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  1. Oct 17, 2018
    2
    I bought this game by using World of Warcraft gold... What could go wrong? Well, I feel ripped off even by not spending actual cash. Half of the maps are recycled from previous Black Ops games.
  2. Aug 2, 2019
    2
    Yes i have over two hundred hours into this game because in its core it is a fun game. The new engine is refreshing and Blackout is also a nice gamemode. The fact that a 60€ game feels like a free to play game though because its vomiting its microtransactions at you in every single menu and yet still the game crashes after nearly a year of patchtime is just ridiculous. Even treyarch itsYes i have over two hundred hours into this game because in its core it is a fun game. The new engine is refreshing and Blackout is also a nice gamemode. The fact that a 60€ game feels like a free to play game though because its vomiting its microtransactions at you in every single menu and yet still the game crashes after nearly a year of patchtime is just ridiculous. Even treyarch its isnt satisfied with the state of the game.
    The management of activision is rotten to its core. No wonder the stocks are crashing like crazy.
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  3. Dec 23, 2018
    2
    specialists are a joke in multiplayer. gunplay sucks for a battle royale. if you like fps games look elsewhere.
  4. Nov 21, 2018
    2
    boy oh boy I swore I would never buy a call of duty game ever again after BLOPS2 and i should have kept my own promise, the multiplayer is horrible and badly balanced.. people abuse broken guns TTK is terrible and you die to BS all the time its more frustrating than fun. and the price.. no single player and half-assed re-used content this should have been a 30$ game.

    now for the
    boy oh boy I swore I would never buy a call of duty game ever again after BLOPS2 and i should have kept my own promise, the multiplayer is horrible and badly balanced.. people abuse broken guns TTK is terrible and you die to BS all the time its more frustrating than fun. and the price.. no single player and half-assed re-used content this should have been a 30$ game.

    now for the fortnight copycat battle royale.. its very broken..while movement and exploration and is okay, the world design is terrible and dated, gunplay is embarrassingly bad and its impossible to get a kill.. and you get no points at all for playing a match unless you manage to kill people making it impossible to progress. also, I hate fornite with all the life.. I was hoping for more realistic adult oriented gameplay..more crap aimed at kids.

    the only good thing about this game is zombies... I wholeheartedly regret my purchase.
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  5. Dec 13, 2018
    2
    Multiplayer (Only Asia server).

    Pros:

    - Create a Class.
    - No advanced movement.
    - Headshot sound.

    Cons:

    - No Campaign.
    - Horrible Graphics.
    - Body Armor.
    - Specialists.
    - Bad hit detection.
    - Shoot first, die first.
    - Unlimited sprint.
    - Need better Anti-cheat.
  6. Nov 3, 2018
    2
    I find this game to be unplayable just like BO3.

    It takes forever to shoot someone while I die instantly (or I get easy kills without even aiming properly), everybody keeps jumping super high (I get it, I have to do that too, but it feels stupid to jump the moment you see enemy) and somehow it's impossible to shoot them while they do it (I swear I aimed correctly but no shots
    I find this game to be unplayable just like BO3.

    It takes forever to shoot someone while I die instantly (or I get easy kills without even aiming properly), everybody keeps jumping super high (I get it, I have to do that too, but it feels stupid to jump the moment you see enemy) and somehow it's impossible to shoot them while they do it (I swear I aimed correctly but no shots registered), everybody is teleporting, I swing my mouse randomly hoping my shots will register, because I don't even know where enemies are, they don't move smoothly, they just teleport!

    Nearly ever game is one-sided where one team has lag compensation advantage and dominates, it's harder to make any come back, because once one team starts to dominate they just spam all their specialist abilities and scorestreaks, there's so much stuff trying to kill you, you don't even have time for objectives - specialist abilities make it too snowbally for a winning team.

    Specialists are annoying to deal with, because you can't counter their abilities, Ajax running with shield at you - you die, Ruin uses spikes - you die, electric shock projectile hits you - you crawl and die, 9 bang hits you - you die, electric shock car catches you - you die.

    This games pace is also super fast, there are old maps reworked, but I don't remember action in BO1 or 2 was so hectic.

    Spawns are messed up, you get spawn trapped or you spawn right in front of enemy.

    Black Out sucks, you have to camp hard and scan the horizon for enemies constantly, it takes too much time and is boring because you can always die to someone coming from some weird direction, I don't know why people find it fun.

    Zombies I never play and I will probably not touch it since they made it really complicated with crafting and different modes (and killing waves of zombies is boring).

    To me this game is in the same category as BO3 and Infinite Warfare - CODs that I have barely played.

    PS. I didn't mention the story mode, because when I saw that ultra rich oligarch is some attractive woman and best of the best special forces soldiers are females (with pink hair!) it just felt too stupid to continue. It's all SJW trash for idiots.
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  7. Oct 16, 2018
    2
    Joke of a game. How can you take this game seriously when hit detection is this bad? If you have good aim look elsewhere cause headshots don't register here. Headshots are only registered through body shots. Far too many times I die because my hits don't register when I obviously am hitting my target.

    Graphics are absolutely horrendous. This game looks like it was made in 2006 for Xbox
    Joke of a game. How can you take this game seriously when hit detection is this bad? If you have good aim look elsewhere cause headshots don't register here. Headshots are only registered through body shots. Far too many times I die because my hits don't register when I obviously am hitting my target.

    Graphics are absolutely horrendous. This game looks like it was made in 2006 for Xbox 360. It looks like 720p when running at 1440p. Textures are muddy, everything looks blurry, color pallette is 90% brown in blackout. Good luck spotting the guy across the map that is a puddle of blotchy colors and potato resolution that you can't make out from the rest of the blotchy low res environment. I'll wait for bf5 and I'm never buying an Activision game again. They're always hyping their games with fancy trailers and fake paid reviews and then deliver a unfinished game and don't bother to fix it cause they already got your money.
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  8. Nov 7, 2018
    2
    Retarded noob game without skill. Thanks you, Activision for 20 mhz servers. I'm tired of dying going over the wall. I can swear that I got from a shotgun or sniper rifle, but the damage was not counted. No professional game just blind luck

    Awful sound system. Without a sensor, you will not hear an enemy, located a couple of meters from you. Seriously? Poor system of selection of
    Retarded noob game without skill. Thanks you, Activision for 20 mhz servers. I'm tired of dying going over the wall. I can swear that I got from a shotgun or sniper rifle, but the damage was not counted. No professional game just blind luck

    Awful sound system. Without a sensor, you will not hear an enemy, located a couple of meters from you. Seriously?

    Poor system of selection of players. Get ready to play with people on your team who play with their feet.

    The "magnificent" system is spawn. A newly emerged enemy can stand behind you.

    I hate this dog. Small, fast and immortal.
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  9. Dec 24, 2018
    2
    Мало того что нет одиночной игры. Так игра лагает на любых настройках графики, хотя нормального графона и нет в помине одно ебаное мыло. Даже пубг красивей выглядит, и лучше работает. Куча сраных ошибок, зависание при смене настройке график, и зависание при разворачивание игры. Это кусок гавна строит больше 1 к рублей. Не покупайте эту игру, или берите по очень низкой цене. Но лучше вообщеМало того что нет одиночной игры. Так игра лагает на любых настройках графики, хотя нормального графона и нет в помине одно ебаное мыло. Даже пубг красивей выглядит, и лучше работает. Куча сраных ошибок, зависание при смене настройке график, и зависание при разворачивание игры. Это кусок гавна строит больше 1 к рублей. Не покупайте эту игру, или берите по очень низкой цене. Но лучше вообще не берите Expand
  10. Oct 26, 2018
    2
    The game isn't bad, and with friends it's enjoyable. Blackout is Pubg with a CoD skin, and the only 100% redeeming quality is the Zombies map IX, which is the best zombies experience I've had in years. That being said, in multiplayer, I have never seen a game so reward cancerous gameplay. Shotguns that 1 shot at long range, snipers that are literally programmed to one-shot from the waistThe game isn't bad, and with friends it's enjoyable. Blackout is Pubg with a CoD skin, and the only 100% redeeming quality is the Zombies map IX, which is the best zombies experience I've had in years. That being said, in multiplayer, I have never seen a game so reward cancerous gameplay. Shotguns that 1 shot at long range, snipers that are literally programmed to one-shot from the waist up. Headshots don't matter in this game in the slightest. On top of that, it actually punishes players for aiming down their scopes. More people run around hip firing and getting headshots then people who aim down their scopes get head shots. The hit detection is horrendous. Multiplayer is absolutely frustrating with the crazy overpowered weapons the later levels get, like the akimbo smg that requires no aiming, and melt's enemy's health in fractions of seconds. Multiplayer has turned to Halo style jump and run with the progression mechanics of an MMO. Where you'll be terrible for the first 45 levels, until you get a gun that can compete. EDIT: Upon further playing of Multiplayer, the sheer amount of server lag has made it unplayable. You'll dropp fromm 100 frames to 0 for 5 seconds and back again. One friend of mine, who has a far better rig than mine, can't even play without being lagged out. The amount of bugs has destroyed this game. Expand
  11. Oct 30, 2018
    2
    You sell it as an only-multiplayer game and it's so full of networking/matchmaking problem that seems it has not passed the minimal QA tests. Playing from Latin America requires 30 minutes to start a blackout session , with only 30 people. 4 hours of waiting in total, 20 minutes of actual gaming. Asked for a refund for that, Blizzard throwed the problem to Activision/Treyarch. They do notYou sell it as an only-multiplayer game and it's so full of networking/matchmaking problem that seems it has not passed the minimal QA tests. Playing from Latin America requires 30 minutes to start a blackout session , with only 30 people. 4 hours of waiting in total, 20 minutes of actual gaming. Asked for a refund for that, Blizzard throwed the problem to Activision/Treyarch. They do not respond to a single damn question on their forums. Simply wasted 50 USD for a piece of crap. NEVER going to buy again a Call of Duty game. Expand
  12. Oct 16, 2018
    2
    i haven't played CoD since Black Ops 1 and this is precisely the same thing except there is NO singleplayer.

    The netcode is an absolute joke. Hit boxes feel huge and all your shots connect. It may be nice for consoles but on PC, this is just an absolute joke.

    Most maps are from Black Ops 1 too

    I regret buying it and I wish I could sell it.
  13. Oct 24, 2018
    2
    i liked the old black ops games (1 & 2), but this one is just bad.....no single player campaign, and a cheap battle royale mode..... a bunch of recycled/re-skinned old MP maps..... weak game!

    Probably my most regrettable game purchase ever.....Including the games I bought and never even played.
  14. Oct 24, 2018
    2
    Multiplayer is sort of nice but most of the maps are from Black Out 1 lol... sooo not much work put into it. THey removed the SP campaign, OH! almost forgot... BLACK OUT (BR Mode) IS A DISASTER!!!

    The game constantly crashes (and when it crashes you lose all progress of the round ofc - regardless if it's black out or MP), party invites work only 60-70% of the time, Updates are being
    Multiplayer is sort of nice but most of the maps are from Black Out 1 lol... sooo not much work put into it. THey removed the SP campaign, OH! almost forgot... BLACK OUT (BR Mode) IS A DISASTER!!!

    The game constantly crashes (and when it crashes you lose all progress of the round ofc - regardless if it's black out or MP), party invites work only 60-70% of the time, Updates are being pushed like crazy making us constantly quit the game to update client, and servers run on 20Hz meaning what you see is not in line with the damage you make or take - making it possible to "shot enemies around the corners" as some would say.

    Graphics are really Sh**ty almost no progress system in black out (BR) - just some character skins that u unlock at really high levels that are not easy to come by or by doing some stupid hard things before winning a match.

    All in all I payed 60$ for a Triple A title, and got something worse and with less content than an indie studio can (AND HAS) develop like PUBG.

    One last point, the Black Out map (yes only one!) is about the size of sanhok from PUBG so about 4x4 and given the fast paced gameplay that COD normally has that is WAY WAAAAAY to small. Literally no place you can parachute that is safe so you can learn the game or have time to check what attachments do and all that.

    Sh*t GAME
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  15. Oct 23, 2018
    2
    absolute **** for the fact that it is a MULTIPLAYER ONLY game, it seems to be the worst playing multiplayer in CoD history. Unbalanced, poor design as well as atrocious servers. 22 tick servers is laughable in 2018, hit reg is a complete abomination and it feels like SMG's completely unbalanced setup has become meta; spray and hope that your bullets catch up with the netcode.

    Zombies is
    absolute **** for the fact that it is a MULTIPLAYER ONLY game, it seems to be the worst playing multiplayer in CoD history. Unbalanced, poor design as well as atrocious servers. 22 tick servers is laughable in 2018, hit reg is a complete abomination and it feels like SMG's completely unbalanced setup has become meta; spray and hope that your bullets catch up with the netcode.

    Zombies is ok, blackout is **** boring. 2/10, would've been 0-0.5 if it hadn't of been for zombies.
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  16. Oct 31, 2018
    2
    Where do I start. The game is buggy as hell. often it does crash while starting. Even if it is not, I cannot max out graphics settings on my 1080TI, because then it crashes.

    The gameplay is not better. 20Hz tickrate makes it unplayable. But that has been fixed now. Killstreaks give rewards such as Bombardmends, automatic turrets etc. This means the better team gets massive additional
    Where do I start. The game is buggy as hell. often it does crash while starting. Even if it is not, I cannot max out graphics settings on my 1080TI, because then it crashes.

    The gameplay is not better. 20Hz tickrate makes it unplayable. But that has been fixed now. Killstreaks give rewards such as Bombardmends, automatic turrets etc. This means the better team gets massive additional firepower, and the weaker team gets really devastated. So if you are in the inferior team, prepare to suffer.
    This leads me to the next problem: players quit as soon as they see they are in the weaker team. Understandable, who wants to get kicked in the ass by the soon coming enemy rewards? This means that often its a 1 or 2v5 in multiplayer. Sounds like fun? Not to me...
    There seems to be no balancing. Either you are the far superior team, or you get pounded.
    In addition, the game rewards you playing more by unlocking weapon and general perks. Meaning the longer you play, the deadlier your weapons and your character become. So this is again a slaughterfest for new players. yaaay. I've grinded myself through the process to get the best weapons, and let me tell you, it is a night and day difference. Still, all that kept me motivated was getting better stuff, so the game would suck less. And it does, but it still sucks.
    The weapons do have different effective engagement distances, and need different playstyles, which is good I guess. There is always one weapon that is far far superior to the others. Guess how long it takes to unlock the best low to midrange weapon (the dubble uzi like weapon)? Yes, you have to level up all the way.

    The multiplayer maps are small and built in a way that you cannot jump on a lot of objects. It is very restrictive. You have to learn what you can and cannot do in these maps.
    The graphics are very "plasticy". Other games have far superior visuals. If the game does not crash, however, it is very smooth and I did not detect many framedrops.

    Zombie mode is ok. Battle royale still suffers from a very low tickrate, so is no fun to play,

    I wish I could return the game. I will never buy another CoD. In a year the player base is probably gone just like with the older cods. Needless to say, if the tickrate in the beta was as low as it is now, and if I could have played the multiplayer part, I would NEVER have purchased it. So thanks activision for luring me into buying what I did not want.
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  17. Jan 7, 2019
    2
    хуйня из под коня , но ещё и без компании ! Графика не подкачала , а карта в батл рояль это склейка других карт . Это не всё , что я хотел сказать , но этого хватит
  18. Nov 4, 2018
    2
    Another horrible COD that even BR could not save. They jumped on the BR bandwagon, copied and pasted the maps, took no time for a single player, and changed nothing about multiplayer from the last 3 games. Utter garbage and Im glad to see new games coming out this week instead.
  19. Nov 4, 2018
    2
    Absolutely horrible
    Now keep in mind I really am not a big Call of Duty Fan and come from the Counter Strike community.
    Having played BO 2 and 3 previous and being satisfied with both games I have to say that I have had a horrible experience with this one. After playing for now 25 Hours (I did not wanna put myself through more of that) I have concluded that BO 4 is a poorly optimized,
    Absolutely horrible
    Now keep in mind I really am not a big Call of Duty Fan and come from the Counter Strike community.
    Having played BO 2 and 3 previous and being satisfied with both games I have to say that I have had a horrible experience with this one.
    After playing for now 25 Hours (I did not wanna put myself through more of that) I have concluded that BO 4 is a poorly optimized, badly balanced and laggy mess.
    Right from the start after downloading the arguably pretty large 80 Gigabyties I found myself in a pretty confusing yet empty UI.
    After adjusting my settings for a while I decided to try out Blackout.
    Shortly after the waiting time a completely unrendered Map (Loadingtime map rendering is enabled) and it was lagging horribly. After jumping out of the Helicopter with the same lag and unrendered Map I landed and finally after a good 20 seconds the map rendered, poorly and very slowly.
    After I then died due to me being unable to move and my character bound to unexplainably just walking to the left for a good minute I was already pissed.
    In those 25 hours overall I have (atleast tried) to play 3 matches of blackout all went the same way as the first one.
    Okay now Zombies, it doesnt run as bad as blackout though it does majorly framedrop from time to time but sadly I have been unable to finish a single game of Zombies yet due to it crashing everytime in the middle of a game regardless of the map im playing.
    Although I though Zombies was generally the most enjoyable experience over all it was more annoying than fun.
    Multiplayer... What the ****
    The netcode is a joke, an absolute joke.
    It lacks new Features, Specialists and Maps the Hitboxes are ridiculous, the spawns poorly placed just the whole package is a bunch of garbage.
    Overall, not an experience id like to make ever again
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  20. Nov 4, 2018
    2
    This is the worst FPS gaming experience I have ever had. I stopped buying COD games 8 years ago and hoped something had changed with the series. NOPE, they still do not care/understand the importance of having Dedicated Servers for a PC game. I am disconnected from a match multiple times a day, you cannot have a clan server, you cannot control who comes and goes, lag switches, etc.

    In
    This is the worst FPS gaming experience I have ever had. I stopped buying COD games 8 years ago and hoped something had changed with the series. NOPE, they still do not care/understand the importance of having Dedicated Servers for a PC game. I am disconnected from a match multiple times a day, you cannot have a clan server, you cannot control who comes and goes, lag switches, etc.

    In my opinion this COD is even worse than the ones I played in the past, the reasons I stopped buying them. The only good thing they've done is remove nade spamming, everything other issue is still there or worse. I bought this to have something until Battlefield 5 comes out, a REAL FPS game. Never should of bought this trash, I went 8 years without buying one, now I'll got 60 more.
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  21. Nov 12, 2018
    2
    This game is a harsh reminder of why COD will never be popular on PC again and how little Activision cares about the PC platform.

    This game feels like it's free to play competition and I mean this in multiple ways, firstly the gameplay: This games UI tricks you into thinking this game will play solid as its well designed and shows off tonnes of weapons and abilities and cool slick new
    This game is a harsh reminder of why COD will never be popular on PC again and how little Activision cares about the PC platform.

    This game feels like it's free to play competition and I mean this in multiple ways, firstly the gameplay:
    This games UI tricks you into thinking this game will play solid as its well designed and shows off tonnes of weapons and abilities and cool slick new characters, it doesn't, the game feels like a bad free to play game, the time to kill is so high that I thought I was playing World of Tanks. (ha, get it?)

    With discount servers, poor hit detection and balance that seems it was formulated under the influence of certain substances, this game really does feel hollow and fundamentally broken.

    With the "boots on the ground promise" freshly on my mind I was surprised to find out that this game has more frantic movement in it than Fortnite, players jumping around and sidestepping at high speeds paired with terrible servers makes this game feel just "Ugh".

    Again with the comparison to free to play shooters, this games cosmetics are mostly locked behind a "battlepass" type build where players must complete challenges and earn EXP in order to unlock cool looking character and weapon skins.

    While you don't have to pay monthly like fortnite for it, it's extremely slow (some believe purposefully) to entice players to buy COD coins? COD gold? COD points? whatever they are called to push progression further forward. (Games as service remember guys)

    Now onto one of the biggest reasons for my low score. Optimization, the game runs at a solid 120fps or 60fps when i enabled the framelimiter, I do not have performance issues with this game.

    I have massive stability issues instead, my game never crashes but the game does try to use 100% at all times of my CPU (I5 7500) and will freeze and microstutter every so often.

    This made the game unplayable for a good 3 months since release until 2 days ago Nvidia stepped in to fix the game with a Driver update, because Beenox are terrible at porting games.

    This all said, the 2 actual points i'm giving this review belong to the Zombies modes, extremely well done, love the storytelling of a mindless gamemode, it shows that the team who works on it are actually competent.

    The Blackout mode is basically PUBG with the muitiplayer assets so no credit there.

    2/10 Activision should have an In-house studio working on PC games, with that much raw resource and pull they have no excuse for a game this horrible. How the critics gave this anywhere over 5 really is an indictment on how corrupt game journalism is.

    A real shame.
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  22. Dec 20, 2018
    2
    I just created an Account because this game is so bad.And i want to warn you: Dont buy it!
  23. Mar 2, 2019
    2
    If you have million dollars in your wallet you may have a few hours of fun :)
  24. Mar 15, 2019
    2
    Servers are actually garbage. Worse game servers i have ever played in my life. Half of my bullets register in an fps game.Literally garbage
  25. Apr 2, 2020
    2
    Well, I can say two words about this game [in my sh*tty opinion]... No words. But Zombie Mode was really great but stopped playing it, because of season pass bullsh*t and also of microtransactions. 2/10.
  26. Jun 23, 2020
    2
    I did not play many CoD's but this game has the most unenjoyable multiplayer experience of all of them. After 2 weeks it felt boring and frustrating...... remembering Nomad dog...........................
  27. Oct 24, 2018
    1
    Wow! I normally enjoyed the single player game, but this time it is only only. So, did they delivery an online experience that makes up for it? I don't think so. The online market is already somewhat crowded with great games like Fortnite and PUBG. While I was hoping to be wrong, I don't see CoD adding anything new to compete with these games. It is basically just a very basic onlineWow! I normally enjoyed the single player game, but this time it is only only. So, did they delivery an online experience that makes up for it? I don't think so. The online market is already somewhat crowded with great games like Fortnite and PUBG. While I was hoping to be wrong, I don't see CoD adding anything new to compete with these games. It is basically just a very basic online shooter aimed at pulling over players from the market leaders mentioned above. But it miserably fails at that and I found myself going back to Fortnite after just a few hours.
    Overall, I regret buying it and it is safe to say that this will be my last CoD unless single player campaigns make a return.
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  28. Feb 21, 2019
    1
    A nice 1 for the loot boxes and lies. GG Activision / TreyArch. Keep on going like you're doing, can't wait for the stock to go to $1 a pop
  29. Nov 13, 2018
    1
    This is the worst netcode i have ever seen in playing online games since 20 years. Either you are shot from behind most of the time, which is a game design problem. Or you shoot at someone and nothing happens, to just get killed by one bullet, to then see the Killcam and realize that from his POV you didnt even shoot once and he shot like 20 bullets and killed you. In every youtube videoThis is the worst netcode i have ever seen in playing online games since 20 years. Either you are shot from behind most of the time, which is a game design problem. Or you shoot at someone and nothing happens, to just get killed by one bullet, to then see the Killcam and realize that from his POV you didnt even shoot once and he shot like 20 bullets and killed you. In every youtube video you hear ppl talking about how many bullets it takes to kill someone. But when I play, it does not matter which weapon it is, it ALWAYS seems and feels like I am dead with just 1 bullet shot at me... before I can even react to anything and shoot myself. Or I shoot nothing happens and then i get 1 bullet killed instantly. This netcode is the WORST i have seen in 20 years, seriously. Even with 62Hz, the netcode sucks monkeyballs! And then there are all those BUGS and crashes and errors all the time even after weeks. And multiplayer is just getting into lobbys that are 5v2 or 2v5 and already won or lost. So you either stay and you are bored to dead or you leave and queue again... at the end you are bored as **** because you queue queue and queue all the time before you even get any fair good round going. At the end you just join lobbys to level your stupid weapon to get a meaningless skinn for it. If you/your team wins doesnt even matter for nobody at the end, none cares too.
    I dont comment on Blackout, because I hate battle royal modes. It the most stupid thing the FPS genre came up with the last 20 years. But damn the netcode is so **** bad, it is unreal.
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  30. Oct 21, 2018
    1
    I really like the game but at the current stage the game is unplayable. The thickrate is a disaster. Oponents see me on corner a lot sooner then i do. Activision fix your sh...
  31. Nov 2, 2018
    1
    A multiplayer only title must have great servers with high tick rate, low latency and completely lag free gameplay. But this not the case in this poor game. Not even close! After 3 weeks now nothing has changed, they promised to optimize their crap network. They are doing nothing! Only thing they care about are skins and microtransactions. One of worst netcodes in the modern era. EnemysA multiplayer only title must have great servers with high tick rate, low latency and completely lag free gameplay. But this not the case in this poor game. Not even close! After 3 weeks now nothing has changed, they promised to optimize their crap network. They are doing nothing! Only thing they care about are skins and microtransactions. One of worst netcodes in the modern era. Enemys lagging all over the place, haven't seen this since end of the 90's. My location is central europe. Can't wait for the release of BF V, then we can move on! Expand
  32. Nov 20, 2018
    1
    Feels really shallow to me, like a waste of money. Many of same maps in multiplayer as when i played it several versions ago. Just feels like an older game. I tried Zomie mode, meh. Tried Blackout, feels like PUBG. Really cannot recommend.
  33. Feb 21, 2019
    1
    Do NOT buy this money grab. Call of Duty became cash factory for Activison. It's fully priced 60$ game, with 50$ season pass, additional battle pass with tiers and LOOT BOXES! You can spend your money somewhere else, do not give them reason to repeat this practice every new CoD.
  34. Oct 16, 2018
    1
    ok, what we have? cheki-cho 11/10.. connection lost 2/3 times... with 1gbit connection...total: 1/10, thanks. shame on you
  35. Nov 11, 2018
    1
    Greedy, greedy, greedy, very greedy devs. Pay for full game, then either $200 more or be underdog for 250+hours. pay-to-win greed at its worst. of course there will be no single player part any more - devs cant pay-to-win that so why bother at all
  36. Nov 1, 2018
    1
    Blackout: It's fun - the saving grace of this release.

    Standard multiplayer: A nauseating blend of poorly balanced maps, weapons, arcade style gun play, 'special' [magic] abilities, bunny hopping, knee-sliding, quick scoping, akimbo-wielding, 'score streaks' and 'operators' [heroes?]. In other words, it's a giant f***ing mess. Like all the CoD's from the past 10 years, this is a
    Blackout: It's fun - the saving grace of this release.

    Standard multiplayer: A nauseating blend of poorly balanced maps, weapons, arcade style gun play, 'special' [magic] abilities, bunny hopping, knee-sliding, quick scoping, akimbo-wielding, 'score streaks' and 'operators' [heroes?].

    In other words, it's a giant f***ing mess.

    Like all the CoD's from the past 10 years, this is a casual fps experience which rewards unrealistic and arcade style play - bunny hopping around a corner and quick scoping an opponent sounds fine, except the hit boxes are huge and the reticle barely needs to cross the body for the shot to register as a hit.

    This is quite common for console FPS games, which have to mitigate for the lack of dexterity/accuracy a controller provides, but on PC feels cheap and unskilled.

    At this rate, this game will likely lose 90% of it's current player base within 6 months, leaving roughly 5k people worldwide on pc, not unlike every other CoD for the past decade. If you like playing TDM for the next +/- year until the next cod release, go right ahead.

    I would say otherwise if they removed all the perks and abilities, operators and score streaks, and took this back to being a bare bones fps (where it came from) - but that won't happen. Even if the game is losing millions of players per release, so long as it sells a million on consoles, it will continue to be based around that demographic.

    Buyer beware.
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  37. Jan 8, 2019
    1
    Runs like **** on PC, they don't care at all about PC players. Servers are always lagging from my place even though I have a wired connection. Graphics look like a 2010 game.
    Overall a low quality game that shouldn't cost 60$ and all the ****ty microtransactions.
    COD is dead by all the modern **** that makes games so pathetic. I'm waiting for CD Project Red to deliver a quality game
    Runs like **** on PC, they don't care at all about PC players. Servers are always lagging from my place even though I have a wired connection. Graphics look like a 2010 game.
    Overall a low quality game that shouldn't cost 60$ and all the ****ty microtransactions.
    COD is dead by all the modern **** that makes games so pathetic.
    I'm waiting for CD Project Red to deliver a quality game without all the ****ty Season Pass and the ****ty things Ubiosft, EA, Activision, Bethesda and the other ****ty companies.
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  38. Oct 24, 2018
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    Lets see.
    - Toxic community
    - Crashes every 30 minutes in multiplayer - Zombies host migration errors - chat bugging out - unstable ping - unstable fps - modaretly poorly optimizied - weapon balance a bit off - 100€ my **** god - horrible lobby balancing - no matchmaking, for better or worse. Then again, no server browser either - Super bad tutorial content - graphical
    Lets see.
    - Toxic community
    - Crashes every 30 minutes in multiplayer
    - Zombies host migration errors
    - chat bugging out
    - unstable ping
    - unstable fps
    - modaretly poorly optimizied
    - weapon balance a bit off
    - 100€ my **** god
    - horrible lobby balancing
    - no matchmaking, for better or worse. Then again, no server browser either
    - Super bad tutorial content
    - graphical glitches up the wazoo
    - BAD hitboxes
    - downgrade from beta
    - microtransactions coming soon
    - mercenary playlist is not a fixed thing but a circulating, weekly playlist?

    Zombies is kinda fun? Don't care about blackout.
    I am having immense buyers regret right now.
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  39. Oct 13, 2018
    1
    Zunächst mal auf Deutsch, kurz und knapp: Call of Duty Black Ops4 ist absoluter Schrott! :-(
    Die Grafik ist unterirdisch und das egal ob 60FPS.
    Die Wartezeiten, die Grafik und das gesamte Gameplay gleicht einem Spiel aus den 90gern. Spart Euch das Geld besser für ein anderes Spiel! Now in english: If i could, i would refound! This game is terrible. Bad grafic, bad gameplay, long
    Zunächst mal auf Deutsch, kurz und knapp: Call of Duty Black Ops4 ist absoluter Schrott! :-(
    Die Grafik ist unterirdisch und das egal ob 60FPS.
    Die Wartezeiten, die Grafik und das gesamte Gameplay gleicht einem Spiel aus den 90gern.
    Spart Euch das Geld besser für ein anderes Spiel!

    Now in english: If i could, i would refound! This game is terrible. Bad grafic, bad gameplay, long waiting parts while loading (SSD!) Looks like a game out of the 90th.

    Never played such a redicilous game like BO4. Should this be a comic game?
    Started in MP again and again, will be killed whole day long - get zero points - where is the motivation? Ok, maybe i am not skill master #1, but wheee, everyone start at level Zero.
    So, at the end of the day, i can't absolutly not get comforable with this game. ... --> deleted!
    Maybe this the aim of the developers???

    Hope my rev helps other players where decicision to buy BO4 is not clear until now. Please do yourself a favor and save your money for another game!
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  40. Oct 15, 2018
    1
    lmfao Activision really dick slapped us this time. "We're not going to include a story mode and still charge you 60 dollars for the game. BTW at launch it'll be absolutely unplayable and when you do finally get in, you don't get to play with your friends."

    How am I getting lag? I have gigabit fiber internet, I put myself in a DMZ, and hard lined. With all the money that people throw
    lmfao Activision really dick slapped us this time. "We're not going to include a story mode and still charge you 60 dollars for the game. BTW at launch it'll be absolutely unplayable and when you do finally get in, you don't get to play with your friends."

    How am I getting lag? I have gigabit fiber internet, I put myself in a DMZ, and hard lined. With all the money that people throw away to this company you would think their servers would be better.
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  41. Oct 20, 2018
    1
    este juego cada ves se hace mas pobre, prefiero comprarme el battlefield siempre avanza a ser mejor
  42. Oct 20, 2018
    1
    The bugs make the game actually unplayable. Connection drops out constantly, absolute **** fps. I'm ashamed to even call this a game at this point. It's like Black Ops II got a pc port done in 15 minutes by a high school CS student.

    DO NOT BUY.
  43. Oct 26, 2018
    1
    A very shiny turd. If your going to make a decent game at least play what your making before releasing it. EVERYTHING was just overlooked for improvements.
  44. Oct 27, 2018
    1
    Дерьмище полное, сносишь 148хп челик добивает килл идёт ему, идёшь в хардкор не понятно где кто с этой уёбищной графикой, зачем добавлять прямые убийства если у вас сервера хуже чем в warface.
  45. Dec 23, 2018
    1
    To summarize my disdain for Activision and this game:

    Positives: Nice graphics BlackOuts a nice add and what convinced me to buy...but.. (see below) Negatives: No single player. You would think with focus on multi there would be some innovation? nope.. Pistols overpowered as usual. Bunny hoppers paradise. I had hoped they would learn from Siege..but nope. 10 years later...still
    To summarize my disdain for Activision and this game:

    Positives:
    Nice graphics
    BlackOuts a nice add and what convinced me to buy...but.. (see below)

    Negatives:
    No single player. You would think with focus on multi there would be some innovation? nope..
    Pistols overpowered as usual.
    Bunny hoppers paradise. I had hoped they would learn from Siege..but nope.
    10 years later...still no lean
    Did you see that? Gaming ending shot in slow motion..5 inches to the left of the guys head..Poor hit box implementation.
    Whoever created Zero should be fired.
    BlackOuts is a complete knock off of PUBG and Fortnite. No innovation...it's like a port.
    Maps are pleasing for the tryhards. Little innovation.
    If it's f******g EPIC gear, why does everyone have it? Der..
    Typical Activision game. Release in beta to mean holidays. Lots of bugs..lots of hackers. Likely easier for hackers than any other game because the engine is probably 10 years old.

    To summarize
    NOTHING NEW - ZERO INNOVATION. Same old game repackaged with yet more opportunity to buy your way into new skins and other garbage. For those of you that listened to the really bad critic reviews like me. Lesson learned. Critics in gaming are a bad as critics in movies. They vote for what was popular 30 years ago or has an underlying social message. I'll stick with user reviews moving forward.
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  46. Nov 18, 2018
    1
    Sure would be fun to play some battle royale if not that br is so **** laggy that u cant play the game
  47. Nov 24, 2018
    1
    Bugs, crashes and a bunch of cheats with free cheats. Release the patch - something break. For 200 hours I realized that this is the worst game of the year. Yes, the content is more than in Battlefild 5, so the current is all broken.
  48. Nov 25, 2018
    1
    Haven't bought a CoD game for a few years, thought why not. Huge mistake.
    Everyone dies so fast, with massive hitboxes, who cares what gun you use. The extra equipment will get you a few extra kills before you die instantly, and about 1/4 of your deaths will be unavoidable and instant from equipment.
    Insane movement (sliding and jumping looks so stupid) bad gunplay, trying to look and
    Haven't bought a CoD game for a few years, thought why not. Huge mistake.
    Everyone dies so fast, with massive hitboxes, who cares what gun you use. The extra equipment will get you a few extra kills before you die instantly, and about 1/4 of your deaths will be unavoidable and instant from equipment.
    Insane movement (sliding and jumping looks so stupid) bad gunplay, trying to look and feel like fortnite. If you are 16 or under, maybe you will enjoy this.
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  49. Sep 13, 2019
    1
    Full price + new content in DLC + microtransactions without the ability to get in-game currency for free. No singleplayer mode. This game is the embodiment of the publisher’s greed, which includes all methods of monetization at the same time.
  50. Jan 3, 2019
    1
    Game is nice but not AAA quality, still worst than MW. And now that micro-transactions. Are they insane 1$ for red dot? What next? Start game button for 20$?
  51. Mar 22, 2022
    1
    Odpad :
    + bagy
    - grafika
    - šíleně až trapně malé mapy
    - časové zařazení
    - nekonečné léčení
    - finanční politika DLC a prémium
    - demolice
    - nereálnost
    - bez singlu
    - konzolové velké hit boxy
    - recyklace
    Hra de špatnou cestou a to už hodně dílů, velká škoda
  52. Dec 9, 2018
    1
    A battle royale genre enthusiast here. This review is aimed as much at the game itself and also at the publisher.

    The game: The gaphics are smudgy and the overall performance isn't actually that good I'd expect from a publisher this big. I get better framerates in pubg. Now, let that sentence sink in for a moment. I only have 80 minutes in the game thus far, but already I witnessed
    A battle royale genre enthusiast here. This review is aimed as much at the game itself and also at the publisher.

    The game:
    The gaphics are smudgy and the overall performance isn't actually that good I'd expect from a publisher this big. I get better framerates in pubg. Now, let that sentence sink in for a moment.
    I only have 80 minutes in the game thus far, but already I witnessed multiple instances of other player characters teleporting when you try to hit them. Even without the net code issue, I'd say this game is terribly boring. Also, the waves and waves of 14 yos and their language..

    The publisher:
    I tried to get a refund for performance issues. Got response from . As a mature gamer I like to talk to a person, not to "Illidan Stormrage", thank you.
    It turns out their refund policy is utter garbage. The GM told me that for the refund I need to have less than 30 minutes of play time. Half of that time I spent with my friends in the game launcher trying to overcome the issue of the game saying some of us were "not joinable" and after the first match there was already more than 30 minutes in the counter. There is no way you can actually try different graphic settings within 30 minutes. There is no way you can actually test what's the quality level of an online shooting game within 30 minutes. The return policy is for you only if the game is so **** up you can't even enter the main menu.

    Don't buy from the Activion-Blizzard store unless you're absolutely sure of the purchase! Your money is lost after you click 'purchase'. Steam and GOG actually give you time to try the product.

    tl;dr: boring, buggy, waves of 14 yos, can't get refund. I very, very strongly recommend to get your games from other marketplaces for better customer protection.
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  53. Jan 26, 2019
    1
    Picked up the title yesterday, a couple months after it launched, on a whim. I haven't played a Call of Duty game in many years, being primarily a story-based RPG kinda gamer and not a fan of the toxicity the average CoD player produces.

    I'm incredibly disappointed, but not for the reasons you'd expect. Micro-transactions are w/e, they're all cosmetic and there's no paywall for
    Picked up the title yesterday, a couple months after it launched, on a whim. I haven't played a Call of Duty game in many years, being primarily a story-based RPG kinda gamer and not a fan of the toxicity the average CoD player produces.

    I'm incredibly disappointed, but not for the reasons you'd expect.

    Micro-transactions are w/e, they're all cosmetic and there's no paywall for content. That's good.

    The detail and graphical potential this title has lives up to the CoD name. That's good.

    Zombies mode is kinda fun if wave-based defense is your thing. That's good.

    Battle Royale mode is fun and sees decent updates. That's good.

    Multiplayer has NO skill based matchmaking and is a smoking hot mess. What the actual ****
    How does Activision expect to entice new players into their IP when the MAJOR SELLING POINT, the multiplayer, is so unbalanced for new players the experience isn't even fun? In my first 5-10 matches online, I was the ONLY player not prestiged and under level 30 (to be precise, I was LEVEL ONE.) That means I have no create-a-class, no experience with any weapons, no experience with any of the maps, and no experience with game mechanics other than how to point and shoot my **** gun (WITH NO USEFUL ATTACHMENTS).

    As a side note, Activision needs to start taking into account the wide base of players they have. In their demographic exists a wide variety of player types, and many of them play every CoD game they release. When you pair these incredibly skilled players with the less experienced players that don't play as often, you just end up alienating a large portion of potential customers. I don't buy CoD games frequently because every time I do, my playing experience seems to be secondary to the Activision "Whales" and it's clear that Activision puts no protections in place to ensure that new players will have fun.

    If you're playinh a competitive game, you want to play with competitors at your skill level. High Schoolers don't play NFL teams. My first Black Ops 4 match shouldn't be against CoD Veterans

    Spawns are still broken, a remnant of distress from my MW2 days, where you undoubtedly will be killed not because of your skill level, but because the game spawned you with an enemy within 10ft.

    I'm not sure if this is a valid complaint, but from my memory I seem to recall there being a larger assortment of weapons to choose from in previous entries, from what I can tell each type of weapon has about four unlocks and only around 4-5 types of gun per primary and secondary.
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  54. May 21, 2019
    1
    I made a metacritic account just to **** on this horrible game.
    Il start of with what I think it's positive:
    The gameplay is good the movement feels great the sounds feel awesome shooting guns here feels very very well made, the operators are enjoyable (not all). I think to be fair that's all I can manage to enjoy. Negative: The maps are straight up trash, I don't feel like I have
    I made a metacritic account just to **** on this horrible game.
    Il start of with what I think it's positive:

    The gameplay is good the movement feels great the sounds feel awesome shooting guns here feels very very well made, the operators are enjoyable (not all). I think to be fair that's all I can manage to enjoy.

    Negative:
    The maps are straight up trash, I don't feel like I have freedom I feel like I can't move in places I want to go. The balancing is straight up trash I mean where can you use snipers? Probably on 1 map (If you didin't buy the DLC maps) + **** the DLC don't even want to talk about that) shotguns are straight up OverPowered. All of the maps are 90% close range which make rifles trash and just useless almoust all the time.
    The balancing on ho you are againt's is trash I go againts level 200+ and it's just not fun to go againt's people that just destroy you use **** weapons and then they love to trash talk you. I would like to go againts lvl 50 people even if im a lvl 10 I just don't want to go againt's 200 or even 100+ players it ruins my enjoyment when I get destroyed all the time.
    I bought this game trough Humble BUndle and I wanted to get it to play Zombies but it looks like zombies is blocked behind a wall of 20€ so... can't talk about that for some reason.

    Finale:
    I mean the game is a mess and even if I payed 12$ it still feels bad I feel even worse for people that payed 60$ for this trash. If you are a cod veteran that played = Cod2, Cod Waw, Cod mw1 Cod mw2
    just don't buy this game don't support them even for respect just don't It's trash.
    Every cod is ****ting in the mouth of the next one putting more microtransactions blocking maps splitting the playerbase in half or more.
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  55. Jul 13, 2019
    1
    1) Guns suck in this game, they are unbalanced piece of crap, either being useless or OP, it's one gun clearly beating another in every single category. And most of them are behind paywall/grindwall.
    2) TTK is also absurdly high and with bad hitreg it takes 1-2 sec to kill someone even with best aim. They should do 100 hp as usual instead of 150 (body armor and +50hp buff is a thing
    1) Guns suck in this game, they are unbalanced piece of crap, either being useless or OP, it's one gun clearly beating another in every single category. And most of them are behind paywall/grindwall.
    2) TTK is also absurdly high and with bad hitreg it takes 1-2 sec to kill someone even with best aim. They should do 100 hp as usual instead of 150 (body armor and +50hp buff is a thing also...wtf), and with better servers, this game would be WAY better.
    3) Specialist feature sucks, most of ultimates are just OP **** everyone can spam even total noob can get -5 with Batterys launcher if he gets lucky enough. I see what are they trying to do but it's cheap OW ripoff atm and it doesn't really fit CoD gameplay.
    4) Graphics are WORSE than in BO3. Believe me or not, or check by yourself if you can. They lowered visuals quality for their BR mode and it looks awful.
    5) Optimization gets worse and worse, and this game is hungry for RAM and videocard as well, I even got "out of memory" game crashes with 16gb ddr4 ram lol, first time in years maybe. Combine it with #4 and you will see how dumb this game is, worse graphics, worse optimization.
    6) Maps are okay-ish and that's only because they copypasted good old maps like Slums, Firing Range, Nuketown etc. (that's why I rated this crap as 1/10)
    7) Whole marketing strategy of this game is bull****, they sell you game for $60 and treat you like a kid playing f2p clown game with endless donations and paywalls. Oh there is also SP for $50 and it gives literally nothing, only few maps and BR/Zombies features. Everything in this game is grind RNG fiesta, or costs credits.
    8) Perks are a joke, most of them are useless and some like Dead Silence or Scavenger are picked 95% of the time. Literally worst set of perks for ages. Stim shot is OP as well. Also classic equipment is beaten by FREE specialist equipment which make zero sence too. And yeah you have unlimited sprint also lol with OP gun-ho bull**** perk. Enjoy.
    9) DLC's are free but not really free. You still have to grind ALOT to get all those features, and if you miss anything you can never buy it again, or you can try to open it in lootboxes... lol. Or just donate alot. They should look at R6 Siege strategy of releasing DLC's so everyone can buy it and it's not gamebreaking or nessesary.
    And worst part for me at least about DLCs, they are 10-25gb each and they contain literally nothing really. DL speed on Battle.net is slow for some reason, 2-5mb/s vs 10-11 mb/s on Steam.
    10) Since this is PC section and Im playing PC on EU I'm gonna talk about it a little bit too. Population of the game seems to be declining by ALOT. Since they merge gamemodes & lobbies, and game queues went from nearly instant on release to few minutes even on weekends! There is also no players count in game and you can't see it on Steam stats section, since the game is on Battle.net now.
    11) At last, when I bought the game in November and tried to refund it after 50-60 min of gameplay, Blizzard supp said to me I played with game for too long and refund could not be done! After asking for clarification what exactly is "played game too long", like Steam having 120 minutes/14 days policy for refunds, support told me nothing and wished to enjoy this game. LOL
    There is clearly a reason why they moved game from Steam to Battle.net. To hide players count and to avoid refunding also, so they can sell this piece of crap.

    PS. If you wanna waste your money on this think twice, it's still CoD every year and this year's CoD is waaay below average, it doesn't have jetpacks (FINALLY) but it's even more **** up than BO3 was. If you want to play some good old CoD play BO2 or MW2, they haven't done anything better than that for years. Whole franchise is going to wrong direction and for long-time fan, it's depressing.
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  56. Jun 26, 2019
    1
    Black ops 4 is a good game at it's core, although, since release, it has become a more than generic p2w game that doesn't listen to it's community at all. Examples of this are the newly added Weapon bribes, that allows a player to unlock new weapons normally locked in multiplayer. The community hated it, and despite their very negative response to the actions made by activision, they soonBlack ops 4 is a good game at it's core, although, since release, it has become a more than generic p2w game that doesn't listen to it's community at all. Examples of this are the newly added Weapon bribes, that allows a player to unlock new weapons normally locked in multiplayer. The community hated it, and despite their very negative response to the actions made by activision, they soon added exactly the same thing to their battle royale gamemode. Don't buy this game, unless you want to be used for money purposes SOLELY, by the company. Expand
  57. May 18, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game is sucks my only word are these This is all for 75 characters xd 93726384927238484 Expand
  58. Apr 27, 2023
    1
    Easily the worst Call of Duty (excluding Vanguard, let's be fair) of all time, feeling more like a half-baked excuse of a hero shooter than an arcade shooter. Incredibly overpowered specialists devolve matches into pissing contests of who can spam their ult faster. "Highest skill CoD of all time." What a joke. If your game's competitve mode has to strip MORE THAN HALF of the base game'sEasily the worst Call of Duty (excluding Vanguard, let's be fair) of all time, feeling more like a half-baked excuse of a hero shooter than an arcade shooter. Incredibly overpowered specialists devolve matches into pissing contests of who can spam their ult faster. "Highest skill CoD of all time." What a joke. If your game's competitve mode has to strip MORE THAN HALF of the base game's abilities to make a somewhat balanced game, guess what? Your base game is a JOKE. Not even mentioning the abhorrent dlc strategies. Locking the best 2-3 guns in EVERY CATAGORY behind a paywall is par for the course for Treyarc, ruining Black Ops 3's otherwise excellent multiplayer with the same flaw. This game can rot with its last 20 or so players at this point. Good riddance. Expand
  59. Apr 9, 2023
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. My rating is based on my impressions of the game. This is not an objective review. I play quite a big number of titles per year and decided to review them as a peace of art and not as a product. Expand
  60. Nov 1, 2018
    0
    The game doesn't have skill-based matchmaking and thus is too much toxic. It means if you are a noob and you've purchased this game yesterday it'll put you in the same lobby with mad-skilled nerd kids with no life and they will rip you apart. You have to spend tens of hours for training your skills and start actually enjoying it. Otherwise - prepare to die every 10 seconds. I don't enjoyThe game doesn't have skill-based matchmaking and thus is too much toxic. It means if you are a noob and you've purchased this game yesterday it'll put you in the same lobby with mad-skilled nerd kids with no life and they will rip you apart. You have to spend tens of hours for training your skills and start actually enjoying it. Otherwise - prepare to die every 10 seconds. I don't enjoy it a all and I wish I could refund it. Waste of money. Also no singleplayer campaign, few set of maps (only small 11 maps + one blackout for $60, I'm not joking). Expand
  61. Oct 22, 2018
    0
    I reluctantly purchased the game after the critics’ rave reviews, and was immediately disappointed. I’m not sure if it’s because I don’t play Call of Duty since the MW3/Ghost days that I didn’t experience its slow decline to the point the bar is so low, a minor improvement deserves accolades from fans and critics. The lack of single player campaign is indeed a problem, no matter how muchI reluctantly purchased the game after the critics’ rave reviews, and was immediately disappointed. I’m not sure if it’s because I don’t play Call of Duty since the MW3/Ghost days that I didn’t experience its slow decline to the point the bar is so low, a minor improvement deserves accolades from fans and critics. The lack of single player campaign is indeed a problem, no matter how much the media spins it. The multiplayer, you know is going to be gone come next Summer, as Call of Duty games don’t have the shelf life othe other competitive multiplayers, such as Rocket League, Overwatch, Rainbow Six Siege, even Battlefield.

    The graphics are last gen, there is some controller support but it’s abysmal (compared it to other PC competitive multiplayers). There are no tutorials nor training for new players, or players like me who returned after many new mechanics have been implemented. Single player campaign used to solve the tutorial problem in the past.

    Fortunately, after twisting some arms, I was able to get a refund, which is rare when you make a non-Steam purchase.

    I hope you take a good look at my review and don’t have to go through buyer’s remorse too. Be careful with critic reviews of Activision games.
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  62. Jan 6, 2019
    0
    A typical case of a bait and switch payement model, the game could be decent, but their business practices are crap. Also, they cut out the singleplayers.
  63. Oct 14, 2018
    0
    60$ за королевскую битву - это грабеж среди белого дня! В играх где есть внутренняя монетизация должны быть бесплатны как Fortnite или по крайней мере стоить не больше 20$, но никак не 60-70$ как за полноценную ААА игру где есть сюжетная кампания!60$ за королевскую битву - это грабеж среди белого дня! В играх где есть внутренняя монетизация должны быть бесплатны как Fortnite или по крайней мере стоить не больше 20$, но никак не 60-70$ как за полноценную ААА игру где есть сюжетная кампания!
  64. Mar 16, 2019
    0
    A ridicolous clone of Call of Duty without a single player campaign sold in a store (battle.net) without the historic Call of Duty community... Just crap, leave it at Blizzard / Activision
  65. Oct 22, 2018
    0
    Absolutely can’t believe they are joining the cookie cutter rehash online game only garbage while riding on laurels from previous releases. Zombies isn’t going to keep people coming to shell out $59.99 US for a multiplayer only game and then have to buy DLC for the next year just to continue to play with the same boring recycled maps over and over.

    What a shame how treyarch has
    Absolutely can’t believe they are joining the cookie cutter rehash online game only garbage while riding on laurels from previous releases. Zombies isn’t going to keep people coming to shell out $59.99 US for a multiplayer only game and then have to buy DLC for the next year just to continue to play with the same boring recycled maps over and over.

    What a shame how treyarch has destroyed a legacy game for the sole purpose of profit. Buying a game is like an interactive book and the story is what I myself buy them for because I want to enjoy a good bit of fiction with a goal. Enough of this cookie cutter multiplayer crap with DLC hopes because every game previous to this that was mutiplaher has failed because it just became redundant trash. Honestly I truly think they play on the new gamers every year coming of age to play and parents keep buying this garbage to appease them. The gaming community is upside down with greed and the gamers suffer for it.

    Gone are the days of blockbuster engines that produce insanely beautiful and smooth graphics, now it’s being out an ancient overplayed engine and soon new models and call it a game again and again.

    I’m a PC gamer from the days of old and I spend thousands on new hardware annually to have the best. Then pieces of garbage like this come out and it has me wondering why the PC gaming community has shrunk so badly. Because you can’t return the game and the games coming out don’t require new hardware annually because of stale dated engines that produce the same crap over and over again in a different wrapper.

    Thanks Treyarch you’ve successfully trashed another once first class title and reduced it to a doorstop.
    My advice, Fire who is leading this abortion of a development team and actually work to make a title with buying. Treyarch should be ashamed of themselves.
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  66. Nov 27, 2018
    0
    минус за нюкетаун. минус за тупые респы в спину ( в калл оф дьюти 2 такого не было) минус за килстрики. минус за тупой баланс игры.
  67. Dec 7, 2018
    0
    The worst cod I've ever played for sure a technical mess and horrible rng based game play due to specialist with free kill buttons and bad map design. The PC is definitely the worst place to play this games multiplayer due to horrible balancing and a lazy port.
  68. Nov 6, 2018
    0
    poor battle royale, lobby errors (matchmaking errors) , lowend graphics...
    cheaters, cheater and cheaters ... Activision do nothin
  69. Dec 5, 2018
    0
    I've never given a 0 score before, but the servers are in the process of shutting down in US, and there is no single player. Therefore you literally will not be able to play soon. I DO NOT RECOMMEND this game. Wouldn''t surprise me if they removed it from Battle.net store soon.

    UPDATE: 11/29/2018 BUYER BEWARE This game now has about 5 min queue times......guess most of the player
    I've never given a 0 score before, but the servers are in the process of shutting down in US, and there is no single player. Therefore you literally will not be able to play soon. I DO NOT RECOMMEND this game. Wouldn''t surprise me if they removed it from Battle.net store soon.

    UPDATE: 11/29/2018
    BUYER BEWARE
    This game now has about 5 min queue times......guess most of the player base has moved on.
    I thought it was only blackout having the issue, but I've tried normal multiplayer as well and it is the same issue...You have been warned.

    Game is fun.
    Optimization is bad.
    Still game breaking bugs 2 weeks after release......Can't really excuse this for a $60 game.
    Blackout is fun though. Zombie mode has been improved.
    Hopefully Tryarch improves the game. Everything is there, they just need to polish and add content....we will see.

    Okay, 3 weeks later, queue times now up to 5 mins, they fixed some stuff, but game is ded....deduct a point.........also, servers randomly go down.
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  70. Jun 5, 2019
    0
    I'd give it -10 if I could, I've never opened such a garbage exe. This game isn't worth even one's thought to buy it. I'm embarassed myself about it.
  71. Nov 2, 2018
    0
    might be alright but i havent found a game in the lobby yet

    zombies looks cheesy
  72. Jul 31, 2021
    0
    This is the first in the series to have Always Online Dog****. Therefor it is trash, don't bother.
  73. Oct 14, 2018
    0
    Here we are at last... Call of Duty without a campaign. Am I surprised? F**k No! In fact I even predicted it in my CoD WW2 review. This is a sad day day indeed, the CoD i know and love has completely lost its identity. Back in the day, CoD was a franchise that focused on singleplayer then added multiplayer as a bonus. Now CoD wants to copy every other thing that's popular right now;Here we are at last... Call of Duty without a campaign. Am I surprised? F**k No! In fact I even predicted it in my CoD WW2 review. This is a sad day day indeed, the CoD i know and love has completely lost its identity. Back in the day, CoD was a franchise that focused on singleplayer then added multiplayer as a bonus. Now CoD wants to copy every other thing that's popular right now; overwatch, battle royale... It's just disgusting. Guns now have recoil, players have health bars, healing is done manually, multiplayer characters have unique abilities and supers... None of this is Call of Duty. And what about the battle royale mode? It sucks! Just like every other battle royale out there! Who even asked for battle royale? Give me my story campaign back!! I'm not even going to talk about zombies, I'm tired of zombies, everyone's tired of zombies. Expand
  74. Jan 2, 2019
    0
    At first i wrote a positive review but after all this microtransaction hell with a game with full price and a season pass... still microtransactions? you sell a red dot for a scope? really?

    last game i got from ya.
  75. Jan 3, 2019
    0
    Full Price + Season Pass + extra Microtransactions + charging for maps was not enough. They just added a Reticle that is nothing more than a Red dot. Not a scope, just a Red dot on your screen. They want real money for this ten second texture? Activision just pulled a Bethesda.
  76. Oct 13, 2018
    0
    This game is beyond horrible, it doesn't even have a campaign. There are Specialist missions with story instead, which are poorly designed compared to the traditional campaigns. You can't even play those offline. The gun mechanics are trash. The gun sounds are a joke. The physics are horrible.

    Blackout mode is just a cheap version of Battlefield. The developers promised the "best and
    This game is beyond horrible, it doesn't even have a campaign. There are Specialist missions with story instead, which are poorly designed compared to the traditional campaigns. You can't even play those offline. The gun mechanics are trash. The gun sounds are a joke. The physics are horrible.

    Blackout mode is just a cheap version of Battlefield. The developers promised the "best and most refined mechanics" in the trailer, yet the mechanics are terrible. You can't even destroy any buildings. This game mode lacks vehicle variety. There are no jet fighters, or any planes to be found. Zombie mode lacks innovation. The regular Multiplayer is boring and repetitive. The maps are about the same as the last game, with a fresh coat of paint.

    The worst part of this game is that it requires a 50 GB patch to play. That makes the physical copy pointless. You can play multiplayer and Zombies with bots and splitscreen offline. But what's the point of having any of that if you need Internet to play? Not everyone has good internet, and it's pathetic how anti-consumer the developers are. The CODs before WWII didn't required internet. I don't recommend this game at all. Internet required games are a disgrace
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  77. Nov 24, 2018
    0
    Very high ping(play in many online shooters but high ping only in destiny2 and cod4). Very very VERY many cheats shamed users. Tons of cheaters, hackers autists. So many cheatrs i see only in destiny 2 and cod4. Anticheat dont work. Piece of ****
  78. Nov 14, 2018
    0
    Bad,
    Not Good...
    I want my money back...
    Been gaming since pong, this ranks up there with ET on ATARI; disappointment and bewilderment
    Would rather play, just about anything
    EA should be ashamed
    We get no respect
  79. Dec 3, 2018
    0
    Something needs to be done about abominations like this receiving positive reviews. This is hands down the worst gaming experience of my life. I have never felt actual rage while gaming until this. bo4 is truly unacceptable in every single way imaginable. I'm never playing video games again. **** this game and anyone who had anything to do with its creation. I've never been this upset overSomething needs to be done about abominations like this receiving positive reviews. This is hands down the worst gaming experience of my life. I have never felt actual rage while gaming until this. bo4 is truly unacceptable in every single way imaginable. I'm never playing video games again. **** this game and anyone who had anything to do with its creation. I've never been this upset over any purchase. Its screams free-to-play from the start. It is an outrage that this is a AAA full priced product. Bad enough to actually make an account and rant. This post kept me from breaking something irl. Expand
  80. Oct 13, 2018
    0
    Hardly even a complete game. There is very little content, and one that is in is dull and boring. 20$ game at best. Very few people playing too. Glitches all around. No improvement of any kind compared to previous game. Blackout is more dynamic then PUBG but over PUBG, with all its glitches, does it better. Waste.
  81. Jan 1, 2019
    0
    On PC in Australia my experience so far has been that you will never find enough players for Blackout Solo, rarely find enough for Duos and occasionally find enough for Quads. So if you aren't a massive fan of the multiplayer TDM and Domination modes then you're wasting your money as they seem to be the only way to play.

    So for BR go elsewhere, even the free to play games are better,
    On PC in Australia my experience so far has been that you will never find enough players for Blackout Solo, rarely find enough for Duos and occasionally find enough for Quads. So if you aren't a massive fan of the multiplayer TDM and Domination modes then you're wasting your money as they seem to be the only way to play.

    So for BR go elsewhere, even the free to play games are better, not because of the content but because at least you'll get a match. No point having a game if you can never actually play it.
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  82. Aug 13, 2019
    0
    Stock 2 and annihilator break competitive. Treyarch refuses to remove GA'd weapons and abilities out of competitive. Pubs have so many OP weapons and attachments it's unplayable. Treyarch doesn't care about competitive multiplayer at all.
  83. Oct 12, 2018
    0
    More like Lack Ops.

    I played the Beta for this game prior to its release, as i've done with each CoD, out of morbid curiosity and to confirm them as being not worth a purchase. Like each CoD before it since which ever the last good one was (which varies depending on who you ask, I'm going to say CoD 4, tentatively), it's a rehash of the same tired whack-a-mole gameplay that
    More like Lack Ops.

    I played the Beta for this game prior to its release, as i've done with each CoD, out of morbid curiosity and to confirm them as being not worth a purchase. Like each CoD before it since which ever the last good one was (which varies depending on who you ask, I'm going to say CoD 4, tentatively), it's a rehash of the same tired whack-a-mole gameplay that characterizes each installment, on the same old jury-rigged Quake 3 engine, the same awful netcode, with I'm sure what will be the same obnoxiously overpriced map packs, and the same sour taste it leaves in your mouth. And yet, each manages to be even worse then the preceding game each time, in this case by taking the already used and abused "character shooter" setup, providing even more ways to die to something you didn't see coming, and injecting, of all the half-baked dimwittery, a "battle royale" mode. They even had the unmitigated gall to not even bother adding a singleplayer campaign, the only part of CoD that was ever any real fun. Oh and for the diuretic icing on the **** sundae, there's microtransactions. And if the betas for WW2, Black Ops 3 and this game were any indication, the downward spiral persists to this day. The one for Infinite Warfare didn't even work. One of these days CoD will get so bad it will actually lose Activision a a lot of money, and then we can put this undead franchise back in the ground where it belongs.

    Treyarch got to make good games, once. Anybody remember Die by the Sword?
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  84. Jan 3, 2019
    0
    There is no available servers for regions outside the US and Europe, if you are watching this from other parts of the globe (I'm from south america, Argentina) do not even think about buying this game unless you are a high end network technician or you just want to burn 60 dollars.
  85. Oct 18, 2018
    0
    By far one of the worst call of duty games ever. Getting kicked out of games with error messages almost every game. gameplay feels completely inaccurate. the battle royal mode is a bad joke also. 0/0
  86. Oct 12, 2018
    0
    No splitscreen support/ "Not a console port" my ass. 0/10 unplayable without splitscreen. Will change review and buy game again if patched.
  87. Mar 1, 2019
    0
    The game is a 5/10. but with the degree to which Activation and tryarch have no shame in implementing the microtransactions in a 60$ game with a 50$ dlc pass, on top of the in game shop which also sells challenge skips in the supply stream ( the battlepass like progression system).
    so you are paying 110$ at the very least for an average game with very slow content updates and a
    The game is a 5/10. but with the degree to which Activation and tryarch have no shame in implementing the microtransactions in a 60$ game with a 50$ dlc pass, on top of the in game shop which also sells challenge skips in the supply stream ( the battlepass like progression system).
    so you are paying 110$ at the very least for an average game with very slow content updates and a microtransaction store on top of it.
    No story campaign for a battle royal mode that is 1/10th the fun you can get in apex legends which is a free to play game.
    whats worse is that in a few months the next cod will release and all your investment in this game is reduced to ashes.
    way too many games out there to waste time on this cash grab...
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  88. Aug 26, 2019
    0
    I deleted this game 3 months ago and have 0 reason/motivation to come back. It's a pay-to-win garbage and my worst game purchase EVER! I really regret buying this... "game"
  89. Oct 14, 2018
    0
    Such a pathetic cash grab its embarrassing. We need to retaliate against this kind of fraud.
  90. Oct 19, 2018
    0
    Es una pena en lo que se ha convertido Call of Duty. No poner un modo historia formal apostando solo por el multijugador online que antes era un complemento en el título de cada año. Solo le venden al público que ya tiene posicionado su producto. Sus ventas se deben a que copió el modo battle royal.

    In English It's a shame what Call of Duty has become. Do not put a formal story mode
    Es una pena en lo que se ha convertido Call of Duty. No poner un modo historia formal apostando solo por el multijugador online que antes era un complemento en el título de cada año. Solo le venden al público que ya tiene posicionado su producto. Sus ventas se deben a que copió el modo battle royal.

    In English
    It's a shame what Call of Duty has become. Do not put a formal story mode betting only on the online multiplayer that was previously a complement in the title of each year. They only sell to the public that has already positioned their product. His sales are because he copied the battle royal mode.
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  91. Nov 13, 2018
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Нормальная игра, от которой можно получать удовольствие, но увы не столько, сколько того хотелось бы. Ужасная сетевая оптимизация, частые вылеты при загрузке следующего матча, ошибка отключенного сервера. Так же из минусов не интересная визуальная кастомизация специалистов и оружия, система ивентов ужасна и примитивна. Зато хорошая оптимизация на ПК (не сетевая), достойное управление, я бы даже сказал очень приятная, плотная стрельба и звук, как Шутер игра очень хороша. Но хороший игровой процесс - этого очень мало. Black Ops 4 пока что, 1 месяц спустя чувствуется не полноценным, надеюсь в будущем изменить свою оценку, у игры есть потенциал, но пока что это очень и очень крепкий середняк...
    Ремейкер
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  92. Oct 30, 2018
    0
    Decrease FPS after 1.04 patch. Submachine gun without damage. Bad spawn. No matchmaking. High ping. Bad hit registration. Black market where not really to gain 200 level. Imbalance in weapons. Beta for 100$.
  93. Nov 5, 2018
    0
    Simply the Worst game i played on 2018. Servers always kicking you out.
    My internet is fast 400mb and ping 20 feels like 100, symply unplayable.
    Graphics are VERY BAD,
    4k ultra settings RTX2080ti and they simply look like games for PS4 in 2015
  94. Oct 26, 2018
    0
    They pulled a fast one on us - they gave good servers during beta, and then downgraded them to the point that the matchmaking doesn't even work. I can forgive the lack of single player, cause COd SP has always been incoherent and stupid, but they lied to the community about the expected performance, and effectively rendered their own game unplayable. And in true Activision fashion, allThey pulled a fast one on us - they gave good servers during beta, and then downgraded them to the point that the matchmaking doesn't even work. I can forgive the lack of single player, cause COd SP has always been incoherent and stupid, but they lied to the community about the expected performance, and effectively rendered their own game unplayable. And in true Activision fashion, all you'll get is a **** you Expand
  95. Jul 31, 2019
    0
    Didn't actually mind the game too much at launch, it was nothing more or less than a new Call of Duty game, solid 5/10 material. I didn't play the game for a while as it wasn't really engaging. Then I logged in this week and the microtransaction spam was out of control. For a full price game this is unacceptable and any game with an Activision logo anywhere on it won't be getting my money
  96. Mar 10, 2019
    0
    Putting Loot boxes and Season passes in a game I got on launch day real classy.
  97. Oct 18, 2018
    0
    What a hot load of garbage. (look my name (wybrem) up on youtube for performance video) NEVER bought a Call of Duty game because honestly it's well known console trash. But this one, this one was optimized for PC, well not. RTX2080 2600x 32gb mem and it manages to hover around 100fps and than drop to 50 or lower in some situations. Even PUBG is better optimzed. Hee activision how aboutWhat a hot load of garbage. (look my name (wybrem) up on youtube for performance video) NEVER bought a Call of Duty game because honestly it's well known console trash. But this one, this one was optimized for PC, well not. RTX2080 2600x 32gb mem and it manages to hover around 100fps and than drop to 50 or lower in some situations. Even PUBG is better optimzed. Hee activision how about making a new game engine instead of using this ancient BLOPS 1 engine. It plays like trash as well guys just like you expect from a Call of Duty game. It's made for console players. Gunplay is horrific at best or maybe it's the sub 50 frames who knows. The battle royale is absolute trash, even fortnite's rng bullets feel better, but than again I have no issues getting over 130 frames at all times there. Waste of my money. Expand
  98. Mar 18, 2019
    0
    Моей последней игрой этой серии была МВ2 и тогда она мне нравилась, всё очень динамичное и быстрое, почти всё оружие убивает с одинаковой скоростью, единственным минусом было наличие в игре коренных задротов, которые всю жизнь тратят на на игры COD и точно играют лучше тебя (но это не минус самой игры). Покупка этой части была спровоцирована моими друзьями и обильной рекламой "лучшего"Моей последней игрой этой серии была МВ2 и тогда она мне нравилась, всё очень динамичное и быстрое, почти всё оружие убивает с одинаковой скоростью, единственным минусом было наличие в игре коренных задротов, которые всю жизнь тратят на на игры COD и точно играют лучше тебя (но это не минус самой игры). Покупка этой части была спровоцирована моими друзьями и обильной рекламой "лучшего" батл рояля на которую я успешно повёлся. Сам режим королевской битвы был сделан на отьебись. Вся карта - это слепок из карт из прошлых игр серии. Новая система бронежилетов должна была уровнять баланс сил между слабыми и сильными игроками, а получилось как всегда и убийство человека в 3-ей броне делается невозможным для обладателя брони уровнем ниже (если он не Джейсон Борн конечно-же). Баланс в обычном мультиплеере был похерен на корню, за счёт введения увеличенного КД (более вероятно исключительно для королевской битвы), а вместе с ним и пушек, которым вообще поебать на новый КД, посему приходится играть или на "слабом" оружии, или с нуб-ганами. Карты очень маленькие и для игры 2018 года- позорно. И да, фанаты этой "лучшей" серии игр не куда не делись, они всё ещё не наши себе занятий достойней тотального уничтожения анусов ньюфагов. Есть ещё режим "Зомби", суть которого- выжить как можно больше волн (но если у тебя не ебись как много времени на изучение ненужной информации- то ты можешь пройти карту, но это вряд ли), он мне не нравился и не нравиться сейчас. В итоге имеем- дисбалансный мультиплеер с картами по площади меньше двухспальной кровати, переполненный дрочерами серии, батл рояль на 5-10 часов максимум и своеобразный зомби мод (предназначенный для фанатов, как я считаю). Я делал предзаказ и не простой, а за 3500 и очень об этом пожалел. Думаю больше я не куплю не одну игру этого "прекрасного " "разработчика". Ставлю 0 за те 3500, которые проебал, я имею на это полное право. Внимание. Спасибо за внимание. Expand
  99. Oct 12, 2018
    0
    bro, this game dont have servers in south america, this is a garbage, its is a insult for all people from south america, we pay for this 70 dollars and we cant play less than 150 of ping!!! DONT BUY THIS IF U ARE FROM SOUTH AMERICA
  100. Oct 13, 2018
    0
    Wow... geez... such a massive disappointment.
    The call of duty series are good as single player... a nice story... missions... multiplayer only?! That's not why I play Call of Duty games... It's basically a **** game... another dime and dozen crappy shoot some random internet guy in the face kind of game. I genuinely feel ripped off.
    Need to be more careful about Activision games in the
    Wow... geez... such a massive disappointment.
    The call of duty series are good as single player... a nice story... missions... multiplayer only?! That's not why I play Call of Duty games... It's basically a **** game... another dime and dozen crappy shoot some random internet guy in the face kind of game. I genuinely feel ripped off.
    Need to be more careful about Activision games in the future. 60 quid poorer and none the happier.
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Metascore
83

Generally favorable reviews - based on 29 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 25 out of 29
  2. Negative: 0 out of 29
  1. Mar 6, 2019
    85
    Zombies, multiplayer and battle royale. Black Ops 4 is whole package. With great blackout map, brutal and honest action, it will put all competition in danger. Standard multiplayer suffers from old issues, but is fun enough to guarantee tons of fun. Zombies are brilliant and refreshed with new Rush mod. Lack of single player campaign still hurts though.
  2. CD-Action
    Feb 13, 2019
    90
    It was a risky decision to drop the single player campaign and focus on multiplayer, including battle royale, which seemed like a cynical attempt to jump on the bandwagon. I’m a bit surprised to say that Treyarch did truly great. Black Ops 4 is one of the best online games of 2018 – its shooting mechanics are wonderful, Blackout (the aforementioned take on battle royale) is top-notch and the Zombies mode drifts towards... action RPG. [12/2018, p.78]
  3. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Dec 31, 2018
    100
    Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 has proven to all players, that it doesn´t need Hollywood faces in the story to attract players, because it’s completely fine with its online entertainment. Call of Duty is definitely going to stay with us for a couple more weeks. [Issue#290]