Call of Duty: Black Ops III’s single-player campaign takes you deep into a cybernetic quandary

Since it occurs in the year 2060, about 35 years after the previous game’s story, the single-player campaign of Call of Duty: Black Ops III is a new story that takes the franchise deeper into military science fiction.

The villain from the last game is a distant memory. And the creators of Black Ops III at Treyarch Studios have had the opportunity to conceive a new set of characters, landscapes, and weaponry to hold the fans of the franchise spellbound. Just about every soldier is going to be cybernetics-enhanced, like the old TV series, The Six Million Dollar Man, or Square Enix’s Deux Ex: Human Revolution video game. You can expect the campaign to fully explore the ethics of enhancing people with computers and other abilities.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.