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  1. Apr 14, 2020
    1
    This game is online multi player focused which makes me very upset since I buy them for the single player story line campaigns.
  2. Apr 10, 2020
    8
    Best COD on the PS4 in my opinion. Only issues with this game as of now is the 150 health and the poor design of the original maps and the perks not providing any real differences. I have no problem with them bringing back the OG maps like summit and firing range but the original maps of this game are pretty non memorable...
  3. Mar 10, 2020
    3
    The reason I gave this game a 3 is just because of the Blackout and Multiplayer! The zombies was phenomenal! Multiplayer broken and p2w. This game was rejected. I’d say just get rid of this game. I would actually love 2018 CoD if it was just zombies. This game is terrible.
  4. Mar 7, 2020
    1
    Tired of greedy companies pushing online only games. Not even a story/campaign. All that's left for split screen: -Recycled maps with bots
    -Zombie mode

    That was the last CoD I've bought (glad I waited for second hand to be disappointed)
  5. Mar 7, 2020
    7
    *MULTIPLAYER REVIEW*

    I like the movement of the characters in the game.. sliding down the floor etc. The color palette was nice and bright unlike other muddy grey cods of the past. I have one main complaint... and that is that it took a a bunch of bullets to take down an enemy.. so I resorted to playing the hardcore modes. The weapons were nice and interesting with nice variants of
    *MULTIPLAYER REVIEW*

    I like the movement of the characters in the game.. sliding down the floor etc. The color palette was nice and bright unlike other muddy grey cods of the past. I have one main complaint... and that is that it took a a bunch of bullets to take down an enemy.. so I resorted to playing the hardcore modes. The weapons were nice and interesting with nice variants of customs, etc. I had a bunch of guns I enjoyed playing with it. Maybe the most in any cod I've played. Nice choice of maps too. But that main complaint is a huge one. I do enjoy playing in hardcore... its fun in its on way but I just wish I was better in regular modes. I've played a little of Blackout... just not my scene... not that good in battle royales. This a pretty good cod imo.
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  6. Mar 3, 2020
    0
    Good lord, what a waste of time. Treyarch has clearly lost their touch. I thought that Black Ops 3 was an average game at most, a 5-6 out of 10. Not the worst CoD game I've ever played, but it definitely held the title as my least favorite in the series.

    Until Treyarch released Black Ops 4 three years later. Single player campaign? Gone and replaced with the INSULTING Specialist HQ. A
    Good lord, what a waste of time. Treyarch has clearly lost their touch. I thought that Black Ops 3 was an average game at most, a 5-6 out of 10. Not the worst CoD game I've ever played, but it definitely held the title as my least favorite in the series.

    Until Treyarch released Black Ops 4 three years later. Single player campaign? Gone and replaced with the INSULTING Specialist HQ. A multiplayer mode that took core aspects of COD gameplay and threw it into the trash in favor of MORE Specialists and other B.S. Campaign was replaced with "Blackout", a battle royale mode which "does it only the way Black Ops can". Blackout was nothing more than Fortnite and PUBG with a Call of Duty skin (and with graphics that would've been bad on a PlayStation 2). Zombies is still the best gamemode (it was the best in BO3 as well), but even then it's a severe downgrade. As much as I enjoy playing maps like "IX" and "Blood of the Dead", it doesn't make up for the outright atrocities of "Voyage of Despair" and "Dead of the Night", and the fact that the final two Aether maps EVER were nothing more than remakes of "Nuketown" and "Call of the Dead" with no CGI cutscenes was insulting to the Zombies community.

    Do not buy this game. Do not even get it when it's free. Treyarch should have to pay YOU to play this trainwreck. It's very clear that the devs gave up on Black Ops 4 very early in its life cycle. And if the devs don't care about the game, then why should us players care about it?
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  7. Feb 16, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. My hope into the humanety got whith this game destroyed.
    Battle royale: makes no fun even whith friends
    multiplayer: gun feeling is good, but to many dlc weapons are way stronger than they shoud be,
    fortuitously they can get bought for 24 eros per weapon (ca. 70 hours game time).
    the only half good thing is the zombie mode, but it feels kinda slow to me.
    i hope someone sees this before he buys this game forr 70 eros and overthinks his decidion of buying the game( i boutht it unsed for 9 eros)
    ps: **** you treyark :)
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  8. Feb 9, 2020
    0
    This game is trash af made me wanna smash may ps4 don’t even think of buying it’s a shame
  9. Jan 13, 2020
    3
    More than a year after the official release the game in Multiplayer still often crashes on me, that's when I stop playing. Pay2Win really is in the game even if your pay your 60$ for the game there are weapons each for 10$ that are somewhat of OP. Well you can get them by grinding but you can only get them through daily missions where you can get like 4-5 boxes a day and you need 50 forMore than a year after the official release the game in Multiplayer still often crashes on me, that's when I stop playing. Pay2Win really is in the game even if your pay your 60$ for the game there are weapons each for 10$ that are somewhat of OP. Well you can get them by grinding but you can only get them through daily missions where you can get like 4-5 boxes a day and you need 50 for one of like 30 weapons. I mostly get killed by weapons that I don't even have. But still better than new MW Expand
  10. Nov 19, 2019
    2
    Pas de mode campagne, donc on s'attend a voir un multijoueur aboutie ? Bah non enfaite, les maps ce ressemble tous couloir au milieu, couloir à gauche, couloir à droite, les pires de toute la série, les spécialistes qui servent en rien au gameplay.
  11. Nov 19, 2019
    1
    Terrible.

    Anyways, something more important, there was this statement that was objectively and indisputably unclear that has to be clarified so I will do that. A statement from @WrittenRage. "Not saying The Force Unleashed was some perfect game - hell, i'll be the first to point out its myriad of gigantic issues. Problem is TFU had a LOT of unique enemy variety, whereas JFO just
    Terrible.

    Anyways, something more important, there was this statement that was objectively and indisputably unclear that has to be clarified so I will do that. A statement from @WrittenRage.

    "Not saying The Force Unleashed was some perfect game - hell, i'll be the first to point out its myriad of gigantic issues. Problem is TFU had a LOT of unique enemy variety, whereas JFO just takes real world animals, makes them look slightly different, and calls it good." 8 replies

    So the thing is is that there are alien trolls and undead and stormtroopers in the game, to be specific those count as real world animals when a universe has consistent cause and effect, makes sense and is good. It is Disney Star Wars so it does none of those things. The real world actually only refers to everything that has consistent cause and effect. This is objective factual and indisputable, don't be retarded by pretending it isn't. Everything I have said in response to the above statement from @WrittenRage is indisputable fact.
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  12. Nov 11, 2019
    3
    This is a review of Black ops 4 after it has fully finished its content and I must say this was a disaster many call of duty fans are gonna remember

    Lets start with Blackout a controversial mode put in because battle royale was popular at the time and got rid of the campaign (most likely from all the hate towards bo3 campaign as well). This had so much potential and sadly it
    This is a review of Black ops 4 after it has fully finished its content and I must say this was a disaster many call of duty fans are gonna remember

    Lets start with Blackout a controversial mode put in because battle royale was popular at the time and got rid of the campaign (most likely from all the hate towards bo3 campaign as well). This had so much potential and sadly it flopped..... hard. We got one new location in the entirety of a year, i hate to compare it to fortnite but at least they consistently kept it fresh to keep the player base playing the game. Zombies where a nice addition though and quest items to get characters was a great addition I really liked and sadly we never got anymore after launch apart from Multiplayer outfits. Some of the new modes where interesting with the best being the small Alcatraz map mode, none though really surprised me so I just stuck to playing the core modes.

    Multiplayer was bad as well. Most of the weapons which came with the new operation where way too overpowered and didn't get the necessary nerf. How can i forget to talk about the god awful specialist and how overpowered some where to others eg. torque was useless while nomad was op. This really ruined the experience and most of the new maps where completely forgettable. Finally the modes in this were fine like the st patricks day mode was fun and so was heist but sadly we didn't get enough new and unique modes but ones we already had in previous games (just like the specialist)

    Zombies.... this breaks my heart how this went from the massive hype of bo3 to this absolute trainwreck. We are introduced to a new crew named the chaos crew which where forgettable with the only real characterization going to scarlett and the other characters, well, you will have to read comics for. Four launch maps was unbelievable, but sadly only one of the maps was the high quality which we expected, this map was IX. Voyage of despair was tedious to play and the two Aether maps where remakes which destroyed their classic maps. Then came the DLC season..... damn this was horrible. Dead of the Night was garbage, too many zombie types and new characters was an insulting punch to the player base. No content for a long time after that, I believe it was for four months. Blackout and Multiplayer getting consistent updates while the zombie playerbase was given nothing but gauntlets which where boring. Finally we get ancient evil its great but its on the Bo4 engine so eh it will be forgotten sadly. Alpha Omega and Tag Der Toten where bad, no CGI intros or outros for the end of 10 years, this was bad, what happened, well probably funding cuts. How are the maps? just like all the other bo4 maps, forgettable. The ending to zombies pissed a lot of people of, it pisses me off but not as much, its the closure we needed, still we wanted a satisfying ending not a shocking ending. Also factions.... we don't talk about that.

    Specialist HQ is one of the most insulting things added, trying to add a campaign story to get you excited for probably the next black ops. Don't get me wrong I like the idea it has but really did we need cutscenes? no we just want to try out the specialist to see what they do. So yeah this was trash.

    All the broken promises, laziness and greedy tactics is what destroyed what could of been a return to form but sadly this continues the spiral down for the call of duty franchise. Maybe we get a call of duty every two years to polish the games and never get a disaster like bo4 again.
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  13. Nov 10, 2019
    7
    This game has many problems in it. That does not mean it is not fun. Zombies (which frankly I stopped playing because of this game) can be fun for a while... sure they changed it a lot but fun nonetheless... for about 1 week or so. MP has specific modes, which make it better, for classic Cod mp which helps a bit. The actual map can be fun, if you are dominant but not on the other end ofThis game has many problems in it. That does not mean it is not fun. Zombies (which frankly I stopped playing because of this game) can be fun for a while... sure they changed it a lot but fun nonetheless... for about 1 week or so. MP has specific modes, which make it better, for classic Cod mp which helps a bit. The actual map can be fun, if you are dominant but not on the other end of the stick. Specialists can be annoying at times but it will cost you a bit if you are one to getting long streaks. Let’s talk micro transactions. These are a pain in the neck most of the time. But, Treyarch nerfed it a bit so it is not as annoying. Especially with the new black market update coming soon to make it easier to get other guns. League Play basically removes all your MP problems. Less specialists, team based modes, NO dlc weapons. Just skill and teamwork. Would rate mode 10/10. The only problem (more on Ps4 and PC then Xbox) is finding a lobby. I can never find a lobby in PS4 but I can on Xbox. Before MW, it takes a while to find a match (1 minute or less) because you need to find a lobby with people about your skill. Skill based matchmaking. The saving grace of BO4, Black freaking Out. Blackout is the reason why the day 1-(a lot) had many problems. The developers rushed to make this mode perfect. To be fair, it was perfect. Better than Fortnite obviously. Many LTMs fun ones too. Map changes between every Operation (no more Expand
  14. Nov 9, 2019
    6
    this game wasn’t bad but it wasn’t good either.

    I say this game falls in the middle because of the fact that it did delivered new content at launch and it also had great gameplay too ( better than MW ). Overall the MP was pretty good , apart from the specialist and scorestreaks , it wasn’t bad. I really enjoyed it too. Blackout was one of the better parts of the game and it was a really
    this game wasn’t bad but it wasn’t good either.

    I say this game falls in the middle because of the fact that it did delivered new content at launch and it also had great gameplay too ( better than MW ). Overall the MP was pretty good , apart from the specialist and scorestreaks , it wasn’t bad. I really enjoyed it too.

    Blackout was one of the better parts of the game and it was a really good spin on the battle royale franchise. Though I didn’t play it a whole bunch because I wasn’t into BR. But I did try it a few times and it was good.

    Last but not least there’s zombies , i feel like zombies was a really fun game mode with new storyline and a new way to play it. Though not as good as black ops 3 , it still had a very good style of game play that I enjoyed. I think the one thing that disappointed everyone was the micro transactions , but what did you expect. It is activision i mean. They will always do this with every CoD. But it wasn’t as bad as Bo3 ( in bo3 there were like 50+ weapons in supply drops compared to now where there’s only around 7 or 10 ).

    Anyways this game wasn’t super disappointing, it was just an average CoD.
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  15. Sep 6, 2019
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. O pior call of duty da história! Não possui modo campanha, zombies chato, multiplayer desbalanceado, battle Royal sem graça, loot boxes, pay to Win, gráficos piores que do cod de 2016 entre outros fatores! Expand
  16. Nov 5, 2019
    4
    Modern Warfare just came out, so now here I am reviewing a game that was made last year. Okay, I review a lot of games that are old. Now lets get to the point, I was very disappointed. I had high hopes for this game and Activision through it out the window. Ever since Fortnite came out, 12 year olds started to love the game and it was a big hit to the video game world. The game had twoModern Warfare just came out, so now here I am reviewing a game that was made last year. Okay, I review a lot of games that are old. Now lets get to the point, I was very disappointed. I had high hopes for this game and Activision through it out the window. Ever since Fortnite came out, 12 year olds started to love the game and it was a big hit to the video game world. The game had two aspects that influenced developers to copy this down. First of all they got the tier list which was the more exp you gained the more you could unlock. And you had the premium version and the normal version. On to the second aspect was the battle royal, of course there had already been games with a battle royal, but not as intense as Fortnite. With 100 players and a boundary closing in on players which makes the game a little more intense. Even though PUBG did this before people still ignored that. A new battle royal and a tier list influenced game creators. So games started having these tier lists and battle royals included. And you may be wondering, what does this have to do with COD. Well the people who played the game is obvious. When I heard that Black Ops had a battle royal like Fortnite's, I was exited. I bought the game then when I opened it up, it was somewhat good. It was decent for a few days until I found out that there was no story mode. And i was mortified dammit! A COD game with no story mode............ God did what! And apparently there was a story mode, but it was a tutorial merged with the story. And that made it even worse. The cutsences were short, and when I mean short, it was like 10 seconds long. Maybe even shorter. The gameplay wasn't even part of the story. Actually should i even try to call it some sort of story. If they just put it as a tutorial and not show any resemblance of a story, and just showed all the characters backstories, I would give this game a 5. For my standards anything a 5 or over is good game and rating. The tutorial made the game bad, not horrible but just bad. Expand
  17. Nov 3, 2019
    2
    Убивают серию колды. Такой ценник без сюжета это просто печаль
  18. Nov 2, 2019
    1
    No. This game actually wants me to go to infinite warfare. Big disappointment. The only plus side is the graphics, sort of. I hope this isn't a sign of what black ops 5 will be.
  19. Nov 1, 2019
    4
    Black Ops 4 considers to be one of the most disappointing and perhaps the laziest COD games ever crafted. Since there is no campaign, the muiltiplayer, blackout battle royale, and the fantasy zombies modes is what messed up the franchise without any realism approach being put into it whatsoever. Thanks to the so-called battle royale, Black Ops 4 is made. I hate to say it, but this is BlackBlack Ops 4 considers to be one of the most disappointing and perhaps the laziest COD games ever crafted. Since there is no campaign, the muiltiplayer, blackout battle royale, and the fantasy zombies modes is what messed up the franchise without any realism approach being put into it whatsoever. Thanks to the so-called battle royale, Black Ops 4 is made. I hate to say it, but this is Black Ops 3.5 without thrusters with no point of return. Enough with the fantasy element bullcraft Trollarch. Expand
  20. Oct 31, 2019
    1
    No tiene campaña, necesito pagar psplus, no tiene zombies, solo quieren mi dinero mierda
  21. Oct 26, 2018
    0
    Отдал за этот кусок ***на 5900 рублей. Очень понравился режим рояля на бетатесте. А вот бету стандартных режимов почти не играл, т.к. она была неиграбельна на ПС4. В итоге под впечатлением от рояля сделал предзаказ на делюкс... И КАКОВО ЖЕ БЫЛО РАЗОЧАРОВАНИЕ!!! СТАНДАРТНЫЕ РЕЖИМЫ НЕИГРАБЕЛЬНЫ из-за поломанного неткода. На повторе смерти задержка около двух секнуд. Т.е. Я начина. стрелять вОтдал за этот кусок ***на 5900 рублей. Очень понравился режим рояля на бетатесте. А вот бету стандартных режимов почти не играл, т.к. она была неиграбельна на ПС4. В итоге под впечатлением от рояля сделал предзаказ на делюкс... И КАКОВО ЖЕ БЫЛО РАЗОЧАРОВАНИЕ!!! СТАНДАРТНЫЕ РЕЖИМЫ НЕИГРАБЕЛЬНЫ из-за поломанного неткода. На повторе смерти задержка около двух секнуд. Т.е. Я начина. стрелять в еще не начавшего стрелять в меня врага, а по факту он меня давно уже убил. ПЗДЦ!!!
    А на фоне такого дикого ТТК, который они зачем то сделали это вообще ужас.
    Я не лютый нагибатор, но в том же БО3 я спокойно занимаю периодически первые места в nlv/ Это примерно в среднем 20 к 15 соотношение. Тут я ползаю на самом дне изза ублюдского неткода и ушлепанского ТТК. Хотя я очень ждал колду без джетпаков и бега по стенам. ДОЖДАЛСЯ,...
    В рояле это не так критично. Но любимый всеми ТДМ это убивает просто на корню.

    Плюс абсолютно кривые респауны. Можно несколько раз подряд заспауниться под одним и тем же огнем.

    Не забываем про просадки ФПС. ПРОСАДКИ КАРЛ! На картах 5 на 5 метров с убогой графикой!!! Правда рояль более стабилен...

    Про абсолютную пустоту контента на старте я вообще молчу. Оружия мало. Кастомизация бомжатская. Уже почти месяц прошел с релиза, а они даже черный рынок не прикрутили. Про отсутствие сюжетки ничего говорить не буду, она меня мало интересует в колде.

    Просто удивительно, что отказавшись от сюжетки, Трейарк выпустили такое лютое говно. При этом цена как за качественный ААА проект. Но пока что им и не пахнет. С батлой примерно такая же картина...

    И еще один минус: по сути эта игра - ремастер старых мультиплеерных режимов. Это печально. Одни и те же карты столетней давности - это уже совсем халтура.

    В итоге ставлю тройку только изза наличия рояля. Он хоть немного скрашивает картину.

    Верните деньги, сволочи!!!
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  22. Oct 30, 2019
    10
    Activision встала с колен!

    Огромное спасибо за игру, хотя она не обошлась без критики со стороны русских игроков.

    Мне кажется что игра заслуживает10/10
  23. Oct 29, 2019
    0
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  24. Oct 29, 2019
    8
    Multiplayer: 7.5/10 (Takes longer to kill which is a bad thing to campers. Treyarch you did a good thing. Then the game gives us these bad updates.)
    Zombies - Chaos: 10/10 (Launches with 2 Chaos maps which is amazing! Maps are well designed, and have great content and easter eggs.)
    Zombies - Aether: 6.5/10 (Not that great. Should've ended the story in BO3. Maps are not that great.)
  25. Oct 29, 2019
    0
    Micro transactions are just EVERYWHERE no campaign Multiplayer died with micro transactions Zombies died with **** story decent battle royale ı knew this was going to suck.
  26. Oct 29, 2019
    0
    Brought in pay to win and microtransactions everywhere after a few months to try and hide what they had planned! Not worth buying really not that good of a game before all the microtransactions.
  27. Oct 28, 2019
    10
    It was good experience fast and interesting gameplay. Good graphic and beatiful old maps
  28. Oct 24, 2019
    0
    After a whole year almost this game still runs like **** on consoles and probably on PC I'm just really pissed off I can't sign back into my account because it's games a piece of **** **** I wish I never bought it yeah
  29. Oct 24, 2019
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This is a very odd take on the Black Ops series. The game fells almost like a free-to-play app. The removal of a campaign and the addition of a battle royale makes Black Ops 4 feel way different than it's previous installments. It was well received when it was first announced back in May 2018, getting everyone hyped for a new Call of Duty. When it first came out in October, the game was praised for it's intense gameplay and its cool new battle royale, but the game's glory didn't last for long. The graphics from the new engine BO4 ran on was a bit potato compared to BO3. The DLC rolled in, and the hate began to hit real hard after that. A lot, and I mean a lot of the DLC was "recycled content", consisting of guns from older CoD's, and re-used zombies maps with a "new story", and the return of supply drops; Because you can't make a Call of Duty game without micro-transactions. Blood of the Dead, Ancient Evil, Alpha Omega, and Voyage of Despair were very big let downs and were developed with the intention to make them "better than ever." The guns in previous Call of Duty's were balanced very well between each other, and while the base guns that don't require a supply drop to get, the other guns are very pay-to-win. Although some are okay (And some suck), others are very unbalanced and unfair at times. The S6 Stingray, AN-94, Grav, and Peacekeeper are all pretty powerful, and you don't even need a supply drop for the Grav. The Locus is a re-used weapon as well, but it's "meh", and the Vendetta is weak. The point is, Black Ops 4 is a game that was primarily made to compete against other Triple A titles and for nostalgia. I can't finish this review without talking about Tag Der Toten. In BO3, the final map to end it all was supposed to be Revelations, but everyone paniced, so Treyarch had to continue the Zombies story for just a little longer. Tag Der Toten (Day of the Dead) was named to be the opposite of Nacht Der Untoten (Night of the Living Dead), which was the first zombies map ever. The map is a re-master of Call of the Dead and takes place in the summertime, rather than winter (It's still cold). The map has the Victis crew (From Tranzit) as the last crew to ever see. The map is overall a great ending to a well-loved series, and I for one think that even though Black Ops has some pretty bad flaws, doesn't make it terrible enough to stop playing. Expand
  30. Oct 7, 2019
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. black ops 4 is quite possibly the worst game call of duty and trey arch and activision have ever put out, completely sold out on every single aspect they could and shoved so much **** into this game is completely unplayable and an absolute shame to the entire call of duty franchise Expand
Metascore
83

Generally favorable reviews - based on 72 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 68 out of 72
  2. Negative: 0 out of 72
  1. Dec 5, 2018
    50
    It’s not that I can’t respect it — it seems to offer decent value in that it’s essentially three different types of shooter in one package, but aside from the new Blackout mode, I’ve had significantly better experiences from many of its competitors. And honestly, Blackout’s main competition is a free-to-play game. It may be better than Fortnite in my opinion, but sixty dollars better? I’m not entirely convinced about that, and without a decent singleplayer campaign attached, it’s a pretty hard sell for anyone who isn’t already a fan.
  2. Nov 27, 2018
    80
    Despite its generic title Black Ops IV feels like a fresh start for Call of Duty. The multiplayer and the zombie mode is very much the same as always, but with Blackout, Treyarch takes everything that is good with Player Unknown's Battleground and makes it better.
  3. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    Nov 14, 2018
    60
    With no campaign to test your trigger finger, the trio of a safe (albeit polished) battle royale, waning multiplayer, and rotting Zombies make BLOPS4 feel like a relic next to a post-Forsaken Destiny 2. [Issue#156, p.94]