Hot Take: Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War

A conversational review of the biggest game of 2020

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War was arguably the biggest game of last year, as CoD games always are. In effort to make our review stand out — and be more interactive with you — we’ve opted to try something a little different. We asked Quest to tweet out his thoughts about the game, allowing you all to chime in to his thoughts as you please.

Hey, I'm late with a review. I have some thoughts about Black Ops Cold War. I think the campaign is actually really phenomenal. Each of the missions are different from one another and offer some unique and borderline experimental gameplay. 1/12
— Zach Quest (@okayquest) February 5, 2021

Here, Zach takes about the shortness of the campaign:

While the campaign is good it is also rather short at 5 hours. But it's just a great experience from start to finish. The production quality is of course out of this world. The clothing, motion capture and environments are stunning. The sound design is top notch as always. 2/12
— Zach Quest (@okayquest) February 5, 2021

The three portions of the game play very differently, almost like completely unique, albeit disjointed, experiences:

Shout outs to the shotgun in this one though, that shit is LOUD. Since the game is pretty much separated into three different parts, Zombies, Campaign and Multiplayer. It feels weird viewing them all as a whole in my eyes because each of them play drastically different. 3/11
— Zach Quest (@okayquest) February 5, 2021

The game’s multiplayer may be lacking a bit:

The elephant in the room is the multiplayer. On a mechanical level it worse than the other modes. Guns just feel wrong. The map designs aren't as open like Modern Warfare's and come across as feeling like you're constantly in a corridor being gunned down. 5/11
— Zach Quest (@okayquest) February 5, 2021

The MMR seems to be the big issue with Multiplayer:

Skill based MMR (Matchmaking Rating) has actually ruined the game. At launch the game implemented an MMR system that is in EVERY playlist. Not only was their a competitive MMR system in the game at launch but there was NO competitive playlist at all. 8/11
— Zach Quest (@okayquest) February 5, 2021

Feel free to read all of Zach’s tweets in the thread, and let us know if you agree or not.

This review is based on a PC code sent to SideQuesting by the publisher.

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