Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War

The plot and story feels like the BO1 sequel we never got Gone are futuristic plots and high concept tech, instead we get a grounded mostly well written and performed Cold War piece of fiction, the vibe fits, it's beautiful to look at and plays well.

The writing is a massive step up and probably the best COD campaign in at least 4 years (IW had a great campaign and nothing else)

Level design is varied and intuitive and puzzle solving with random generated codes to crack to complete side ops adds a good layer of interactivity and makes you think.

This isn't a mindless shooter, it tries to push some new ideas and come cool concepts. While clearly bogged down by activision's rules for what they can do and the recasting of Mason and Wood's VA's is horrendous.

Overall it delivers what treyarch has not in 10 years

A quality and replayable campaign that can thoroughly grip the player from start to finish.

Good campaign with many different styles of mission and weapons good story action and characters. A enjoyable game. have not played the multiplayer so don't know about that.

A very fun game, one of the best parts of Call of Duty, the development of the story was wonderful and one of the best stories in Call of Duty. The problem of the phase of the story was short, the zombie phase was very bad, the multiplayer game was amazing and I really enjoyed the game, I recommend buying the game.

I was bought this game for Christmas.... And thank god I was!

Campaign: the campaign for me is a 10/10. At first I thought it was ridiculous; tackling Iranian terrorists in Berlin, killing Russians in Vietnam, a Rambo type called 'Woods'. However, as I battled my way through the KGB's very-own 'any-town USA', 'Hit me With Your Best Shot' being blasted into my ears, I realised that maybe COD was just trying to have fun. I ended up in love with it. Did not like the ending though.

Multiplayer: the multiplayer I found to be a 6/10. It's a lot of fun and I find it to be a casual experience, (no toxicity as of yet) however it is plagued by in-app purchases. What, I want to go on the battlefield as Rambo dressed in a ghillie suit made of risotto or something? No thanks! Not payed a penny and I'm fine.

Zombies: I give this a 9/10. Must I explain? Dude. It's zombies.

Remember when it used to be sort of an "event" whenever a Call of Duty game came out every year? I can't help but feel like this franchise is becoming almost an obligation for consumers to get every year just so they can say they've gotten it. The development of this was known to have been a mess and it really shows, and the fact gnat it was developed during a global pandemic did it no favors. The zombies mode here is among the most bland and banal to date, I don't understand how the zombies mode seems to get worse with every installment. The campaign is pretty great though, and the story it tells is a fun ride that harkens back to the goodness of Black Ops and Black Ops 2, and throws in the cool surreal aspects of Black Ops 3. The voice actors being changed for no real reason is somewhat lame. The multiplayer is the same thing you've played before, nothing has changed.

Can this franchise please take a year off? If Assassins Creed can do it I don't see why Call of Duty can't. The series is becoming over saturated. Activision has devalued all of its other franchises to focus on this one and when one of these not only "disappoints" but outright flops, I cannot imagine the catastrophic result that'll have on the company. Then again, considering the workplace culture they have, maybe they need just this sort of reckoning to change.