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Call Of Duty: Black Ops III Multiplayer & New Features At The E3 2015

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It's the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) ongoing right now at the Los Angeles Convention Center and for FPS games, which includes a good number of airsoft players, it's about the latest updates in first person shooters that will be released this year. For this genre, the biggest title of them all is Call of Duty, with Black Ops III set to be released in November 2015.

Call of Duty: Black Ops III is set in 50 years in the future where Super Humans, enhanced by breakthroughs in medical technology, are the basis for "super soldiers" that the U.S. government is trying to keep secret as revealed in a previous COD Black Ops III released in April 2015. With such abilities, it means more options for the FPS gamer in playing both campaign and multiplayer game. We've seen jetpacks and robots in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Black Ops III will give you the same, and much more. That includes teleportation abilities and more advanced weaponry.

The campaign mode has evolved from a strictly single player campaign to the option of having coop campaign play, allowing up to 4 players to cooperate in a campaign. With such an option, there are different ways of going through the campaign, which also means different gaming experiences. Here's a 4 minute trailer showing a coop campaign, brought to you by IGN:

Those at the E3, especially the journalists, got to have a hands on with the multiplayer mode of the game.  Now, there are specialist classes to choose from which for those who have been playing rival FPS games such as the Battlefield series is something that they are familiar with.

Each specialist has a special ability with the Outrider being a female specialist who is armed with a bow and exploding arrows and combat focus ability to see enemies behind walls. The other one is called Reaper and this is a robot that has an arm that transforms into a mini gun. But what the ability that I like about the Reaper is the Glitch which teleports you back to your last position a couple of seconds ago. The character with the Gravity Spikes is Ruin and has can move fast with the Overdrive ability. Seraph can do multi-kill with his handgun provided that they are lined up for the multi-kill shot.

At the E3, two more Specialists were added. Prophet is more of an engineer who has the Tempest which is a lightning gun that can zap the target and other enemies within close proximity. Like the Reaper, he also has the Glitch ability. The other Specialist is Nomad that uses the Hive weapon. He releases a bunch of nano drones that can take out the enemy. He also has the Rejack ability that he can nurse himself quickly back to full health.

All the Specialists' special weapons and abilities are show in the E3 2015 Multiplayer Reveal Trailer. Also announced is the Gunsmith, allowing you to customize your weapon with fully six attachment to equip and give it unique look with the Weapon Paint Shop.

Also, Sony scored an exclusive deal that the DLCs will first arrive to the PlayStation 4. Before it was the Microsoft XBox.

Will all these changes and enhancements help of Call of Duty retain its gamer base as it goes up with another bigger franchise, the Star Wars movie franchise, which will be releasing the Star Wars Battlefront video game, before Episode 7 "The Force Awakens" premieres in December? It will probably become an epic battle, but for us FPS gamers, it's all about choice and it's all good.

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