On a high-end system, it can be gorgeous, but it's prone to stuttering and crashes on mid-range hardware. While some of its launch problems have been solved, Blops 3 still suffers from optimization issues.
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Reviewed on: Windows 8, i5 4690k, 8GB RAM, GTX 970 Having a drunk philosophy student quote Benjamin Franklin’s line about liberty and safety doesn’t make a frat party a symposium on foreign relations. Having a character say the word “symbiotic” isn’t the same as realizing augmented humans might not be human any more. Raising the question isn’t the same as addressing it. And that’s the million-dollar problem, really. This game looks those questions in the eye and isn’t afraid to think about maybe getting ready to say something semi-meaningful. This imaginary realm is where Blops 3 is most comfortable trying out its more scary ideas: Where is the line between individual freedom and communal safety? Is the cyborg future of transhumanism inevitable? Why do governments treat soldiers as disposable rags? What happens when we create artificial life-and, inevitably, what happens when that life decides it doesn’t need us? Enemies explode into a murder of crows, walking through a doorway makes time spin backward, and Symbolism with a capital S is everywhere. Acid-tripping your way through the brain of a long-suffering veteran is a great way to see some serious shit. The last couple of missions in particular dive deep into a psychological thriller genre that Blops has never explored before: the inner workings of the human mind. He’s a square-jawed stack of vanilla in a borrowed protagonist’s uniform, and he’s always saying things like “Spread out!” (I’m alone) and “Eliminate those tangoes, double-time” (what?) and “Let’s take it to ‘em!“ (please stop).Īs a work of speculative fiction, Blops 3 gets points in my book for trying to say something. It’s no wonder, then, that the player’s wingman, Hendricks, is my least favorite character in the game. The more a character has to say, the more I hate them. Boy, that facial capture technology is really coming along, huh? The acting is decent across the board, but the script-it is not. The best acting in the game comes from a stunningly realistic, animated Christopher Meloni. Why do they even bother with this bullshit? On a hunch, I took my hand off the mouse and watched the dogfight just successfully resolve itself. The worst part of the game is in the skies over Egypt, a fighter jet attack sequence screams at me to pull up, pull up, pull up for God’s sake. There are at least three of those slow-mo breach-and-clear sequences, each one more rote than the last.
There are turret sequences that don’t care if you shoot anything as long as you watch the explosions. The weather effects are much less successful when they start to interact with the game, though-a terrible sequence in Singapore, walking slowly through high waves for no reason, comes to mind as a complete waste of time.Īnd Blops 3 isn’t completely immune to the series’ established bad habits. Weather events like monsoons and sandstorms are powerful and dangerous, even if they usually just amount to flashy backcloth. Blops 3’s locations feel distinct, interesting, and lived-in. It mostly allows you to pace yourself, and it’s nice to have a minute to admire the scenery. Though Blops 3 is built out of tightly controlled corridors, as always, I didn’t have any problems with failing a mission because I took a wrong turn.
Is it a Russian robot? Is the robot angry because it misses Russia? The bad guys don’t get a lot of screentime, so I’m not sure.Įach Black Ops game has gotten more loosely scripted and started to back away from its most egregious errors-mainly, going mental if the player takes a step out of line. Now there’s a robot beating you to death with your own arms.
The details are unimportant and sparse: there’s a new Cold War (with Russia?) going on and a mission in Ethiopia (?) went completely pear-shaped. The story follows a special forces soldier as he-or, in a first for Call of Duty campaigns, she-gets the ever-loving crap kicked out of them by an angry robot. Someday, Call of Duty might be more than a brash no-brainer entertainer-but this is not that day. Blops 3 has an ambitious single-player campaign that takes some wild chances which it mostly almost manages to land, and it’s easy to recommend as a loud, dumb action movie-ish experience. These are the things that make Call of Duty the giant that it is. It features wild set-pieces, good actors, and guns that feel great. Call of Duty is not made by rookie developers, though, so let’s establish a few givens: This is a gorgeous game.
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