Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War

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4.1

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 1465 Ratings

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  1. IronPandaNuts
    Dec 29, 2020
    0
    COD Black Ops Cold War

    Just by the name you would think this is going to be sweet. This however, is not the case for this game at all. The game looks and feels like a Counter strike port with mildly better textures. The character models are meh at best and the weapon models are just as bland. The game feels and plays like garbage.
  2. SuperkenGaming
    Feb 1, 2021
    7
    Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War
    Waiting for the rest to be patched in.
    Cold War is probably th wmost lack luster call of duty game ive ever played. First. The campaign isn’t even on the disk. What is this thing even installing? Because after you go to play the campaign its like, nah you gotta download it, heres part one… that’s right part one… youll play a mission in this joke of a    Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War
    Waiting for the rest to be patched in.
    Cold War is probably th wmost lack luster call of duty game ive ever played.
    First. The campaign isn’t even on the disk.
    What is this thing even installing? Because after you go to play the campaign its like, nah you gotta download it, heres part one… that’s right part one… youll play a mission in this joke of a campaign and then its like oh you nee to download part 2 now, heres another 26gb patch ontope of the 20 you just downloaded, but it doesn’t stope there, theres another 20 gb part 3.. .thats right.. nearly 70 GB patched in for not even 4 hour long campaign. That they couldn’t just put on the disc… downloading multiplayer and zombies makes sense because its primarily online.. but a 4 hour long campaign, it’s a joke…
    I for one do understand why so many people love call of duty, its multiplayer, and thankfully its just as fun here as its ever been with all of its modes outside of team deathmatch.. that’s usually my favorite mode, but I just wasn’t feeling the maps this year in deathmatch, but I had an absolute blast anyway for hours playing that ultra addicting, spawn shoot die gameplay, and its been a hwile since ive played a call of duty game.. since ww2.. so im not sure if these things are new but I am loving the instant respawns here on the next gen.. and I also appreciate that camping snipers have a little reflection to give away their location.. ive never been a fan of zombies mode, its obviously here.. I cant fairly critique it as it just isn’t my thing… but the main reason I play a call of duty game, at least in my currently life where I don’t have the time to sink days into multiplayer is the campaign.. but thankfully I do have the fun and addictive multiplayer to play through while it takes more hours to download than it does to actually play…
    Here you play as yourself, during the cold war, and the campaign actually started with tons of promise.. I wouldn’t mind if every year we got a well told 3-4 hour long story full of amazing set pieces and a mind blowing experience to compliment the fun multiplayer, and this campaign had its moments, it felt like an interactive movie with great moments and missions, some of the best stealth missions ive ever experienced in a first person shooter, but halfway through the campaign just falls apart, it becomes generic first person shooter level design and story telling, theres even a section of the game here youre redoing the same thing like 5 times in a row… that’s how much you can tell the creative juices have evaporated after an impressive start.. I didn’t want to stop playing, but I had to to let part 2 download… such a let down…
    Call of Duty is what it is…
    You know what youre going to get every year…
    it never changes outside of the setting..and this is where the let down comes into play
    Im personaly okay with a little 4 hour journey each year, but please put a little more effort and see that effort through, especially if again,, its only going to be 4 hours… it better be solid.
    But at least you have some new maps to play with.
    I give Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War
    a 7/10    … Expand
  3. Kchewz
    Jan 24, 2021
    5
    Just another Call of Duty. The single player introduced a lot of new elements to the franchise that, might be amongst my top 3 CoD campaigns. Zombies and Multiplayer, simple copy paste. Would not recommend for full price.
  4. xEthann98
    Nov 29, 2020
    0
    Why can't we have ranked play like BO2? SBMM completely ruins the games and I also struggle to see enemies on most MP maps.
  5. JonathanRL
    Nov 15, 2020
    5
    Despite trying something new, the game does not deliver on the ambition. The multiplayer is far more frustrating than previously and the gun customization has been neutered down.

    Do not buy, keep playing Modern Warfare. If you do not have Modern Warfare 2019; it will be the better option both for single and multiplayer.
  6. bxgdvn
    Nov 22, 2020
    3
    Campaign is cool. Communism sucks.
    Zombies are fun.
    Spawns multiplayer is utterly trash. Spam of score streaks non-stop. Random spawns. Small maps. SnD a bit better but the old and primitive 3 lane map design looks outdated compared to variative and diverse map design in MW2019. Maps are small, movement clunky and feels like from PS3 era with player model rolling on roller-skates.    Campaign is cool. Communism sucks.
    Zombies are fun.

    Spawns multiplayer is utterly trash. Spam of score streaks non-stop. Random spawns. Small maps. SnD a bit better but the old and primitive 3 lane map design looks outdated compared to variative and diverse map design in MW2019. Maps are small, movement clunky and feels like from PS3 era with player model rolling on roller-skates. Graphics are really downgraded from MW and feels like something from 3-4 years ago. Especially compared to even Battlefield 4 or Modern Warfare 2019. It’s just boring.    … Expand
  7. JayJitsu13
    Nov 26, 2020
    0
    Multiplayer is just trash. Horrible lag, disconnect issues, atrocious framerate, and just overall terrible.

    Campaign is decent, until you get disconnected, or your console hard resets in the middle of a mission.

    Zombies is decent, when you don't get disconnected, and the lag is here too, although not as gamebreaking as MP.
    Just too many problems for a AAAtitle. Don't waste ypur money.
  8. ph4tcat
    Mar 13, 2021
    2
    A step down from MW 2019.

    Matchmaking seems to push and pull into matches that are way too easy then way too hard. The push and pull makes you feel a win is undeserved and a loss unfair. It's very hard to see opponents everything just kinds of blends together visually. They must have known this was an issue since several attachments have the ability to "spot" or show an enemy    A step down from MW 2019.

    Matchmaking seems to push and pull into matches that are way too easy then way too hard. The push and pull makes you feel a win is undeserved and a loss unfair.

    It's very hard to see opponents everything just kinds of blends together visually. They must have known this was an issue since several attachments have the ability to "spot" or show an enemy nametags easier.

    Visually the game looks like the weapons and players are plastic toys. I don't know if this was apart of the 80s vibe, but it looks cheap. The fidelity is nice the guns look good, just they look like toys. The animations are okay, but the step up from MW2019 which released a year ago makes them seem "last-gen".

    The single-player story was okay, and I don't play Zombies. So the package was a real wash. The only bright side is I can use the Black Ops weapons in Warzone. So it feels like a 60 dollar battle pass for Warzone.    … Expand
  9. metadubrev2
    Dec 28, 2020
    2
    another broken game. I like using bots but that aspect of the game is broken. after each match you have to back out to main screen and go through the whole process of setting up again.
  10. ArcheXerxes
    Jan 9, 2021
    2
    At least they communicate a little with their community. Otherwise what a train wreck of a game.
    SBMM that may be one of the worst in a game ive ever seen.
    Multiplayer is catered to 'casuals' by including a scoring system that rewards players for trying to get high kill streaks instead of playing objective. Free scorestreaks for everyone by halftime even if you dont really deserve it.    At least they communicate a little with their community. Otherwise what a train wreck of a game.
    SBMM that may be one of the worst in a game ive ever seen.

    Multiplayer is catered to 'casuals' by including a scoring system that rewards players for trying to get high kill streaks instead of playing objective. Free scorestreaks for everyone by halftime even if you dont really deserve it. BUT THEY HAVE SBMM. I DONT GET IT.

    The hell is the point of creating a casual experience and then having SBMM. At least with other MW scorestreaks were earned appropriately after stringing together 3-4 kills instead of sitting at the back of the map getting "Eliminations" by spraying and praying.

    This is the last and final entry of Treyarch CoD for me.

    Zombies has 1 mode for three months that they have put 0 additional content into with a run of the mil call of duty campaign    … Expand
  11. Robinjhoe
    Nov 14, 2020
    6
    So im having some mixed feelings about this game. This is my first CoD since Black Ops 4 and even i eventually refunded that one. I initially though that i will give this game a chance, since its (again) back to the roots of BO1 and 2.

    1. Campaign: I like playing the campaigns of shooter games and BO 1 and 2 together with Halo and Titanfall 2 are still my favorite Campaigns in the whole    So im having some mixed feelings about this game. This is my first CoD since Black Ops 4 and even i eventually refunded that one. I initially though that i will give this game a chance, since its (again) back to the roots of BO1 and 2.

    1. Campaign: I like playing the campaigns of shooter games and BO 1 and 2 together with Halo and Titanfall 2 are still my favorite Campaigns in the whole genre. This one, starts off pretty strong with some interesting ideas, though never gets with it anywhere. I think the best example would be the inflitration mission into the KGB HQ. They say "we need to get in it", so you play a KGB double agend and your mission is to get a keycard for the elevator, so can let Adler and you inside. My main problem was, we are talking about the main building in the capital of the ussr. They never explain how they even managed to get beneath that building. Second you get the sense of freedom, because there are multiple ways to get a card, but when you finish one of them, the others become unavalable and unimportant. Also there is never an aftermath. You are shooting up the KGB HQ for gods sake and there is no word about political tension or how they managed to get out of the city and country. Kind of dissapointing tbh. The mission ideas are great, but overall to short and not fulfilled.

    2. Zombies: Only one map unfortunatelly, but still incredebily fun and one of my main reasons next to the stroy , why i bought the game.

    3. Multiplayer: Oh yeah, the game had a multiplayer. I totally forgot! Jokes aside, it is pretty standard CoD, i think. Standard classes and weapons. Standard killstreaks, though these are now point streaks. I have to say compared to what i saw with the Modern Warfare remake, its quite underwhelming, since they went with a more Battlefield approach to the game, which was interesting, since it looked a little bit fresh coming out of the dead cow that is Call of Duty.

    I mean, eh, what do you expect out of the multiplayer? It has been the same for the past 15 years and will probably stay like that for the next. You can actually see that they saw what MW did and paniced, i guess, and threw in some bigger maps with vehicles. I guess it was fun the first couple rounds but i dont see myself playing for that long tbh.

    In conclusion. pretty mediocre. Campaign could have been awesome, since the great ideas where there, but the missions feel very short and the twists are not really that interesting compared to for example BO1. I already felt sick buying the game, because my money went to Activision, but i wanted to give CoD a chance since i grew up with World at War and MW. But alas, i guess thats how CoD is now. Not bad, but definitely not great either. Last CoD i will buy in the next 10 years, for sure.    … Expand
  12. Saulsamson
    Jun 21, 2021
    0
    I would give this game a 10 out of 10 but people on headsets are ruining the multiplayer. It's not fair that I have to play a team of people communicating on headsets when I play by myself. It's degrading, and trust me I'm a very skilled player, but it just sucks all the fun out of the game to always have to deal with these people rushing you 4 on one, etc. They need to put in aI would give this game a 10 out of 10 but people on headsets are ruining the multiplayer. It's not fair that I have to play a team of people communicating on headsets when I play by myself. It's degrading, and trust me I'm a very skilled player, but it just sucks all the fun out of the game to always have to deal with these people rushing you 4 on one, etc. They need to put in a multiplayer mode where solo players aren't matched up against teams so we have a fair chance. This game is also filled with bugs and lag.… Expand
  13. mr_fuji7
    Nov 22, 2020
    1
    Worst cod mp I've ever played. Zombies and Campaign are cool tho. Mp feels like it was never meant to be any good and its so clunky. Since cod is traditionally a mp based game I'm giving 1 star because it socks so bad.
  14. BigMatchu
    Nov 15, 2020
    3
    ABSOLUTE TRASH!!!!!! At first I liked the multiplayer but if I'm honest it's just stale, buggy and not as good as modern warfare. I found zombies boring and campaign was buggy and full of glitches
  15. arostislavna
    Jul 6, 2021
    0
    Propaganda.

    Blaming Russians for the Imperial Empire of Amerika / Union of Soviet Socialist Amerika's societal gravitation to Fascism and Socialism. You voted Biden in. You only have YOURSELF to blame.

    Zombies is good, that's it.
  16. Vakmix
    Jan 1, 2021
    0
    I got the game for free from a friend through the RTX promotion but man this game sucks.

    The campaign was pretty good, but the multiplayer joining now is pure trash. I played a single game and that was enough for me to say that "Ok, I will never touch this again" Its an aidsfest, you spawn and you have airstrikes, camper snipers and grenade launcher spammers. I would say, avoid this    I got the game for free from a friend through the RTX promotion but man this game sucks.

    The campaign was pretty good, but the multiplayer joining now is pure trash. I played a single game and that was enough for me to say that "Ok, I will never touch this again" Its an aidsfest, you spawn and you have airstrikes, camper snipers and grenade launcher spammers. I would say, avoid this game and just play Warzone or whatever else, but not this low effort thing they made.    … Expand
  17. Bzone
    Dec 7, 2020
    0
    SBMM. So many bugs and glitches. Lack of content. Lobbies disband.
    Weapon Leveling and camo challenges. SBMM.
    SBMM. Lobbies disband after EVERY single match.
    Jumping and sliding.
    Refund please.
  18. JimmieReview
    Nov 21, 2020
    7
    A big step in the right direction for call of duty.
    The singleplayer campaign is the most fun I've had in a COD game since forever. It has multiple choices and even multiple endings. They've added some "sneak style" missions to it as well.
    Call of duty has potential to be a good game if they just allow the devs to actually build an interesting singleplayer story and campaign rather than    A big step in the right direction for call of duty.
    The singleplayer campaign is the most fun I've had in a COD game since forever. It has multiple choices and even multiple endings. They've added some "sneak style" missions to it as well.
    Call of duty has potential to be a good game if they just allow the devs to actually build an interesting singleplayer story and campaign rather than just jump on the newest FPS multiplayer fad.

    I've tried the multiplayer part a little bit but that, unfortunately, is just more of the same boring, repetitive FPS multiplayer crap. They should have worked on the battle royale mode from last game, giving us a soviet-inspired map and weapon system and perhaps integrated the US-Soviet conflict into it to give us something new and interesting. But nawh, its just the same old boring crap. I doubt I will even bother with it much more.

    So, in the end, your left with a very expensive, short but fairly good singleplayer campaign. Normally, that would warrant a very low score. But this is COD, and looking at it from where they have been this is indeed an improvement and I hope to see more COD where the singleplayer campaign takes the center stage. We are all tired of your boring FPS multiplayer crap - give us something we want! A good singleplayer story!    … Expand
  19. Khaar
    Nov 15, 2020
    5
    COD is back!
    You can turn back around and wait another 10 years for a good one if you love CODMW but dislike the rest.
    I tried the beta for 10 minutes and turned it off and uninstalled immediately, so you can imagine my delight after getting a 3000 series card, when I saw it's not watch dogs I'll be getting for free, its COD! So I gave the whole campaign a shot, which was a    COD is back!
    You can turn back around and wait another 10 years for a good one if you love CODMW but dislike the rest.

    I tried the beta for 10 minutes and turned it off and uninstalled immediately, so you can imagine my delight after getting a 3000 series card, when I saw it's not watch dogs I'll be getting for free, its COD!

    So I gave the whole campaign a shot, which was a graphical delight. Then moved on to the multiplayer and really tried liking it but nope, I know a lot of people enjoy this kind of COD experience. I'm glad they'll have fun at least.

    I'll be waiting for CODMW (2030).

    Constructive Critic?
    Change the art/design/creative director/bossman, everything from sounds to fonts screams "tacky".    … Expand
  20. ThatOneGamer989
    Apr 4, 2021
    0
    My experience playing Cold War has been the worst gaming experience I've ever had in my life. I play on ps4. I have attempted your Zombies Firebase Z Easter egg 5 times, and every time, my game freezes before I can finish. I've tried every fix from redownloading to playing solo or in a private lobby, and this continues to happen. My controller won't even connect and I am forced to unplugMy experience playing Cold War has been the worst gaming experience I've ever had in my life. I play on ps4. I have attempted your Zombies Firebase Z Easter egg 5 times, and every time, my game freezes before I can finish. I've tried every fix from redownloading to playing solo or in a private lobby, and this continues to happen. My controller won't even connect and I am forced to unplug my system. I've had less trouble playing Cyberpunk 2077 and that game is supposed to be the king of glitch world, but you've managed to top that, so congratulations. I am a long time, avid Call of Duty fan, but I think I Cold War is the last title I'll be purchasing. If I had a physical copy of the game, I would gladly return it tonight for literally anything else… Expand
  21. Dr4gonkiller96
    Nov 28, 2020
    5
    Worst Cod title ever, Campaign is a mess, and Multiplayer even worse. this game can get lost. Gunplay is miles behind MW. the TTK is far too long and guns are unbalanced. SBMM is a joke and the Maps are worse than the previous Black ops game. the only good thing about this is Zombies and even that is a step back with no Splitscreen.
  22. eva3si0n
    Jul 15, 2023
    8
    Call of Duty Cold War is a typical COD from Treyarch. I can only appreciate singlepeer. Multiplayer, as usual, did not surprise with anything and can hold for a couple of dozen hours. But the PS4 version clearly does not pull the capabilities of multiplayer. What touches the single player, it's very good. After Black Ops turned the wrong way after part 2, I thought there would be anCall of Duty Cold War is a typical COD from Treyarch. I can only appreciate singlepeer. Multiplayer, as usual, did not surprise with anything and can hold for a couple of dozen hours. But the PS4 version clearly does not pull the capabilities of multiplayer. What touches the single player, it's very good. After Black Ops turned the wrong way after part 2, I thought there would be an interesting company in the series once again. And here is the Soviet cranberries and a variety of gameplay, which has really changed relative to the previous parts and several endings. The comparing in Call of Duty Cold War is a great 4-5 hours or one evening. Yes, it's still the same shooting range with dummy, but there's no Hollywood blockbuster, but I liked it. I advise everyone to play on PS Plus or if later added to the Game Pass on Xbox. On PS4 Pro, the game looks pale, I advise you to still play on the current generation.… Expand
  23. pigthemigy
    Dec 5, 2020
    7
    Okay well they got everything right in MW now I guess they forgot literally everything they learned. First off graphics are a joke, this game looks like it came out 5 years ago. Weapon leveling is SO EXCRUCIATINGLY SLOW, I played 13 hours in a day and got my mp5 HALF WAY leveled to max with basically only using that one gun all day, they need to turn on double xp all around and just leaveOkay well they got everything right in MW now I guess they forgot literally everything they learned. First off graphics are a joke, this game looks like it came out 5 years ago. Weapon leveling is SO EXCRUCIATINGLY SLOW, I played 13 hours in a day and got my mp5 HALF WAY leveled to max with basically only using that one gun all day, they need to turn on double xp all around and just leave it on. The weapons are all crap we've seen before, cant find any other weapon we havent seen from that era instead of the same stuff weve seen in 1000 CODs before. Lastly and probably most egregious is the anti-consumer BS that selling rights to an ENTIRE GAME MODE to dirty and disgusting Sony. You literally cant play a zombies mode for an entire year if you arent on PS. Wether youre PS player or not we should all be able to agree that is despicable, but it gets worse: PS players also get continous bonus XP events exclusive to them as well as tokens and other things making this game a pay to win game. If im on ps and my buddy isnt, guess what I can pass his level rapidly gaining better guns with better attachments quicker all because I decided to buy on ps and he decided to buy on PC. "Poor stupid as* fan of our game, ya shoulda bought our game where we wanted you to buy it" is what im sure both Sony and Treyarch would say to that. For we live in a time when the customer doesn't come first, where a dollar here doesn't equal a dollar there, and where big selfish companies seem to forget how they got to where they were: us, their fans. This game is such a disapointment. DONT buy this garbage. Companies like these only understand lost revenue. If they can completely f*ck their fans over and we the fans just let them get away with it, of course nothing would ever change. If you like the idea of a big rich developer f*cking you right in the a*s and laughing all the way to the bank, buy Cold War.

    *edit* so my mp5 is leveling at about the same speed my character is. Im level 30 and my mp5 is 32 out of 53. So after about 16 hours of gameplay ive leveled ONE SINGLE GUN to like 2/3 of max. You have to be f**king kidding me. This basically means if you wanna level all 22 or so weapons its about on par with getting 22 prestige levels. The closest Ive ever made it to getting a 10 prestige account was MW2 got to max level 9th prestige and thats all I did all day long every day. Asking us to make it to what would be 22nd prestige is f**king ridiculous. They literally need to triple the weapon xp rate for this game to be any fun at all. How much time do they think people have to play videogames. Unless you're playing 12 hours a day 7 days a week, its gonna take just an absolutely unreasonable amount of time to even come close to maxing every gun. Cold War is a complete joke. It feels way more like a job than a game, in fact I have more fun at work than I do playing this dumpster fire of a game. Why not make the game feel more rewarding like MW was, every round in MW I felt like I was getting something out of it, quite a lot actually. This game feels SO unbearably stagnant. Like I may as well be watching paint dry. Again don't buy this game, just buy a can of paint throw it on a wall and sit there staring for 12 hours and you'll have the same experience as Cold War but for much cheaper!

    *final edit until hopefully an update increases weapon xp rate*
    So I've been pretty harsh on this game as of now and I thought that wasn't completely fair so let me say the one really nice thing I like about Cold War and that is zombies. They've really done a good job with zombies to make it feel somewhat new and refreshing. They added permanent perks you can unlock by obtaining crystals in zombies mode. You get 1 crystal every 5 waves completed after and including wave 10 as well as 1 more(i think) for extracting successfully(which is offered the wave before you gain your next crystal). They also added upgradeable weapons seperate from their 3 tiered system for packapunch with each tier more expensive than the last. All these among some other interesting and welcome changes. But having said all that, its a lot less fun getting to wave 30 on zombies after a full hour of gameplay and primarily only using one gun and then getting like 2 weapon levels from it. A weapon level every 30 minutes is gross. It detracts from every bit of fun I had playing that last hour. Progression at a snails pace just ruins any fun you have playing this game. I stand by what I said, tripling the xp rate for weapons would make this game A LOT more fun. Im still changing my score from 0-2 because I was slightly unfair in my original review but until this game feels more like a game and less like a job I can't change it above that. I have spoken to other players in game as well as read some reddit posts about this same issue and this seems to be the consensus, progression is horribly slow in Cold War.

    ****They increased weapon XP rate**** Changing review score from 2 to 7.    … Expand
  24. PaulOkrema
    Mar 6, 2021
    0
    Bought it because of multiplayer, and its not playable: waiting in lobby to start the game is forever, maps are made for campers and weapons suck
  25. marmotmx
    Nov 16, 2020
    7
    At the end of the Day CoD knows their formula, they don't change a lot but it is a very underwhelming title. The campaign is ridiculously short. Multiplayer is kinda limited in map options.

    The difference in graphics between PS4 and PS5 is not that significant and on PS5 they missed the opportunity to use the new Dual Sense in a more interesting way beyond the sensitivity of the    At the end of the Day CoD knows their formula, they don't change a lot but it is a very underwhelming title. The campaign is ridiculously short. Multiplayer is kinda limited in map options.

    The difference in graphics between PS4 and PS5 is not that significant and on PS5 they missed the opportunity to use the new Dual Sense in a more interesting way beyond the sensitivity of the triggers. The zombie mode is kinda cool, but still I really don't think it justifies buying it at full price.    … Expand
  26. maximilianp4
    Nov 30, 2020
    0
    Pls dont buy this you will hate it i just sold my ps5 becausee i will neuer play this crap
  27. Phoenix123
    Nov 25, 2020
    0
    Cod has essentially become the Madden and 2k of FPS games. Rushed out by year for the sake of money, never really anything groundbreakingly different about the game. Always the same shot in the back multiplayer year by year with some different abilities and weapons. It’s playerbase mostly consists of the same hypebeats that play Fortnite. This franchise has declined a lot from its prime,Cod has essentially become the Madden and 2k of FPS games. Rushed out by year for the sake of money, never really anything groundbreakingly different about the game. Always the same shot in the back multiplayer year by year with some different abilities and weapons. It’s playerbase mostly consists of the same hypebeats that play Fortnite. This franchise has declined a lot from its prime, kinda sad to see.… Expand
  28. ShadowPeter
    Dec 5, 2020
    8
    Cold War doesn't have great graphics, it lacks content (maps) and SBMM can make the experience frustrating, but even so, it is a fun arcade FPS game "à la" Treyarch.
  29. Haloman259
    Jan 25, 2021
    6
    For me, this is a conflicting game. In multiplayer, there isn't enough content to sustain consistent play. Literally all I play is Nuketown and maybe Raid (or other remasters when this review becomes outdated). While it feels a lot like Modern Warfare, this feels better to me. Modern Warfare feels more realistic, but Cold War is a bit more arcady. People who say the game feels weird orFor me, this is a conflicting game. In multiplayer, there isn't enough content to sustain consistent play. Literally all I play is Nuketown and maybe Raid (or other remasters when this review becomes outdated). While it feels a lot like Modern Warfare, this feels better to me. Modern Warfare feels more realistic, but Cold War is a bit more arcady. People who say the game feels weird or different probably hasn't played older games. I'm not going to go into SBMM or anything because we keep beating the necessary dead horse. I think it would be amazing without the glitches/etc.

    Campaign I'm not talking about as I haven't played it.

    Zombies is also conflicting. I love the way it feels, but it feels a bit too different from BO3 or even BO4. In those games, it felt like a stripped down survival mode, where you need to know the game. This zombies feels so different, more like MW3 survival (that's still really good btw). Honestly, kinda feels like Zombies for newer players, which isn't bad, but when you've played other games, this one feels so different from other zombies games. Weapon tiers are SO stupid, the game feels really advanced with tons and tons of other stuff to setup/etc. TL;DR: Feels too different, you may not enjoy it if you are a previous player.    … Expand
  30. Blindsyde
    Sep 14, 2021
    2
    I really like the more realistic game that came right before this, (Modern Warfare). This game is doodoo , but fun and pretty if you just want unrealistic run and gun game play. I'll just keep playing MW.
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 35 Critic Reviews

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  2. Mixed: 7 out of 35
  3. Negative: 0 out of 35
  1. IGN Portugal
    Jun 28, 2021
    80
    Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War ends up mirroring what the Call of Duty franchise offered last year, with some new additions that are also welcome, especially for long-term fans. While being set during a very intense period, the campaign ends up erring for its disappointing longevity, even though the value of repetition is intrinsic to it. Zombies are back in style, while multiplayer gains an excellent new mode, but here it errs again for the arsenal's lack of variety.
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  2. GameCritics
    Dec 16, 2020
    50
    While Cold War is a part of a series I would have said that I loved, I can’t fully embrace it now knowing that this work is trucking in harmful stereotypes via patriotic-tinged gameplay. A decent CoD multiplayer experience will likely emerge from the currently-underwhelming Cold War, but I’m going to seriously consider whether that gameplay is worth enduring (and supporting) the rest.
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  3. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    Dec 14, 2020
    80
    There’s a surprising number of changes, and most work. With an enjoyable campaign and a generous amount of online content, Cold War deserves a warm reception. [Issue#183, p.68]
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