Ignore the plot though, and this is, by an enormous margin, the best Call of Duty campaign Treyarch has ever designed. It’s like if the new Star Wars focused heavily on Wookie politics as conveyed through drug hallucinations. The plot is a total mess, a disaster even, but there’s something oddly endearing about seeing the biggest franchise in modern gaming going so, so weird. Katie Sackhoff appears too as a character seemingly designed to generate confusion.īut this mania has allowed Treyarch to go to some great, dark, weird places with their levels. Christopher Meloni takes the celebrity cameo spot previously owned by the likes of Gary Oldman, Kiefer Sutherland and Kevin Spacey, and gives a performance so hammy that he seems to be in on a joke with the player that the scriptwriter maybe wasn’t aware of. program, or something, and there’s some sort of weird cult brainwashing thing happening (possibly) that I couldn’t wrap my head around. The game is set in the future, your character has cybernetic implants, you play through people’s memories and thoughts (I think), there’s a metaphorical forest that was created by a rogue A.I. I could not possibly hope to summarise it, nor will I pretend that I understood it. The plot will be dissected and explaining by hardcore fans until it makes sense, but on the screen the writing is reminiscent of the rambling journal of a maniac. It’s worth saying, up front, that the campaign is absolute bonkers. It’s also as assertive and confident as can be, in some very interesting ways. Black Ops III doubles down hard on what came immediately before it – the future tech, the zombies, the increased mobility – and ends up feeling both familiar and fresh. It would be hard to go back from the bizarre, exciting, frantic game Treyarch have created here to prior entries in the series. It doesn’t reinvent the CoD formula, but it pushes the series much further in the interesting direction Advanced Warfare and Black Ops II were hinting at. Call of Duty, at its worst (see Call of Duty: Ghosts), can feel pretty soulless, and every year people wonder if the whole enterprise is going to fall apart.īut Call of Duty: Black Ops III feels like something new. Gone are the days where these games seemed to actually have something to say about warfare, and although Advanced Warfare showed off some new tricks it hasn’t been clear whether Infinity Ward and Treyarch were going to try new things too. Where do you start with Call of Duty? It’s hard not to wonder, in the lead up to a new Call of Duty game, what the series might have left to give.
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