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Campaign only review. Did not play multiplayer due to the fact Activision REALLY loves engaging players into Warzone making them suffer into the sturdy, unoptimized online we have today.
I had never played a Call of Duty campaign in my life but to say this one was quite done out of context due because i don't even know the earlier Black Ops campaigns before this one. This was the first FPS game i've ever played with a controller even if i actually prefer playing with Mouse & Keyboard, so well, this game had been a bit rough to play for the first time.

Gameplay is a bit solid as it brings on the legacy of the CoD series. Throught the game you can customize weapons and perks to fit into your play style, which is quite nice. The campaign has about tens of missions that take a significant amount of minutes to complete (i believe at least half an hour each), just as if they were episodes of your favourite action TV series and are quite varying based on the mood.
Since it's the first CoD i've played rather than starting off with all-time classics like Modern Warfare 2 (NOT talking about the reboot series which i'll NEVER play it because of how Activision became today), i'm not even sure if the story is that good at all, as Black Ops III takes place in a distant future unlike how the first two entries took place in realistic Cold War settings. Humans in the future have microchips implemented on them, you can fight a mecha... basically, Black Ops became a sort of Titanfall in this game. Later on in the story you basically encounter an malevolent AI, Corvus, who is behind most of the game's events, and things get weird as you enter into people's minds. Now you tell me if this is just Cold War anymore. (I really don't remember the story that much, i tried explaining it by memory).

It's not a bad game, honestly, but it was also a bizarre first experience of the franchise for the campaign itself.
There's a Zombie campaign which however never got interest and probably never will because as of today i'm literally done with Call of Duty due to Activision's treatment of bringing it as a mainstream multiplayer franchise rather how it used to be a campaign funfest back when the very first one released until the arrival of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019).

Reviewed on Aug 13, 2022


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