Being honest with you I don't care about the other game modes but the zombies maps are a 10/10 for me, great design, great characters, stories and fun gameplay.
29 Reviews
One of the best call of duty games ever
kaistroudwiik27 November 2015
This is one of the best cods in a while. AT FIRST I WAS A BIT SKEPTICAL about the new movement features, but that soon changed when i got the game. Black ops 3 is one of the best cods in a long time. The multi player is on of the funnest ever with all the new specialists and customization. The zombies map Shadows of evil isan't that great it is takes way to long to set up on and is very hard. I recommend buying The Giant map which is a remake of the fan favorite Der Reise from Waw. i haven't played the campaign yet. One if the new features is something called Freerun which is a nice little extra which is fun to play on i do hope they add more courses in the future. Overall this is the most fun i have Had with a cod game in a long time and i highly recommend checking it out.
Zombies stole the show
tywilliam-7498413 March 2018
Just OK....not as good as Black Ops 2
MoviePro22320 March 2016
Originally we purchased this game on Xbox 360, which is the "half version" of the game which only allows you to play some of the features Call of Duty Black Ops 3 has to offer. That was truly a disappointment and if I was basing my review on solely that I would give it a 3/10. It was truly horrendous, and the server for Xbox 360 is nothing short of an total failure. The lobby and games just abort and kick you out for no reason. Truly a frustrating experience. Then we had the chance to experience the game in all its glory as it was made to be experienced. On Xbox One this is truly a different game all together. But still I could not shake that the previous Black Ops (2) was so better. Mainly because it was very user friendly and offered game-play that was easy to figure out, while at the same time continuing to prove itself challenging. The maps on Black Ops 3 are not as inventive in multi-player, they all kind of run together and none stick out as being truly epic (except maybe the new rendition of nuke town). The zombie map however is very inventive, but the level of symbolism this one took on was just annoying. Origins in Black Ops 2, is still their most inventive map in my opinion. But see for yourself, I give it a 6.5/10 in all.
Call of Duty Black Ops 3
auuwws19 December 2020
One of the best player in the current generation, I really enjoyed the multiplayer game, the character feature of the characters raised the level of the game, the novelty, and the zombie phase was great and approached the level of Blackops 2. The story was very bad and I would not recommend playing it at all I really enjoyed playing the game and a thousand why this negative evaluation of the game
Horrendous
davidianlaird26 March 2016
The game is good but the exact same issues with first 2.
Camping has got worse since bo2. Nuketown and Skyjacked are the worst maps ever clearly nothing like there predecessors there too small and spawn trapping is 100x worse. Clearly spawn system isn't like bo2 have spawned and dead straight away on most games. Specialists are a good idea. Black market is also ridiculous now only pulling out duplicates and lucky if I have 15% of the items. Black market weapons difficult too get as played since January and only got one. I know players who haven't even got any. Game needs a few improvements like it's constant crashing.
Camping has got worse since bo2. Nuketown and Skyjacked are the worst maps ever clearly nothing like there predecessors there too small and spawn trapping is 100x worse. Clearly spawn system isn't like bo2 have spawned and dead straight away on most games. Specialists are a good idea. Black market is also ridiculous now only pulling out duplicates and lucky if I have 15% of the items. Black market weapons difficult too get as played since January and only got one. I know players who haven't even got any. Game needs a few improvements like it's constant crashing.
Three games in one
philiphandke17 August 2016
I played the game for over 1000 hours now and it hasn't gotten boring yet.
When I first started getting bored with Multiplayer in early February, I started playing Zombies and fell in love with it.
The zombies mode in this game has the best gameplay and most attention to detail I've ever seen in a video game.
$60 - $100 for 1000 hours of playtime over 3 totally different gamemodes + a few bonus gamemodes like Free Run or Dead Ops Arcade is an amazing deal.
The only downside for this game is bonus weapons only being availible in luck based supply drops. You can earn all weapons in 5 hours of gametime, but you can also spend 1 million dollars and get none of them.
It hurts me as a completionist internally that I will never get all of those weapons.
Only 9/10 for that reason, even though the gameplay is impeccable
When I first started getting bored with Multiplayer in early February, I started playing Zombies and fell in love with it.
The zombies mode in this game has the best gameplay and most attention to detail I've ever seen in a video game.
$60 - $100 for 1000 hours of playtime over 3 totally different gamemodes + a few bonus gamemodes like Free Run or Dead Ops Arcade is an amazing deal.
The only downside for this game is bonus weapons only being availible in luck based supply drops. You can earn all weapons in 5 hours of gametime, but you can also spend 1 million dollars and get none of them.
It hurts me as a completionist internally that I will never get all of those weapons.
Only 9/10 for that reason, even though the gameplay is impeccable
Disconnected, bad voice actor selection
daflappman20 July 2017
Warning: Spoilers
Treyarch, you've outdone yourself again. But I'm afraid that I can't accept excuses this time.
I loved the previous two Black Ops games. Their connection to World at War and each other made for an amazing trilogy in a Call of Duty game, the gameplay itself was fun, and the zombies mode held up (Mostly).
Now, we're at Black Ops 3. Three years after the second Black Ops game was released, I was actually excited to have one of my favorite actors (Christopher Meloni) in the game. As a voice actor, he's surprisingly good. But the rest of the selection, especially your mission partner, seems like an absolute mess of A and B-list celebrities that would only make sense for their cameos.
I'll give credit where it's due: Robert Picardo and Nolan North were amazing, as were the actors in Zombies. But the campaign is where I want to focus: To call it a Black Ops game makes it feel disconnected from the rest of the timeline that you built up. Without going into the browser for extra lore, just throwing out Nova 6 and Raul Menendez does not make a Black Ops game. Additionally, the choices of Sean Douglas, Ben Browder and Katee Sackhoff were anywhere between not-so-decent and absolutely terrible.
Sean "Jacob Hendricks" Douglas was stilted and flat in nearly every bit of dialogue he had. There was only one line I actually liked. "Uh, I didn't do that." Ben Browder's a great actor, no questions asked. But I don't think he's meant for voice, unless he gets practice. Katee Sackoff sounded flat through half the game, like she needed less punctuation in her dialogue.
Also, there are still typos everywhere in the campaign subtitles.
All in all, gameplay holds up, Campaign story feels disconnected, improvements on Multiplayer, and the zombies mode has gotten far more contrived than I'd like. 6/10.
I loved the previous two Black Ops games. Their connection to World at War and each other made for an amazing trilogy in a Call of Duty game, the gameplay itself was fun, and the zombies mode held up (Mostly).
Now, we're at Black Ops 3. Three years after the second Black Ops game was released, I was actually excited to have one of my favorite actors (Christopher Meloni) in the game. As a voice actor, he's surprisingly good. But the rest of the selection, especially your mission partner, seems like an absolute mess of A and B-list celebrities that would only make sense for their cameos.
I'll give credit where it's due: Robert Picardo and Nolan North were amazing, as were the actors in Zombies. But the campaign is where I want to focus: To call it a Black Ops game makes it feel disconnected from the rest of the timeline that you built up. Without going into the browser for extra lore, just throwing out Nova 6 and Raul Menendez does not make a Black Ops game. Additionally, the choices of Sean Douglas, Ben Browder and Katee Sackhoff were anywhere between not-so-decent and absolutely terrible.
Sean "Jacob Hendricks" Douglas was stilted and flat in nearly every bit of dialogue he had. There was only one line I actually liked. "Uh, I didn't do that." Ben Browder's a great actor, no questions asked. But I don't think he's meant for voice, unless he gets practice. Katee Sackoff sounded flat through half the game, like she needed less punctuation in her dialogue.
Also, there are still typos everywhere in the campaign subtitles.
All in all, gameplay holds up, Campaign story feels disconnected, improvements on Multiplayer, and the zombies mode has gotten far more contrived than I'd like. 6/10.
Not Call of Duty
joshuabozz7 May 2016
Multiplayer: Worst cod multiplayer ever, besides ghosts. Advanced movements ruin the game, and so many guns are op. A lot of people camp, and spawn trapping is a huge problem. If you have played the game, you know how annoying it is when people use the gorgon against you. The black market makes this a pay to win game, as the chances of getting a weapon out of there are so slim, it costs hundreds of dollars to actually get something. Mp gets 1 out of 10 in my opinion.
Campaign: Too many robots to kill, it didn't feel like a Call of Duty story to me. The storyline was very confusing, and some of the underwater missions were extremely difficult, even on regular difficulty. The last mission was anti climactic, as even though I completed it I had no idea what was going on. Nightmares was a cool change, especially for a zombies player like me, and because nightmares was good, single player gets a 4 out of 10.
Zombies: Best zombies mode ever. Shadows of evil is a very cool and unique map, the first city map for zombies. Only complaint is that you cannot do the easter egg solo, but i wont spoil it for anyone. The giant, a remake of der riese, is a fun, straightforward zombies map, with not much to do except set up and survive. Der eisendrache is probably my favorite zombies map ever, as it contains elements from mob of the dead, the zombie eating dragons, and from origins, the four separate wonder weapons, the bows. This easter egg can be completed solo, but it is tricky but very worth it in the end cutscene, but once again I wont say what happens. The castle idea is very cool and mysterious, also. I have the xbox one, so i have not played zetsubou no shima yet. For me, zombies gets a 10 out of 10.
All in all, if you are not a zombies player, do not buy this game, as multiplayer sucks and the story mode is only decent.
Campaign: Too many robots to kill, it didn't feel like a Call of Duty story to me. The storyline was very confusing, and some of the underwater missions were extremely difficult, even on regular difficulty. The last mission was anti climactic, as even though I completed it I had no idea what was going on. Nightmares was a cool change, especially for a zombies player like me, and because nightmares was good, single player gets a 4 out of 10.
Zombies: Best zombies mode ever. Shadows of evil is a very cool and unique map, the first city map for zombies. Only complaint is that you cannot do the easter egg solo, but i wont spoil it for anyone. The giant, a remake of der riese, is a fun, straightforward zombies map, with not much to do except set up and survive. Der eisendrache is probably my favorite zombies map ever, as it contains elements from mob of the dead, the zombie eating dragons, and from origins, the four separate wonder weapons, the bows. This easter egg can be completed solo, but it is tricky but very worth it in the end cutscene, but once again I wont say what happens. The castle idea is very cool and mysterious, also. I have the xbox one, so i have not played zetsubou no shima yet. For me, zombies gets a 10 out of 10.
All in all, if you are not a zombies player, do not buy this game, as multiplayer sucks and the story mode is only decent.
Best Black Ops game so far...
sheppard-jonathon14 December 2015
After being an avid fan of Black Ops II, i entered into this game with a bit of a sceptical attitude - how could it be better than BO2?, I found myself thinking.
They really have made it better. The new movement features really add to the mobility of the multiplayer game, giving you more ability to gain an advantage on your opponent on duals.
It feels more fun, feels quicker and generally better. The weapons are good, and the specialists are a great addition. The maps are mostly good, a few great ones on there (bit also a couple of poor ones - too big for multiplayer).
I played COD Ghosts after the success of BO2 and expected great things from that... how let down I was! Therefore I was a bit nervous about this... But this feels like BO2 'suped up', nothing like the atrocious Ghosts.
They really have made it better. The new movement features really add to the mobility of the multiplayer game, giving you more ability to gain an advantage on your opponent on duals.
It feels more fun, feels quicker and generally better. The weapons are good, and the specialists are a great addition. The maps are mostly good, a few great ones on there (bit also a couple of poor ones - too big for multiplayer).
I played COD Ghosts after the success of BO2 and expected great things from that... how let down I was! Therefore I was a bit nervous about this... But this feels like BO2 'suped up', nothing like the atrocious Ghosts.
Bo3
michaelmontano1 December 2021
The games campaign is WAY to long the multiplayer is ok I guess but the zombies is the best in the series. With the remasters of Kino Der Toten,(BO1),Nacht Der Untoten(WAW),Origins(BO2) and more is a wonderful addition to the game along with other new maps like Gorod Krovi and The giant.
It is perfect Except the campaign and multiplayer.
It is perfect Except the campaign and multiplayer.
Best video game ever
jshmaweb18 December 2020
Possibly the greatest COD of all!
Inky_Enston18 January 2021
another titanfall game
connormacleod8411 November 2015
i gave this game a 1 out of 10 for the following reasons.
every year activision bring out a call of duty game thats is never finished and never gets finished. and this one even with 3 years development is no different.
the pc version of the game has had hackers since day one making it a pointless game to play
the best thing about call of duty for most hardcore gamers has always been s&d mode, because its tactical, with this game being another one with jet packs and wall running, that has destroyed that game mode which i find leaves the game even more pointless to play.
and my final reason is that most call of duty fans have been complaining to activision to stop with these silly future games and go back to real war games, but activision don't seem to care what the buyer thinks. considering this time they even took away the option to play in the classic modes.
i think when looking at how activision works its clear they don't care about the junk they sell us, when they give us nuke town from bo1 and 2 as a bonus map and then take it away and put it in with other game modes because no one was playing there new maps.
so in my review of this game, i do with it should have been called titanfalls 3 with advanced warfare being its 2nd.
the fact they have added netball in a gun game just shows how silly activision have taken the game.
every year activision bring out a call of duty game thats is never finished and never gets finished. and this one even with 3 years development is no different.
the pc version of the game has had hackers since day one making it a pointless game to play
the best thing about call of duty for most hardcore gamers has always been s&d mode, because its tactical, with this game being another one with jet packs and wall running, that has destroyed that game mode which i find leaves the game even more pointless to play.
and my final reason is that most call of duty fans have been complaining to activision to stop with these silly future games and go back to real war games, but activision don't seem to care what the buyer thinks. considering this time they even took away the option to play in the classic modes.
i think when looking at how activision works its clear they don't care about the junk they sell us, when they give us nuke town from bo1 and 2 as a bonus map and then take it away and put it in with other game modes because no one was playing there new maps.
so in my review of this game, i do with it should have been called titanfalls 3 with advanced warfare being its 2nd.
the fact they have added netball in a gun game just shows how silly activision have taken the game.
Of course not the best call of duty, but its really fun to play with friends.
svdijk15 May 2016
Warning: Spoilers
Now this is one of the better call of duty games ever made, yes, its not the best, but i have some great times with my friends and alone when i play this, it's really smooth, the new movement system is great executed, not like advanced warfare where you can jump so fast, but really smooth and slow and not overpowered, the multiplayer itself is great, i really love the weapons and specially the Man-o-War, the campaign seems to be a little bit weak with an overload of robots and specially in the last mission, and i personally didn't like it at all, the voice acting is also not that great except for John Taylor, Sebastian Diaz, Peter Maretti, and Luitenant Kahlil, story line is a great idea but poorly executed. Campaign in this game is a no for me. Now the zombies mode in this game is absolutely awesome, they did a great job with shadows of evil and the giant, i like the new Dlc map Der Eisendrache, not really a big fan of the map after the first Dlc map but hey, we got at least 3 other awesome maps to play! Shadows of evil is a map in a city where all the evil has woken up, when 4 criminals wake up in the middle of the city, they have been followed by a shadow man, they need to do some things like rituals in order to stop the invasion of the horror. The giant is of course the classic remake of Der rise, right where origins left of, Der Eisendrache is a very magic looking map, but it has also the classic power switch and that is what the fans are used to love, and this is also one of my favorite zombie maps of all time, now the last map that came out is not that great, it is by far the hardest power switch i have ever seen in the history of zombies, and the pack a punch is also very hard because it is in the bunker by the power switch and you need to complete some things to open that bunker, and it cost you a hell of a lot points.
i give this game a 9/10 because this is one of the better call of duty games in the hard time of call of duty that it is now.
great job!
i give this game a 9/10 because this is one of the better call of duty games in the hard time of call of duty that it is now.
great job!
CoD goes Ghost in the Shell
residentgrigo18 March 2016
Treyarch's first main CoD game (No.3) was pretty rough but they immediately improved and managed to become the leading team for the franchise. Last year's Advanced Warfare was a very similar game and the narrative (a GitS adaptation in disguise!) is a bit convoluted but the campaign is the best since the genre standard setting Modern Warfare. It even features a WW2 callbacks with Cyborgs vs Tiger tanks! The Treyarch typical difficult and gore also returned and the series apparently gave up on "attention grabbing" shock value as it has been missing in action since MW3. The Zombie mode should have stayed a room defense game but i like the 40s look and the main multiplayer is a blast if you crank it up to hardcore which features one-hit kills. The game lastly looks as good as a 60 fps console shooter currently can and the sound design is top notch. Next year's CoD may be doomed after 2 hits in a row... This is the best current shooter of the generation.
Very good call of duty game, but the hardest one yet!
Lukkeren7 May 2016
Okay. This call of duty game is very good, but its extremely hard, because its so many extremely good players you play against. Its not near being as good as modern warfare, world at war, or black ops, but its still very good. But i still miss the good old only on the ground type of call of duty. I think its time for them to go back to that style, or i think most of the call of duty players will go over to other games. Its worth playing while waiting on the call of duty modern warfare remaster though. I really hope they go back to the old fashion cod after infinite warfare though... if not, i think i permanently go over to battlefield and cs go. So watch out call of duty. The weapons in this game though are pretty disappointing, and its very hard to figure out which weapons that is for you except for a few weapons like kf-44 and locus.
Fun multiplayer bad campaign
jacob-0226621 January 2021
I am going to split this up into sections for each game mode in the game
CAMPAIGN Black ops 3s campaign was terrible and has the most confusing story it does not even have anything to do with World at war Black ops or black ops 2 they don't even mention anything from the previous black ops games and it obviously had "Black ops" on the title of the game because Treyarch knew people would buy any new game with black ops on the title the campaign was a rip off Campaign 1/10
ZOMBIES Black ops 3 zombies was pretty good it has a huge map with many Easter eggs and hidden areas people are still finding Easter eggs hidden in Black ops 3 zombies to this day but you can only play black ops 3 zombies so many times before it gets boring Zombies 7/10
MULTIPLAYER Black ops 3 multiplayer just took everything that make call of duty Advanced Warfare special and copied it the map design are all small three lane maps with no soul to be fair it has a pretty decent amount of content it also started up "specialists" which a very cool but Black ops 3 also has loot boxes which always ruin the multiplayer but black ops 3 multiplayer also has some awesome gun camos 6/10
Overall 4/10
CAMPAIGN Black ops 3s campaign was terrible and has the most confusing story it does not even have anything to do with World at war Black ops or black ops 2 they don't even mention anything from the previous black ops games and it obviously had "Black ops" on the title of the game because Treyarch knew people would buy any new game with black ops on the title the campaign was a rip off Campaign 1/10
ZOMBIES Black ops 3 zombies was pretty good it has a huge map with many Easter eggs and hidden areas people are still finding Easter eggs hidden in Black ops 3 zombies to this day but you can only play black ops 3 zombies so many times before it gets boring Zombies 7/10
MULTIPLAYER Black ops 3 multiplayer just took everything that make call of duty Advanced Warfare special and copied it the map design are all small three lane maps with no soul to be fair it has a pretty decent amount of content it also started up "specialists" which a very cool but Black ops 3 also has loot boxes which always ruin the multiplayer but black ops 3 multiplayer also has some awesome gun camos 6/10
Overall 4/10
Whilst certainly better than the 2 Previous entries COD: BO3 Still suffers from the dull and repetitive nature of its previous titles.
cnaughton-0843525 July 2019
COD BO3 is certainly an improvement from both AW and Ghosts it still struggles to differentiate it self from it other 11 predecessors in the series bringing almost nothing new in terms of gameplay and map design.
The campaign tries to go for a deeper more thought provoking narrative however it still suffers from the tired mechanics of the 'hallway shooter' the campaign has potential story telling wise however all of this is lost due to the dull and boring aspects of gameplay. Little is switched up from Multiplayer to the campaign which ultimately leads to the guns becoming poorly designed and do not work for this new PvE type gameplay.
Like always the guns are fun to upgrade and the perk system provide a sense of variability however the game in general simply elicits a disgruntled 'meh'. Sure I don't hate it but I came out feeling like a had just wasted a few hours where I could have played an actually interesting game.
The campaign tries to go for a deeper more thought provoking narrative however it still suffers from the tired mechanics of the 'hallway shooter' the campaign has potential story telling wise however all of this is lost due to the dull and boring aspects of gameplay. Little is switched up from Multiplayer to the campaign which ultimately leads to the guns becoming poorly designed and do not work for this new PvE type gameplay.
Like always the guns are fun to upgrade and the perk system provide a sense of variability however the game in general simply elicits a disgruntled 'meh'. Sure I don't hate it but I came out feeling like a had just wasted a few hours where I could have played an actually interesting game.
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