Call of Duty Black Ops 3 Beta | Review
Last week Activsion released its beta for the highly anticipated Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, and our gaming division took the time to test it. At first our team found it very difficult just to download the beta,but after a few calls to Xbox customer service number we found a way to download it. (as seen on our Instagram) We immediately noticed that unlike the previous versions of the Black Ops franchise, this time around they have a class system. This class system allows the player to choose between group of seven specialists based on their unique abilities.

- Reaper (Real name: Experimental War Robot)
- Bio: Started as an expensive
military R&D project to supplement Special Operations soldiers in
the field, the EWR was a cutting-edge prototype combat robot, the most
advanced in the world at the time. Budget overruns and embarrassing
political incidents left the project all but a resource for scrap metal,
except for the one prototype that remained. - Power Weapon: Scythe – transforms Reaper’s robotic arm into a powerful mini-gun
- Ability: Psychosis–Infiltrate enemy DNI systems to simulate three instanced decoy Reapers.
- Bio: Started as an expensive
- Outrider (Real name: Alessandra Castillo)
- Bio: Developed keen observations
kills growing up in the streets of the Favela, traversing the rooftops
to watch the action of the city below, and this earned her a place in
the ranks of the Brazilian Special Forces. She outsmarts enemies by
finding them before they have a chance to know what hit them. - Power Weapon: Sparrow – compound bow featuring explosive bolts that stick in enemies.
- Ability: Vision Pulse – senses where nearby enemies are and highlights them for a short period of time.
- Bio: Developed keen observations
- Seraph (Real name: Zhen Zhen)
- Bio: Militant enforcer of the 54I
crime syndicate’s rule of law. She is known for her focused and
unflinching combat discipline, striking fear within the ranks of the
cartel. - Power Weapon: Annihilator – high-caliber revolver that instantly kills any enemies in the bullet’s path.
- Ability: Combat Focus – temporarily adds a multiplier to score in order to help players rack up scorestreaks.
- Bio: Militant enforcer of the 54I
- Ruin (Real name: Donnie Walsh)
- Bio: Raised in a military family
in a tough neighborhood, he is fearless and headstrong, an infantry
soldier through and through. He uses his unique abilities to rush into
battle and surprise the enemy with sheer force. - Power Weapon: Gravity Spikes – creates a devastating area of effect shock wave in the surrounding area.
- Ability: Overdrive – gives players a burst of speed for a short period of time
- Bio: Raised in a military family
- Prophet (Real name: David Wilkes)
- Bio: Wilkes got his first set of
cybernetic augmentations while serving in the British Engineering Corps.
Five years and many upgrades later, he is the embodiment of cutting
edge of human weaponry on the battlefield, using his superior technology
to disrupt opponents’ tactics before moving in for the kill. - Power Weapon: Tempest – the
tempest is a lighting gun. Once it’s charged, it will shock and kill
enemies within a wide range of area. This weapon is one of the most
powerful ones we’ve seen yet. - Ability: Glitch – Hack the battlefield – When
having this ability equipped, Prophet can relocate himself back to the
previous location. This is especially helpful if he’s entered a
dangerous situation.
- Bio: Wilkes got his first set of
- Nomad (Real name: Tavo Rojas)
- Bio: Last surviving member of an
elite Rapid Deployment Force unit specialized in Jungle Warfare, Rojas
has gone off-grid using his survivalist training to stay alive. At home
in the wild, he uses his skills to turn the environment against his
foes. - Power Weapon: Hive – with the Hive, you deploy pod traps. Once an enemy comes near the traps, they’re dead. It’s basically a more deadly C4.
- Ability: Rejack – now, we’re gonna go ahead and say
this: it’s basically a nerfed down version of Final Stand. When
equipped with this, if your character enters a ‘near death’ experience,
you inject yourself with some nano particles into your blood stream, you
character pauses, and then your health comes back.
- Bio: Last surviving member of an
- Battery (Real name: Erin Baker)
- Bio: The only daughter and youngest child of five siblings, Erin
Baker always had to fight to get her way. Following in a family
tradition of over 100 years of military service, and watching her
brothers enter the US Army one-by-one, she finally graduated high school
and enrolled herself. Driven to excel by her ongoing rivalry with her
brothers, she volunteered for Airborne School, before crushing the
Ranger Assessment and Selection Program. Heavily armored, she fearlessly
operates ahead of the front lines, nimbly traversing urban
environments, as she destroys HVTs with salvoes of advanced
high-explosive munitions. - Weapon: War Machine – Grenade launcher that fires bouncing grenades
which detonate after a short time or by hitting an enemy directly. - Ability: Kinetic Armor – Reactive armor that deflects enemy bullets
away from the body. Still vulnerable to headshots and non-bullet damage
while active.
- Bio: The only daughter and youngest child of five siblings, Erin
- Spectre (Real name: Classified)
- Bio: Next to nothing is known about the presumed wet-works
Specialist, Spectre. The designation itself is a codename agreed upon by
the various agencies that have pooled their intelligence on unsolved
assassinations, inferring his or her existence based on either evidence
found at the scene or from fragmentary reports given by shaken
bystanders. Despite heavy redaction, all accounts suggest an individual
capable of extraordinary stealth, able to evade or neutralize the most
sophisticated of manned or automated security set-ups. In every case,
Spectre’s victims have been ‘handled’ with surgically precise mid-line
wounds with rarely any signs of struggle. - Weapon: Ripper – Spectre deploys mono-edged twin blades before gracefully dissecting victims with lethal, surgical precision.
- Ability: Active Camo: Advanced meta-materials rapidly change their
properties, guiding photons over their surfaces instead of reflecting
them, rendering Spectre temporarily invisible.
- Bio: Next to nothing is known about the presumed wet-works
Each specialists abilities allows the player a different experience when with each round. The gameplay and load times are both fast and smooth. Though this was not without its faults, there where a few times the game stopped working and caused errors with both our streaming account, as well as on our Xbox console. If would crash as we loaded the game/make our console crash.

Pros: A faster pace game than both its predecessor and Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare while giving more features than both as well. Offering a class system giving you the ability to get a wide verity of weapons based on this system.
Cons: The beta constantly crashed one out of the four times we started the beta,and there were several times it crashed during full gameplay. Issues we hope will be fixed before the full version is available in November.
Final Verdict: By far the best of the Call of Duty console games in recent years,and if this beta is in anyway what the full version of the game will be like….it is worth buying.