Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War

 Xbox Series X
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4.4

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 756 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 270 out of 756
  2. Mixed: 71 out of 756
  3. Negative: 415 out of 756
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  1. WBader
    Jun 11, 2021
    1
    Multiplayer: To explain all the bugs in the game, you should have played it. It would take hours, to write it all down. Additionally you waste about 25-30% of your time in waiting for lobbies. Thank god, I missed MW. The good old times are gone.
    Based on multiplayer and Zombies mode, I must say, that the game is unplayable. It is full f bugs, I loose connection several times a day. In    Multiplayer: To explain all the bugs in the game, you should have played it. It would take hours, to write it all down. Additionally you waste about 25-30% of your time in waiting for lobbies. Thank god, I missed MW. The good old times are gone.
    Based on multiplayer and Zombies mode, I must say, that the game is unplayable. It is full f bugs, I loose connection several times a day. In Zombie mode I have not reached a higher level than seven before the game crashed or lost server connection. I play since 2007 but this is the worst version ever. Playing should be fun... This is not funny at all. But as long as "Bug-i-vision" makes money wit COD points selling nothing will change, I think. Maybe this is the reason, why there are no patches or server changings for a longer time now. MONEY ROLLS!
    Addendum: I don’t trust one of these positive reviews here.    … Expand
  2. Laauvr
    Dec 8, 2022
    0
    Mi no io se lo compro hace no mas de 1 mes y ha dejado los estudios vive por y para el juego no para hacer misiones para conseguir skins ,cada vez más violento insulta a un monitor por que matan a su muñequito y es un caso perdido un nini en toda regla ,ya no duerme bien se acuesta hasta muy tarde y se pasa todo el día durmiendo y jugando necesito ayuda
  3. Pun1sher
    Oct 3, 2022
    4
    I didn't think this game would be that bad.
    I can't play one game because they do technical work! The plot in the game is not bad, but I'm waiting to play single player, **** you.
  4. Zado77
    Sep 27, 2022
    1
    Это одна из самых без полезных покупок за ближайший год.
    Игра сама по себе абсурд и кал.
    - сервис по вытягиванию денег с людей. - неадекватная цена для проекта по механикам 4 летней давности. - Абсурдная компания . - Ужасное имбалансное месиво в мультиплеере. Тема с второй мироыой аойной всех достала кроме архиологов, и то кажется им тоже она уже надоела.    Это одна из самых без полезных покупок за ближайший год.
    Игра сама по себе абсурд и кал.
    - сервис по вытягиванию денег с людей.
    - неадекватная цена для проекта по механикам 4 летней давности.
    - Абсурдная компания .
    - Ужасное имбалансное месиво в мультиплеере.
    Тема с второй мироыой аойной всех достала кроме архиологов, и то кажется им тоже она уже надоела.
  5. Honestx
    Feb 22, 2022
    0
    Imagine paying upwards of 69.99$ for a game to then find out that it has microtransactions! I might expect this from a free to play game but for a 70 dollar one!? Yes I know you don't necessarily have to spend money on the game but unless you want to play this **** for 7 hours+ per day then you are kinda forced to. Greedy developers, same repetitive game... To be fair the adaptive triggerImagine paying upwards of 69.99$ for a game to then find out that it has microtransactions! I might expect this from a free to play game but for a 70 dollar one!? Yes I know you don't necessarily have to spend money on the game but unless you want to play this **** for 7 hours+ per day then you are kinda forced to. Greedy developers, same repetitive game... To be fair the adaptive trigger feature is pretty cool but this game is not worth your time and money. 0/10.... this cashgrab makes EA look like saints in comparison… Expand
  6. Legion0
    Jan 19, 2022
    0
    Call of Duty is a dead game. Its all skill based hit detection and other stat manipulation to make it the worst fps game of all time. I been playing cod games online since cod 3 waaaay back when. I play daily with a 2.18 ration ranked in the 40,000 global ranks I know what I'm talking about. Sbmm and other tactics have ruined this franchise for me for life. I'll never buy another one.
  7. dotleo
    Nov 30, 2021
    0
    There's not much for me to say about this game, other than how absolutely garbage it is. Campaign is great, but it ends quickly. And let's be honest, we don't buy CODs for the campaign. After that, it honestly feels like an alpha version of a game. Incomplete. For the love of God, please don't buy this game. Terrible spawns, bad maps, glitchy servers. SBMM sucks the tiny amount of life inThere's not much for me to say about this game, other than how absolutely garbage it is. Campaign is great, but it ends quickly. And let's be honest, we don't buy CODs for the campaign. After that, it honestly feels like an alpha version of a game. Incomplete. For the love of God, please don't buy this game. Terrible spawns, bad maps, glitchy servers. SBMM sucks the tiny amount of life in CW in the first place and makes it a lifeless COD game made solely to make Activision money. I spent money on this game and I can say that you shouldn't make the same mistake I made. Please.… Expand
  8. unxc3113d
    Nov 22, 2021
    2
    Купил игру, поставил компанию, запускаю и мне предлагает купить игру еще раз. И это спустя год после релиза. В гугле по запросу "xbox call of duty cold war already purchased" - куча ссылок в т.ч. видео на ютубе и прочее. Пришлось выкачивать весь доступный контент, с учетом того, что мультиплеер мне не нужен - 150Gb ради 4-х часовой компании. Компания норм. Продавать версию для консолейКупил игру, поставил компанию, запускаю и мне предлагает купить игру еще раз. И это спустя год после релиза. В гугле по запросу "xbox call of duty cold war already purchased" - куча ссылок в т.ч. видео на ютубе и прочее. Пришлось выкачивать весь доступный контент, с учетом того, что мультиплеер мне не нужен - 150Gb ради 4-х часовой компании. Компания норм. Продавать версию для консолей нового поколения за отдельный прайс, проигнорировав smart delivery, это вершина жадности. Оценка 2 - за отношение разработчиков к игрокам.… Expand
  9. dsfdsfs
    Nov 15, 2021
    0
    Eigentlich ein wirklich gutes Spiel mit guter Kampagne, Multiplayer und Zombies vor allem ist ein Key wirklich nicht so teuer.
  10. Tharobberduck
    Nov 9, 2021
    3
    The multi-player is broken by cross-play and skill based match making. Controller on console vs mouse on pc, is obviously a disadvantage. If you disable cross-play it takes ages to find a match. And what's the point of getting good at the game, when you're constantly getting more and more skilled opponents. Back in the day, you would get slammed, when you started playing. But as youThe multi-player is broken by cross-play and skill based match making. Controller on console vs mouse on pc, is obviously a disadvantage. If you disable cross-play it takes ages to find a match. And what's the point of getting good at the game, when you're constantly getting more and more skilled opponents. Back in the day, you would get slammed, when you started playing. But as you learned the maps, mechanics and weapons, you could be really good, and get awesome kill n death ratios. That's now destroyed. You can't relax and just play a chilled game. Then you will get destroyed, by the other players. A shame a fundamentally good game is broken by bad decisions. And stop the annoying commercials that pops up every time you start the game. If i want to by Vanguard I'll do it. Annoying that you have to skip the commercials every time you start the game. Activision **** of.… Expand
  11. Hotel1775
    Oct 28, 2021
    1
    Fairly mediocre compared to MW (2019), unless you like getting kicked in the nuts.
  12. Elenano
    Oct 11, 2021
    0
    Might easily be the worst game I've ever owned and played, poorly coded, badly made, and having access to millions of user feedback, they choose to ignore their audience and do what people doesn't like and what they want, it's just trash
  13. Skymo
    Sep 20, 2021
    0
    Waste of money, very **** game. Multiplayer ridiculous difficulty with their high level of sbmm. Not fun anymore, the older COD games were fun whereas this game is stressful and a waste of time.
  14. Nerevarinho
    Sep 16, 2021
    3
    Multiplayer team deathmatch takes forever, and since it makes not really fun, its a pain to finish a match. Aim assist is too invasive. Movement and animations are not fluid. Respawn locations are not balanced/scattered enough. Cant read white text on white helmet background in multiplayer loadout. Singleplayer campaign was good, but multiplayer is bad compared to MW.
  15. CerberusTheWise
    Aug 21, 2021
    2
    Zombies is only redeeming feature. Campaign boring. Multiplayer is so god awful.
  16. 808
    Aug 21, 2021
    1
    The campaign was epic multiplayer DOES NOT WORK AT ALL **** THIS PIECE OF **** UNPLAYABLE. CRASHES EVERY GAME error code 57475

    ZOmbies ok.
  17. SaiseiTunes
    Aug 19, 2021
    4
    Casual gamers will likely have a good time with this. Hell, I even had fun with it at first. Now? Not so much. This game was rushed and dear god does it ever show. Extremely short campaign that almost feels like an afterthought, though it isn't the worst they've ever put out. Multiplayer is just utterly ruined thanks to the special variants of weapons, way too many people sweating in MP,Casual gamers will likely have a good time with this. Hell, I even had fun with it at first. Now? Not so much. This game was rushed and dear god does it ever show. Extremely short campaign that almost feels like an afterthought, though it isn't the worst they've ever put out. Multiplayer is just utterly ruined thanks to the special variants of weapons, way too many people sweating in MP, battle pass completely destroying natural progression if you just shell out some cash, bugs, maps are extremely hit or miss, TTK is still disgustingly low. It's better than MW2019, but only barely, both are still really low on the COD totem pole.

    Zombies was admittedly a ton of fun for me, I enjoyed it quite a bit. The new mechanics felt great for bringing on new players, old perk system returned with a few tweaks that finally found an effective way to deal with crutch perk issues, and the Die Maschine and Firebase Z maps were a ton of fun! Shame that Treyarch has decided to ruin it by focusing on Outbreak rather than Dark Aether's main storyline and maps, the characters have no personality since they're all MP Operators, and Treyarch seems focused on playing to our nostalgia for previous games rather than creating something new (can we get some more new perks like Elemental Pop, please? Instead of old perks reworked or combined?). While it's not entirely without merit, Cold War is a perfect encapsulation of how the Call of Duty series has fallen from its once lofty heights. Buy at your own risk    … Expand
  18. Berd
    Aug 12, 2021
    0
    Disgusting. An absolute mess of a game. Buggy, unfinished, zero content, riddled with microtransactions, bad maps & gunplay, and pathetic zombies. It’s literally just a front to sell Warzone. This game is a stain on the FPS genre
  19. GTressols
    Jul 27, 2021
    3
    Los tres puntos que le doy son por la campaña y los zombies. El multijugador es una basura, spawns de mierd*, los snipers son solo para clavar mira y campear al igual que las ligeras y lo mas importante es que el SBMM cagó la poca experiencia de juego buena que te puede brindar este pedazo de mierda.
  20. Bobtheman
    Jul 24, 2021
    0
    The worst game they ever made. Mechanics are slow and glitchy. Even finding the right settings is not enough. Do not buy Cold War. You are wasting your money. Cold War is trash. The movements are terrible. All in all a complete waste of time. GET RID OF IT
  21. TopBun69
    Jul 23, 2021
    1
    Gets a 1 for the campaign. The multiplayer of this godforsaken game is absolutely TERRIBLE! A combination of heavy SBMM, OP guns, sweats, tryhards, boosters, reverse boosters, horrible servers, bugs, terrible maps, and a plethora of other things I could go on about make one the WORST multiplayer experiences I've ever had. I'd rather be playing Infinite Warfare or Ghosts than this crap.Gets a 1 for the campaign. The multiplayer of this godforsaken game is absolutely TERRIBLE! A combination of heavy SBMM, OP guns, sweats, tryhards, boosters, reverse boosters, horrible servers, bugs, terrible maps, and a plethora of other things I could go on about make one the WORST multiplayer experiences I've ever had. I'd rather be playing Infinite Warfare or Ghosts than this crap. Zombies can be fun but is more catered towards hardcore zombie players. Campaign was alright definitely not the worst but by far not the best. All in all it comes out as a very bad game experience, most of it coming from multiplayer.… Expand
  22. BoBerTz
    Jul 16, 2021
    0
    Completly garbage multiplayer, dont ever think to buy this game, is not even worth with discount
  23. JuicyCartoon157
    Jul 7, 2021
    1
    This game is a steaming pile of **** The only reason i give this game a 1 is because it has a 'ok' campaign. The game, almost 1 year later is still broken as hell, I've never played a match without a terrible bug. The gun play feels to clunky and slow for the fast gameplay it trys to have. The graphics also look like **** compared to MW 2019. The game is practically on life support, withThis game is a steaming pile of **** The only reason i give this game a 1 is because it has a 'ok' campaign. The game, almost 1 year later is still broken as hell, I've never played a match without a terrible bug. The gun play feels to clunky and slow for the fast gameplay it trys to have. The graphics also look like **** compared to MW 2019. The game is practically on life support, with the only people playing it are sweaty tryhard dip****s. The map design was pretty bad also. Oh, and the zombies mode? I hated every second of it. Its like a cake walk, i played WaW nazi zombies afer and realized how much better old zombies was and what made it great, and it was actually somewhat of a challenge! Now you can choose loadouts and upgrade stuff you don't need to, instead of just being able to hop into shadows of evil in bo3 with the boys. The Easter eggs are boring as hell also. The zombies mode has turned into his weird mesh of nothing good, and arguably the worst part of this game. We cant forget about the size either, over 110 gigabytes! Atleast modern warfare compressed the files.… Expand
  24. Sirpupsalot
    Jun 28, 2021
    1
    Man I hate this game. Such an incredible downgrade from the previous game - I actually got this game before I ever played modern warfare and despite coming out 2 years later on the series X it’s absolutely awful in comparison
  25. Nightmxxe
    Jun 18, 2021
    0
    This whole game is now trash and I think its just the end for it now I've seen ppl get banned for jumping wrong but when someone is named ban me or something like that they take no interest then brag about the amount of ppl that got banned bruh ik its a long process to have to watch everyone during every play but that banning system really needs a change and yall severs never work too butThis whole game is now trash and I think its just the end for it now I've seen ppl get banned for jumping wrong but when someone is named ban me or something like that they take no interest then brag about the amount of ppl that got banned bruh ik its a long process to have to watch everyone during every play but that banning system really needs a change and yall severs never work too but yh all around just feel like after two bads in a row there's no hope for another good… Expand
  26. LaFlamaBlanca
    Jun 7, 2021
    0
    Complete garbage. I can't even connect to the servers to play it for a bloody review. The developers & publishers should be ashamed for releasing this abomination to the public. Speaking of which, why is it that any solutions to address the problem are found by their customers?! We're not getting paid to fix your broken game Activision!
  27. Jk456
    Jun 6, 2021
    0
    Never have I ever played a game this bad before cancer would be better then playing this game
  28. Therien
    May 30, 2021
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. If you are on PC, stay away. This game so rigged in favour of controller players you will want to kill yourself after 2 hours, and if not because of that, it will because you feel like you are a part of a marketing experiment. **** this game with chainsaw.… Expand
  29. kyrstengus
    May 21, 2021
    2
    This games graphics suck, the lobby's are ALWAYS broken, it's neat impossible to play with 3+ people, all the maps suck (the only good maps they have are from past cod games, which by the way they just made them loom worse) their game modes suck (when they finally make a good one they just take it away) they have no gun fight maps, and this makes me never want to buy another cod again.
  30. Coldwarsuck
    May 18, 2021
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Terrible unrealistic kills also what’s the point of walls and **** to hide behind if y’all gonna let people shoot right threw the **** that was dumb and all the hopping and shooting is the fakest **** I ever seen on a shooting game @callofduty please get it together and make it more realistic on the new one please… Expand
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#13 Best Xbox Series X Game of 2020
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#2 Most Discussed Xbox Series X Game of 2020

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Metascore
76

Generally favorable reviews - based on 21 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 21
  3. Negative: 0 out of 21
  1. WellPlayed
    Feb 11, 2021
    70
    The beating heart of the Call of Duty experience in terms of multiplayer feels like a solid return to the classic formula, but abundant technical issues make this a worrying stumble into a new generation.
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  2. Game Over Online
    Dec 1, 2020
    70
    Overall, despite some performance issues, I rather enjoyed the mercenaries, spies and private eyes campaign that is Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. I’d like to see the development team get a chance to really flesh out a longer campaign in this style, but you know…the call of duty.
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  3. M3
    Nov 30, 2020
    60
    With an entertaining campaign, great online opportunities and panic-stricken zombie slaughter, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is an impressive package. Still, we can not help but feel disappointed. The best parts of the campaign could have been developed much more and the online modes feel well stripped down. Cold War still impresses, but with more development time, it could have been so much more than "this year's Call of Duty game".
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