Call of Duty: Black Ops 4

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3.2

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 826 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 180 out of 826
  2. Mixed: 85 out of 826
  3. Negative: 561 out of 826
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  1. timothyb
    Oct 15, 2018
    0
    Never played a more terribly implemented game. The hitboxes are way off the mark, showing "hits" even when opposing players don't take any damage whatsoever in multiplayer. The UI is not intuitive whatsoever, there's no good progression in multiplayer at low levels (and what progression there is is very slow), the game's crashed for me on more than one occasion after entering a chatNever played a more terribly implemented game. The hitboxes are way off the mark, showing "hits" even when opposing players don't take any damage whatsoever in multiplayer. The UI is not intuitive whatsoever, there's no good progression in multiplayer at low levels (and what progression there is is very slow), the game's crashed for me on more than one occasion after entering a chat message and it is comically frustrating at the best of times. The battle royale mode is "OK" but there are much better BR games. The default settings are confusing at best. The matchmaking is straight garbage with wider skillgaps than the Atlantic Ocean. This is just another attempt to milk more money out of franchise players, not a good game in its own right.… Expand
  2. LatinoKilla
    Nov 6, 2018
    0
    poor battle royale, lobby errors (matchmaking errors) , lowend graphics...
    cheaters, cheater and cheaters ... Activision do nothin
  3. Beardman
    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.    … Expand
  4. RBear777
    Oct 29, 2018
    0
    Сервис Battle.net почему ты жив? Нельзя вернуть деньги за этот высер. : (
  5. gipsylon
    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.    … Expand
  6. OzzTheBozz
    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
  7. easy63
    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$.
  8. arkdzo
    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
  9. Groggerino
    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    … Expand
  10. billpinknye
    Oct 14, 2018
    0
    The lack of single player campaign is very disappointing. I gave it a shot nonetheless. Zombies, meh. Pvp, meh. Battle royal, didn't even give it a chance. If you've played one of the 2 already existing battle royal games, you've played them all.

    Returned this game for a full refund.
  11. Kamarr
    Oct 17, 2018
    4
    Man where to start I guess the main issue is the missing content that I feel that should be in the flipping game again back in the day they had a mode called Ground War and I feel as though they **** up not having it in the game and I know the game can handle it being Blackout has 88 players in it. I wanna give this at least a 6 but can't due to the fact the game still influences CORNERMan where to start I guess the main issue is the missing content that I feel that should be in the flipping game again back in the day they had a mode called Ground War and I feel as though they **** up not having it in the game and I know the game can handle it being Blackout has 88 players in it. I wanna give this at least a 6 but can't due to the fact the game still influences CORNER CAMPING in all modes besides Zombies of course but it gets annoying...

    The Twitch streamer Avoidthingpuddle says it the best on the whole camping subject so find that clip on YT.

    You kill 2-3 players then heal up and run into a building for cover and low and behold some dip stick in the corner with a shotty that blows you away cause you have no more armor and they have been sitting there for 5+ mins to kill someone walking into the door or window. I've played many Battle Royal games and CoD seems to have it the worse for the camping DISGUSTING. Little chubby cheek kids camping cause they can't handle conflict.

    Another thing I hated about Blackout is the normal spawn of a rocket launchers gotta love dropping out of the chopper to just get rocketed from a building across the way while your fighting another player or two for the goodies. Like make rockets in supply drops only as it causes major imbalance at the start of the game. Thats why certain games have a lock out to certain weapons appearing only in Supply Drops.

    Next I wanna talk about the multiplayer as a whole the combat is really **** I feel there matchmaking algorithm is to place players that are starting out with people that are pros or have 40+ hours in the game already that just man handle you every turn of the way. They have a **** Copy paste system from black ops 3 the whole operator idea is TRASH. Rainbow Six Siege just does that whole idea better.

    The only real mode I found fun on this game was Heist. They really killed this game and its potential to being a game that kills PubG.

    The only thing this game has on top of pubg is the performance and hardly any lag.

    This is not a 10 out of 10 game so please if you are reading the 10 out of 10 reviews ignore them. This game is easily a 4-6 outta 10 if that.    … Expand
  12. mosetsu
    Nov 4, 2018
    0
    Нерабочие дерьмище! Системные требование не корректны! Моя система подходит по системкам, но игра на ней не работает! Промчался кучу времени пытаясь поиграть, но нечего не получилось!
    И деньги обратно не вернули с обоснованием - "возможность для возврата подобных продуктов ограничено."
    Это сцуко пять! Продадим нерабочее дерьмище и деньги не вернём! Жрите, как говорится, и не заляпайтесь!    Нерабочие дерьмище! Системные требование не корректны! Моя система подходит по системкам, но игра на ней не работает! Промчался кучу времени пытаясь поиграть, но нечего не получилось!
    И деньги обратно не вернули с обоснованием - "возможность для возврата подобных продуктов ограничено."
    Это сцуко пять! Продадим нерабочее дерьмище и деньги не вернём! Жрите, как говорится, и не заляпайтесь!
  13. Zorbas
    Oct 15, 2018
    3
    This is one of the worst game out there, even worse than Battlfront series, its like a Fortnite and PUBG had a child, who is retarted. Only thing good is movement. Sounds are in mono, graphics needs a nuclear computer to work. Maps are like stamps. Don't waste your money.
  14. agentmonday
    Oct 13, 2018
    4
    Feels like a black ops 3 expansion not worth 92 NZD!
    -No campaign
    -Zombies dull and confusing -Blackout a uninspired cash grab for the BR fad the gaming industry is going through at the moment -Multiplayer average at best, same recycled "safe" formula used every year maps are "OK" nothing special... SAME SH*T DIFFERENT YEAR! would recommend waiting for a sale but it will be pretty    Feels like a black ops 3 expansion not worth 92 NZD!
    -No campaign
    -Zombies dull and confusing
    -Blackout a uninspired cash grab for the BR fad the gaming industry is going through at the moment
    -Multiplayer average at best, same recycled "safe" formula used every year maps are "OK" nothing special... SAME SH*T DIFFERENT YEAR!
    would recommend waiting for a sale but it will be pretty much dead on PC by than    … Expand
  15. vonsmear
    Oct 14, 2018
    0
    This game is an absolute turd. I should have done some research before I just dumped $60 on it figuring it was the same old format as always. It's not, I realize now there is no campaign, graphics look 8 years old, you have to use battle.net instead of Steam, it takes 10 mins to join a match even though I'm on gigabit fiber internet. Runs like crap on a 1070, i7, 16B DDR4. WorstThis game is an absolute turd. I should have done some research before I just dumped $60 on it figuring it was the same old format as always. It's not, I realize now there is no campaign, graphics look 8 years old, you have to use battle.net instead of Steam, it takes 10 mins to join a match even though I'm on gigabit fiber internet. Runs like crap on a 1070, i7, 16B DDR4. Worst gaming purchase I have ever made. 20 mins in and I already uninstalled it, and can't even get a refund.… Expand
  16. Treocomp
    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.    … Expand
  17. Iscariote
    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.
  18. Allthat
    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
  19. sharkimedes
    Oct 14, 2018
    0
    Such a pathetic cash grab its embarrassing. We need to retaliate against this kind of fraud.
  20. Nati
    Oct 15, 2018
    3
    Honestly I will just exclude the clearly broken Servers as its regular launch stuff... The game is bland, the graphics are disappointing, the gunplay is bizarre and the opposite to what I used to love about COD. I am not fanboy of this series the last COD I played was BLOPS 1.

    I just find it unsatisfying. Assassins Creed odyssey is by far a superior game and makes it really hard for me    Honestly I will just exclude the clearly broken Servers as its regular launch stuff... The game is bland, the graphics are disappointing, the gunplay is bizarre and the opposite to what I used to love about COD. I am not fanboy of this series the last COD I played was BLOPS 1.

    I just find it unsatisfying. Assassins Creed odyssey is by far a superior game and makes it really hard for me to honestly rate this new COD very highly.

    Graphs suck, gunplay is shaky, killtime is WAY too long, items are far too obvious and effective. Its not immersive, realistic and to me just bizarrely unsatisfying    … Expand
  21. Razzydude
    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
  22. Figaro79
    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 ****
  23. sautedave
    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
  24. FUTNUTS
    Nov 17, 2018
    0
    This is just so bad. Worst COD game ever, so bad. SO BAD. THIS IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BAAAAAD, ITS SO BAD. I want a refund.
  25. edinv
    Nov 26, 2018
    0
    These criminals should go to jail for charging people $60 Every single year for a copy and paste trash game. This is for mentally challenged, inbreds, gay children and all those who will never get laid or succeed in life.

    One of the worst experiences I've had playing a game I think EVER. Played for some hours to see if it gets better.. only gets worse. You have to shoot somebody with 2    These criminals should go to jail for charging people $60 Every single year for a copy and paste trash game. This is for mentally challenged, inbreds, gay children and all those who will never get laid or succeed in life.

    One of the worst experiences I've had playing a game I think EVER. Played for some hours to see if it gets better.. only gets worse. You have to shoot somebody with 2 clips before you kill them, That is if you can follow the wild retarded bunnies that jump around non stop and keep strafing till they die or kill you.

    THE WORST GAME EVER , gets me so mad when I play because of the **** of how long you have to shoot someone and how horrible it is. Please boycott this garbage.

    THIS GAME IS CANCER.    … Expand
  26. fry12
    Dec 4, 2018
    0
    Очередное праразитирование на франшизе, очередной клон предыдущей игры с добавлением хайпового Батлрояля. Попытка угодить всем: любителям оригинального быстрого геймплея в сетевой игре, батлрояль для любителей жанра, зомби для любителей зомби. Казалось бы много контента, но каждая его часть выполнения криво. Стрельба примитивная, как из игрушечного оружия, звук стрельбы пластиковыйОчередное праразитирование на франшизе, очередной клон предыдущей игры с добавлением хайпового Батлрояля. Попытка угодить всем: любителям оригинального быстрого геймплея в сетевой игре, батлрояль для любителей жанра, зомби для любителей зомби. Казалось бы много контента, но каждая его часть выполнения криво. Стрельба примитивная, как из игрушечного оружия, звук стрельбы пластиковый неприятный. Регистрация попадания ужасная, то убиваешь с 5 патронов, то высаживаешь обойму без толку. Добивает все отвратительная кастомизация и скины на оружия и оперативников. Добро пожаловать в битву клоунов! 0 из 10.… Expand
  27. dboris
    Dec 17, 2018
    0
    I bought BFV and CODIIII the same day.
    BF4 runs 4K nearly maxed out with a 2070, looks amazing, overall it's a very nice improved WWII version of BFI, with a lot of visual / UI / gameplay improvements. Overall satisfied despite the critiques.
    COD is running in low/medium at 45fps, has a lot of micro-freeze, and look visually like a modded version of MWII. The menus, music, and    I bought BFV and CODIIII the same day.
    BF4 runs 4K nearly maxed out with a 2070, looks amazing, overall it's a very nice improved WWII version of BFI, with a lot of visual / UI / gameplay improvements. Overall satisfied despite the critiques.

    COD is running in low/medium at 45fps, has a lot of micro-freeze, and look visually like a modded version of MWII. The menus, music, and characters models and animations look like a cheap korean F2P game.
    I can't enjoy the "fun" gameplay because it's unplayable at 4K despite my 16 cores + RTX 2070.
    Maxed out in 1080p it looks like crap with aliasing despite having it maxed out, visual glitches, lags, strange effects, soft textures.

    It's frustrating to see streamers "enjoy" it with nice visuals while I can't even play the game properly. It look like we don't have the same game.

    I'm bashing COD as much as I'm sure I can feel activision's fist tickling my internal organs.    … Expand
  28. gallar2
    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
  29. serega1md
    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!
  30. Protismal
    Oct 14, 2018
    3
    Wonderful Build but needs some work when playing blackout the leveling system is crap not going to lie, I'm unable to level up because I'm not making a kill but I can do damage to players and I think that should count cause at this rate I will never level up and when your playing with pros it makes it even harder to level up.
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Metascore
83

Generally favorable reviews - based on 29 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 25 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 29
  3. Negative: 0 out of 29
  1. PLAY! Zine
    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.
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  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]
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