Call of Duty: Black Ops III

[OWGKID]

Next title in the CoD franchice. Set in the year 2065 (40 year after the events in BO2) in an age where soldiers are now more machines than humans  :o The MP beta is scheduled for this month across current-gen and PC. Multiplayer has also received heavy modifications (6 attachments on a weapon sounds cool AWESOME. You can also create your own custom camos  (I would probably recreate the Social Club OWG logo) :-D Haven't bought a CoD since BO2 so I hope this will be good  ^-^

Features

• 4-player Co-op campaign
• Customizable protagonists with supersoldier capabilities(you can be a male or a female)
• More open arena style campaign maps
• 9 specialists in MP you can choose from (They have some unique special abilities >:D)
• Two separate zombie stories
• Gunsmith (customize weapons with more features (custom camos, more attachments etc.)
• Gibbing (You can blow up enemies/players to bloody meat chunks similar to Far Cry 4 and blow off body parts similar to WaW and BO1 >:D)

PC features:

• 100% ranked dedicated servers
• 2-player split-screen (rendered across either two monitors or side-by-side, (vertical/horizontal split-screen) ???
• Seamless controller support (probably similar to GTA V where you can switch between controller and KB/M on-the-fly)
• Strong SLI/Crossfire scaling
• FOV slider  :-D
• Treyarch Anti-cheat (TAC)
• Framerate cap slider
• Improved text chat features available in lobbies and in-game
• Steam Trading cards (Collect them ALL!)

System specs (minimum)

• OS (64-bit ONLY): Windows 7, 8, 8.1
• CPU: Intel® Core™ i3-530 @ 2.93 GHz / AMD Phenom™ II X4 810 @ 2.60 GHz
• System RAM: 6 GB
• GPU: Nvidia GeForce® GTX 470 @ 1GB / ATI® Radeon™ HD 6970 @ 1GB
• DirectX version: DX11 and DirectX supported soundcard

Links/Sources
https://community.treyarch.com/community/treyarch/blog/2015/08/06/pc-update-from-gamescom-2015
https://twitter.com/pcdev/status/629264198996881408
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_Duty:_Black_Ops_III

[Art Blade]

+1 :-X for the effort, easy getting up to speed reading a post like that, thanks :)

[OWGKID]

Thanks  ^-^

[Stiku]

If memory serves me, this is what Call of duty has been after the first installment
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[OWGKID]

  :-D :-X

[fragger]

 

Thanks for the information roundup GKID :-X

The only CoD game that really grabbed me was CoD 2, which I still fire up for a quick bit of fast-paced WW2 action from time to time. I've played CoD 1 (early days for that one), CoD 2 (fave), CoD 3 not since it was a console-only, CoD 4: Modern Warfare, CoD World At War and CoD Modern Warfare 2, with progressively diminishing enthusiasm. I admit I haven't tried any of the Black Ops series, but I find the overly-scripted linear nature of these games to be too rigid and repetitive to warrant more than a couple of playthroughs. CoD 2 was actually the least-scripted and most flexible of the series, still surprises me sometimes.

Maybe I'll think about BO III as a bargain-binner someday. MP sounds like the way this one should be played, but I'm not a huge MP fan either.

I've been too spoiled by open-worlders to go in for games like the CoD ones any more :-()

[PZ]

Nice mini-review, GKID +1 for the excellent synopsis  :-X

[OWGKID]

Thank you  ^-^ Can't wait to play zombies again :-() >:D :-D

[OWGKID]

Played some BO3 today, Here are some images  :-()

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What a g(l)orius explosion >:D

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I can see my legs  :-D

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The result after you fire a grenade on someone  >:D

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Ouch...

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Top 3  ^-^ :-D

[Stiku]

Graphically the same as the previous game.

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[nexor]

I hate zombies !!!! had a bellyful of them  in farcry 1   :'(

[fragger]

Yeah, they've been done to death ;)

[OWGKID]

Some images from BO3's zombies mode (Shadows of Evil and The Giant) All pictures were taken at 120 FOV and High settings.

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1st person crawling animation matching the 3rd person one. Previous games didn't used this.

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>:D :-D

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New box design. Note the green abomination of a pistol wielded by Jessica

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PaP camo from SoW

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Customizing a sniper in Zombies

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Applying some green 115 on my rifle.

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The PaP camo from The Giant

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The new PaP machine

[PZ]

Nice  :-X

[Binnatics]

Interesting graphics details. Not what I remember, CoD being very realistic in weapon design. This is all zombie mode? Quite different from the first BO zombie edition with old fashioned WWII style design. Nice :) :-X

[OWGKID]

Welcome to 2065, Binnatics  :-()

[OWGKID]

Mod tools for Black Ops 3 coming soon! This is an alpha version of it, beta expected later :-D