The lack of focus leads to a lot of confusion and it’s absolutely pointless playing without a mic.

Unfortunately, it’s a bit of a muddle as although it’s similar to playing quads in Warzone you can respawn after a short wait and rather than just being the last team standing you’re trying to complete objectives (so it’s actually closer to Plunder). The objective-based Combined Arms is interesting but it’s the 40-player quasi-battle royale mode Dirty Bomb which is the most significant addition. Given Call Of Duty’s success, with Modern Warfare being especially popular, that’s understandable though and to be fair there are some attempts at innovation, beyond the de riguer returning modes. Given the state of Zombies it will not surprise you to find that the main multiplayer is also remarkably unchanged from the last few games, despite the change in time period from last year. But that doesn’t really help when Zombies itself is so unengaging and overfamiliar.Ĭall Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War multiplayer review Your progress across both modes now unlocks the same attachments, characters, and other items, in an attempt to stop everything from seeming like three completely different games in the same package. The only other change for Zombies is that for the first time you can use a loadout from the standard multiplayer, which means you can have a decent weapon from the start. It’s very hard but at least it’s different, and for that reason we found it more entertaining than the main mode. This involves you teaming up with one other player and constantly taking damage when outside of a small safe area created by a Crystal Chronicles style gem.

Some will no doubt be happy that the mode takes itself a bit more seriously than some entries – there are no David Hasselhoff cameos here – but the only additional content is the top-down Dead Ops Arcade, which we can’t believe anyone has ever cared about, and the PlayStation exclusive Onslaught mode. The Second World War setting makes no sense in the context of a game that’s literally called Cold War and it all seems terribly tired and half-hearted.

Zombies shows the most evidence of the game’s troubled development, with just a single map (a reimagined version the original Nacht Der Untoten from 2008) and missing features that were present in previous games (there’s no longer the option for computer-controlled allies if you want to play solo, for example).

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