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. Lukas121
    Apr 14, 2021
    1
    This game was the most buggiest and constant frame drops randomly audio bugs and game crashing

    Would not suggest buying this game in 2021 for pc.

    Do not buy this trash game in 2021.
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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.
  7. Hotel1775
    Oct 28, 2021
    1
    Fairly mediocre compared to MW (2019), unless you like getting kicked in the nuts.
  8. 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.
  9. Kaspian
    Dec 25, 2020
    0
    Terrible graphics and even worse physics. After MW2019 which was pretty good - this is like 10 years back!

    Don't buy this $h1t!
  10. A100BRONIES
    Nov 26, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. To summarize how I feel about this game, I will summarize it with a meme. "Our expectations for you were low, but HOLY F*CK!" The campaign is short and boring, and the fan favorite characters Mason and Woods, aren't even the main focus. Instead you play as "yourself" codenamed as "Bell" and do random missions that wouldn't even grab the attention of a 5 year old with adhd. Then with the multiplayer, there is only 6 maps at launch. Six, that's it. A  couple weeks later and they finally add Nuketown. Somehow they thought it was a good idea to take a map that was a launch map in every other Black Ops title, and make it a bonus if you buy the game by December 3rd, but not actually make it playable until November 24th when the game released on the 10th of November. But that's just the tip of the iceberg. The 6 launch maps are pure trash. Not a single one is good or fun. The weapon balance for the game? Well that's out the window. If you wanna do well with the horrendous SBMM, then you better slap on a SMG or a Tactical rifle such as the Aug or M16. Because every else is a joke. Hell, at this point this game isn't the clown, it's the entire circus.… Expand
  11. madxskillxgamer
    Dec 20, 2020
    0
    Everyone who bought this game thinking they were gonna be able to play the multiplayer with kb/m deserves a refund Treyarch has gimped it on purpose and made aim assist aimbot.
  12. Bevan
    Mar 3, 2021
    0
    The multiplayer is ruined by snipers with aim assist. Before you see them you are dead. Not to mention how bad the game feels and runs as a whole. DO NOT BUY.
  13. 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
  14. ferrit
    Nov 26, 2020
    0
    Game hard crashes my series x after no more than 5 minutes. Worst release for a long time.
  15. Renton577
    Mar 5, 2021
    0
    Call of Duty has reached an all time low with this installment, I've only played the game through free weekends so I have experience with all content but the campaign. This installment is a joke, not only is it a scummy, recycled garbage, money grab but now they have thought it was a good idea to charge you $69.99 for the "next gen bundle" well I have a Series console and have played bothCall of Duty has reached an all time low with this installment, I've only played the game through free weekends so I have experience with all content but the campaign. This installment is a joke, not only is it a scummy, recycled garbage, money grab but now they have thought it was a good idea to charge you $69.99 for the "next gen bundle" well I have a Series console and have played both the Xbox One and Series version so let's go over that, minus the slightly lower resolution (and I do mean slightly) and textures being nicer in some places on the Series version there is almost no different, and actually the Series version has more bugs than the xbox one version. I've played call of duty since it fist started off and I've finally reached the point where I won't put any more of my money in, this game should be a free to play game with an optional $20 to $30 pricetag for the campaign. I don't want to pay full price for a game only to be bombarded by pop-ups for cosmetics and a season pass, I'll go play fortnite or apex for that where I don't have to pay any extra money unless I want to. It's time for call of duty to drift away into the sunset, I only wish Activision would have let it drift peacefully instead of strangling it dry for every last drop of cash it had left. This game is 100% deserving of this zero and is at the bottom of my all time game list, and sadly not even the zombies can save this one.… Expand
  16. antoniomit
    Nov 29, 2020
    0
    Terrible! El peor Call of duty sin duda. No entiendo como hacen sacar juegos solo por sacar.. El Modern warfare le da mil vueltas a este
  17. The_Ghosted_One
    Feb 14, 2021
    0
    This game is one of the worst call of duty games to date. They went all the way back to the arcaic system that we have had in call of duty past. Once again running through multiplayer levels with doors wide open. Sluggish if not snail like movements. Not something you would expect to see after the game changing modernwarfare release in 2019.i would rate this higher if the game was 15This game is one of the worst call of duty games to date. They went all the way back to the arcaic system that we have had in call of duty past. Once again running through multiplayer levels with doors wide open. Sluggish if not snail like movements. Not something you would expect to see after the game changing modernwarfare release in 2019.i would rate this higher if the game was 15 dollars like warface.… Expand
  18. sigma192
    Mar 23, 2021
    0
    Отвратительная игра. Её сделали люди, которые абсолютно не имеют понятия, что происходит в России и как люди здесь живут. Всё, что показано в этой игре про Россию - наглая ложь. Игра разжигает ненависть к России. Неадекватная и русофобская игра.Отвратительная игра. Её сделали люди, которые абсолютно не имеют понятия, что происходит в России и как люди здесь живут. Всё, что показано в этой игре про Россию - наглая ложь. Игра разжигает ненависть к России. Неадекватная и русофобская игра.
  19. DrezzyJackHD
    Nov 25, 2020
    0
    Im done with this franchise,i use to love COD but it just a waste of $60/$70 now.Im glad the Start screen at least look 4k cause thats mostly what on my TV,this game should break a record for the most time not played.The game is a waste of time,no way to get better for anybody because the lobbys break up,can't learn play styles or from your own mistake, if you had a bad game or playedIm done with this franchise,i use to love COD but it just a waste of $60/$70 now.Im glad the Start screen at least look 4k cause thats mostly what on my TV,this game should break a record for the most time not played.The game is a waste of time,no way to get better for anybody because the lobbys break up,can't learn play styles or from your own mistake, if you had a bad game or played people better than you and want to learn from the experience well thats to bad because you have to find a new lobby AFTER EVERY MATCH,it cool tho because im going back to Titan Fall 2 cause its way better than this **** show,TF2 even got a global player count they show.… Expand
  20. 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.
  21. JayHernan
    Dec 14, 2020
    0
    Bad graphics Bad mechanics
    Bad audio
    Bad multiplayer Bad price
    Super bad frame rate (interlacing). When you turn to look you literally see the frames as you’re turning. I’m on Xbox Series X. Modern Warfare does not have this problem. This is an immense downgrade from Modern Warfare 2019. I can’t believe I let my friends convince me to buy this game. Worst COD I’ve ever played.
  22. Alwai90
    Jan 25, 2021
    0
    what stupid game they did not even think to improve it
    i advice u to play only zombie other is sucks
  23. Digidro
    Mar 5, 2021
    0
    4.5 rubles, for constant bugs, crashes from the game EVERY session, inability to connect to the lobby. Also, without installing shaders, which lasts about 20 minutes, you will not be able to play from the word at all. And often it freezes, and you have to restart. The game's campaign is good, with a well-developed plot, great style, but few hours, which upsets me.
  24. jklas
    Nov 22, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. full of bugs crosshairs is flicking. And crash all the time. Can moving sometime locked… Expand
  25. Mikegold02
    Nov 19, 2020
    0
    Please don’t buy this game, it’s just another way of steal from activision, only have 8 maps for multiplayer , the zombies mode made a step back with the elimination of a lot of things and the campaign is basic
  26. Flo_PL
    Nov 22, 2020
    0
    I can't finish campaign, game keeps crashing (five attempts) in mission End of the Line on XsX. I have a lot crashes during the previous missions but in this one I can't go forward. I paid a full price for a low quality product which is broken, after few hours of playing. Shame on you Activision.
  27. WintersFrost
    Nov 18, 2020
    0
    Sonys paytowin Deal!!!!
    Not to be excused in a cross platform game.
    Compared to other CoDs, the fewest MP maps at the start. Just as much camping as in MW but less movement. Cod Black OPs feels as if you had ordered MW on wish.
  28. bilthebuket
    Dec 4, 2020
    0
    I have never hated a call of duty game quite like this one. The zombies is so ridiculously easy it might as well be a toddler's game. This game is the most rng based, no skill, kid-oriented game ever. I was so excited that a new black ops game was coming out, and it featured one of the best things about MW: gunsmith. But boy oh boy was I disappointed. Let's start with multiplayer.I have never hated a call of duty game quite like this one. The zombies is so ridiculously easy it might as well be a toddler's game. This game is the most rng based, no skill, kid-oriented game ever. I was so excited that a new black ops game was coming out, and it featured one of the best things about MW: gunsmith. But boy oh boy was I disappointed. Let's start with multiplayer.

    Starting with create a class, I have never seen customization that was so unnecessary like this. Gunsmith is not gunsmith. 95% of the attachments don't have an significant tradeoffs, which is the main point of gunsmith. Every single attachment adds little and doesn't take away anything, so what's the point? It MW, if you wanted to quickscope, you could dedicate all 5 attachments on your sniper to aim down sight speed. In black ops cold war, there's 1 attachment that helps aim down sight speed, and it only helps 5%. I personally love quickscoping, and this game is insulting. Just ask faze jev. The only reason to ever pick a sniper is if you want to be a hardscoping **** in search and destroy. If you want to quickscope, load up the wall hacks because your gonna have to pre aim a second in advance, without even knowing the person is there. Or you could use the Pellington, which is less consistent that the mk2 at 5,000 meters away. All of this ties back to Treyarch making this game for toddlers, because you don't have to put any thought into your attachments, and you don't have to worry about quickscopers, who would normally **** of little timmy. Now let's talk about time to kill and skill based matchmaking. If you don't want to sweat your **** balls off every single match, you better either play with your **** friend or pick a different game. It's so **** strong that you'll have 3 straight 0.5 k/d ratio games, then one game with a 3.0 k/d, then its back to 0.5. And this is even worse with time to kill. Call of duty typically has fast time to kill, with the exception of black ops 4. The problem with how long the time to kill is that if you engage more than one person at once, you're **** dead. In old games, you could react fast, laser one, take cover, and kill the other. But in this game, especially with how slow aim down sight speed is, you'll just **** die. Because of this, if you're not camping, you're not getting kills. Guess what's easier than playing run and gun: camping. Stop catering to **** nine year olds Treyarch. So what we have now is a multiplayer where customization means nothing, you can't quickscope, if you play well the game punishes you, and if you don't camp your not getting kills. Fun, right?

    Now lets talk about zombies. Me personally, I have played black ops one, black ops two, black ops 3, world war 2, and black ops cold war. Typically in tryarch zombies, if you go down in co-op, the only way to get back up is if your teammates complete the round or revive you. Either way, you lose all of your perks. If you bleed out completely and have to wait for the round to end, you'll lose your weapons as well. In solo, the only way to be revived is through quick revive, with some exceptions, but mostly only quick revive. Well in black ops cold war, you're pretty much invisible. So basically what your gonna do is spawn in with the knife, which can one shot zombies un packed unit around 14. Fair, right? Then your gonna get the gallo off the wall for 1200 points which is pretty much a wonder weapon. Off the wall. For 1200 points. If you play about 5 games you'll have enough atherium crystals to max out aether shroud, jug, and quick rievive. With these things maxed out you pretty much take 5 bottles of steroids. 250 health and aether shroud is the ultimate save me item. With tier 3 aether shroud you are teleported forward and aren't targeted by zombies for 10 seconds. So basically if you get cornered, you're fine. It has cool down yes, so you could argue if you get corened twice, you die right? Nope. Get yourself a chopper gunner with some salvage, which you'll be bathing in by round 15. Zombies won't target you while you use it, so another save me item. Not to mention you get to **** blast zombies with a beast in the sky. Ok, so if you use both, your dead right? Wrong again. Go buy yourself a self revive, which cost the same salvage you'll be rolling in by round 15. So if you go down, you can revive yourself. But you lose your perks right? Wrong, wrong, wrong. You lose 1. Only 1. And you can use this setup in co op as well, so basically there's infinite high rounds. And once you get to round 20, which isn't hard, getting the ray gun and die gun becomes incredibly easy. So basically any old noob can go in and become invisible, get infinite high rounds, and they won't even break sweat. They better release some maps that make it a whole lot harder, because its not fun when the game hands you everything on a silver platter.

    So all in all, black ops cod war takes the skill out of call of duty.    … Expand
  29. 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
  30. Ayaal
    Nov 16, 2020
    0
    очередной конвеер, все как всегда, купленная пресса, злые русские, добрые американцы и тд
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#13 Best 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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