![]() A pair of battleships and a submarine are grouped together and you can zipline, swim or drive jet skis or patrol boats between them, setting up some awesome sniper and close-quarters battles once you get into the interior areas of the ships. The Armada map is far and away my favorite of the new group as it’s something I’ve never really seen. ![]() That’s five short of what Black Ops launched with, and perhaps more importantly, only a few of those maps really stand out as great. ![]() There are now nine multiplayer maps available after the release of Nuketown 84. So the question is what does Cold War’s multiplayer offer that Warzone does not? I have to say, at this moment, nothing that would cause me to recommend you run out to buy it for its multiplayer content alone.įirst of all, there isn’t a massive amount of content to speak of. In this case, the competition is found within the very same game. While there are always competing multiplayer titles to take away from your audience, it doesn’t traditionally come from the same publisher and within the same series. You can even launch directly into Warzone from the main menu in Cold War. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War: MultiplayerĪs I mentioned, multiplayer for Cold War arrives in an interesting environment with the existence of the incredibly popular and free-to-play Warzone still going strong. The mix of character options, varied missions across multiple time periods, and compelling, even if it is wild historical fiction, storytelling all add up to a thrilling way to spend a half dozen or so hours. Again, this is not something I have ever said about a CoD campaign. I’ll wrap up on the campaign by saying that I’m looking forward to going back through and giving it another shot. So yeah, there’s plenty of action-packed stuff too, which can be fun, but that never sticks with me after having played. ![]() That includes the opening (which appeared in every trailer) that has you gunning down everyone from the back of a jeep as you speed down a runway before deploying an R/C car with a remote detonator to thread between pursuit vehicles and disabling a plane before it takes off. Lest I lose all of the fans who are picking up Cold War looking for a traditional CoD game, don’t get me wrong, there are still massively over-the-top set pieces that have you unleashing hell upon everything around you. If you don’t want to pay any attention to the evidence, it won’t impact the main campaign, but I had a good time digging through both to help solve the side missions and see more bits of world-building. Here, you can either choose to continue along with the nine (sixteen if you include briefings) primary missions or dig a bit deeper with two side missions and the pieces of evidence that you can find throughout the game to help you complete those side missions. That includes the structure of selecting your missions, which is carried out through an evidence board in your safe house. This installment goes away from that and it makes for a much more interesting and compelling mix of gameplay. Typically, there is nowhere to go but along the path laid out for you and to shoot everything you see along the way. The CoD games may not be rail shooters (at least not most of the time), but they can start to feel that way. Depending on why you bought Cold War, the lack of gunplay may turn you off, but personally, this was one of my favorite parts of the game with elements of spycraft and a number of different choices to make regarding how you want to carry out your mission.
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