- Release Date: 6th November 2015
- Developer: Treyarch
- Publisher: Activision
- Platform Played: PS4
- Platforms Available: PC, Mac, PS3, PS4, 360, XBO
This is my first Call of Duty since the first Black Ops, and I feel no need to play any more. The gameplay features elements of “superpowered” feats with wallrunning and stuff. It feels as though they saw Ttianfall mid development, were forced to add elements to the game, but outside of the tutorial, there’s actually no use for it at all. You are also given special powers, such as hacking or controlling robots. These have the potential to be great, but there are a lot of situations where the powers won’t work.
On top of this, the special abilities are triggered by pressing L1 + R1 together. Another ability is done with R1. The big problem is that L1 and R1 are different kinds of grenades. A lot of the time, if you don’t meet the “requirement” of the power or are off slightly in your aim when you activate it, you’ll throw a grenade. I threw more grenades by mistake than I did intentionally.
Levels are pretty much shooting people or robots as you move from A to B with very little variation in gameplay. While the earlier Call of Duty had stealth, sniping and other unique levels, Black Ops 3 is designed for Co-op (even though the story isn’t) so all of this is gone. There’s one inception-like dream level, but it throws loads and loads of enemies at you for the game combat throughout it. There’s also a really bad mission where you half-control a jet and then do escort missions with someone who constantly moans if you move more than a metre away from you (if you do stay close, grenades thrown by enemies at you will kill her).
The story itself is nonsensical. They’re trying to do something “clever” but don’t deserve to be like that at all. The “real” story supposedly flashes inside massive reams of text for a split second on the loading screen, which is just absurd. And even then, people don’t quite fully know what the story even was. Really dull characters also don’t help. The most interest you’ll get is “Ooh, that’s Starbuck”, “ooh, that’s the guy who replaces Jack O’Neill in the last few seasons of Stargate..oh and Bra’tac”, “The Doctor from Voyager is the villain?”.
Poor
