Call of Duty: Black Ops III
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
Realistic first-person gunfire, explosions, and melee against human, robotic, and undead enemies with blood spray throughout combat.
The campaign centers on psychological breakdown, death, and grim near-future war atrocities.
Strong profanity, including f-words, appears in campaign dialogue between soldiers.
The Zombies and Nightmares modes fill maps with hordes of undead in a frightening, gore-tinged atmosphere.
The game historically included purchasable Black Market supply drops (loot boxes) yielding weapons and cosmetics.
The Zombies storyline features occult ritual imagery, dark altars, summoning symbols, and Lovecraftian artifacts.
Enemies and zombies can be dismembered, with limbs blown off during heavy weapon fire.
Drugs and narcotics are referenced in dialogue and story background.
The campaign references and briefly depicts interrogation and coercive violence inflicted on captives.
Any loot-box or currency purchases are optional and not required to progress.
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What it is
This entry in the Call of Duty series puts the action in a first-person view and takes place in the year 2065, a future era where troops carry cybernetic augmentations. The package contains three parts: a plot-driven campaign built around team-based firefights that pit the player against both people and machines, ranked matches played against others over the internet, and a sizable undead survival mode where the goal is repelling successive assaults from the dead — the Zombies Chronicles version tacks on additional zombie levels. Fighting is depicted with grit and heavy blood, showing weapons fire, blasts, and limbs being blown apart on the screen, while the plotline dwells on grim material about conflict and a mind coming apart. Players will encounter harsh language, mentions of drugs, and ritualistic occult visuals threaded across the zombie narrative. Matches over the network pair users with unknown people via spoken and typed messaging, and the title lets fans build and share their own levels and modifications.
How it's framed
Fighting is cast as courageous elite-unit duty, and downing enemies earns the player points that fuel advancement, yet the campaign portrays its vision of tomorrow's battles and a fracturing psyche as grim and ethically troubled instead of celebratory. Within the undead mode, the bloodshed and ritual occult content are handled as exaggerated, comic-book-style scary fun.
Details
- Developer
- Treyarch
- Publisher
- Activision
- Released
- Nov 5, 2015
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