Hey Doods!
So the first major DLC for Black Ops III has dropped on Play Station 4 and next month on Xbox and PC. Well I've been hearing a lot and I've heard enough to do a little informational thing for it, I'm gonna do this for all the DLC but the next times I'll probably wait until the DLC drops on Xbox and PC before doing a post about it. Anyway's! Moving on!
Nuk3town is now my second favorite map though...
There are four multiplayer maps and one zombies map as usual but I'll talk about my favorite multiplayer map first: Skyjacked.
Skyjacked was originally supposed to be an original map of a yacht flying in the sky, but then evolved to be a remake of the fan favorite, Hijacked. Hijacked was a small map, with a similar size to Nuketown and Nuketown 2025. At the time there wasn't a Nuk3town. There were technically three levels but I don't thing many people used the top level unless you were a camper. There were small little dinghies like in GTA but there were three in the back just floating. There was a underdeck area that people used to get to the other spawn easily and un-noticed. In Skyjacked, it is a police boat flying in the sky and there's a hole in the side where you can get into the bottom of the boat. They blocked off all the ladders in the map so you have to use you're boost jumping but for the underground areas you just walk up to them and jump and it mantles you automatically, I thought that was pretty cool. There were vents in the Hijacked version where if you aimed good enough with a grenade it got somebody that was trying to take B flag. This vent is still there in Skyjacked, which is on the bottom level. Other than that there aren't really that many changes. You can still wallbang somebody through the floor if they're taking B flag but that isn't really important.
Gauntlet is a map where there are three different types of map in one. Each environment is one lane since Treyarch likes to keep their three lane method, this is a great example. In the middle is the Icy type of area and this is where B flag is, you can run under B flag and there is a wall run to jump into a window overlooking B. There is also an area where it has a showcase where all the other specialist are, in other words their outfits and weapons. But what's strange is that for Spectre and Prophet there name's are scratched out. This makes sense though because in other countries Prophet is named things like Messanger. Spectre is just a mystery. Although what's weird is that there is a tenth showcase place and it's empty, there is one thing in it though. The Jack of Clubs playing card. This could mean anything but a lot of people are speculating it to be a hint at a tenth specialist DLC. I think that they just put it in there to mess with us though.
I really don't know that much about the other two maps but I've heard that they are really good maps all round.
Now for Der Eisendrache, the zombies map. Der Eisendrache is staged at a castle. There is a robot from Origins in the background if you look hard enough but it doesn't play a part in the Easter Egg. All I really know is all thanks to Mr RoffleWaffles, He's a YouTuber but I can't link his channel because I'm on a school computer but just go look him up on YT, if you are a zombies player, he's the person for you. I'm not going to spoil the Easter egg but I'd give the map an 8.5 out of ten because if you don't know much about the storyline, the map doesn't make sense. I think that too many people are giving it hate though because it's taking some of the stuff from other zombies games and putting it into this one, they thing it's unoriginal but if you think about it, it's really smart because they brought back all of the features that everyone liked. And you can do the Easter egg with any number of people, so this means solo, paired up, triple, or quad. Pretty good move on their part. Although a cool little Easter egg on this map is that if you have an explosive, such as the XM-53 or a grenade, if you go to the church and look at the center at the top of it, there is a little model of Earth and the moon, or at least that's the best way to describe it. If you hit the "Moon" with an explosive, it'll be a disco! I kind of like this Easter egg because it's easy and fun. Plus, if your friends don't know about it they'll have no idea what's going on!
Although I'd give the DLC all and all a 9.75 out of ten simply because the zombies map is way too story based. Other than that, best DLC for COD I've seen yet! Anyway's that'll be it for this post, I'm gonna cover the other new weapons they've added next time but for now, I'm heading out! Bye!
-Zach Out
