Call of Duty: Black Ops III (commonly referred to as Black Ops 3, CoD BO3, BO3, or Call of Duty 12) is a first-person shooter and partly a top-down game, being the twelfth Call of Duty game in the main franchise and was produced by multiple companies, Treyarch producing the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC versions, and Beenox and Mercenary Technology producing the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions. It was released on November 6, 2015. This is the fourth game in the Black Ops series, following after Call of Duty: World at War, Call of Duty: Black Ops, and Call of Duty: Black Ops II.