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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  3. Negative: 415 out of 756
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  1. 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
  2. ThePeoplesPlay
    Nov 15, 2020
    2
    Wow this needs work! Just saying. There was some awful graphics and my Xbox X looks like it can hardly load it!
  3. bleizer
    Nov 15, 2020
    4
    I thought that COD MW was the worst COD but this one took the prize, bad maps that force people without ability to camp, multiple connection errors, constant FPS drops, SBMM as always a garbage. Graphics long overdue for a 2020 game and lousy gameplay, this is undoubtedly the worst of the worst
  4. Chele2552
    Nov 15, 2020
    1
    Multiplayer is absolute trash, warzone is non existent, zombies is a highlight with only one map, pretty sure story the only good thing about the game, is should be a 30$ game at most.
  5. GeorgeHarrison1
    Nov 15, 2020
    9
    This game is pretty good like how the zombies mode is awesome for new as well returning players to experience zombies. The multiplayer is basically Black Ops 1 and Black Ops 2 combined like for the weapons being from Black Ops 1 but the mechanics being from black ops 2. Dead Ops Arcade 3 is a nice relaxing experience to play if you want to play something else than the regular call of dutyThis game is pretty good like how the zombies mode is awesome for new as well returning players to experience zombies. The multiplayer is basically Black Ops 1 and Black Ops 2 combined like for the weapons being from Black Ops 1 but the mechanics being from black ops 2. Dead Ops Arcade 3 is a nice relaxing experience to play if you want to play something else than the regular call of duty and to just have some fun. Now the reason why it's not a 10 is that the Campaign is very short and you feel underwhelmed after you beat it but it does have a nice premise as well as good mission designs. I would still recommend the game if you only care about zombies or multiplayer and not the Campaign. But this my opinion and I know that people have more issues with the game that I do but I would say it's a good game… Expand
  6. UK-GAMER99
    Nov 15, 2020
    10
    Best campaign since BO1 Excellent setting, great cast and just wonderful all around. There are a few technical issues that don't hidner the overall experience. Multiple endings is a good feature, Multiplayer is what you expect out of CoD Zombies a blast but I haven't gone deep in it yet.
  7. radzman
    Nov 15, 2020
    1
    I can play maybe 1 or two games of multiplayer before getting bored out of my mind. SBMM takes the fun out of every lobby and once again, it's heavily utilized. Gone are the days where i can run around with anything i want and still have fun. I spent upwards of 5 hours trying to unlock akimbo pistols just to find out that there's no way i can make them be viable in game. 28 totalI can play maybe 1 or two games of multiplayer before getting bored out of my mind. SBMM takes the fun out of every lobby and once again, it's heavily utilized. Gone are the days where i can run around with anything i want and still have fun. I spent upwards of 5 hours trying to unlock akimbo pistols just to find out that there's no way i can make them be viable in game. 28 total multiplayer weapons and maybe 3-4 of them are usable. TTK is still incredibly fast and when the connection is as terrible as it is currently, you won't even be able to react before you drop. i've played Multiplayer for about 10 hours in total and i don't think i'll be playing after a few more days. I've been playing CoD since 2007 with CoD 4 and i'm thinking this will be my last CoD for Multiplayer because it's just not fun. I've already been asked what i think of the game by friends and i could not recommend it.

    Campaign is alright. It's extremely short but still fun.

    Zombies is pretty fun. Such a shame that there's only 1 map though. I'd say wait 6 months for them to release new content but that won't fix the fundamental flaws this game has.

    Also annoyed that Halo: Infinite was delayed. i would rather be playing that.    … Expand
  8. hostile_raider
    Nov 15, 2020
    2
    (CAMPAIGN) very short plus who cares anymore

    (zombies) who cares (MULTIPLAYER) HERE WE GO AGAIN the thing that matters the most and of course is the worst part about the game. SADLY THIS IS NO MW2 BO2 OR BO3 MULTIPLAYER. Its just another WEAKSAUCE cod multiplayer built to protect the people that still have no clue how to play cod mp, Just so they can make more $. If you enjoy going 1    (CAMPAIGN) very short plus who cares anymore

    (zombies) who cares

    (MULTIPLAYER) HERE WE GO AGAIN the thing that matters the most and of course is the worst part about the game. SADLY THIS IS NO MW2 BO2 OR BO3 MULTIPLAYER. Its just another WEAKSAUCE cod multiplayer built to protect the people that still have no clue how to play cod mp, Just so they can make more $. If you enjoy going 1 for 1 almost every game due to strong sbmm, slow clunky mechanics and, WEAKSAUCE boring weapons that all preform almost the same way, even when loaded with attatchments you will enjoy this pile of GARBAGE or at least SWEAT HARD while doing it. Maps are all average at best and pistols and even shotguns are beaten out easily by smgs even in close range situations so why even have them in the game. WEAKSAUCE AF GETTING MY MONEY BACK TOMMOROWS. SO ENJOY SWEATING ALL OVER EACH OTHER LOSERS, PROBABLY JUST FOR A 1.4 KD/WL RATIO HAHA PATHETIC CAUSE I KNOW IN THE END IT WONT BE WORTH IT. :) NOW IM GONNA GO BACK TO 2015 AND PLAY A REAL COD MP CYA........    … Expand
  9. Omid5359
    Nov 14, 2020
    10
    El juego es una pasada con un aspecto grafico de lo mejor de la nueva generacion de consolas es decir es la unica con un RT espectacular nada que ver con la version mediocre de PS5 con un apartado grafico, efectos de particulas, renderizado asqueroso muy mediocres, en fin es una joya esta version de XBOX SERIES X
  10. whatlurks
    Nov 14, 2020
    3
    This just feels like such a downgrade across the board. Even details as subtle as footsteps just feel years behind MW 2019.

    This is clearly half finished. Disappointed. Downloading MW on my Series X instead.
  11. Jair_Bolsonaro
    Nov 14, 2020
    9
    This game is wonderfull. Time to kill is so good, the back of pretige System was so good for people who like this system to level up. The maps are playable, different from MW 2019
    Este jogo está incrivel, tempo de matar está muito bom e a volta do sistema de prestigio fora muito boa para quem gosta de um jogo à moda antiga, mesmo tendo algumas diferenças. Além dos mapas estarem jogáveis
  12. JesterDEWIT
    Nov 14, 2020
    3
    Call of duty: Black ops cold war takes the old and adds new, unlike black ops 4 where that game took the old that worked that people liked and replaced it for the sake of making something brand new, I'm mostly referring to the zombies in that case, but this game takes the old that fans liked about Black Ops series and adds new to that, without removing the old. As it goes for the Cold WarCall of duty: Black ops cold war takes the old and adds new, unlike black ops 4 where that game took the old that worked that people liked and replaced it for the sake of making something brand new, I'm mostly referring to the zombies in that case, but this game takes the old that fans liked about Black Ops series and adds new to that, without removing the old. As it goes for the Cold War theme and the story.
    I really want to sit down and ask few questions to the people who made the story, ask them things like what they were going for and what message, are they trying to put out if any. I get a few hints in mind. And if it's true I think it's really bad for this game series. The multiplayer can be fun while keeping with the games theme and even giving you an introductory cutscene just it starting up to add to the set theme, but particularly in the multiplayer I don't like the animations in this game. I don't know if it's because I've been spoiled with the motion capture from on MW and there feel for realistic looking
    but fast gameplay they went for. But if I go play Black Ops 3 zombies for some reason I like the animations better. I have a theory that it cold war uses the game engine from Black Ops 4, and I didn't like how that game felt, and a lot of people didn't, as I've heard. As I was playing through the campaign i was thinking about this the whole time but didn't want to admit it but I'm going to admit it.... The reason why they called Black ops and why Hudson woods and Mason are in the game.. they pulled a Disney...you know like other new Star wars movie had all the old characters in it but they were not themselves and we're not involved in the main plot? Basically what they did it feels it me... Little throwbacks here and there but they pulled a Disney it feels like..... Maybe that's why they didn't cast the original voice actor for woods, he probably would have been pissed off like mark hamill was with Luke in The last Jedi. Look... nostalgia....is a good powerful, almost like a drug for the brain, and it helps give a happy feeling, a lot of people loved the original characters and there were bits of them in Black Ops 4, but it seemed like there was a trick for using nostalgia in a way to buy the characters, or the game. what I'm saying is like I tried to explain earlier I feel like they made a "Disney clickbait". If the original crew were not teased in the trailers in this game then not called Black Ops. I don't think it wouldn't have been as popular and I don't think much people would have bought it if it wasn't for them being in the game. They're nothing like themselves, of course they may not sound like them, but from what I know they could have got woods his voice actor easily but they didn't, and for some reason they got a guy who sounds like he's trying to sound like the previous voice actor.... why? I understand that their previous title did not go so well (Black Ops 4). But to bring back, beloved characters from the dead, so to speak, just to have the nostalgia feeling kickin so people would buy your game, then for them to be completely different. Why would you do that?I know people would complain to me and say that's what the new modern warfare did but the new modern warfare reimagined the whole Modern Warfare trilogy, but in modern times. This game, tried to put itself between black ops 1 and 2 story.. But they treated their characters like if they reimagined them? they added bits and histologia to keep you going, there's multiple endings and there's one that makes me question what's the point of this games story? Matter of fact, I think they all do that, and the thing with these Call of Duty games. The theme is the story, and the setting, and if the story is good. The rest of the game feels and looks good. If the theme is trash. The rest of it all falls apart (zombies and multiplayer). To be brutally honest, I'm upset that they didn't try to get james C. Burns To play Woods again, as they did before. It makes sense if you were reimagining the story like Modern Warfare but they didn't, I want to know the truth of why they did not try to get him. Imagine how you made James feel, how you made the fans feel. I've seen a bunch of clips on YouTube of him acting, a bunch of interviews, and that's woods right there. you can't put the body of his character in people's views for nostalgia to get them to buy your game. Maybe that's not what they did. I don't know but that's how I feel and I feel horrible... I feel worse Wondering how James feels. Short summary there is fun to be had with this game, especially the zombies.
    But the theme for both multiplayer, and zombies the bad story and it makes the rest of the experience feel bad. Just like it would in any other Call of Duty game. Not trying to be a hater but this this reminds me of black ops 4, sometimes beloved characters should be put to rest instead of brought out of their grave and treated like this. Master Chief is a great example    … 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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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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