Call of Duty: Black Ops III

Call of Duty: Black Ops III - Awakening

Call of Duty: Black Ops III - Awakening is the first DLC pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops 3. Awakening includes four new Multiplayer maps: Skyjacked (a reimagining of "Hijacked" from Black Ops 2), Gauntlet…

78 2 February 2016 ESRB M

What Call of Duty: Black Ops III - Awakening is

Call of Duty: Black Ops III - Awakening is a shooter game developed by Treyarch and released in 2016. It was published by Activision. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB M age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The latest installment of Zombies picks up where The Giant left off, as the Origins characters head to Der Eisendrache on a mission to stop the zombie apocalypse.

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Where it sits in the Call of Duty series

Call of Duty: Black Ops III - Awakening is the 139th of 204 entries we hold in the Call of Duty series. The next entry was Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare - Jackal Assault in 2016. Its critic score of 78 is 5 points above the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - Collection 1 at 90.

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How it was received

Call of Duty: Black Ops III - Awakening holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 10 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Call of Duty: Black Ops III - Awakening launched on 2 February 2016, within three weeks of The Witness, Firewatch, XCOM 2 and Yakuza Kiwami. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: The Witness, Firewatch, XCOM 2, Yakuza Kiwami.

Call of Duty: Black Ops III - Awakening — frequently asked questions

When did Call of Duty: Black Ops III - Awakening come out?

Call of Duty: Black Ops III - Awakening was released on 2 February 2016 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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