Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 is pretty good, if you’re in to the series. At least it is on the new consoles. It’s very nearly broken on PC, and is missing half of the game on the old consoles. For a long while now, I’ve been saying that the old-gen versions are garbage. They run at 30fps and look worse than the 360 and PS3 versions of the first Black Ops. They’re unlikely to get new maps as DLC, and contain just the multiplayer and the Zombies bits – with anything resembling a campaign nowhere to be seen.
Turns out there was meant to be one, and the decision to scrap it obviously came later in development than you’d imagine. An enterprising modder has pulled apart the game’s files on the Xbox 360 and found early, playable code from the single-player campaign. According to Neondiscovery (via Gearnuke), its runs well below 30fps, but what’s more jarring is that it’s obviously very much unfinished – missing many things people take for granted in video games. Things like textures.
Take a look:
Judging by those, it’s probably a good thing the campaign was scrapped. Treyarch has previously said that memory constraints are responsible for Black Ops 3’s extricated last gen campaign.
“You know you could simplify things down, but I think [Activision] made the right choice because I would hate for people to get an experience that wasn’t true to the vision of it. As the director I’m incredibly passionate about the experience being a pure experience, that you get what I was trying to have you get.”
According to the latest data from GfK, 91% of the physical copies of the game sold were on PS4 and Xbox One in the UK. Just five per cent were on Xbox 360 and three per cent were on PS3. While that seems insignificant, the old gen versions still outsold Halo 5 and Assassins Creed: Syndicate last week.
Last Updated: November 11, 2015
Dutch Matrix
November 11, 2015 at 10:42
Meh. If they yanked that code, they could have labeled the game Blaps 3…
Greylingad[CNFRMD]
November 11, 2015 at 10:53
Wow, those grefix!
James Anderton
November 11, 2015 at 10:58
Still better than Fallout 4
*heuheuheu*
Greylingad[CNFRMD]
November 11, 2015 at 11:01
Oomph, ouch….
But you are correct, I’ve personally grown used to the looks of The Witcher 3, it still looks like an oil painting, every vista, no, every moment in that game is breathtaking…
James Anderton
November 11, 2015 at 11:04
Ok, but to be serious did anyone see that video posted on reddit about the simulation STILL being tied to FPS.
Disgusting.
It’s 2015 Bethesda, 2015.
Greylingad[CNFRMD]
November 11, 2015 at 12:49
It could be 2277, they wouldn’t care…
James Anderton
November 11, 2015 at 13:05
Oh you. I see what you did there.
Hammersteyn
November 11, 2015 at 10:54
One thing though. Treyarch worked on BLOPS3 for three years. After playing the game I’m wondering what they did the first two years.
Dutch Matrix
November 11, 2015 at 10:55
Polishing their knobs sorry meant to say code…
Greylingad[CNFRMD]
November 11, 2015 at 10:55
Shoh…. That bad hey?
Hammersteyn
November 11, 2015 at 10:56
With the story,MP and zombies combined….. I dunno, maybe they cut half of the content for DLC?
Greylingad[CNFRMD]
November 11, 2015 at 10:58
Oigh… Just as well I didn’t get it, it’s a shame really, the idea of content not being included into the actual games anymore, I suppose milking the gamer community will be the next big Olympic sport…
Hammersteyn
November 11, 2015 at 11:03
https://media.giphy.com/media/aacOScXMXvjpK/giphy.gif
Dutch Matrix
November 11, 2015 at 11:04
I… Just… I want my Mommy… *Crawls under the desk, curls up and cries.
Grand Admiral Chief SpaceNinja
November 11, 2015 at 11:06
*2.5
Hammersteyn
November 11, 2015 at 11:08
So they didn’t work on the PC version?
Grand Admiral Chief SpaceNinja
November 11, 2015 at 13:22
25 minutes