Both games are 'boots-on-the-ground' but this year's is much faster and more chaotic. Matches are incredibly fast-paced and frenetic, and god help you if you're new to the series.Įven if you cut your teeth on last year's WWII, you'll find the speed in Black Ops 4 daunting. The 'boots-on-the-ground' gameplay may be less vertical than Black Ops 3, but it still feels faster and more insane. Now that Treyarch has dialed back movement systems and (mostly) balanced out the specialists, the game just plays and feels better all around.Įvery specialist has a valuable set of powers to lend to the match, whether you want to play a support role, a more defensive role or go on the offensive. Black Ops 3 had perfectly fine MP, but the double-jumping and wall-running never sat right with me, and the hero shooter elements never felt fully balanced. As a long-time player of this franchise, I can say that it's the best Treyarch multiplayer since Black Ops 2. See Also: 15 Things You Really Need To Know About 'Black Ops 4'Īll that aside-and why gnash our teeth over what the game isn't when we could talk instead about what it is?- Black Ops 4 is a fantastic shooter that's loads of fun.But it's not enough to justify buying the game if you mostly play for the campaign. In Black Ops 4, there's none of that beyond some tutorial missions with some (actually quite good) cut-scenes that, in a small way, help lend the specialists in MP some personality and backstory. Sure, Call of Duty campaigns rarely rise to true greatness, too rooted in bombast and linearity, but the campaign also helps ground the game's multiplayer, giving it a fiction to anchor the rest of the game to. (Meanwhile, I find I rarely get into Zombies mode, so this review will focus entirely on multiplayer and Blackout.) It's a guilty pleasure and a rarity in today's market: A blessedly short, AAA game, that you can finish in just a couple of sittings. But I play every single Call of Duty campaign start-to-finish. Most gamers don't finish the campaigns of any single-player games. Most Call of Duty gamers don't finish the campaign anyways. No, the missing single-player campaign does not ruin the game, not by a long shot.

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