Call of Duty 3
Call of Duty 3 is a Xbox shooter game released in 2006 developed by Treyarch. It centers on aiming, shooting, and weapon use, combat encounters, and area and route exploration, with controls and information arranged around the Duke or Controller S twin sticks, analog triggers, directional pad, and face buttons.
- AI score · out of 10
- 7.5 / 10
About this game
Call of Duty 3 is a Xbox shooter game centered on aiming, shooting, and weapon use, combat encounters, and area and route exploration. Missions pace progress through enemy waves, routes, objectives, and weapon opportunities, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Aiming feedback, projectiles, hits, and danger zones need to remain readable, while standard or progressive-scan video, widescreen support, HDD caching, and Dolby Digital audio need to preserve action, state, and text readability together. The genre-specific limitation is that camera turning, aiming methods, dense encounters, and peripheral support can increase control pressure. Platform conditions also include disc loading, the internal HDD and cache, memory units, regional language, display modes, legacy controller ports, and retired Xbox Live services affect present-day use. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.
Collected in series
Call of Duty is a military first-person shooter series spanning historical battles and fictional conflicts. You move between cover, aim and fire under pressure, whether following a cinematic mission or contesting objectives against other players. Different branches add their own emphasis, including cooperative Zombies survival.
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Original Xbox
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Solid Xbox campaign and broad launch modes, with occasional bugs.
The original Xbox Call of Duty 3 follows four Allied viewpoints during the Normandy breakout across fourteen missions. Cover advances, smoke, timed grenades and occasional tank or route choices keep the shooting active, although endlessly replenished outdoor enemies and shallow close-combat button sequences expose its scripting. A direct Xbox and PS2 comparison places the campaign at roughly eight to ten hours. Its character stories are slight, but the Xbox launch edition added sixteen-player online matches, six rule sets, seven soldier kits, eight maps and some vehicles. Those are historical features, not a promise of current service. Smoke, orchestral music and positional squad chatter make its battlefields feel broad. Blurry textures and brown-grey silhouettes occasionally hinder target recognition. Compared with PS2, the Xbox version ran and played online more smoothly in the review, but campaign bugs could trap the player or prevent an event from firing, forcing a checkpoint reload; scenes could not be skipped. This score uses Xbox evidence alone, without importing Wii omissions or newer-console visuals.
Strengths
- Allied missions, vehicles and class-based modes add breadth.
Weaknesses
- Thin story, visible respawns and occasional progression faults.
Who it is for: Players interested in classic WWII shooting on original Xbox.
Play notes: Multiplayer describes 2006 features, not current service.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension 短战役之外有较丰富的历史多人内容。 | Reviewed | 7.3 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension 主射击可靠，附加动作较弱。 | Reviewed | 7.8 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension 声音强，画面局部不够清楚。 | Reviewed | 7.7 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension 运行基本可用，进度故障造成实际中断。 | Reviewed | 6.9 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Publisher
- Activision
- Release date
- 2006
- Platforms
- Original Xbox
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Shooter · Primary genre
- Tags
- Shooting3D GraphicsHorrorThird PersonStory-drivenReal-time CombatPlayer versus EnvironmentLinear LevelsWarFast-pacedReplayableSolo-friendly
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Single playerMultiplayer
- Perspectives
- First person
Release editions
- WiiWorldwide2006
- Original XboxWorldwide2006
- PlayStation 3Worldwide2006
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