If you’re still kicking around your last-gen machines, don’t expect this year’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 to be anywhere near as meaty as Sledgehammer’s Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.
Last year’s annual Call of Duty shipped across both generations of consoles and remained more or less the same basic experience, though obviously the PS4, Xbox One and PC had a lot more going on in terms of effects than the PS3 and Xbox 360 releases.
This year however, Treyarch’s Black Ops 3 won’t be the full-package that we’d all expected as it won’t be shipping with a campaign. No, instead, you’ll pay a slightly lower price of $49.99 and only get the Multiplayer and Zombie modes to play with.
It’s a shame for those who were looking forward to the story content, but at the same time it sort of makes sense. According to Treyarch it just wasn’t possible to achieve the ambitious scope of the four-player co-op story mode on the last-gen consoles.
Call of Duty used to be all about the single-player experience, but over the years the multiplayer suite has taken center stage and is what keeps bringing players back year after year, so hopefully the omission of the story mode won’t sadden too many folks. Still, it’s a shame non-the-less.
However, it’s probably about time that cross-generation releases stopped, so perhaps this really could be the last Call of Duty to release on the PS3 and Xbox 360 – it’s just a shame it’s going out on a bit of a flop.
Will you still buy Black Ops 3 for the online gameplay and zombies, or will you be giving it a miss until you get your next-gen machine? Comments are down below, feel free to leave one. Or two.