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Sometimes this plays out in thoughtful new ways, as more powerful enemies tend to be more aggressive - or in the case of injured robots, downright suicidal - chasing you out of cover spots and forcing you to coordinate with your teammates.

This changes the series' core gameplay loop of fast shooting and prolonged forward momentum. These enemies aren't the quick kill that has come to define Call of Duty's overwhelming hordes and spectacle - they're the quintessential bullet sponge. However, for whatever reason, Treyarch has seen fit to expand to actual, honest-to-goodness bipedal murder robots, along with mech-suited soldiers and Warlords, human-sized bad guys that are all but impervious to normal weaponry. Call of Duty has always featured enemies with superhuman accuracy on any difficulty higher than normal, which I've been known to jokingly refer to as Terminators. Often, this was shooting a weak point somewhere, or doing the sorts of timed button press activities Call of Duty is kind of known for.Ĭo-op feels most necessary when Black Ops 3 is the least fun, which may or may not be the point. Usually, my partner or I would pick things off at a distance while the other did whatever "thing" there was to do at a spot on the map. But the occasions where true tactical engagement required multiple people felt minimal. But throughout the campaign, the goal of accommodating both cooperative play and player customization has as many negative side effects as it does positive results.Įverything is better with more people, and Black Ops 3 isn't going to ruin friendships. Every mission in Black Ops 3 supports up to four players, each of whom can outfit their soldier as they would in multiplayer, complete with weapon attachments and a variation of the popular Pick 10 system introduced in Black Ops 2's online component.

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This is where Black Ops 3's other big addition comes in: full co-op support. You can't have every ability at once - until, that is, you reach level 20 on your campaign profile, which I didn't hit on my playthrough on hardened difficulty.
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It was enough to make me miss the number station-tinged paranoia and conspiracy theories that the series started with. Black Ops 3 quickly flails at ideas of AI consciousness and the "evils" of interconnectedness, and it's peppered with predictable "twists." There are scenes that I'm sure were meant to be edgy and morally gray instead, it's just a lot of hyper-earnest swearing and glaring. The story also just isn't very interesting. But Black Ops 3 strangely fails to capitalize on the big narrative beats of the series. The story starts with some promise, featuring a scenery-chewing performance by former Law & Order: SVU (and True Blood) star Christopher Meloni as he explains how vital total informational awareness is, and reveals the power and necessity of the cyber rig, a set of cybernetic enhancements your character quickly finds themselves dependent on. In another first for the series, you also can elect to be a male or female protagonist, each of which is fully voiced and acted within the most cutscene-driven Call of Duty campaign I can remember. It's another future teetering on the brink of chaos, where lines between military and corporate interests are blurred.įor the first time in the series, the campaign allows you to create a character, with a variety of ethnicities represented.

In a first for the series, you can elect to play as a female protagonistĬall of Duty: Black Ops 3 takes place in the same world that Treyarch's previous Call of Duty games have, though that doesn't make much difference. But in its efforts to bring player choice to more of the fundamental gameplay aspects of Call of Duty, Treyarch has made a game that doesn't really excel at any one thing. With Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, Treyarch has shifted direction again, with a major investment in cooperative play in the game's campaign and the introduction of new mobility and character creation tools. It wasn't that Black Ops 2 was perfect, exactly, but it had ambition leaking out of its ears, changing what people could expect from a Call of Duty campaign while introducing the first major changes to the series' world-conquering multiplayer system. Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 has the same challenge as Advanced Warfare and Ghosts before it: How do you take the biggest thing going for one console generation and meaningfully evolve it for the next?ĭeveloper Treyarch took the Call of Duty franchise in weird new directions with Cold War conspiracy in Black Ops back in 2010, and in 2012 it picked up the slack left by series originator Infinity Ward's implosion, taking the lead with Black Ops 2.
