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Call of Duty®: Black Ops III – Zombies Chronicles Edition (Windows)

Call of Duty®: Black Ops III – Zombies Chronicles Edition (Windows)

Deal overview

Call of Duty®: Black Ops III – Zombies Chronicles Edition (Windows) is currently 75% off on Xbox — down to $14.99 from $59.99.

At 75% off, this is one of the deepest discounts Call of Duty®: Black Ops III – Zombies Chronicles Edition (Windows) reaches on Xbox — near its typical floor.

That works out to $45 off the Xbox list price of $59.99.

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About this game

How it plays

Black Ops III splits its time across three modes, and this Zombies Chronicles edition leans hard into the one it’s named after. You still get the full base game, meaning the Campaign and Multiplayer suites are there if you want the complete Treyarch package, built around a faster, more vertical movement system that lets you slide, wall-run, and boost through firefights instead of just walking them. But the real draw is the eight remastered Zombies maps pulled from three different eras of the series: the original trio from World at War, four fan-favorite Black Ops maps, and Origins from Black Ops II. Each one has been rebuilt to run on Black Ops III’s engine, so the lighting, textures, and effects look sharper than the originals while the map layouts, Easter eggs, and wave-survival structure stay true to what people already loved. It’s the same loop that’s defined Zombies since the beginning: barricade windows, manage your points, unlock paths, and survive as long as you can with a crew, now just presented with a fresh coat of paint.

Who it’s for

This one’s built for people who already have a soft spot for Call of Duty Zombies, especially anyone who missed these maps the first time around or wore out their memory of Kino Der Toten and Origins years ago. If you and a few friends have a standing tradition of loading into a Zombies map on a weekend night, this collects a lot of the community’s most requested content in one place. It’s less essential if Zombies never clicked for you or you’re mainly after competitive multiplayer, since that mode here is showing its age and won’t compete with anything current. Campaign fans should know it’s a solid, moody sci-fi shooter, but it’s not the headline feature of this particular package.

Is it worth it?

For the audience it’s aimed at, this is a lot of content bundled together: a full shooter campaign, multiplayer, and eight maps of Zombies that would have otherwise been scattered across three separate old games. If you’re the type who replays Zombies maps for hours with friends, the value is easy to see, since you’re getting years of community favorites in one modern build rather than hunting down old hardware or discs. It’s the kind of catalog title that makes a lot of sense to pick up during a sale rather than at full price, particularly if Multiplayer isn’t a priority for you, since that’s the mode that’s aged the least gracefully. Anyone lukewarm on Zombies as a genre should treat it as a nice-to-have rather than a must-buy.

Quick facts

Genre: Shooter. Publisher: Activision Publishing Inc. Platform: PC (Xbox store listing). Release date: December 16, 2024.

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