Call of Duty: Black Ops III Reviews

Call of Duty: Black Ops III is ranked in the 79th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
4.5 / 10.0
Nov 10, 2015

As fun as popping zombies in beautiful environments is, it's not enough to save Black Ops 3 from being just a miserable little disappointment, a cobbled together version of Deus Ex and Syndicate that can't do right by its pop sci-fi leanings or the series' run & gun entertainment. As someone who's always been an apologist for the series, it makes me a little sad to see that Call of Duty might finally be the creatively bankrupt game everyone believes it to be, unsalvageable even by the grace of Christopher Meloni himself.

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5 / 10.0
Nov 7, 2015

If you'd like to play a limp amalgamation of Deus Ex, Crysis,and BioShock with a multiplayer mode you've been able to play eight times in as many years, then Call of Duty: Black Ops III is definitely for you. For the rest of you, it's just another condom of a game to be spunked into and thrown in the trash.

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6 / 10
Nov 10, 2015

Call of Duty: Black Ops III is the most content-filled game in the entire series. While that would normally be a good thing, the problem is that none of the content is particularly interesting. From the underwhelming campaign to the disappointing multiplayer, there isn't much to really recommend playing over last year's game. Call of Duty: Black Ops III is just okay, but being just okay isn't enough to keep players entertained when there are so many better offerings available from the same series.

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Nov 9, 2015

Black Ops III tries something different, but it's wrong headed approach ruins otherwise strong context.

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Nov 14, 2015

The game is filled to the brim with content, most of it disappointingly or needlessly executed.

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Nov 11, 2015

Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 piles on new ways to play without much concern for quality.

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Nov 9, 2015

Activision's monolithic shooter series returns with a blast of new content and features – but the cracks are showing

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Nov 12, 2015

Black Ops 3 makes up for a terrible single-player campaign with great multiplayer.

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Nov 5, 2015

You'd think a game with this many modes and features would be more exciting than it is.

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3.5 / 5.0
Nov 20, 2015

Black Ops 3 might be a package of things I love and hate, but it's mostly good.

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7 / 10.0
Dec 2, 2015

Call Of Duty: Black Ops 3 جاه طلبانه ترین نسخه سری COD در سال های اخیر است اما جاه طلب بودن لزوما باعث موفقیت نمی شود و چه بسا این جاه طلبی نتیجه منفی نیز داشته است .Black Ops 3 را می توان به دو قسمت تقسیم کرده و به آن نگاه کرد . قسمت اول کلیت و ساختار طراحی بخش تکنفره بازی که بدلیل Co-op محور شدن و عدم ارتقای عناصر لازم در مواجهه با این تغییر مهم کاملا خسته کننده و تکراری است ، قسمت دوم جزئیاتی نظیر اسلحه ها ، سیستم شخصی سازی ، مهارت های جانبی و این دست از موارد که با جهش و پیشرفت بسیار خوبی رو به رو شده اند . قوی بودن این جزئیات کاملا باعث پیشرفت و جذابیت تجربه بخش چندنفره نیز شده است و بواسطه یک بخش چندنفره معقول و خوب ، Black Ops 3 کماکان می تواند یکی از گزینه های اصلی و قابل ذکر سبک اول شخص شوتر باشد .

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Nov 10, 2015

With a very predictable story and a great gameplay Black Ops III fails to excel in any particular field.

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7 / 10
Dec 5, 2015

Decent effort, but far from COD mastery

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7 / 10
Dec 15, 2015

Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 is a game of two thirds that gives us a fantastic multiplayer experience and an ever addicting Zombies mode, coupled with a poor single player. Hopefully Treyarch's next entry can finally give us a commendable campaign to boot.

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PCMag
Top Critic
Nov 19, 2015

For better or worse, Call of Duty: Black Ops III is exactly the straightforward big-budget shooter you expect, offering entertaining gunplay, a ridiculous (but fun) campaign, and deep online multiplayer with a bevy of game modes.

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Nov 9, 2015

Black Ops III tries hard to freshen the Call of Duty formula, and it's clear a lot of time and money went into creating the game. But other than the online multiplayer component, which should keep the faithful occupied for a few months, it's just slick, disposable entertainment, easily consumed and instantly forgotten. Then again, who am I to talk?

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Nov 19, 2015

This year's Call of Duty is a mixed bag that will polarize opinion depending in which part of the game you find the most enjoyment. All of the previous mechanics that have made the franchise what it is today are still there and they feel as good as ever. If you play CoD for the campaign, Black Ops III is a low point featuring a confusing and uninteresting story, poor pacing, cheesy dialogue and over-the-top voice acting that results in a story that resembles what the outcome would be if you dropped the cast of Team America: World Police on the set of Inception or Source Code. Zombies once again provides a fun alternative, and the setting and new gameplay additions are enough to keep it feeling fresh for fans until the next DLC pack hits. Multiplayer is as well balanced as it has been for a while and provides the same fast-paced experience that is known and loved. The addition of increased mobility adds a new way to traverse the world and even helps to bring new life into game modes that we have been playing off and on for the past ten years, but this is hit and miss as only some maps allow you to truly explore what it has to offer.Black Ops III's biggest plus points are that it's the most content-filled and best looking release in the series yet, and there are enough new additions to the gameplay across all game modes to help freshen things up for returning visitors. It's a good game for sure, but it does very little to stand out from what's already available and, in some areas, doesn't live up to the standards that the franchise has set over the years.

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Nov 10, 2015

Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 a familiar experience dressed up in a way that it might feel slightly different at first, but getting into the nuts and bolts reveals not much has changed.

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7 / 10
Nov 5, 2015

Black Ops III presents fine-tuned multiplayer, engaging fights against the undead, and a boring campaign.

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Polygon
Top Critic
7 / 10.0
Nov 6, 2015

Black Ops 3 doesn't meaningfully move the series forward

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