Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War review: Campaign, Multiplayer, Zombies, Warzone, Graphics, and Sounds.


Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is a 2020 first-person shooter video game. This game was developed by Treyarch and Raven Software and published by Activision. It is the sixth installment in the Black Ops series and the seventeenth installment in the overall Call of Duty series. 

Serving as the direct sequel to Call of Duty: Black Ops and the direct prequel to Call of Duty: Black Ops II, the game was released on November 13, 2020. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War directed by Dan Vondrak and written by David Goyer and Brent Friedman. 

The composer is Jack Wall and this game was created by IW Engine. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is available for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X. Black Ops Cold War will feature cross-play across all platforms and generations. The cross-gen edition of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is exactly what it sounds like you get one copy for the PS4 and another for the PS5. 


Will Black Ops Cold War Have Warzone? 


Warzone players will begin seeing new Black Ops Cold War content coming to all modes of the Call of Duty Battle Royale experience, including a variety of exciting content indicated in the Roadmap image. 

Black Ops Cold War will expand on Warzone as it currently exists. The studio has yet to reveal much about its plans beyond that, but we know all characters, weapons, and other progression-related items will carry over from Modern Warfare. Cold War may introduce a new Warzone map, though Treyarch has yet to confirm those plans. 

The only update the developer has confirmed is the addition of Cold War-specific “themes, locations, weapons, and vehicles.” As mentioned above, Warzone will share a Battle Pass with multiplayer and Zombies.


Can we Prestige again Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War?

The ability to Prestige is back in Black Ops Cold War, giving players something to do after reaching the top rank. Prestige works a piece diversely in Black Ops Cold War. Players still level up to rank 55. 

Once there, the option to Prestige becomes available. Unlike the previous Call of Duty titles with a Prestige option, players do not lose unlocked weapons, attachments, and other earned rewards. 

Black Ops Cold War focuses on a Seasonal Prestige system. This allows Prestige progress to stay intact across multiple Black Ops Cold War seasons, once they go live. 


Will Black Ops Cold War have zombies?


Activision’s Treyarch studio has once again delivered a Zombies mode in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is now available across all platforms and players are enjoying the new Zombies experience. But the new Zombies mode is only available in the Cold War and isn’t a standalone free.


How many GB is Black Ops Cold War?

The 175 GB number is for all of Black Ops Cold War’s modes. For players with the beefiest of PCs who want to play Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War with 4K textures, that’ll swallow up 250 GB of storage space.


Will Black Ops Cold War have multiple Endings?

The game team had the idea for multiple endings at the start of development. Deciding there would be multiple endings later in the process might have led to some issues, he said. 

The team got help from Batman movie writer David Goyer, who also worked on the original Black Ops, and the story aims to pay homage to the first game and the sequel Black Ops 2, which also had multiple endings. 

These endings were determined based on a few choices you made throughout the game, which could see characters live or die and even prompted an appearance from talk show host Jimmy Kimmel.


Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War: Campaign

Campaign mode returns to the sub-series with a direct sequel to Black Ops 1. Protagonists Alex Mason, Frank Woods, and Jason Hudson return for a 1980s Cold War-inspired story of geopolitical drama and conspiracy. 
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is set during the Cold War in the early 1980s. The story is propelled by actual events and the campaign features locations for example East Berlin, Vietnam, Turkey, and the Soviet KGB headquarters. 
Players can create a custom character for the campaign, codenamed Bell, with options for different skin tones, ethnic backgrounds, and genders, as well as different personality traits that provide in-game perks. We can Play Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. So I wrote a comparison between PS5 vs Xbox Series X and you can read it by clicking here.
You’ll play as a customizable character who teams up with Mason, Woods, Hudson, and CIA operative Russell Adler to stop a “global terrorist threat.” The campaign will feature at least one real-life historical figure: U.S. President Ronald Reagan, who steps out of the uncanny valley to task your team of operatives with unmasking a Soviet spy known as Perseus. The campaign will have multiple endings, reliant on the player’s decision all through the campaign. 

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War: Multiplayer


The setting of Multiplayer takes place in 1983, 2 years after Perseus attacks the Western countries. As Perseus emerges from hiding once more to wage war with the Western countries, global elite operators representing NATO and the Warsaw Pact countries engage each other in combat throughout various operations. 

Cold War will bring back staple Call of Duty multiplayer modes like Team Deathmatch, Domination, Hardpoint, Free-for-All, Kill Confirmed, and Search & Destroy, as well as Control from Black Ops 4. Treyarch is adding three new modes.

VIP Escort: A 6v6 mode where “teams take turns to protect or eliminate a player randomly selected as the VIP equipped with only a pistol, a smoke grenade, and a Spy Plane for recon. 

To win, the VIP has to successfully escape at one of two extraction sites on the map as their teammates defend them at all costs. The round ends when the VIP dies or gets away, or when one of the teams is wiped out.”
  • Combined Arms: 12v12 matches featuring a wide range of vehicles, from snowmobiles and dirt bikes to gunboats and tanks.
  • Fireteam: A unique 40-player mode in which 10 teams of four battle on large-scale maps and try to complete a variety of objectives.

The Create-a-Class system from Modern Warfare returns, with two major differences: field upgrades are implemented as part of class load-outs, and each class has a wildcard choice out of four possible ones: Gunfighter, Perk Greed, Danger Close, or Lawbreaker. 

Gunfighter allows up to 8 primary weapon attachments, Perk Greed allows 2 perks from each perk type for a total of 6 usable perks, Danger Close is a piece of double grenade equipment and Lawbreaker allows mixing and matching any weapon/perk type in any slot.  

It will also support cross-platform play and cross-platform progression. In addition, the progression system for multiplayer will be integrated with Call of Duty: Warzone, meaning that gears and weapons unlocked in the Cold War can be used in Warzone and Modern Warfare and vice versa.



Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War: Zombies

Following the events of “Tag der Toten”, the sacrifice of the two groups Primis and Ultimis resulted in the end of the Aether multiverse, while a new singular world is created in its place. However, elements from the Dark Aether dimension begin to leak into the new world.

In 1983, CIA operative Grigori Weaver is contacted by Samantha Maxis, a German BND operative who provides him with secret KGB intelligence. He learns from Sam that the Omega Group, a Russian research team, is investigating a Polish facility codenamed Projekt Endstation where a zombie outbreak happened. 

Weaver assembles a response team, codenamed Requiem, consisting of various global elite operators, and sends them to the facility to follow up on Sam’s intelligence.

Black Ops Cold War Zombies features a replacement storyline titled “Dark Aether” which expands on the first Aether story, concluded in Black Ops 4, while also trying to the most narrative of the campaign. 

rather than playing as predefined characters, players can combat the role of Operator characters from Multiplayer, as a part of a CIA response team codenamed “Requiem”. 

Progression and load-outs from Multiplayer are shared with Zombies, as players are ready to use any weapon to start out a Zombies match, alongside Gunsmith, scorestreaks, and field upgrades, in additionally to returning mechanics like wall buys, the Mystery Box, Pack-a-Punch, and past Fan Favorite Perks. 

For the primary time in Zombies, players can prefer to “exfil” the map, which can put them during a difficult wave with increased enemy spawn that they need to survive before they will escape. 

Collectible lintels also are scattered around the playable maps, allowing players to stay track of and unfold the most story as they progress. A replacement game mode, Zombies Onslaught, is introduced exclusively to PlayStation players until All Saints’ Day, 2021. 

During this mode, which is played within Multiplayer maps, up to 2 players defend areas grounded off by the Dark Aether orb, which must be powered by zombie kills. Sufficient kills will move the orb to new positions, forcing the players to maneuver or die outside of the orb’s protection zone. 



Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War: Graphics

The main campaign looks solid with deep jungles, dilapidated government buildings, snowy mountains, and high-speed chases all playing out with slick realism. because it stands the multiplayer and zombie modes aren’t anywhere near as attractive, but we’re hoping patches and more stabilized servers will address that soon.




Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War: Sounds

The game’s voice cast doesn’t quite meet the lofty bar set by the first Call of Duty: Black Ops from 2010, including Gary Oldman, Ed Harris, and Sam Worthington, but the new actors do a really solid job of delivering the script and threading in much gentle humor. 

Plus there is a suitably epic score, and many of era-appropriate tracks to immerse you within the Cold War setting, including Norman Greenbaum’s Spirit in the Sky, and ‘Magic Carpet Ride’ by Steppenwolf.

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