Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War

 PlayStation 4
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4.1

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 1465 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 435 out of 1465
  2. Mixed: 176 out of 1465
  3. Negative: 854 out of 1465
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  1. zxmonkey14
    Nov 16, 2020
    10
    I don't know why this game is rated so poorly by people, this is an exceptional COD game and I think it is an extremely good game, and I've played every COD since BO1 (with the exception of IW and AW) and trust me, this is high quality gameplay.
    The exclusives for PlayStation really aren't worth complaining over, it's to be expected, and the XP boost is really not a big deal. (oh yeah and    I don't know why this game is rated so poorly by people, this is an exceptional COD game and I think it is an extremely good game, and I've played every COD since BO1 (with the exception of IW and AW) and trust me, this is high quality gameplay.
    The exclusives for PlayStation really aren't worth complaining over, it's to be expected, and the XP boost is really not a big deal. (oh yeah and I play on PC so you know I'm not just sucking up to PlayStation)

    Zombies is by far some of the most fun I've had since BO3 zombies, which is to say it's great, albeit the initial bugs are rough and numbers could use tweaking with the armor system drop rates in late rounds.
    (soloing the Easter egg was tough but I beat it and trust me, it's worth a try for any zombies enthusiast. I absolutely loved multiplayer. Though the game is currently lacking maps, that will probably be fulfilled soon. I also immediately fell in love with sniping in this game, and many other guns run great as well, and balancing can be fixed if one or two guns are too strong or too weak, but I think every weapon has its own strength, and adding the opportunity for everyone to have a shotgun is actually pretty fair and offers everyone the same capabilities in close range. Overall I think the movement feels great and plays similar to BO3 but with a new faster sprint in place of jumping high with jetpacks. Right now, my only complaints are that leveling up is insanely slow on weapons, there are only a few maps (which can be good because you only have to learn a few at a time), and the amount of bugs still in game, but all of these things will likely change or improve over time with new season releases and everyone working to point out bugs. Overall, this game is probably just rated bad like every other game was because everyone has the "new COD bad" mindset every year. It's like how everyone said shadows of evil was a bad map at BO3's launch, but now almost any avid zombies player would have said its easily A tier or S tier. I love this game and it feels nostalgic while also feeling like a new COD.    … Expand
  2. captaubrey
    Nov 16, 2020
    0
    The COD campaign used to be known for a pretty decent story. Funny quips, good drama. This one feels hollow. The jokes fall flat, the righteous indignation contrived. I just get the feeling that someone wanted to write America bad, socialists good story. They did a terrible job.
    Multiplayer is fun so far, but I imagine hackers will ruin it shortly.
    Zombies needs more fleshing out. I'll    The COD campaign used to be known for a pretty decent story. Funny quips, good drama. This one feels hollow. The jokes fall flat, the righteous indignation contrived. I just get the feeling that someone wanted to write America bad, socialists good story. They did a terrible job.
    Multiplayer is fun so far, but I imagine hackers will ruin it shortly.
    Zombies needs more fleshing out. I'll revisit my score if the game gets some updates.
    I do like the gunplay. Feels much better than Modern warfare which is really just battle Royale of which I'm not a fan.    … Expand
  3. Castlony
    Nov 16, 2020
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. If you love call of duty black ops game you should love this game.
    The negatives of this game .
    SBMM , system of scorstrikes    … Expand
  4. kapapt
    Nov 16, 2020
    0
    Such a waste of my money, the game is awfully bad! Graphics are bad, game mechanics, visuals and general gameplay is bad, multiplayer is lacking modes and all of it is a downgrade from previous titles, I don't understand how a company lets this be released. Zombie mode? Terrible!
    Even the sound, you can barely understand what footsteps are! Not to mention the amount of cheaters already    Such a waste of my money, the game is awfully bad! Graphics are bad, game mechanics, visuals and general gameplay is bad, multiplayer is lacking modes and all of it is a downgrade from previous titles, I don't understand how a company lets this be released. Zombie mode? Terrible!
    Even the sound, you can barely understand what footsteps are! Not to mention the amount of cheaters already tanking advantage of bad code.
    I don't think this can even be fixed, no software patches can correct this.    … Expand
  5. chubbybuns
    Nov 16, 2020
    1
    Yikes, absolute sad mess of a game for the price they charge. Glitches, text mistakes, overpowered guns, **** net code and too much more to type. Stay away till they fix some of it and try to salvage this turd of a cod
  6. Deneios
    Nov 16, 2020
    2
    MP feels like its 5 years late. This would have been ok but bland in 2015.
    Every gun has stupid slow bullet velocity and that allows SMGs to challenge assault rifles in mid to long range fights since they have higher rate of fire than most rifles. Also the pattented treyarch 3lane maps with 90 degree turns every 20 meters compound the problem even more. Most gun fights happen on the range    MP feels like its 5 years late. This would have been ok but bland in 2015.
    Every gun has stupid slow bullet velocity and that allows SMGs to challenge assault rifles in mid to long range fights since they have higher rate of fire than most rifles. Also the pattented treyarch 3lane maps with 90 degree turns every 20 meters compound the problem even more. Most gun fights happen on the range of 0-30 meters so SMGs and shotguns are abundant.
    Due to the scorestreak system your first 26 ranks are utter stupidity. You spawn take 2 steps and die to a airstrike, chopper, chopper gunner, artillery strike or cruise missile then respawn and the same thing happens again. If you thought that killstreaks were annoying in MW in this its 10 times worse.
    Also Moscow and Miami maps are for some reason absurdly large for 6v6. They are probably larger than Grazna Raid in MW and its sized for 10v10. Also they are full of treyarch 90 degree turns after 20 meters. You never know where the battle is and the spawns spin like roulette tables in vegas.
    Combined Arms is almost enjoyable but in armada the amount of turret boats should be reduced to 1 per side and team in assault gamemode.

    Treyarch ruining CoD since 2008    … Expand
  7. Hc2288
    Nov 15, 2020
    9
    Mint game so good love VIP
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  8. Insanity-
    Nov 15, 2020
    1
    For starters THE SPAWNS ARE HORRIBLE
    Secondly the ps4 version graphics are remarkably disgusting The movement is horrible(clunky, slow)
    Campers are annoying(like normal)
    Health is garbage. If you get into one gunfight and have another immediately after, go ahead and chalk that up as a loss. Lastly leveling up takes and eternity even while playing on 2XP
  9. weturn
    Nov 15, 2020
    9
    хорошая графика сюжет с эпичном концом и диалоговая система плюс стрельба очень хорошая но есть один минус продолжительность
  10. zWillyx
    Nov 15, 2020
    6
    I don't agree with all the comments I see, and I am the first one who actually really critic when we are talking about videogames, I never liked Call of Duty in the last 5/6 years (except for the last one that I found it pretty enjoyable too), but this time, Call of Duty got something a bit fresh and different from the other chapters!

    The campaign is interactive and full of action, with    I don't agree with all the comments I see, and I am the first one who actually really critic when we are talking about videogames, I never liked Call of Duty in the last 5/6 years (except for the last one that I found it pretty enjoyable too), but this time, Call of Duty got something a bit fresh and different from the other chapters!

    The campaign is interactive and full of action, with some stealth missions, more than the other chapters, although it's short and it's the stereotypical story where americans are heroes and the rest of the world is evil (a bit of less in this chapter, even though it's still like this, but I don't want to spoiler, if you will play this game you will understand why), this time you got multiple choices through that could change the ending or the scenarios, for me this campaign it's full of surprises, really fun, unpredictable and more than enjoyable!

    Zombies are meh, just 1 map, the gamemode where you need to survive around random multiplayer maps or the chance to play another map with the visual from the top that I find it quite boring.
    Die Machine it's fine, but after playing 2 hours I found it boring too, it's basically the same as the old gamemode zombie I used to play on Black Ops with a map and a story that didn't intrigued me that much, but it's cool, better than nothing.
    Hope to see more in future maps.

    About multiplayer, well, you are all right, it's the same boring sh*t we are seeing since the first CoD Black Ops, except some new gametypes mode, like that one copied from Battlefield but exported in the typical Call of Duty gameplay.

    Campaign vote: 7
    Zombie vote: 6
    Multiplayer vote: 4

    If you like spionage and the Cold War History buy it, but wait until price drops cause 70$ for this game it's really too much since after the campaign mode you will get bored quickly.
    Could have been a better game, but it's ok.    … Expand
  11. Jakestarr
    Nov 15, 2020
    1
    This whole game lacks content and quality is terrible. Nothing works to its full potential. Its a rushed bugged out peice of **** game. Needed another year of care and develooment. Garbage.
  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. BatmanOnWeekend
    Nov 15, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Idk where to start..the cartoonist graphics or the fact the 5 ARs are probably the worst in any cod. Hats off to the devs for their work but boy yall shouldve just made a full zombie game..… Expand
  14. dopitysmokity
    Nov 15, 2020
    2
    What happened bud. Auto aim for console is practically an aim bot. Maps are fine but spawn killing is already outrageous. Guns are overall fine as long as you’re not fighting a team of mp5-ers. I’m not a game critic but I’m more disappointed in this than I was mw. Feels like a 60 dollar zombies game
  15. Usedbatteries
    Nov 15, 2020
    4
    I gave it a 4 for the campaign, multi-player on the other hand deserves 0. Guns are seriously wonky, game feels floaty, not to mention the xm4 is super weak. Nothing about the multi-player is fun.
  16. husseinyehya
    Nov 15, 2020
    0
    No content at all. The multiplayer have 8 maps in total, the campaign is 3 hours long and zombies story is gone.
  17. Stellblack
    Nov 15, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Cold war so presta a campanha multiplayer nao e fluido como o mw graficos muito inferiores ao seu antecessor e poucas armas sem falar mo pay to win como a central falou e a cada ano parece que cod vem caindo nao so pela falta de controle sob a comunidade que e extremamente tóxica como pelo lag e bugs que atrapalham a jogatina se for comprar o jogo espere a pro… Expand
  18. Anjamal
    Nov 15, 2020
    9
    Most of the reviews are misleading. Most reviews say the graphics are bad and look like an xbox 360 game. That is obviously false if you look at gameplay. Most reviews mention OP weapons even though thats in every cod. This game is good but cod fans are blinded by nostalgia and think every little thing must be perfect or it's a 0
  19. SteveRogers78
    Nov 15, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Multiplayer is terrible thanks again to Activision and Skill Based Match Making! If you want to sweat and get frustrated then buy this game! It starts off slow but soon you will be in matches that you get absolutely slaughtered in! How is the FuN Activision????… Expand
  20. Bobbysood
    Nov 15, 2020
    1
    This game is literally unplayable with friends, crossplay or not. The chat audio is terrible and most of the time you just cannot hear one person in the party. My friends and I have tried more than 10 times in the last hour to play zombies together and have never been able to start without one person getting kicked. This game is terrible
  21. Bevan
    Nov 15, 2020
    0
    Horrible game. Huge step back from Modern Warfare/Warzone. Don’t waste your money.
  22. Killiomadness
    Nov 15, 2020
    6
    The game is unique in its own way i , tbh enjoyed the campaign, the campaign felt really real and once ur done u feel like a true spy or whatever, zombies is enjoyable imma say that as well its got some ups and downs but really i like the new mechanics, multiplayer is so easy to win really i dont like the multiplayer and i dont care for the multiplayer its boring and every weapon is kindaThe game is unique in its own way i , tbh enjoyed the campaign, the campaign felt really real and once ur done u feel like a true spy or whatever, zombies is enjoyable imma say that as well its got some ups and downs but really i like the new mechanics, multiplayer is so easy to win really i dont like the multiplayer and i dont care for the multiplayer its boring and every weapon is kinda OP and theres bo skill to it at all, now imma say this i think this game is ok for its stand point but really it needs work really needs a few updates and changes but to be fair i like it the game, its fun but needs work… Expand
  23. jlukeritters539
    Nov 15, 2020
    5
    Multiplayer is a downgrade from MW and zombies is very bad.
    honestly just disappointing and not worth $60/$70
    the campaign is great but still wait until its discounted.
    5/10 only because of the campaign.
  24. zachsmith
    Nov 15, 2020
    8
    Love the game but I wish you could play all multiplayer game modes against bots on split-screen like you could in previous cods.
  25. Appeal2Heaven
    Nov 15, 2020
    1
    This game hardly runs on ps5. Multiplayer is garbage, campaign is boring, zombies crashes and drops to 15 FPS on the NEW PS5! I’ve had enough of this dev. They are lazy, and Sony should do something about it.
  26. Stormez
    Nov 15, 2020
    1
    One of the badest CODs idk but the feeling is not good. All Players play only the MP5, Bunnyjumping, dont aim and only hipfire is more effective. The Black Ops Series was ever not Good like BO3, 4 and now CW. I change back to MW now bcs MW are the best series. How can i be so bad i have Pre purchased that "Game" Every lobby is the same. You will die when you aim, Spawns and Movement areOne of the badest CODs idk but the feeling is not good. All Players play only the MP5, Bunnyjumping, dont aim and only hipfire is more effective. The Black Ops Series was ever not Good like BO3, 4 and now CW. I change back to MW now bcs MW are the best series. How can i be so bad i have Pre purchased that "Game" Every lobby is the same. You will die when you aim, Spawns and Movement are the badest i i have ever seen.

    PLEAS DONT BUY!    … Expand
  27. Djwoods23
    Nov 15, 2020
    1
    Complete trash just like modern warfare last year. Its all about 3 lanes and funneling through the choke points, cant climb on objects that are waste high, no sniping spots. Its literally APEX but on COD.garbage. Returned after 2 hours and got $27 credit. Do not waste your money. COD is dead.
  28. Zuillot
    Nov 15, 2020
    1
    This is the worst one yet. They never fail to make it a more painful experience every single year, rudely slapping dedicated fans that have been along for the ride since Modern Warfare(2007). This year, Treyarch returns with a game that greatly underwhelms it’s fan base by bringing back Skill Based Matchmaking, and completely disregarding an entire community of people longing for theThis is the worst one yet. They never fail to make it a more painful experience every single year, rudely slapping dedicated fans that have been along for the ride since Modern Warfare(2007). This year, Treyarch returns with a game that greatly underwhelms it’s fan base by bringing back Skill Based Matchmaking, and completely disregarding an entire community of people longing for the chance to play in a ranked setting(like every other successful shooter as had). Making players have to sacrifice their very sanity to simply have a good time, even casually, is never the way to go. Good job, Treyarch!!! Better start pumping out those updates!! This game sucks ☺️


    The zombies is spectacular, however. But, I guess that’s all they seem to care about. Too bad the multiplayer of this franchise is where you truly needed to hit it out of the park this year. Guess you can’t win them all.    … Expand
  29. fink1
    Nov 15, 2020
    1
    Players coming from MW will be seriously disappointed.

    The engine is terrible. Weapon- and movement mechanics are so bad and completely flavourless. Boring, tiny, and non-innovative weapon arsenal. Slow weapon levelling. No new map mechanics (or even exciting maps). Health bars, Really? "Eliminations"? Seems like Cold War aspires to be a MOBA or children's game. The game is    Players coming from MW will be seriously disappointed.

    The engine is terrible. Weapon- and movement mechanics are so bad and completely flavourless. Boring, tiny, and non-innovative weapon arsenal. Slow weapon levelling. No new map mechanics (or even exciting maps).

    Health bars, Really? "Eliminations"? Seems like Cold War aspires to be a MOBA or children's game.

    The game is released with a TON of bugs. The menu and lobbies are especially broken with new bug-encounters every single time I play.

    The only reason im giving it 1 point is because of a decent zombie mode which actually has some interesting new mechanics. Hoping for more maps added to zombies free of charge, because im sure not going to spend more money on this game!    … Expand
  30. CaptainBoogaloo
    Nov 15, 2020
    10
    CAMPAIGN: This is amazing, I actually enjoy this game so much. The campaign is incredibly interesting, fighting communists all throughout the world pursuing the mysterious Perseus. The gun play feels great, typical Call-Of-Duty type gun play, and the mission structure is amazing! Now, there are collectibles in the mission, which allow you to unlock new side missions, which can influenceCAMPAIGN: This is amazing, I actually enjoy this game so much. The campaign is incredibly interesting, fighting communists all throughout the world pursuing the mysterious Perseus. The gun play feels great, typical Call-Of-Duty type gun play, and the mission structure is amazing! Now, there are collectibles in the mission, which allow you to unlock new side missions, which can influence how different events occur, and change how the game ends. The graphics are insane, amazing explosions and structure destruction. The only issue I have is the dead bodies have no dismemberment or bullet holes after being shot, but that is fine when the gunplay makes up for it. This campaign is incredibly memorable, and I love it. Much better than any of the previous games such as WWII, and arguably better than the new Modern Warfare as well. They also removed that useless weapon mounting option, thank goodness!

    MULTIPLAYER: The gun play, shooting, and map design is typical call of duty, but what is special, is the large-scale battle maps where you can commandeer tanks, mortar, bikes, snowmobiles, and other vehicles. This gives it a more battlefield vibe, and it works perfectly. Amazing gun play, gun sound effects and the overall feeling is great. The execution animations are a little long, but its amazing!

    ZOMBIES: This zombies is less outrageous, and more based upon the scare factor, like the old Call of Duty games. Maps aren't as extravagant, and you will find yourself in dark hallways every once in a while, but its definitely good. This zombies depends upon whether you enjoyed the COD BO3 type of Zombies, or the old school nostalgic COD World at War zombies mode. Overall, buy this game. Its actually one of the best Call of Dutys I have ever played.    … Expand
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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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