![]() There are also two side missions that you don’t have to complete in the campaign. One of the early missions – the one featured in the aforementioned PS5 trailer – involves a super dramatic car chase slash gunfight on an airstrip, and that mission feels like it was pulled straight out of an 80s action movie. Most of the missions are really well executed but not especially creative, although I do have to give props to three missions in particular. It’s not the best campaign in Call of Duty or even the best campaign in the Black Ops sub-series, but man, it’s fun as hell. ![]() The campaign is where it’s at in my opinion, though. The maps are all pretty solid and well crafted for a variety of game types. Attachments are then unlocked by leveling up that weapon. The unlock tokens from WWII are gone (I didn’t play Black Ops 4 or the 2019 Modern Warfare, so I don’t know if they were in those games), so you unlock new weapons by just leveling up. 6v6 matches keep the action pretty constant and fun, and there are a ton of attachments to unlock on various weapons. The multiplayer doesn’t really do anything new, but it does the same old same old very well. I’ve not managed to find a game in Zombies yet, although I admittedly haven’t tried since the day the game came out I have, however, played the entire campaign and a good bit of multiplayer, and those are both rock-solid game modes. I’m just a little butthurt about the continued disrespect that single-player story modes are so often shown by first-person shooters, but at least they included one. I think they probably just said, “Most people ignore the campaign anyway, so screw it.” And, in all fairness, that’s a reasonable decision. I don’t know exactly what the size of each of the three-game modes is, so it could be that it had to be the campaign that got left off, but I find it unlikely. You already have to be online for multiplayer unless you’re playing with bots, so why not make that the download? Most people play Zombies online, so that could be the download. I understand the necessity to leave something off the disc as even triple-layer Blu-ray discs only have a capacity of around 100 GB whereas this game clocks in at 140 GB if memory serves, but what strikes me as odd is the fact that one game mode most likely to be played offline is the one game mode that they required a download for. The odd thing, though, and something that is definitely a frustration for me, is that while multiplayer and zombies are included on the disc, the campaign is not it requires a separate three-part download totaling nearly 60 GB. With that said, it makes sense that they played it pretty safe with Cold War you’ve got your fan-favorite multiplayer and zombies, but you’ve also got the campaign for us misanthropes who want to enjoy our video games free from the shackles of human interaction. On the other hand, I would argue that the exclusion of a campaign mode entirely with Black Ops 4 was a risk that I hated but review scores seemed to forgive. They took a risk a few years ago by returning to World War II, something that I personally thought “made Call of Duty great again,” to paraphrase the outgoing American president, but critics seemed to disagree with scores being a bit lower than previous entries. When I saw a game that involved Ronald Reagan telling me to go do war crimes against the Soviet Union, I turned to my roommate, Rome, and said, “Dude, this is a game I have to get day one.” Or something to that effect.Ĭold War doesn’t take a lot of risks, and that’s a mixed bag, in my opinion. Those who know me know that while I absolutely despise Ronald Reagan with every fiber of being, I also love Cold War thrillers with every fiber of my being. When I saw the trailer for Black Ops: Cold War in the PS5 presentation a few months ago, though, I was very excited. In the past, the only ones I’d gotten at launch were Black Ops III and Advanced Warfare, and that was because of the actors cast in the game. I admit that I’ve never been one to get Call of Duty games at launch. That’s why I refuse to touch Black Ops 4 with a ten-foot pole (also their insistence on stylizing it with Roman numerals but using the wrong numerals is unforgivable to an academic like me). Personally, I’m in that minority that plays for the story. Some (read: most) people play it for the multiplayer or the zombies mode. Call of Duty is a franchise that we all know, some of us love, and most of us are getting tired of in one way or another. Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War - PlayStation 5 - November 15
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