Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War

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3.7

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 786 Ratings

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  1. DimaLuksha
    Aug 28, 2023
    10
    Single player-10 .
  2. TiredOfBlizzard
    Aug 25, 2023
    2
    A pretty average fps, stuck within the terrible user interface that has become the modern warfare game center.

    Story was mediocre. Game mechanics are clunky and even worse in multiplayer.

    I tried to refund but it was too late. Don't waste your $ on this lazy cash grab.
  3. Richard_dias
    Aug 14, 2023
    9
    Yeah, that was a freaking great game. One of the best campaigns in the whole franchise, the best zombies mode in any Call of Duty and also the multiplayer mode where I had the most fun (very nice maps, freaking nice guns, good music and so on). It's just a shame that the most part of the playerbase always move to the newest COD on the market and Activision do not make too much effort toYeah, that was a freaking great game. One of the best campaigns in the whole franchise, the best zombies mode in any Call of Duty and also the multiplayer mode where I had the most fun (very nice maps, freaking nice guns, good music and so on). It's just a shame that the most part of the playerbase always move to the newest COD on the market and Activision do not make too much effort to avoid hackers in the "old" games. Still, you have a pretty good package buying just for campaign/zombies.… Expand
  4. Mattie
    Jun 17, 2023
    6
    Gameplay - 6/10
    Graphics - 8/10
    Performance - 8/10
    Story - 2/10

    Total score - 6/10
  5. VoviBen
    May 2, 2023
    2
    Sbmm, Droptime, Noob Friendly. The Zombie Mode is fine, i don't even play campaign.
  6. nomad1326
    Apr 23, 2023
    8
    I liked Cold War so much from the Singleplayer perspective. I really liked locations, missions and approaches to directing the plot and how developers combined it with gameplay. Some missions stuck in my memory and I will return to this game to replay in the future. Yeap, this is not Game of the Year, but still a cool journey if you're looking for the game on 8 hours.
  7. ZombieGreen
    Mar 14, 2023
    8
    Fantastische Story und cooles Gameplay. Macht auch beim zweiten mal spielen richtig Spaß und das 80er Setting toppt sowieso nichts.
    Die Charaktere sind recht interessant, aber nicht wirklich komplex. Der Plottwist allerdings ist nicht nur ziemlich clever, sondern auch fantastisch umgesetzt, visuell und gameplay-technisch.
    Call Of Duty: Cold war erfindet das Genre nicht neu, aber hat auf    Fantastische Story und cooles Gameplay. Macht auch beim zweiten mal spielen richtig Spaß und das 80er Setting toppt sowieso nichts.
    Die Charaktere sind recht interessant, aber nicht wirklich komplex. Der Plottwist allerdings ist nicht nur ziemlich clever, sondern auch fantastisch umgesetzt, visuell und gameplay-technisch.
    Call Of Duty: Cold war erfindet das Genre nicht neu, aber hat auf jeden Fall einen erfrischenden Touch.
    Mein persönliches Lieblings-COD!    … Expand
  8. realWhiteMan
    Mar 5, 2023
    3
    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
  9. macak
    Feb 9, 2023
    0
    2 words:
    SO
    BAD
    The story is the saddest (in a bad way) excuse for a story I have ever seen
  10. IniciusV
    Feb 4, 2023
    0
    FPS É UMA MERDA, SHOOTER É UMA MERDA, PRIMEIRA PESSOA É UMA MERDA, SÓ TEM FPS/SHOOTER/PRIMEIRA PESSOA NESSA MERDA
  11. Pickle
    Jan 4, 2023
    7
    No es un mal juego; los gráficos son fantásticos, los ambientes variados y la tematización y ambientación de la época es fantástica, desde la música, ropas, hasta los temas de la guerra fría, todo está presente de una manera detallada y bien realizada, sin embargo, en los detalles de la jugabilidad y en los temas técnicos éste es un juego con muchos aspectos inferiores a su predecesorNo es un mal juego; los gráficos son fantásticos, los ambientes variados y la tematización y ambientación de la época es fantástica, desde la música, ropas, hasta los temas de la guerra fría, todo está presente de una manera detallada y bien realizada, sin embargo, en los detalles de la jugabilidad y en los temas técnicos éste es un juego con muchos aspectos inferiores a su predecesor (Modern Warfare 2019).

    La campaña es corta, tiene temas y personajes bastante buenos, muchos que vuelven desde las sagas posteriores de Call of Duty, pero en cierto modo se siente como si la campaña no estuviese terminada, comienza muy bien y parece tener una buena trama y de pronto comienza a introducir decisiones del diseño bastante extrañas, por ejemplo, tienen un área base que francamente termina siendo completamente innecesaria, en ésta área uno puede revisar pruebas y detalles de cada misión lo cual en un principio es interesante, pero después parece ser algo que se pudo desarrollar de una mejor manera, y francamente, termina pareciendo como si mucho de eso esta ahí en forma de lecturas y demás para prolongar artificialmente la longitud de la experiencia.

    Hay dos misiones secundarias en el juego, pero terminan siendo sumamente básicas, tanto por los objetivos, así como por la trama de cada misión, se trata de implementar aspectos de investigación bastante básicos y muchos de ellos dependientes de secretos que uno pueda coleccionar en otras misiones, sin embargo, estas investigaciones secundarias terminan siendo completamente opcionales.

    Al final hay un buen giro y se te dan unas buenas decisiones, pero en general esta era una campaña que prometía mas de lo que dio.

    El multijugador es definitivamente la experiencia mas negativa y en donde se nota cada vez mas el impacto, si en la campaña tuve problemas técnicos en una misión que me forzó hasta disminuir la dificultad del juego para sobrellevar ese error, el multijugador en cambio ofrece muy pocos modos de juego, así como de armas y de mapas en comparación con Modern Warfare 2019.

    Si juegas modo local o privado, básicamente te reducen el modo de juego a solo una porción de los mapas disponibles para el juego, después hubo actualizaciones que añadió mapas y armas, pero no fueron lo suficientemente bien implementadas para hacer que las armas funcionaran en los modos locales o privados…

    El modo zombi en comparación es decente pero también tiene errores técnicos, un mapa en particular que tiene un concepto bastante bueno termina pareciendo incompleto en su diseño, los gráficos no están muy bien detallados y termina siendo algo que claramente uno puede ver fue “secundario” para los diseñadores.
    Lo que lo salva un poco es como esta estructurado, si el modo antes era un modo de supervivencia sin mas fin que el de ver cuanto uno podía sobrevivir, aquí se añadieron armas, sistemas de progreso, y también la oportunidad de escapar de los mapas para recolectar muchos de tus puntos y recompensas, estos son buenos sistemas que están bien implementados, solo desearía que los mapas fueran más variados y que hubiesen mas de ellos.

    En general creo que Cold War pudo haber hecho más, todo se siente deliberadamente incompleto, como si de alguna forma se hubiese intentado dar menos y menos de lo que se dio en Modern Warfare, lo cual es una pena por que si se hubiese utilizado mas de la calidad del Modern Warfare 2019, entonces podría haberse aprovechado más la temática de la guerra fría.    … Expand
  12. Tenshiexe
    Nov 9, 2022
    7
    Я делаю оценку для себя и будут тут игры которые я прошел
  13. KJAMP
    Nov 6, 2022
    0
    I actually write reviews very rarely and even less for a game.
    This is a little late but I think I have to say it.
    What the hell is going on with your engine that it needs so much power to run smoothly at 100fps? Sure my PC isn't the best and fastest but I'll be honest, when I play a Battlefield 2042 at 1080p and high settings, I easily get my 60 fps. With COD the Call of duty junk    I actually write reviews very rarely and even less for a game.
    This is a little late but I think I have to say it.
    What the hell is going on with your engine that it needs so much power to run smoothly at 100fps?
    Sure my PC isn't the best and fastest but I'll be honest, when I play a Battlefield 2042 at 1080p and high settings, I easily get my 60 fps. With COD the Call of duty junk engine you get your 60fps while standing but as soon as there is action the FPS number drops and the game suddenly only runs with 25/30 FPS.
    So the game is simply not playable for me and the money is thrown out the window. I hope that future games (after the current Modern Warfare) get a better engine and run smoother.    … Expand
  14. elolugo
    Oct 31, 2022
    7
    Fresh campaign. Ok multiplayer. Average zombies. All in all, just a grab a copy 3 years from now
  15. SilverOrlov
    Sep 18, 2022
    7
    Good graphics, normal plot, as a some kind of fan-fiction on historical events. It has some interesting game-play mechanics, but still has those problems that have another games of that franchise... it's still a line-shooter and no more. Not bad side-quests. Very bad multiplayer.
  16. creassrpm
    Sep 13, 2022
    0
    Worst story mode in CoD universe. Game mechanics are still good but story was worst part of the game.
    It took 6 hours to finish. I already tried to finish all multiple choices. I spent 60$..
    10$ per hour. It "must" be a joke! Please refund peoples money which is played in story mode.
  17. Pop-Punker
    Sep 10, 2022
    8
    ótimo jogo, lembra muito o call of duty black ops 2, mas com gráficos atuais, o sistema de streaks mudou, mas particularmente eu gostei muito, mesmo sendo um jogo "rushado" e lançado antes da hora, é muito superior ao vanguard.
  18. FoxCritic
    Aug 10, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. What the ****? This game has to be a ******* joke. Buggy game, bad multiplayer.. but.. The campaign! The ******* campaign! Gender pronouns in 80's, meaningless plot, ******* characters, a lot of historical inaccuracy... And the cherry on the top... The main character is ******* Stalin's son/grandson/LGBT/Transgender/SAS/CIA/KGB/Mossad/MI6/Stasi/Gestapo... What in the world is this ****?! It is nuts that they decided to do a game following this plot UNIRONICALLY, with the OBJECTIVE OF BEING A SERIOUS FPS. This game is a joke! Not to mention at the end of the game you can literally KILL characters from previous Black Ops games that are meant to survive.. I'm… Expand
  19. Arnovaeg
    Jun 5, 2022
    3
    This is a multiplayer game that I played a lot of time and this does not mean that I liked it. The PC version does not stand up to criticism. This game spoils the mood, irritates and wastes your nerve cells. All this is due to a poorly implemented attempt to balance the PC players with players on consoles, the first to hang weights and torment before the start, the second they injectThis is a multiplayer game that I played a lot of time and this does not mean that I liked it. The PC version does not stand up to criticism. This game spoils the mood, irritates and wastes your nerve cells. All this is due to a poorly implemented attempt to balance the PC players with players on consoles, the first to hang weights and torment before the start, the second they inject adrenaline and give a walsh start, if figuratively speaking. what you see on the client is completely different from what it actually is, if in your lobby a player with a high ping lag compensation turns on and you see everything with a delay from 0.5 to 1 second, everyone will shoot you, disgusting network code with players teleporting up to 10 meters after the first hit on them, a torn and jerky picture in general despite good FPS, constant crashes and errors that are often made artificially to reattach take you to another lobby with noobs and trample your cd even lower, servers lag and FPS depends on it, the difference reaches up to two times on the same maps, poor optimization on the PC, disgusting outrageous picture at low graphics settings, at high everything is in order, color the gamma is motley, the visibility of the opponent is poor and this was done in order to increase the reaction time of strong players, a lot of headglichs, penalties for all movements the game encourages control of passes and punishes active players in movement with delays. flies into the sky at you, the same thing with the camps, some have them, others don’t give a damn, different visibility in the smoke on repeat and in reality, grenades fly along an artificial trajectory (grenades magnetism), disgusting melee, you fall into an opponent turns you around , on repeat at the opponent (console player), he sees you earlier and there is an auto-roll back where you are, in full view. SBMM can respawn enemies behind your back to trample you lower, you will be thrown into the lobby to the noobs in losing rinks if you played well before.
    I have not listed all the meanness, do not ever buy it on a PC, it was because of this game that sales from Vanguard fell, which, in my opinion, is much better implemented in the PC version than this rubbish. The game is made for playing on consoles and if you know how to play on a gamepad, plug it in and it will become much easier and more enjoyable to play.
    This game is not an online competitive shooter, this game creates false emotions. Are you strong ?, you will be annoyed by injustice, are you weak ?, you will consider yourself strong, in any case, the creators of the game deceive you and take you for fools. The game uses all the dirty methods of leveling players. I don't need crossplay at all and in general, it's worse than cheaters. You killed the PC version of the game because you can’t or don’t want to fight cheaters, from here online in PC versions of 300-1000 people, and then you suggested all this when you can’t shoot the aimassist in principle and so on. I wish all PC players to wait for a new game not from the CODE series, and I wish console players to cross with players on smartphones. They poke a finger on the screen and three at once, a couple of seconds more time will remain to look around. Good luck guys in mastering crossplay.    … Expand
  20. andrew9
    May 4, 2022
    1
    call of duty .
  21. kogolliko89
    Apr 14, 2022
    2
    sin duda en peor cod en una década ,es una autentica basura tanto por su jugabilidad como por su historia y apartado técnico .
    es como jugar un juego de ps2 .
  22. User_Userovitch
    Apr 7, 2022
    0
    Lies, propaganda, dirt, hypocrisy and many other disadvantages. It is high time to forget a series of these games, and stop dishonoring with new parts, but no one is going to turn off the machine of gaming propaganda.
  23. r03vg
    Apr 2, 2022
    7
    Одиночная кампания в этой части кажется революционной среди других игр серии. Действительно лихо закрутили, да и сделанный выбор имеет последствия. Это уже серьёзно.
  24. aztm22
    Mar 28, 2022
    0
    I bought this game so i can enjoy it online with friends since the day it was released on PC, its been nothing but problems.

    I been getting errors with directx, I been getting connection problems, chat voice problems every update that comes out just end up screwing the game up. I had this problem on my custom gaming PC and gaming laptop, I gave up where I did not even buy the new cod    I bought this game so i can enjoy it online with friends since the day it was released on PC, its been nothing but problems.

    I been getting errors with directx, I been getting connection problems, chat voice problems every update that comes out just end up screwing the game up.

    I had this problem on my custom gaming PC and gaming laptop, I gave up where I did not even buy the new cod game I am just tired of it    … Expand
  25. WAXIE
    Mar 25, 2022
    4
    Je ne peux pas dire que le jeu est mauvais, c'est probablement un des meilleurs Black Ops auquel j'ai joué, sans exagération.

    Mais je trouve quand même sidérant de voir qu'après tant de temps, tant d'investissement, Activision, n'ait pas la décence de corriger les beugs. Attention, il corrige les exploits, mais par contre en ce qui concerne les clés de prestige, qui semble être un    Je ne peux pas dire que le jeu est mauvais, c'est probablement un des meilleurs Black Ops auquel j'ai joué, sans exagération.

    Mais je trouve quand même sidérant de voir qu'après tant de temps, tant d'investissement, Activision, n'ait pas la décence de corriger les beugs. Attention, il corrige les exploits, mais par contre en ce qui concerne les clés de prestige, qui semble être un problème depuis très longtemps et qui n'a toujours pas été résolu, c'est aberrant.

    Ce n'est pas un Free To Play, ni un jeu en Beta, nous avons tous payé pour y jouer, nous avons même pour certains investis un peu d'argent pour du contenu en jeu, comment peuvent-ils considérer que le jeu ne mérite plus de maintenance? Il n'a même pas 3 ans!

    Je peux paraitre aigri, mais j'attends mes clés de prestige depuis 1 an et j'ai envoyé plusieurs mail, sans jamais recevoir aucune réponse. Et ce problème est connu.

    Merci pour ce bon jeu, pas merci pour votre communication et votre maintenance.    … Expand
  26. SuperCurry30
    Mar 20, 2022
    4
    In a game where multiplayer is the main focus, if the multiplayer system is messed up, it means the game is ruined.
  27. gamingtim
    Feb 26, 2022
    4
    Campaign is meh, too many little cucks camping in multiplayer, and the only thing good about this game is the zombies mode. If you like mp, play mw2019 or plutonium.
  28. popPunker
    Feb 22, 2022
    9
    Pra quem sente falta do black ops 2, esse jogo é perfeito, é quase que o BO2 remake, infelizmente o sistema de killstreaks dele não foi bem aceito pela comunidade mas achei legal a ideia de tentar inovar, mas seria melhor se fosse scorestreaks.
    Esse jogo saiu antes do que deveria, era pro vanguard ter saido no ano dele, mas mesmo assim ele consegue ser superior ao vanguard.
  29. moonlaba
    Jan 17, 2022
    6
    급하게 마무리된 티가 너무 많이 난다. 분량이 너무 짧아 매 미션이 급전개라 느껴지는 캠페인과 역대급으로 처참한 멀티플레이. 블옵4와 콜드워 꼴을보면 트레이아크도 정리당하던지 증명하던지 택할때가 온것같다.
  30. GamesMaster101
    Jan 7, 2022
    0
    Terrible multiplayer and unfair game play. It is clearly p2w and full of cheaters. When i first started with the multiplayer, it was fine, but after a few weeks my performance went down and my weapons were no longer good, and enemy players had the advantage over me. No matter what weapon i used, it did not make a difference and i could no longer play. After being at the bottom of theTerrible multiplayer and unfair game play. It is clearly p2w and full of cheaters. When i first started with the multiplayer, it was fine, but after a few weeks my performance went down and my weapons were no longer good, and enemy players had the advantage over me. No matter what weapon i used, it did not make a difference and i could no longer play. After being at the bottom of the score list, they keep shoving the battlepass in your face, which makes it obvious that activision wants you to buy a battle pass to be good in the game. I think its disgusting for a big company like Activision to deliberately limit the performance of players in an attempt to get more money out of them. I did pay for this game and because of this, i will not buy an activision game anymore! They are a greedy company that does not care about its players and only wants money at any cost.… Expand
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76

Generally favorable reviews - based on 28 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 28
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 28
  3. Negative: 0 out of 28
  1. Launcher (The Washington Post)
    Jan 27, 2021
    70
    What feature, or lack thereof, would compel a Call of Duty fan to buy or skip a new entry at this point? It plays fine, and it’s the most recent one. That’s usually enough.
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  2. GameSpace
    Jan 13, 2021
    85
    Overall, I love the old-school feels of Black Ops in Cold War and I love the storyline. All of the modes are fun to play and offer a lot for old players and new players alike. It is fun to get back into the action with players from all consoles and on PC to make the action that much better with cross-play. There are some issues with multiplayer that will seemingly never go away but such is life for an online multiplayer game.
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  3. Worth Playing
    Jan 4, 2021
    80
    The question of whether to pick up Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War on the PC is situational, despite it being a solid title. If you're the type of player who likes the campaigns that each entry brings forth, then you'll be fine with Cold War. The branching paths of the short campaign give it some replayability beyond simply increasing the difficulty. Fans of Zombies mode will also be fine, even though it suffers from having only one map (for now) and a PlayStation-exclusive mode that'll be unavailable on the PC for a year. Multiplayer fans are in more of a pickle. If you're tired of the maps in the prominently featured Modern Warfare but want traditional modes, then this is perfect, especially since the cross-play feature is going strong and there are people on both the last- and next-generation platforms ensuring the game gets a healthy shelf life. If you're primarily a Warzone player, you aren't going to bother with this one, since that free-to-play game is getting Cold War elements soon to keep it fresh.
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