Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 Review

What’s up everybody? This is Fred Richani of TSC Gaming here to review Call of Duty Black Ops 3 from Treyarch and Activision. One of the most popular franchises in all video games makes this return with Black Ops 3. And you better believe it is chaotic, it is frenetic, and it is a whole lot of fun. But before we get to what everybody is playing, the multiplayer, let’s talk a little bit about the single player campaign, which is not much to write home about. Hey, still with us. Welcome back, Taylor. Yeah, do you know what’s happening to you? Am I dreaming? Well, let’s say you are.

Why not just go with it, right? After all, you can always wake up. It takes place 40 years after the events of Black Ops 2, and quite frankly, it is kind of boring. I played a couple missions here and there. I was able to skip around, but it just did not hook me. From the lack of dasical story to the repetition when it comes to enemies. I mean, you shoot at these guys, you can telekinetically take over turrets or drones, which is really, really cool. But the enemies react the same way whether you have a drone, whether you have a turret, whether you have a gun, whether you’re meleeing them.

And the whole time is just cover, shoot, cover, shoot, cover, shoot. It just got so repetitive that left a lot to be desired. Now, I will give Triarch huge props because they allow you to unlock every single mission right at the beginning of the game. So, if you play the first couple missions and think it sucks and you want to skip to the second to last, maybe even the last, you just want to get over with it, you can do that with this game. And I really appreciate this feature because there’s a lot of games sometimes where I feel like I’m just stuck on this level or I hate this level and I just want to skip it over and still experience the game.

And that’s the beauty of this version of Call of Duty. You could have fun with it in your own way. You want to play the single player, play the single player. If you don’t, that’s okay because you also have zombies mode. Zombies. That has to be the wackiest Call of Duty mode in quite some time. It’s not just killing zombies and surviving waves and waves of them. No, no, no. You are set in a 1940s film noir setting in a fictional city with the likes of Jeff Goldlum, Ron Pearlman, and Heather Graham. Imagine a Marlin Brando film from back in the day or Citizen Kane with Orson Wells.

And imagine Orson Wells as and then a zombie trying to eat him. That’s essentially what this is. It is so out there. It is so wacky. It is so out of the realm of possibility that it is great. It’s so weird. It’s great. So, I definitely suggest you guys try it. And while the zombies are pretty easy to kill, it’s harder than it looks as the volume continues to grow. Your sins serve only as an invitation. An invitation to an evil beyond your imagination. I’ll lead the way. I will show you the path. But enough of that. I know what y’all want to really hear about.

The real reason people usually buy Call of Duty, the multiplayer. Yes, you got zombies, but of course, you got the traditional multiplayer with team deathmatch, capture the flag, a number of other modes. There is so much content in multiplayer that regardless of the single campaign, whether it was great or lame, it more than makes up for it with the multiplayer experience. Now, as somebody that’s come from a world of Destiny, and I’ve been playing Destiny the last couple of years, haven’t really been playing Call of Duty in recent years, I got to say that the pace is insane. You got to look both ways before you cross the street.

You got to have eyes in the back of your head. When you’re wall running, when you’re gutting, when you’re sliding, you cannot make one wrong move or you’re going to pay for it dearly. And you could pick from one of nine specialists, each with their own special weapon, each with their own special ability to make things interesting. Hell in hostile. In terms of the game play, man, I love the agility that my character has, especially from the wall running. The gunplay is excellent. There’s a ton of unlockables and variety. I really like the level design and if you know anything about the COD community, there is never a dull moment when you’re playing online.

So, some people might say, “Well, Fred, it’s the same game. It’s been the same game for years.” And in some ways, it is. But that’s okay because if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. And there’s enough content, enough customizations, unlockables, you name it, to keep things interesting in multiplayer. Would I personally like to see a better single player campaign? Kind of like Call of Duty Ghosts, which I thought was tremendous. Sure. But hey, there is always next year. Overall though, I have to give Call of Duty Black Ops 3 a thumbs up. And if you’re a noob, you might want to try free running it a little bit and honing your skills before you test your metal.

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