Of course, since this is a Black Ops game, nothing is as it seems, and things unfold quite dramatically as the game draws to a close, with a few fun twists and turns along the way.

The story is typical American bombast, with your Good Guy team led by a Robert Redford lookalike going after a slippery Russian agent who looks like a Communist Terminator to stop him from doing a Very Bad Thing that would harm the free world.

The awesome soundtrack helps, too.Ĭold War is a direct sequel to Black Ops 1, and takes place mostly in the 80s with a few flashbacks to the Vietnam War thrown in for good measure (and an excuse to tear up the Vietnamese countryside in a chopper). It’s gorgeous, the 80s nostalgia is strong (that hair!), it runs like butter, and it’s a lot of fun. A campaign as great as 80s hair is stupidĪfter not having a campaign in the last Black Ops game, this Black Ops makes up for it with a real cracker. Since it’s the best part, let’s talk about the single-player campaign of Black Ops Cold War first. Overall, I’d say this is a good effort, and a rock-solid Call of Duty. It’s nothing short of a miracle, then, that the game is only a little iffy.

Not to make excuses for its shortcomings, but there are legitimate reasons for this: the game’s development was tumultuous, with enough drama that Treyarch had to come in to take over from Sledgehammer and Raven (and this was even BEFORE the pandemic hit, which only complicated matters further), so the quality is understandably a little hit-and-miss. Ultimately, COD fans who buy the game specifically for multiplayer and/or Zombies and who don’t care for the single-player campaign might feel a little short-changed this year, as in my opinion the single-player campaign is the strongest aspect of Cold War’s overall package. In short: the campaign is really good, Zombies is a step forward from BLOPS4’s iteration by being a throwback to what made BLOPS3’s Zombies so popular, and the multiplayer is a bit hit and miss. Not all, because some parts of the offering are a bit lacking, but most. This year’s Black Ops Cold War offers a bit of everything to satisfy most Call of Duty fans’ desires.

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