How Many of These Movies Have You Watched?
Black Ops 3 is an action packed, fast-paced, Sci-Fi first person shooter. From wall running to double jumping, the game is firmly set in the future. You can enjoy hours of fun on the game, destroying enemies and exploring the futuristic maps.
Your love for Black Ops 3 doesn’t have to stop there. When you are taking a break from your gameplay, maybe you would like to watch a movie and relax. Well, the good news is there are movies out there, which are similar to the Black Ops 3 setting!
Yes. Everything you love about Black Ops 3, included in a movie. The futuristic environment, the maps and equipment. All featuring in different movies.
So, if you love Black Ops 3, you may enjoy these movies. Check them out:
11. Terminator Genisys
Arnold is back. But is he a robot or human?
In terminator Genesis we see Kyle Reese time travelling to the past. From 2029 back to the year 1984. But it isn’t the 1984 we are used to, 1984 Terminator Genisys has robots and machines fighting against man-kind. What we would call, future warfare.
Their ultimate goal is to change the past events and prevent the robot warfare that is currently going on. Arnold Schwarzenegger who we see pictured is a terminator guardian, along with Sarah at his side, who is a very skilled fighter. Together they help Kyle in order to protect themselves from the terminator assassin, and to prevent the future robot war!
The typical robot we see in Black Ops 3.
In Black Ops 3 campaign mode there is a lot of battle against robots – terminator is no different. In the Genisys movie, Arnold and his team must fight against the robots. But there is a twist, Arnold is half robot, he was programmed to be a protector for Sarah.
That’s not all. Black Ops 3 is full of explosions, in multiplayer and in the campaign, from airstrikes to rocket launchers. Just like in Terminator Genisys which is action packed from start to finish.
10. Eye In The Sky
Advanced spying technology, used to track terrorists.
Eye in the sky is set in the present time, with reality warfare. Drone warfare and terrorist attacks are the main tactics used in this movie. The British military team have to capture a dangerous extremist, so they use their aerial technology to help them.
This technology allows the team to spy on terrorists from the other side of the world, through video technology. They also use drones to keep an eye on the terrorists and potentially fire at them. Using their spying technology, they see that the terrorists have explosives.
So they prepare for a suicide attack. It’s cool to see how this technology can be used in real life situations, to track and attack enemies.
Heads up – suckers!
In Black Ops 3 we can experience aircrafts in the campaign mode, so we can be the eye in the sky. When we play multiplayer we can use our UAVs, which are mini drones that scan the map for us. Much like the spying technology used in the film, eye in the sky.
And of course, let’s not forget the artillery. Rolling thunder, hell storms and lightning strikes are all featured in Black Ops 3. They are heavy airstrike killstreaks.
But what will happen in eye in the sky? Will they pull the trigger and launch these deadly missiles? Check it out to see what happens.
9. American Sniper
Chris featuring his McMillan TAC-338A, to shoot or not to shoot?
We follow the most lethal sniper in U.S military history in this movie, Chris Kyle. Whilst in Iraq he is faced with a tough decision. A young Iraq boy holding a strange object, makes his way over to the U.S. soldiers.
The boy begins to run at the soldiers holding what appears to be a missile. Will Chris pull the trigger or not?
This isn’t his only war experience in the movie. Chris makes the journey home to his family and goes back to war, a number of times. All the explosions and kills, will it all be too much for Chris?
Black Ops 3 SVG-100. One of the most powerful weapons to destroy enemies with.
When we play Black Ops 3, we kill without thinking about it. If we die, no biggie, we will respawn soon enough. American Sniper gives us an idea of what it’s like to be a real soldier.
When we get a kill in Black Ops 3 we think awesome, where is the next opponent? Is that what Chris thinks? As the most accurate sniper of all U.S. time, you would think he must be ruthless, no mercy.
If you love to snipe on Black Ops 3, using your SVG-100 to rip enemies apart with one shot, take a look at how Chris does it so effortlessly. He brings the sniping to life.
8. Elysium
Matt Damon with his exoskeleton overlooking Earth.
Set in 2154, the film Elysium is a story of two worlds. Earth, home of the poor. And Elysium, a space home, for the rich to live a luxurious life.
Those who live on Earth are in poverty, starving, with poor technology and health care. Those on Elysium have the opposite. They enjoy all the latest technology so that they can live a healthy life. Oh, and one other thing, robots have been designed to run the Earth and the humans, and on Elysium they serve the humans.
Max Da Costa (Matt Damon) is the star of the film. Long story short, he is sent to Elysium with an exoskeleton attached to him. We see him go head to head with Kruger who also has an exoskeleton, in a battle to take down Elysium.
Check out the movie to see what happens to Max on Elysium. Will he be able to break the barriers between those on Earth and Elysium, and bring about equality?
Up, up and away. Boost into the air in Black Ops 3 with futuristic jumping.
Exoskeletons. They are featured in Advanced Warfare, giving us jet packs and increased speed and so on. But we also see similar abilities in Black Ops 3.
When you think about it, double jumping, wall running are all non-human abilities. Humans need technology to do these things.
While Earth is run down, Elysium is in great condition. Clean and futuristic, just like the Black Ops 3 theme. If you are a fan of these technology improvements, be sure to check out Elysium!
7. Edge of Tomorrow
Armoured up and in the field of battle, Tom Cruise looks worried.
Edge Of Tomorrow takes place in the distant future, where Earth has been invaded by Aliens. Tom Cruise stars in the movie playing as Cage. Cage is ordered to lead a fight against the aliens, but he refuses.
He is forced to do it anyway after being arrested. Cage has no fighting experience, but the invasion goes ahead and Cage dies. However he wakes up back in the airport, a day before the invasion.
He tries to convince people that they are defeated by the aliens at the invasion, but no one believes him. He continues to go into battle, death and after death, replaying it over and over. Will he ever come out of this death loop? Will they defeat the alien race?
Shooting whilst wall running is no easy task!
Similar to Elysium, this movie features exoskeletons. Which is technology to help Tom Cruise and others to fight. With no fighting experience Tom Cruise must train.
In Black Ops 3, it is like he is a noob to the game. He must learn the movements, and the flow of the game. How to put jumps, running and shooting together, before he can take on these aliens successfully.
6. Lone Survivor
4 Navy Seals, by each other’s side through thick and thin.
A war film, set in Afghanistan. U.S navy seals are sent to capture a Taliban leader, responsible for killing many U.S. soldiers, but it doesn’t go to plan.
They accidentally run into teenagers innocently looking after animals. At the start, they capture them and think about what they plan to do. They decide to release the teenagers and forget about the mission and head home, knowing that the teenagers may alert the Taliban.
As they try to escape the Taliban spot them. They are extremely outnumbered and begin in a war against the Taliban, the navy seals stick together no matter what. But do they make it out alive?
Team work makes the dream work.
Black Ops 3 is all about, gun skill and team work. You need to be a good player, but you also need team mates. People you trust to kill opponents with!
When you have a plan you want your team mates to follow it, whether it is search and destroy or domination. There is an objective to the game mode. Black Ops 3 saw more objective-based game modes than any other Call of Duty.
Watch the navy seals teamwork, and how important it proves for their survival. They are up against heavy fire, rocket launchers and a lot of enemies. We all know the RPGs in Black Ops 3, as well as the unfair team numbers!
5. Pacific Rim
Four monster Jaegers, storming the Pacific Ocean.
Pacific Rim is set in the 2020’s, when Earth is at war against monsters that have come from the Pacific Ocean. The monsters begin to attack different cities, starting in San Francisco.
Humanity unites to create their own giant monsters, called the Jaegers. These robots are made to fight the pacific monsters that are destroying the Earth. The Jaeger robots are controlled by two humans, putting their minds together, to use the machine.
Will these Jaegers be able to stop the Pacific monsters?
Campaign Upgrade – hijack enemy robots to use for your team.
If you played Black Ops 3, then you experienced the robots. The human vs robot warfare. Well, if you liked that, then you are in for a treat.
Only in this movie, there is bigger monster, and bigger robots. In Black Ops 3 we have to attack the robots. But, in campaign mode if you use cyber cores, you have the ability to change robot enemies into robot teammates so they join your forces.
In Pacific Rim, the robots are on the human’s side as well. The humans get to create the robots, to use for their advantage in order to destroy the Pacific monsters.
4. Dredd
In a town of destruction, Dredd is humanities last hope.
Set in the future, where U.S is a wasteland. In particular, Mega-One City. With a population of 800 million people, there are up to 17,000 crimes taking place every day with things beyond out of control.
It’s up to the Judges to stop the mayhem, namely Judge Dredd. The film is based on a drug lord who has full control of a 200-block building. Her drug is deadly, and she wants to take over the city.
It’s up to Dredd and his team to do something about it. Oh and one other thing, Judge Dredd is dressed head to toe in armour. Pistol, knife, grenades, and of course he has his motorcycle with a machine gun and powerful laser cannon.
Create your weapon how you want, so you can kill in style.
In Black Ops 3, we have new guns, new iron sights and new attachments. The most advanced ammunition for our weapons, and we can even personalise our weapons. With paint and camos, whatever you like.
Dredd takes weapon personalisation to a new level. His pistol only responds to his hand print. So if an enemies tries to use his gun, boom. Their arm is blown off.
Not to mention, the pistol has up to six different types of bullets, who needs 6 guns when you have Dredd’s lethal pistol.
3. Total Recall
1 man, 1 pistol, 10 police men. What happens next?
In a world destroyed by chemical warfare, there are two different territories. The United Federation of Britain, and the Colony of Australia.
Many people who live in the colony, work in factories in the UFB. Including Douglas. The main character, Douglas is tired of his job, he doesn’t want to build robots for the rest of his life.
So, he takes a trip to recall. A place where artificial memories can be put into your brain. Such as a secret agent or a crime fighter.
Before the memories are implanted, Douglas recalls his own real memories of being an agent. From then on, everything he knew wasn’t the same. The UFB and the police robots try to hunt him down and kill him.
The UFB plans to take over the Colony, and it is up to Douglas to kill off all the robots and stop them. But how can he?
Robots aren’t afraid to get their metal hands dirty.
Robots, robots, robots. The robots that Douglas worked to build in his own factory, are the very robots that now want to capture him. Funny that.
In Black Ops 3, as well as Total Recall it seems that robots are becoming weapons. In the campaign we see robots time and time again. And it is us against them. Check out Total Recall to see can Douglas take down the robot army.
2. Looper
I wonder who Joe’s next victim is?
In 2074 time travel is developed, and immediately made illegal. The only people who use it are criminals, they send people they want to be killed back into the past. Where they are killed by “loppers”, and it is all done in secret.
The main character, Joe, is a looper. His victims are sent back in time, he kills them off and gets his reward that has been attached to his victim. Sounds simple.
But what happens when you are a looper, and your next victim is yourself?
You can run, but you can’t hide.
In Black Ops 3, some people like to camp, to stay alive. Some people like to run around the whole map shooting at everything and everyone, hoping they get a kill, but inevitably die.
Others, like to destroy the enemy and stay alive at the same time. With the movement system, wall running, double jumping, escaping your enemies is very do-able. If you enjoy dominating your enemies, and staying alive to earn those killstreaks, you may enjoy this movie.
Watch young Joe and old Joe, hunt each other down, shooting, escaping and killing others in the process. And of course, who lives?
1. Battle: LA
It looks like the end of the world. Has judgement day finally come?
When meteors strike the earth, it turns out to be worse than expected. These meteors are spacecraft’s containing an alien race, and there is hundreds and thousands of them.
Los Angeles is being invaded first, but the aliens want to colonize the whole planet, and wipe out the human race. It is up to a retired marine sergeant, to come back into duty and lead the soldiers to fight off the alien invasion. Will they kill off the alien race, or be invaded and humanity destroyed?
Knowing where your enemies are, makes them easy targets.
The alien species use drones and radio transmissions to track down the humans. Remember when you got those kills in Black Ops 3 and called in your UAV? Well, these aliens have unlimited UAV. An underground command centre allows the drones to receive the radio information.
This is their UAV equivalent. When playing Black Ops 3 multiplayer, knowing your enemies position is very important. It becomes easy to dominate the opponent. Imagine how the human race feels in battle, it’s up to them to destroy their source of radio signal, and save humanity.
Be sure to check out these movies if you enjoy the Black Ops 3 gameplay. And if you have any other Sci-Fi films that you love, be sure to comment below!
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