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. Applebl3ach
    Nov 22, 2020
    0
    Worst game i've played so far. Unfinished content, even CoD's that are over 10 years old had more content when the game released. The campaign feels like it was being rushed. Don't get me started at zombies. I have tried 6 times, 6 times the easter egg. Always there was something, a bug, the game just froze i mean like what the **** lol **** this game i spend 100 euros on nothing
  2. Zandalor
    Mar 4, 2021
    0
    I have bought the game only to see errors about hosting, so i can't even play a full priced game offline, good work Activision, you must be proud.
  3. drcoomer
    Nov 26, 2020
    8
    Graphics: 9/10
    The graphics are among some of the best we've seen this year. I can only imagine what it looks like on the next-gen systems
    Narrative: 8/10 The campaign was short but exciting & effective. I had a lot of fun playing through it. The final mission alone might be worth the price of admission. Gameplay: 8/10 There's nothing groundbreaking here, it's pretty much your    Graphics: 9/10
    The graphics are among some of the best we've seen this year. I can only imagine what it looks like on the next-gen systems

    Narrative: 8/10
    The campaign was short but exciting & effective. I had a lot of fun playing through it. The final mission alone might be worth the price of admission.

    Gameplay: 8/10
    There's nothing groundbreaking here, it's pretty much your standard Call of Duty gameplay. But it works just as it has for the past 10+ years and makes for a satisfying FPS experience

    Online/Zombies: 7/10
    i should start by saying I'm not the biggest fan of zombie game modes, but I will admit that this one was pretty fun. The multiplayer aspect shows some improvements from previous titles and is pretty entertaining as well. One gripe that I have is that there are some really sh*tty maps that get old very fast.

    Overall Score 7.7/10    … Expand
  4. BostonLeeK
    Nov 26, 2020
    2
    - bad game engine
    - bad zombies (after bo4 look like a joke)
    - poor multiplayer
    - story have only one interesting mission but stolen from another game - hitman
  5. maXXXimo
    Jan 23, 2021
    6
    Campaign is average, not good, not bad. The game was released incomplete on purpose, so they can add this sick season progress-mode in order to force people to buy it, otherwise the players will lose weaponary. The multiplayer is bad, not because of the SBMM but because of the crossplay and senseless challenges. Zombies is ok and the most enjoyable part of the game.
    I think game    Campaign is average, not good, not bad. The game was released incomplete on purpose, so they can add this sick season progress-mode in order to force people to buy it, otherwise the players will lose weaponary. The multiplayer is bad, not because of the SBMM but because of the crossplay and senseless challenges. Zombies is ok and the most enjoyable part of the game.
    I think game developers must stop with this stupid season progress-mode. It kills the game a year after its release, makes potential new players lose interest in it (because they can't access to some mechanics or skins) and forces players to start a rage-full grind. I know they want easy and fast money. Call me crazy, but loot boxes are better, because you can get the full game whenever you want. i.e. Battlefield 4 isn't dead and still makes money despite it's been released in 2013. Same with other games SWBTF2, GTA V, PVZ GW.
    Thank God I paid only $50 for it. 6/10 because of the enjoyable zombies and campaign (and I'm very generous)    … Expand
  6. xamrah
    Nov 15, 2020
    8
    I play Call of Duty for zombies so that's my bias. The campaign is pretty good, dare I say one of the best campaigns I've played from COD, the multiplayer is pretty much what you expect. Another COD multiplayer. None of them are particularly outstanding, not even the latest modern warfare. The zombies is incredible. I have played every zombies since BO1 and this has some huge potential.I play Call of Duty for zombies so that's my bias. The campaign is pretty good, dare I say one of the best campaigns I've played from COD, the multiplayer is pretty much what you expect. Another COD multiplayer. None of them are particularly outstanding, not even the latest modern warfare. The zombies is incredible. I have played every zombies since BO1 and this has some huge potential. There's finally more to the game then just go get a box weapon, pack it, get your perks and do the easter egg. You have to think about prioritizing kill streaks vs armor, paying to start trials vs buying a couple box weapons every round. You are actually challenged to think about your strategy and trust your team to help you. If you don't have a good team, good luck winning in zombies. The rest of the game I feel is about a six or seven, COD doesn't get me excited anymore, they're just generic shooters and this is done as well as any other imo. The zombies is easily a 9.5 for me, ias soon as we get more maps that goes up to a 10. I do think this might be my favorite zombies experience to date, packaged with a somewhat normal multiplayer shooter and decent campaign.… Expand
  7. Semjosha
    Dec 4, 2020
    3
    Просто ужасная часть серии. Русофобия, баги, полностью унылая игра. Не покупайте!
  8. wdavidj
    Nov 23, 2020
    3
    This game essentially just wastes your time. ESPECIALLY the campaign along with it's character creator.

    The campaign essentially relies on flair to keep things interesting but... It's overall a pretty bad campaign that has unnecessary and useless twists and turns that do nothing of value for the story. The multiplayer is well... It's COD multiplayer but, it has plenty of things going    This game essentially just wastes your time. ESPECIALLY the campaign along with it's character creator.

    The campaign essentially relies on flair to keep things interesting but... It's overall a pretty bad campaign that has unnecessary and useless twists and turns that do nothing of value for the story.

    The multiplayer is well... It's COD multiplayer but, it has plenty of things going against it this time around.

    The Zombies inclusion is well... It's not that great either.

    This game honestly just feels like the life and soul of a COD game was ripped out of it. The campaign especially seemed like it would be something of value up until the end of the game when you realize essentially all your hard work put into the campaign and it's challenges were COMPLETELY useless.

    I honestly can't see giving this game anything higher than a 3 out of 10. It's the worst COD game I've played in years. It brings me back to the awful campaign of Call of Duty: Ghosts and Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. This game falls right into that same category. A game that wastes your time, energy, and money as well.

    In my opinion? Stick with the recent Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. It does almost everything well whereas this game, fails at almost everything that game did correctly.    … Expand
  9. aHonestApe
    Dec 4, 2020
    3
    Campaign and Zombies are a blast, the core experience Multiplayer is a mess but a couple months of patches will help enormously particularly the aim assist that prevents you for aiming towards a person.
  10. dr34dful__shade
    Nov 25, 2020
    4
    Zombies and campaign are pretty good and fun to play, but zombies has a lot of bugs with it especially with easter eggs. MP is one of the worst cod experiences I've ever played though. I would honestly rather plan AW than the pile of garbage that is mp. Scorestreaks are trash and everyone is going to get a chopper gunner 10 minutes into the match. Sbmm is **** up my casual experience whileZombies and campaign are pretty good and fun to play, but zombies has a lot of bugs with it especially with easter eggs. MP is one of the worst cod experiences I've ever played though. I would honestly rather plan AW than the pile of garbage that is mp. Scorestreaks are trash and everyone is going to get a chopper gunner 10 minutes into the match. Sbmm is **** up my casual experience while we get put against sweaty players that are using op guns that are not even balanced. SnD is what my friends usually play and it's one of the worst things I've ever experienced in multiplayer. The maps are horrible. Went back to mw and had a much more fun, casual experience. Wish that Treyarch could go back to making games like bo1 and bo2.… Expand
  11. AaronDH456
    Nov 25, 2020
    3
    I gave it a 3 because the campaign,zombies and dead ops are the only "good" things about this broken mess of a game. The multiplayer is awful. Awful map design, awful gunplay, awful scorestreak system, awful colour variation, awful levelling up system, awful weapon levelling system. Basically everything about the game besides zombies and campaign is awful. The campaign however is 3 hoursI gave it a 3 because the campaign,zombies and dead ops are the only "good" things about this broken mess of a game. The multiplayer is awful. Awful map design, awful gunplay, awful scorestreak system, awful colour variation, awful levelling up system, awful weapon levelling system. Basically everything about the game besides zombies and campaign is awful. The campaign however is 3 hours long... which is embarrassing for a £70 game. Zombies is just normal zombies so it's just fine. But my god, the multiplayer is really bad, whoever is the Head of treyarch should be sacked by Activision. Bo4s multiplayer was trash and cold wars is trash. Get whoever the studio head of treyarch out now. People say that treyarch is the best cod developers, yeah 10 years ago they were. The treyarch we have today and nowhere near the old treyarch in terms of making an actual fun game. I play cod to have fun, not try hard every game. What happened to games being fun? Nowadays COD feels like its made for the super MLG, dorito, mountain dew drinking tryhards. Make a fun game next time...… Expand
  12. cyabch
    Nov 15, 2020
    0
    Im done with this game, it feels cheap i knew the multiplayer is trash the first time i saw the trailer its bo4 with better graphics and stupid guns feel , but my only hope was the zombie and **** they fked it up so hard that it feels like a roblox map with stupid ideas i swear i played better maps in roblox
  13. joke354
    Nov 21, 2020
    0
    Multiplayer sucks thanks to sbmm, a lot of people are camping, how the hell do you want us to have fun? This is the worst call of duty in history. The only good thing about these games are the zombies and campaign. The treyarch does not listen to its community. they don't care, come on treyarch just remove sbmm and it will be a great game
  14. toppolarbear
    Nov 23, 2020
    0
    Based on the trailers with Regan and Yuri Bezmenov I thought for sure this game would be based. But instead it's just an anti American propaganda piece. I've literally bought every single Treyarch Call of Duty because I am an avid Zombies fan. Never again.

    I was so excited for this campain too. Screw you Activition. Get woke go broke.
  15. Venroxsora
    Nov 24, 2020
    0
    Even with having above the recommended specs on PC my game still drops in FPS down to 8 FPS for like 4-5 seconds out of nowhere, EVERY MATCH. This is a horrible lazily optimized port of this game and it makes me sad to say, but I will be getting a refund and (maybe) playing when it gets fixed. Absolutely unacceptable for a $60 dollar game released in 2020. Such a cheap cash grab.
  16. xoDelta
    Mar 29, 2021
    4
    This is a husk of a game, the ssbm (skill based matchmaking) kills the enjoyment of doing good and promotes reverse boosting. To sum u here are some key elements that make this worst then MW...
    - Barely playable on base Ps4
    - Horrid frame rates - Washed out graphics - Bad level designs - Bad "remakes" of maps (literally reskinning old maps in HD with no added tweaks to fit the theme    This is a husk of a game, the ssbm (skill based matchmaking) kills the enjoyment of doing good and promotes reverse boosting. To sum u here are some key elements that make this worst then MW...
    - Barely playable on base Ps4
    - Horrid frame rates
    - Washed out graphics
    - Bad level designs
    - Bad "remakes" of maps (literally reskinning old maps in HD with no added tweaks to fit the theme of "cold war"
    - Guns feel clunky/weak with odd buffs and debuffs depending on what attachments you add    … Expand
  17. Juifondor
    Aug 10, 2021
    0
    If you are looking for a real multiplayer game, just wait for Battlefield 2042.
  18. Daykerswood
    Nov 15, 2020
    1
    Миссия "сломанная челюсть", когда прилетаешь на вертолёте в деревню – отключается геймпад. В мультиплеере тоже такое было. Интерфейс забагованный. Ужас.
  19. IvanQwerki
    Nov 17, 2020
    4
    I'm still playing the same game with better grafics and some battlefield dinamics
  20. Rashed_Dubai
    Nov 22, 2020
    0
    This game is repetitive and boring and bad. They’ve used an old engine from 2015 & didn’t bother with a major upgrade to the game. Modern warfare reboot of 2019 was the real upgrade using a fresh new engine to the whole franchise. This game is a downgrade compared to the 2019 COD, worse graphics, audio & visuals, not worth it. Treyarch at this point are the worst studio making COD.
  21. Kanelius
    Jan 16, 2021
    3
    The multiplayer is worse than modern warfare in every single way. The graphics are s***, the gameplay is incredibly stiff and it is buggy as hell. The thing that makes the multiplayer even worse is the sbmm, you get punished for doing well in this game. The campaign is alright but still a big downgrade from mw, The only thing that cold war does better than mw is the side mode, but that'sThe multiplayer is worse than modern warfare in every single way. The graphics are s***, the gameplay is incredibly stiff and it is buggy as hell. The thing that makes the multiplayer even worse is the sbmm, you get punished for doing well in this game. The campaign is alright but still a big downgrade from mw, The only thing that cold war does better than mw is the side mode, but that's just because of how horrible spec ops was. I would assume that 90 % of people buy cod for the multiplayer part and if you are one of those people, don't buy this game, you will most likely be really disappointed. This game brings nothing new to the table and it is probably the worst cod multiplayer of all time (apart from maybe infinite warfare).
    I personally feel like I got scammed, this game is clearly unfinished and definitely not worth the 70 dollars I paid for it.    … Expand
  22. Tariq610
    Jan 11, 2021
    2
    Not worth it at all. The gameplay is bad in the story mode and multiplayer as well, the only positive thing about this game is zombies witch is actually fun. The campaign is poor, the story is boring and the characters aren't anything special at all
  23. X_infamousxxx
    Nov 22, 2020
    0
    My original review was a 3 star now it’s a Zero Star this game literally Caters to campers every map is nothing but camping spots there’s no SBMM I don’t mind playing people that’s as skilled as me but damn treyarch at least let me know who I’m up against to see if I have a chance or not ion even wanna play multiple anymore cuz you have to try hard every game you go into but my last fewMy original review was a 3 star now it’s a Zero Star this game literally Caters to campers every map is nothing but camping spots there’s no SBMM I don’t mind playing people that’s as skilled as me but damn treyarch at least let me know who I’m up against to see if I have a chance or not ion even wanna play multiple anymore cuz you have to try hard every game you go into but my last few games was so quit cuz literally everyone was camping including my own teammates I rarely have fun playing this game zombies is boring cuz your playing on a map they remastered 5 times and in the later rounds it’s insanely hard the highest round I got up to was only round 22 the only thing I really enjoyed was the campaign I’m most likely gonna stop playing this game and just go back to bo1,bo2,and bo3… Expand
  24. vSaku7
    Feb 3, 2021
    0
    The worst call of duty experience ever, multiplayer is absolute dogsh*t and sbmm ruins all the fun and the game is not balanced at all. Nothing new from activision.. just disappointment 0/10
  25. LILDETERMINATIO
    Nov 15, 2020
    6
    Unfinished campaign:
    The campaign feels short. I finished it after 2 hours it's disappointing. The missions are too easy and all the ending sucks. I don't feel like it should a campaign. Game os different than the trailer.
    Multiplayer: despite the fact that the multiplayer got improved from the beta, the enemy visibility is bad, nerf snipers because i got killed using a smg by a guy    Unfinished campaign:
    The campaign feels short. I finished it after 2 hours it's disappointing. The missions are too easy and all the ending sucks. I don't feel like it should a campaign. Game os different than the trailer.
    Multiplayer:
    despite the fact that the multiplayer got improved from the beta, the enemy visibility is bad, nerf snipers because i got killed using a smg by a guy using a sniper. It crashes a lot please fix it.
    Very bad Zombies:
    I don't like zombies because you added the warzone and multiplayer interface in the lobby. The zombies need its own ui lobby interface. It's hard to kill zombies after round 5 and remove the map and change UI    … Expand
  26. xeqt3r
    Nov 30, 2020
    2
    First of all.. The Gameplay is not so bad. The movement is ok and the weapons have a good feedback. But what about the graphics? It is 2020, but the graphic is really really bad. And why are thy selling the Game for 60,-? That are the two biggest critics on the game. The price and the bad graphic. Why should i pay that much money for a game that looks like a game from years ago.
  27. WubWolf
    Oct 9, 2021
    0
    The most buged game i ever played, crashes 3 times a day and problems from the first season are still there. Actually, Cyberpunk 2077 have less bugs ans crashes
  28. Sleeper321
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    There's nothing that I can say that hasn't already been said. Battle pass, microtransations, crap overpriced game.
  29. Koenigsegg
    Nov 15, 2020
    4
    It was so far from call of duty soul
    You guys f*cked it up
    It war boring and with blended with black ups and modern warfare
    What!!!!!!!!!!!&-/
  30. Addyrocks
    May 19, 2021
    1
    The worst cod made in recent year , the snipers are too op each match has 60-70 percent snipers quick scoping the entire game save money dont buy this crap
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Metascore
76

Generally favorable reviews - based on 35 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 28 out of 35
  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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