Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 Beta review

[djtickle]

Was hoping to try this out today but it's taking an age to download of PSN. 50 hours remaining....

[darkangel]

Took an entire day to download. Only just installed it now. Crazy. Played 5 mins of it. Instant turn off after playing BF4 for months. It's reminded me why I hate twitch shooters so much. I'll get it for the single player, but my main fps of choice will be Battlefront.

[The Moleman]

Took an entire day to download. Only just installed it now. Crazy. Played 5 mins of it. Instant turn off after playing BF4 for months. It's reminded me why I hate twitch shooters so much. I'll get it for the single player, but my main fps of choice will be Battlefront.

This.

I've watched a few vids on youtube and BO3 just looks so meh...

I've put 200+ hours into BF4 and COD just can't hold my attention anymore. It's the same game year after year with less imaginative maps and no new ideas.

[dvdx2]

Thought it played rather nicely - encounter a bit of nasty lag, but after this really enjoyed it.

If they can polish it more and sort out the problems, i'll definitely pick this up a launch. Very fast gameplay though, blink and your dead.

[djtickle]

Had a good blast on this today and really enjoyed it. The whole jet pack vibe seems to have been toned down from the last which works for me. I enjoyed it in titanfall but not in CoD.

Maps on team deathmatch played well and I didn't have any lag at all, not sure though if this is because I'm playing on a work day during the day though. Will play some more later as it's the last day of the beta. Looking forward to comparing the Xbox one version in a couple of days.

[Wools]

Must admit, it's done nothing for me.

I've long since fallen out of COD but completed the campaign of COD Advanced Warfighter and really enjoyed it, multiplayer less so. The twitch aiming of past COD games was turned up several notches because of the vertical gameplay and I just felt overwhelmed. Yet rather oddly, I never felt that in what I briefly played of Titanfall.

It feels like Activision continue to keep getting faster, louder and brighter with every release and what i enjoyed was slower paced, more considered and with tactics in advance rather than on the fly. Does anyone think that eventually COD will drop off a real cliff and they'll revert to the COD2 / COD4 Modern Warfare mould to reboot it?

[jim g]

I would love to be in the meetings when they design these games. Nearly every forum, web page etc., slags the games constant adding silly things to it and we (the customer) say the opposite. Do they guys ever listed to feedback?

[dvdx2]

To be fair its a beta, so still time for improvement

[EDDIE M0NS00N]

This is a gonna be a big problem, if true:

[dvdx2]

This is a gonna be a big problem, if true:

This video does not exist?

[EDDIE M0NS00N]

Fixed now (bloody phones eh!!)

[Neon Ignition]

Is his complaint that the specialist rewards charge up too quick? If so I did notice that they charge even if you're not killing enemies so you definitely get a couple per match. They're not massively useful though so couldn't see them making a huge difference when the full game releases.

[EDDIE M0NS00N]

I think its a combination of the Specialist ability & the fact that you wont even have to earn a scorestreak or killstreak or whatever it is these days. All you have to do is wait for an opponent to lob up 1 of their killstreaks & hack it

[Neon Ignition]

Yup, the beta did leave me feeling like the killstreaks were fairly redundant. The only one widely used was the drone which is over powered

[goldsmith]

Biggest pile of **** ever. Why don't they give up **** developers living off infinity wards great work. Leeches.