call of duty: black ops cold war multiplayer review

The Cold War wasn’t the traditional kind of war that saw soldiers fighting on the battlefield, but rather a political battle for intelligence and power. It definitely leaves a rough first impression, but once that’s all done, it’s easy to how the game brings together some of the franchise’s best studios (Treyarch, Raven, and Beenox) to deliver a true culmination of the franchise’s best elements.įor the second time in the series, players are taken into the tense paranoia of the Cold War – where the rules of combat changed, and the world was left holding their breath in fear of ultimate destruction. So even when you’re done downloading the multiplayer, you still can’t get in because of the updates.

It’s frustrating how you’re not only downloading main parts of the game, but on top of that you’re also dealing with big updates to download. It is nice that you can pick which multiplayer mode you want to download first but downloading the campaign through three separate downloads is just mind-boggling and takes forever. As someone who’s internet connection isn’t the best, downloading this game was a royal pain in the ass. Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War_20201127153026įirst and foremost, it has to be said that the game initially got off on a bad foot for me in regards to how Activision handles installing the game. However, the franchise always manages to find ways to reinvent itself and there’s no better showing of that than Black Ops Cold War. Only adding a battle royale mode called Warzone recently, there have become three core components that players have come to expect from a Call of Duty game: a cinema-caliber campaign, an expansive and competitive multiplayer mode with all the hits, and an ever-expanding zombies mode with a crazy and complicated easter egg to uncover. The newest iteration to the franchise, Black Ops Cold War, is not only the sixth Black Ops game, but the seventeenth in the mainline franchise if you don’t count Warzone as its own thing.įor a series that’s now delivering its seventeenth iteration, it’s really been using the same formula since its fifth iteration – Call of Duty : World at War. We were debating about how many CoD games there have actually been and it’s crazy to think that the series is well into double digits. Just the other day when my friend and I were talking over PlayStation getting ready to jump into the new Call of Duty. Editor’s Note: All photos in this review are screengrabs from reviewer’s actual gameplay.

Call of duty: black ops cold war multiplayer review