, 2019
    8
    BO3 is pretty sweet and it's not cause their are double jumps that this game is bad it just makes the game more fast pace and gives you more offensive or defensive tactics. It has nice maps and a nice gun range the campaign actually has a good plot with an intriguing evil. It has a wide range of guns the zombies is really nice offering different mechanics from casual zombies. Overall IBO3 is pretty sweet and it's not cause their are double jumps that this game is bad it just makes the game more fast pace and gives you more offensive or defensive tactics. It has nice maps and a nice gun range the campaign actually has a good plot with an intriguing evil. It has a wide range of guns the zombies is really nice offering different mechanics from casual zombies. Overall I find that this is a very fun game it's nice and offers many hours of enjoyment now I won't give it a 10 as even though it's good it doesn't have really anything that innovates on the series and it could have offered more than it did.… Expand
  10. Patrick73
    Mar 31, 2020
    8
    Call of Duty: Black Ops III è un buon fps arena con idee di gameplay interessanti, rovinato solo dalla scarsa attenzione al volere della community di CoD, che da tempo ormai aveva espresso il desiderio di tornare ad una ambientazione moderna. La storia è molto divertente se giocata con gli amici. La sezione zombie è davvero fantastica e molto divertente da giocare insieme ad altre persone,Call of Duty: Black Ops III è un buon fps arena con idee di gameplay interessanti, rovinato solo dalla scarsa attenzione al volere della community di CoD, che da tempo ormai aveva espresso il desiderio di tornare ad una ambientazione moderna. La storia è molto divertente se giocata con gli amici. La sezione zombie è davvero fantastica e molto divertente da giocare insieme ad altre persone, inoltre la storia dei quattro primis è coinvolgente e molto ben curata, per questo è riuscita ad appassionare migliaia di persone. Anche solo le mappe zombie potevano essere vendute come gioco assestante. Infine bo3 non è il miglior cod ma sicuramente vale il prezzo dell'acquisto.… Expand
  11. TheOneOnlyGuy
    Nov 9, 2019
    8
    I played this game like crazy and i still enjoy it! I love this game a lot because of how much stuff there is to do. Though micro transactions are a pain in this game.
  12. GottiDK
    Oct 23, 2020
    7
    I have never played the Black Ops Series, nor even knew what it was about, until now. With the new Black Ops Cold War launching soon as of this writing, and with Black Ops 3 in my library (I got it for free as part of Playstation Plus), my experience with the Black Ops series could begin. I watched walkthroughs of the first two games, to get an understanding of the story, and I liked themI have never played the Black Ops Series, nor even knew what it was about, until now. With the new Black Ops Cold War launching soon as of this writing, and with Black Ops 3 in my library (I got it for free as part of Playstation Plus), my experience with the Black Ops series could begin. I watched walkthroughs of the first two games, to get an understanding of the story, and I liked them both.

    But with Black Ops 3 taking place in 2065, I was really skeptical about this. What I like about the first Black Ops game, was its setting in the 1960’s with “real life” locations. So of course, a game with robots in a futuristic world…. It isn’t my favorite thing to play.

    But I actually quite enjoyed it. Of course if I didn’t get it for free, I wouldn’t have played it. But I am glad that I got to play it.

    The story is okay, sometimes it was perfect, and sometimes it was boring. But I really liked, that it was about the negative things about the future of mechanical and digital things. It is quite scary if robots in real life goes rogue, or prosthesis is mechanical things connected to your brain. That was a positive thing about the story. The characters are not that interesting compared to the prior games. I also think there is a lack of mention or present of previous characters. I am really missing the connection why this is the third installment. Personally this game could have been named something else and I wouldn’t be against it.

    The gameplay is the highlight of this game. It is fast paced, but still you can enjoy the beautifully surroundings at a slower pace. The shooting is fast paced and… fun. Normally I just want to enjoy the narrative, but when the story was at the boring stages, the shooting helped me to enjoy the game. The wall climbing and jumping are also okay fun in the beginning. But strangely I could not figure out to equip them in the story. So I completed the game without the use of these mechanical equipment.

    I have only played a few matches in online. As always Call of Duty is a perfect online experience with different modes and places. But with the present of wall running and super jumps I did not enjoy it as much as other online Call of Duty games. Personally I can’t figure out the super jumps in online matches, so I prefer a natural gun battle in Deathmatch.

    Call of Duty Black Ops 3 is a surprisingly good game. I prefer the more realistic Call of Duty game without the futuristic, however I did enjoy this. Comparing the prior games in the series, I prefer them over this because of the realism. It has an okay story with fun high paced gameplay and beautiful surroundings.    … Expand
  13. PsychoTrevor
    Jan 2, 2021
    5
    Not that bad but its PAY 2 WIN so much supply drop guns but still best in the ps4 era after ghosts
  14. Murasame
    Aug 31, 2020
    6
    Better than Black Ops II but still not all thad great. Guns fell boring, maps are boring and movment is a worse version of Titanfall
  15. SirSoil
    Feb 28, 2020
    3
    Call Of Duty Black Ops 3 is a fun multiplayer shooter, with a great variety of characters and customization but it’s single player campaign is worthless and the zombie mode needs some fixes. The online and local multiplayer are fun there is a variety of modes and such, the rewarding system is very unique and it does it’s job well. The campaign in the other hand is very disappointing, it’sCall Of Duty Black Ops 3 is a fun multiplayer shooter, with a great variety of characters and customization but it’s single player campaign is worthless and the zombie mode needs some fixes. The online and local multiplayer are fun there is a variety of modes and such, the rewarding system is very unique and it does it’s job well. The campaign in the other hand is very disappointing, it’s really lame the story in particular, the gameplay is just whatever no interesting moments just shoot and kill. The zombie mode is just too big, it’s confusing and it gets really frustrating at times playing with friends could also be either a blessing or a curse. Call Of Duty Black Ops 3 is Overall really disappointing since the multiplayer is really damn good, but sadly the other modes do there job but fail at some points, also gotta pay extra money for more maps for zombies since there isn’t a lot yay. (Medicore 2/5) Play It If Your A Fan Of The Series… Expand
  16. Alucardcastle13
    Jun 3, 2020
    10
    Best game ever!!! For real! This game is the most addictive game I have ever played and I bet a huge amount of people agree with me! Thank God they made this game and I wish the online server live forever!
  17. Mateuszitaliano
    Oct 3, 2020
    3
    laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggylaggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy laggy… Expand
  18. TrukfitSteezy
    Mar 6, 2022
    7
    Disclaimer: I am a huge fan of Zombies & I basically exclusively played Zombies on this game. The original zombie map kind of sucked, but the mods were dope as hell and provided a lot of fun.
  19. NEOROID
    Apr 16, 2020
    8
    This game is quite strange we could say, it follows the typical Call of Duty formula, with a Campaign, a Multiplayer, and a 3rd Gamemode, in this case, Zombies, so I'm going to review them separately, but let's first start with the more technical stuff shall we:

    The gameplay here is great, it all runs smoothly for all platforms, the gunplay is good, the graphics are great as well, even    This game is quite strange we could say, it follows the typical Call of Duty formula, with a Campaign, a Multiplayer, and a 3rd Gamemode, in this case, Zombies, so I'm going to review them separately, but let's first start with the more technical stuff shall we:

    The gameplay here is great, it all runs smoothly for all platforms, the gunplay is good, the graphics are great as well, even five years later the game looks pretty good, and the soundtrack is also great, the only technically bad thing about this game is the AI, which, well, has never been too good let's be honest.

    Campaign:
    Oh boy where to even start? The campaign, while being fun to play, is an absolute mess, the story makes zero sense, it f*cks with your brain for the purpose of f*cking with your brain, no deep storytelling or anything, just a plain mess, and the characters are SOOOOOO forgetable, the plot was interesting at least but the way they excecuted it was absolutely terrible, and has the recognition of Worst CoD campaign ever for that reason. 4/10

    Multiplayer:
    I have some very mixed feelings for multiplayer, as a game it is good, it is well designed, but what about the other stuff? The map design in most maps are pretty good for the jetpack+wall run movement which already took a point away for me, but the visual design for almost every single map is just, way too colorful and with barely any sort of destroyed things around, and doesn't give those WAR atmosphere feeling, taking away the immersion, it feels more like, there are some exceptions of course. The personalization in this game is pretty decent, even though most gear looks... Weird and goofy, but here's where we approach to the thing that takes the most points away, and that, or those are, the infamous Supply Drops, oh my god, when we talk about look crate systems, the worsg one is obviously Black Ops 4, Black Ops 3 is basically Black Ops 4 but a little less aggressive for the player, the weapons are extremely rare and are hidden between THOUSANDS of emotes, emblems, camos, gear, andnother useless sh*t nobody really wants, and while some of those guns absolutely suck, others are way too OP like the MSMC, or well... XMC. Overall, the multiplayer is Fine, I guess, it's mehh. 6/10

    So I already talked about this game in a rather negative point of view, so why do I give this entire game an 8/10? Here's where I spent most of my over-a-thousand-hours of gameplay, and by most I mean... MOST, like 75% or 80%.

    Zombies:
    While the campaign was terrible and the multiplayer was rather mediocre, the Zombies mode is what you could even call a MASTERPIECE, every single thing about the Zombies mode is GOOD, not solid or decent, but GOOD or better than good (except the revelations easter egg steps), there's not a single bad map, Zetsubō no Shima had a pretty rough launch but redeemed itself with patches and updates, turned into one of the best maps of all time, just like the rest of the Black Ops 3 maps, Revelations was a huge nostalgia boner but it was easily the worst of the maps since it brought NOTHING new, Zetsubou no Shima, as I said, turned from trash to great, Shadows of Evil is arguebly the best free map, The Giant is the definition of a PERFECT remaster, and Gorod Krovi and Der Eisendrache turned into fan favourites and INSTANT CLASSICS, and the same goes for the easter eggs, the map design in most maps is perfect for high rounds, and the gobblegums are a great addition for Easter Egg hunt, that made it easier and more enjoyable, the maps also tell players that being lazy is gonna bring DEATH to them, because most of the wonderweapon builds are quite the puzzles, and that effort is rewarded with AMAZING wonderweapons, the only exceptions of buldable WWs are: Raygun MK3 (Gorod Krovi), Apothicon Servant (Revelations), Thunder Gun (Revelations), Ragnarok Spikes (Revelations), Wunderwaffe (The Giant). The Easter Eggs are also amazing with the exception of Revelations, which was disappointing for a finale to BO3Z, but the rest are great, the bossfights were fun as hell, especially the GK boss and the DE boss, and so is the Lore behind them, including Revelations, which is a perfect buildup for the Black Ops 4 plot. But that is not it, oh no it is not it, the Characters are, unlike the campaign, extremely memorable and iconic, AL OF THEM, especially the primis crew of course, and that's still not it, the final DLC for BO3 was a 30€ DLC pack that contained 8 REMASTERED MAPS, 30€ was at first a conteoversial price, but the controversy didn't last long because The Giant costs 5€, 5 x 8 = 40, we got a price lower than the value of that DLC pack, and did it pay off? Absolutely, the remasters were perfect, and you could even say that they were better than the original maps because of the BO3 engine, which felt like it was literally made for Zombies. 10/10    … Expand
  20. Laukzie
    Apr 20, 2020
    10
    Whole 3 year wonder for me! So many features of this game made this the best game I've ever played and able to stick to.
  21. Parsa2079
    Sep 11, 2023
    7
    The first Call of Duty game that I played in PS4. The gameplay was ok with a great graphics but the story didn't work out for me.
  22. AbuAyoub
    May 9, 2020
    7
    I think it is a pretty decent game. It had a nice campaign with some weird stuff going on, but it was enjoyable.

    I think this is one of the better variants of the CoD franchise.

    Haven’ tried multiplayer though.
  23. das_dennis
    Oct 2, 2021
    0
    horrible campaign - totally stupid future setting with wall runs and stuff but a suprinsingly bad control - something i definetly not think of when i play an cod - zombie mode only a cash grab with only 1 good map and thats the 1 for free - multiplayer i will not judge because i didnt play it much
  24. lesiuML
    Feb 5, 2022
    7
    Really good camping although the ending is too long. Few really nice plots but some characters are completely dull. There are also few epic scenes especially in ww2 surreal mison. Overall it was a fresh and nice experience.
  25. INU4SH4
    Jun 23, 2020
    4
    Looking back at my youth, I really enjoyed playing Call of Duty with my friends. I loved the original Black Ops campaign and I loved the multiplayer experience of Black Ops II despite some matchmaking issues.

    However, Black Ops III was a major let-down in many aspects. Firstly, the campaign really sucked. It was not only incredibly boring and too futuristic for me, but also quite    Looking back at my youth, I really enjoyed playing Call of Duty with my friends. I loved the original Black Ops campaign and I loved the multiplayer experience of Black Ops II despite some matchmaking issues.

    However, Black Ops III was a major let-down in many aspects. Firstly, the campaign really sucked. It was not only incredibly boring and too futuristic for me, but also quite broken. The multiplayer was also very unbalanced and most of the time it was more frustrating than actually enjoyable. Not even the zombie mode could redeem this game, but it was not terrible.

    Not a good game, but also not the worst Call of Duty around, trust me. There's just no point in playing this today, as there are CoDs with better campaigns and way superior competitive modes.    … Expand
  26. ItzChristian25
    Sep 24, 2020
    8
    This game is very good but i do not like the jetpacks and the anti gravity gameplay
  27. AaronDH456
    Oct 30, 2020
    10
    The campaign is really bad. Multiplayer was a blast to play and never got boring. The main reason to buy this game in my opinion is for the zombies mode. It might be complicated at first, but as soon as you learn the maps, the mode becomes a masterpiece. You can also do the Easter eggs if you want a fairly decent story of our 4 heroes and you don't really need to play the other black opsThe campaign is really bad. Multiplayer was a blast to play and never got boring. The main reason to buy this game in my opinion is for the zombies mode. It might be complicated at first, but as soon as you learn the maps, the mode becomes a masterpiece. You can also do the Easter eggs if you want a fairly decent story of our 4 heroes and you don't really need to play the other black ops zonbies to understand the story.… Expand
  28. SeanRocks2003
    Jun 21, 2020
    4
    This is the worst COD game. Muddled and confused story, terrible maps in multiplayer and no fan favourites in campaign mode to play as. Very weak link to the previous games and feels more like a standalone game. Quit disappointed with it as I expect better from Treyarch
  29. PaektusanLeader
    Jun 24, 2020
    5
    Just really not an enjoyable game. This sci-fi stuff is really just too repetitive and unappealing. I play the games only for the story, but unfortunately the story is very boring.
  30. Hellgates666
    Jun 25, 2020
    6
    Black ops 3 is a mixed bag for me. On one hand, I found the campaign mode to be extremely boring, uninteresting, and uneventful. On the other hand, the multiplayer is extremely fun, and hours have been had playing with friends. The zombies mode itself is a mixed bag as well. I found that the only new map that was truly good in all aspects was Der Eisendrache. Gorod Krovi was decent asBlack ops 3 is a mixed bag for me. On one hand, I found the campaign mode to be extremely boring, uninteresting, and uneventful. On the other hand, the multiplayer is extremely fun, and hours have been had playing with friends. The zombies mode itself is a mixed bag as well. I found that the only new map that was truly good in all aspects was Der Eisendrache. Gorod Krovi was decent as well, but it just didn't have the zombies feel and gameplay I look for when I play zombies. This isn't a bad game; countless hours of fun can easily be had with it. However, it's a big downgrade from black ops 1 and black ops 2.… Expand
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 87 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 73 out of 87
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 87
  3. Negative: 0 out of 87
  1. GameGrin
    Feb 4, 2016
    75
    Underneath the glamour, it feels like just another Call of Duty game - to the delight of existing fans, but the chagrin of players seeking new turf.
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  2. CD-Action
    Jan 12, 2016
    75
    Both the single player and online modes are fun but don’t expect to be blown away. Despite a great story and a couple of very enjoyable missions the campaign as a whole is a tad boring. [13/2015, p.50]
  3. Pelit (Finland)
    Jan 4, 2016
    91
    What we have here is the best Call of Duty single player experience to date. The multiplayer is solid too, though the much-talked re-design has resulted a multiplayer experience that really doesn’t differ all that much from the previous ones. [Nov 2015]
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