Black Ops III's singleplayer campaign takes COD off-rails

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Black Ops III's singleplayer campaign takes COD off-rails

Added: 26.04.2015 18:17 | 11 views | 0 comments

Call Of Duty isn't usually recognised as being particularly innovative, because most of its experiments take place within the strictures imposed by its spectacularly cinematic campaigns, fan expectations, and each game's short development cycle. There have been efforts to shake things up over the years the RTS-style Strike missions in Black Ops 2 and the exo abilities in last years excellent Advanced Warfare spring to mind but theres always the familar beats of a stealth level or two, some on-rails turret sections, and vehicle passages that never quite feel like their inclusion in completely justified. With Black Ops 3, Treyarch appears to finally be making substantive changes to a gameplay formula that has been refined and recycled over and over since 2007s Modern Warfare: its adding co-op functionality for up to four, and in the process is removing the rails from under a game thats trundled along them for more than a decade.