No Campaign Mode In PS3 And Xbox 360 Versions Of Call Of Duty: Black Ops III

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Apparently, the campaign in Black Ops III is so hardcore that it couldn’t be scaled down for last-gen consoles. Maybe it’ll be released as DLC in the form of a 10-minute, text-only trailer to explain everything.

The Black Ops 3 PS3 and Xbox 360 versions will feature Multiplayer and Zombies gameplay only, not Campaign. The ambitious scope of the 1-4 player coop Campaign design of the PS4, Xbox One and PC versions could not be faithfully recreated on old generation hardware.
 
mccalejk said:
The Xbox 360 and PS3 versions are $50 according to IGN.
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Sorry, on my phone so didn't switch over to the article. That is way more than I think it should be. I could see $35 - $40. But $50 instead of $60 is not enough cut off the price for a less than complete version of the game.
 
Less than complete?

I'd say leaving out the entire game is grounds for this being a $20 title.
 
I thought the campaign story was an after thought on those games anyways? I was under the impression people only bought it for the multiplayer. Why else would the campaigns be so short, so linear and so mono-dimensional?
 
Nimisys said:
I thought the campaign story was an after thought on those games anyways? I was under the impression people only bought it for the multiplayer. Why else would the campaigns be so short, so linear and so mono-dimensional?
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kids.
 
We complain when companies don't take full advantage of the next gen hardware or PC and then we complain when they do and it breaks backwards compatibility with older hardware ... no way to win on this one :cool:
 
kbrickley said:
We complain when companies don't take full advantage of the next gen hardware or PC and then we complain when they do and it breaks backwards compatibility with older hardware ... no way to win on this one :cool:
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well said...no way to win
 
You guys are missing the point. How many think that both Microsoft and Sony could have something to do with this in an attempt to get more people onto the PS XB bandwagon?
 
kbrickley said:
We complain when companies don't take full advantage of the next gen hardware or PC and then we complain when they do and it breaks backwards compatibility with older hardware ... no way to win on this one :cool:
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As somebody that plays a few of the games, I can say I understand this choice. Black ops 2 on any given day will have between 80k and 150k playing it. Ghost on the 360 I normally see about 8 or 9k, on the one I notice a little more, but not much maybe 12-14k. So they are going to want to try to get those playing black ops 2 on the 360 to jump to black ops 3. So I fully understand doing what they can to give those potential customers a way to keep playing. I also understand that to take full advantage of new hardware you can't make things work on the old. Mortal Kombat X on last Gen consoles was scrapped as they didn't feel they could give them a good enough experience. In this case they could scrap part of the game and leave some. So good, that means those that can't afford or don't want a new console yet or gaming PC can still play the multiplayer part of the game still and not be fully left out. But they should at least price the game accordingly since they are not giving you as much.
 
Meh, the Call of Duty and Battlefield games barely had a campaign game anyway. Maybe 6 hours worth of gameplay? No real loss.
 
amdgamer said:
You guys are missing the point. How many think that both Microsoft and Sony could have something to do with this in an attempt to get more people onto the PS XB bandwagon?
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I don't think that is the case. From a tech standpoint the new hardware can deal with higher poly counts, better texture resolution,more complex effects and particle systems and larger and more complex levels. There really isn't a way to port all of that to old gen hardware properly. Multiplayer and zombies are much smaller and more isolated cases which is what makes it possible.
 
And they are still charging $50 for this? Still too expensive, half the cost should be more realistic, I suppose.
 
The fact that they are releasing a version of the game for the previous Gen consoles is almost a surprise to me. At least they are doing what they can. The price is too high for an incomplete game in my opinion though.

There's a good chance I'm not going to bother with thus game even though I have PS4, XBOX ONE and PC. There are other more compelling games on the horizon. I hardly even played the last game due to frustration in the multilayer (I'm horrible at the game, get worse every year it seems). I played through the single player but man, it was super short...
 
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