This new entry returns to the essence of the series roots, a more cartoonish run and gun experience with the multiplayer resulting in less camping and more essential arcade fast-paced action we’ve come to expect. However, it’s also very shaky and plagued with problems that need to be addressed quickly. On the other-hand, the campaign in the same streamline of the black ops storyline is excellent once again and zombies rocks like always bringing many new things to the table. A very welcome addition!

Well, another year, another Call of Duty, and this year's offering largely lives up to the "good but not great" expectations modern Call of Duty has been achieving.

On a campaign front, we see a general improvement of the formula from previous games. Cold War's campaign is easily better than Modern Warfare's (the 2019 one, because we have to distinguish that now because people can't make up snappy subtitles for their games), but it doesn't reach the heights of some of the heavy-hitter campaigns of the Black Ops lineage let alone other campaigns made from Infinity Ward. As keeping with my tradition, I finished the campaign on Veteran difficulty, and this one was remarkably easy to complete, even compared to Modern Warfare 2019, which was pretty easy, already.

Anyway, the story is pretty fun, has a lot of cool moments, and sees some original and fun twists on the formula that the series has really needed for years. Again, the campaign isn't a masterpiece by any means, but it's still really good.

Multiplayer is another story. While I've been one to be rather lukewarm on CoD multiplayer despite playing way too much of it, Cold War feels largely the same as Modern Warfare's multiplayer, which works, but it's nothing fantastic. I have my complaints about weapon balancing and so forth, but my largest issue comes from crossplay, which greatly puts PC players at a severe disadvantage compared to console players. Balancing between the different versions of the game is an expected feature, but Cold War throws the scales in a direction that's extremely frustrating, since console players are given auto-aim so generous, it's simultaneously hilarious and frustrating. Even if you're someone like me and has gotten used to playing all your shooter games with a mouse and keyboard, you'll probably just want to pick up the console versions of these games going forward if you want to play a more "balanced" multiplayer experience.

Lastly, there's zombies, which is a general small evolution from what was before; nothing amazing, but fun. I'm yet to play with friends, but with the few matches I've had, the first map for the mode is pretty fun to play around with, while retaining a lot of the wacky charm and crushing difficulty one expects from the mode.

Overall, Cold War is a decent game package. It will not revolutionalize CoD going forward, but will increasingly take the series in the baby-steps fashion of possibly getting back up there with some of the franchise's stapled entries. If we see that day come to pass, it would be extraordinarily refreshing, but I'm not holding out any hope that the series will evolve passed this point. CoD has stagnated in quality for a long while, now; floundering from absolutely terrible to a decent time, with little in-between, and Cold War takes the later approach, overall. Just like last year's Modern Warfare, though, I'm doubtful that I'll retain interest in this game for long even with free expansion content coming down the line.

Compared to Modern Warfare 2019, this one was a bit of a letdown. That's not to say it's bad, or anything. It has a lot of redeeming qualities that make it worth a purchase. It just has some features that I thought were executed poorly in comparison to its predecessor. First off, the gun customization is VERY linear and shallow. Basically every gun has the same attachments and upgrades, and most of the attachments rely entirely on picking the one with the best stats. Compare that to Modern Warfare 2019, which had a fuckton of attachments and perks to choose from for every weapon. Also, the gunplay just isn't as satisfying as it was in Modern Warfare 2019. It's a minor gripe, but Modern Warfare 2019's guns felt so much more realistic and immersive in comparison. Now that we have that out of the way, let's get to the positives: the campaign is great. One of the best CoD campaigns since Modern Warfare 2. Pretty much zero levels that I would consider weak. Oh, and they brought zombies back, and it's just as fun as ever. Plenty of weapons and perks, working your way up towards upgrading your guns feels great, and a bunch of easter eggs. As for the multiplayer, it has ups and downs. The map design is infinitely better than Modern Warfare 2019's infamously godawful map design. I also prefer the scorestreak mechanic in this one, as your streak doesn't reset upon death. This makes it so scorestreaks actually feel obtainable for people who aren't experienced enough to get 12 kills in one life. But unfortunately, that's where one of my biggest gripes comes into play. Any CoD player knows that most of the high-level scorestreaks/killstreaks in the series are air-based, such as the attack helicopter, napalm strike, and of course, the gunship. HOWEVER, an overwhelming majority of the maps take place mostly in indoor settings, making most of these streaks completely ineffective. You don't know pain until you finally get an attack helicopter on the Moscow map, but don't get a single hit because all of your enemies are indoors. It's a BAD combination. But aside from those flaws, it's worth a purchase for any fans of the series.
7.3/10

Bro decided to pick up MW2 so I'm done playing Cold War

Don't care much for COD Campaign's so I only did MP for this one and it's alright. A step down from MW2019 in some ways but other mechanics felt good. Definitely liked the Cold War spin on things more than the modern aesthetic. Overall a solid experience that will probably survive longer than Vanguard

7.5/10

Valoraré solo el modo campaña para quien le interese, este COD trata sobre la guerra fría entre EEUU y la Unión Soviética, hace mucho que no me divertía tanto con un juego de disparos, es frenético sin tiempo para aburrirte, también tiene algún toque de buscar pistas y darle al coco que de vez en cuando viene bien y en un juego de "espías" es lo que toca, de los gráficos poco puedo decir tremendos la ambientación podría ser mejor y el apartado musical mejorable, pero queda una campaña bastante buena y de las mejores de los últimos años de esta saga.

pretty much Modern Warfare, but made by treyarch so it has alot more shit, whether you like it or not. At the end of the day people usually are Treyarch loyalists of Infinity Ward loyalists. Ive played both companies games since world at war extensively.

This game really just is the culmination of all the goods and bads into a cod game, and fine tuned. Its got that fast paced 2014-2018 COD game feel, but the gunplay is actually nice now, pretty great maps, and without a doubt, the most ambitious COD campaign ever.

Id say pick it up when its like 40 bucks, and if you still enjoy Modern Warfare 2019, prob just play that.

Look COD has always been a guilty pleasure of mine. I’ve never thought any of the games were great, but my favorite ones have always been dumb, hilarious, and at least somewhat fun. This one ticked all the boxes for a cheesy, dumb as shit adventure that was actually enjoyable. Never cared for multiplayer and Zombies hasn’t been fun since BO2 for me but the campaign managed to hold my attention despite its identity still being similar to past titles. So as a COD game it’s good, as a game it’s fine. So, let’s meet in the middle.

5/10| *6/10 Now after forcing myself to get used to the Actually nah it's shit 4/10| Fucking whatever 5/10


Campaign: Ok, nothing special. I enjoyed the CIA MKUltra goonfuckery aspect of it. Really the only part of this game I enjoyed.

MP: Meh, feels like black ops 4 except they got rid of some of the fluff and just copied MW2019 in some design aspects
-Soundwhoring: They made footsteps loud as fuck to almost encourage that kind of play
-Field Upgrades: They got rid of specialist abilities and put this in instead. While they are a different array of abilities from what's offered in MW2019, they still just reused the concept.
-Gunsmith: Just the same shit as MW2019 except with seemingly less thought put into it
Also has horrid map design.
I'd also like to mention that this game has SBMM like MW2019 did, the problem with this though is that when this game first came out, I did adequately enough and have like a 1.27 K/D overall. Due to this, in the offchance that I hop back in this to try a game or two, every single game I play is filled with the sweatiest motherfuckers, fuckheads that take overkill so they can stack two ADS minmaxed sniper rifles. So not only do I play a game I don't exactly enjoy, I also am playing against corny bastards that actively make me hate the game even more

Zombies: I have not liked zombies since BO2, this has not changed since playing BOCW
Piss easy up until like 10-15 rounds in depending on the map.
Onslaught mode seemed interesting but its shit, most of the retards playing online are constantly split apart so chances are you never actually get to run into too many zombies at once, and due to it just using ground war maps you have an almost infinite sandbox to train zombies in. If you get downed in this mode, chances are its cause you blew your own ass up or fell from a substantial height. Boring

Overall its a disappointment.


2/17: Played it some more, its enjoyable enough. Still a rushed product though

6/8: Played it some more again, it's shit. Zombies is only good to burn maybe 40 minutes. Its like if you want to play a game and still be bored but at least be doing something while bored.

11/14: Worst CoD I've played in a while but it's serviceable, nothing more than that. Hopefully that's the last edit I ever make to this text.