Call of Duty: Black Ops 6

As much as I scoff when the annual COD rolls around I will admit I have a soft spot for the Black Ops entries. Most of them outside of maybe the 3rd and 4th entries are pretty good. The first will always be my favorite followed by the 2nd and I think dare I say the 6th entry here might be in my top 3 Black Ops campaigns to date. It gets the A for effort at the very least for trying to mix things up and not just have a completely guns blazing experience. Some missions felt like they were extracted and ripped straight from a F. E. A. R. video game, mixing in elements of suspense and even horror tropes which I thoroughly appreciated. There were even some lite puzzle solving in some of the more slower paced suspenseful levels while other levels when slowing things down felt like you were playing a Mission Impossible or Ocean's 11 style heist mission. And the final set of missions kept teetering back and forth between the high octane action and mysterious segments which I thought were pretty cool. Overall if you are curious about the COD campaign in between the online fray I'd say this is definitely worth a peek and since it's only the usual 6-8 hours to complete it can be blown through in a single weekend. Thanks Game Pass. 68 billion well spent Microsoft.

The campaign was pretty damn good. Multi-player is HORRENDOUS with lag even with lowered graphic settings. The store has many bugs that Activision hasn't fixed yet so don't waste your Cod Points or cash until it's fixed. SBMM is a mixed bag too. Some days you're golden. Others it's cancer. A few hackers too. Idk if cod does anything with reports but you at least can block them. I hope they fix servers to handle the game because it's great otherwise, even solo Zombies lags like a beast. Good luck trying to be a completionist if they don't fix the servers because I seriously can not stress how bad servers are lol but at least overall it's ALMOST a return to classic style black ops.

Been playing Black ops since it first came out in 2010 and zombies is not what it used to be, now in 2024 no barrier windows and spawn in with any gun you like, maps are huge, enemies are too hard and have Armour the zombies just wasn't good it was terrible, it went bad after Black ops 3, BO 4 Zombies was okay and then Cold War came out and the zombies was just bad! Zombies was terrible! The only good thing about this game was the campaign but that was short and complete it in a few hours, multiplayer I don't really play online so I am not including this in the review played a few games and that seemed okay. I recommend treyarch goes back to the original black ops1 / world at war style zombies so much better and recommend bringing the original round changing sounds and the hell hounds, this game wasn't bad but the zombies was disappointing to say the least!

It has been 5 years since I bought a Call of Duty so close to its release date, so I thought I would dive into the newest Call of Duty which is Black Ops 6. When I was younger, I loved the first two Black Ops games and I have recently played Cold War, so hopefully this game can live up to all its hype and deliver. The premise of the game sees Woods & Adler assemble a new team in an attempt to take down a new rogue enemy called The Pantheon.

Characters So in this game you play as Case, an operative of the CIA and unfortunately just like Black Ops: Cold War he is a silent protagonist. I complained about it there and I will do the same here as I really do find it hard to connect to a silent character and I just wish a voice actor could have been found. They do some things to try and make him interesting but it isn't enough and it is a shame that this isn't a memorable protagonist.

Luckily, the rest of the cast are great. Damon Victor Allen reprises his role as Frank Woods and Bruce Thomas reprises his role as Russel Adler and both are great. Adler does take a bit of a step back and isn't as vital here, but he still plays a decent part in the game and I really like the character. This game is set after the events of the past storyline in Black Ops 2 meaning a lot has happened to Woods and I really liked how the game handled that issue and made Woods feel like a more sympathetic character.

Y'lan Noel Plays Troy Marshall and he is a great new character in the franchise. He is the de-facto leader of the new team and I liked how he struggled to handle it sometimes but was also a strong character. He was just a cool addition to the game and a great new protagonist.

Karen David plays Sevati Dumas & Seamus Dever plays Felix Neuman and these are also great members of this team. Sevati is a trained assassin but has a bit of a tragic past and struggles with the fact that she is good at her job. Felix is struggling with causing violence and this moral dilemma is bought up quite a lot and it is something new for a character in a Call of Duty game.

Story The story is definitely a tale of two halves. Firstly, I really liked the team dynamic and the interactions between your squad mates, it made the world feel alive and that these characters were developing throughout. The missions are mostly really fun and I will credit the game developers for adding some real variety here and showing they really cared about this campaign. But this game overdoes it at times and doesn't feel like a COD game, it seems like it loves Zombies so much that they wanted to put it in the campaign too and it was really overused here. The ending is also really weak and feels completely out of place, focusing on a secondary character that isn't even that interesting.

Side Content This game has absolutely loads of content here and it is once again a bit of a mixed bag. The online multiplayer is fantastic, I have maybe never had so much fun on a Call of Duty as I have had on this one when it comes to online. It does have some lag issues but it didn't hinder me too much and hopefully that will get sorted as the future content is released.

Also Zombies is back and to probably nobody's surprise, I didn't really care for it. They have just really commercialised Zombies and it doesn't have the same grit as it did before, it is all over the place and the story offers very little. I appreciate, I am in the minority in terms of not caring for zombies but I just can't deny that I am not a fan.

Gameplay The gameplay is fantastic, as I mentioned above I had some much fun playing this game. It had that feeling of 1 more game, I couldn't stop playing and that is because of how fast it moved, how good the weapons are and how much I enjoyed the majority of the new maps. The issues I had with Cold War are mostly gone for me and this is just so much fun to play.

Graphics The game looks fantastic on the PS5, it is a huge upgrade on Cold War and the characters look fantastic. The backgrounds are great too with the maps standing out from each other and all adding their own little bit of flavour. The weapons are also really well realised, they sound great and the game allows you to design it to your own desire.

Overall Overall, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is a good game. It improve its graphics and gameplay and shows potential in its campaign. But it falls a little short in being this legendary shooter and that is a slight shame. Hopefully Call of Duty takes all the good things they did here and look to build on that for its eventual sequels.

Rating - 7/10.

Modern Warfare 3 (2023) was an unsuccessful addition to the Call Of Duty franchise and so for the first time, I did choose not to buy this Call Of Duty game before it was released. Every year I pre-order. However, after being so disappointed with the last entry, I did not have high hopes for this new one. I heard it was going on the Xbox game pass and so I chose to try and give it a go! I thought it was going to be bad. I was proven wrong!

I managed to complete the campaign yesterday and I was really impressed! The narrative was unique. The story was intriguing. The involvement of horror elements worked well. The gameplay mechanics were smooth. Overall, I felt the campaign was really enjoyable!

The multiplayer was such an improvement over MW3's multiplayer! The maps are so much better! There is more variation when it comes to locations and environments. The omnidirectional movement works really well, making the game feel more fast paced and satisfying and the lobby music / soundtrack is awesome! Reminds me of Blacks Ops 2.

I have not played the zombies yet. However, my fondness for this game is so high, that i'm actually looking forward to playing it!

I was concerned last year for the Call Of Duty franchise. MW3 was such a disappointment that I was worried that maybe the franchise had had its day. Black Ops 6 has genuinely surprised me! It's a good game guys. Give it a go! You won't be disappointed this time!