Call of Duty: Black Ops III

Call of Duty: Black Ops III - Descent

Descent, the third DLC map pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops III, delivers an all-new mind-bending Zombies experience, along with 4 action-packed Multiplayer maps, which includes a re-imagining of the Call of…

68 12 July 2016 ESRB M

What Call of Duty: Black Ops III - Descent is

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

The premise, in the publisher's words

Descent takes the fight to new Black Ops III Multiplayer environments, including Cryogen: an isolated cryo-prison Berserk: a Viking village frozen in time Rumble: a future robot combat arena and Empire: a re-imagining of the Call of Duty Black Ops II classic, Raid, as a lavish Roman villa. In the latest episode of the Zombies experience 'Gorod Krovi', the Origins characters are hurled into an alternate, war-torn Stalingrad where they will face their most dangerous enemies yet.

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Where it sits in the Call of Duty series

Call of Duty: Black Ops III - Descent is the 142nd of 204 entries we hold in the Call of Duty series. The next entry was Call of Duty: Black Ops III - Salvation in 2016. Its critic score of 68 is 6 points below 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 - Descent holds a critic score of 68 out of 100. That places it above 34% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored about average for its year.

What it launched against

Call of Duty: Black Ops III - Descent launched on 12 July 2016, within three weeks of Inside, Abzu, Starbound and Batman: The Telltale Series. 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: Inside, Abzu, Starbound, Batman: The Telltale Series.

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