Treyarch’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 continues the series’ focus on future warfare, seemingly ditching the Cold War intrigue of its forebears in favour of robots, drones, and robot-drones.
This time around you’ll also be able to experience the series’ signature bombastic story campaign in four-player co-op mode, each of you customising a separate character with various different abilities and powers. Here’s just over ten minutes of this co-operative blasting in action.
I’m still a bit sad that Treyarch seems to have dropped the ahistorical nonsense that marked the previous Black Ops games, but it’s nice to see a playable co-op campaign – too many games omit one for no good reason.
“Designed for four-player online co-op or solo play, players will encounter epic cinematic moments and open-area gameplay,” writes Treyarch, “allowing players to approach the game with a different strategy each time they play. And now your campaign character is completely customizable: from weapons and loadouts, to abilities and outfits, all with full progression systems and a personalized armory to show off accomplishments. With these and many more exciting new features, Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 aims to deliver a constantly-evolving campaign experience. “
Powers shown off in the ‘Cyber Core Tutorial’ that opens the demo include tiny nanobot swarms, concussive waves, fake airstrikes and more. Messing around with all that in the company of a few friends looks like it will be pretty fun.
Call of Duty: Black ops 3 drops this November 6 on PC and next-gen consoles.
