![]() Zombies at least stands on its own, and thus is less affected by the lack of a campaign this year. Instead of grenades you might have a grappling hook or a shield or even a dog buddy. Movement’s faster than in last year’s WWII, and Black Ops 4 brings back “Specialists” from the previous Black Ops game-basically hero-type character classes. Mechanically of course there are some Treyarch trademarks. None of it feels like “Oh yeah, Black Ops.” Some of them are repeats from previous games, but there’s no unified aesthetic. There’s one in some sort of luxury villa, one on a snowy mountain with a gondola, one set in Panama, one in the Vietnamese jungle, one in a little seaside bunker, a Far Cry 5-esque prepper compound with a bombed-out church. What I do know is that every multiplayer map feels like it comes from a different game. I don’t know what was planned for the Black Ops 4 campaign, I don’t know why it fell apart, and I don’t know whether the inclusion of Blackout mode was to blame. The answer is apparently: You don’t bother trying. Little ties the series together except for like, “Weird PSYOPs, man.” IDG / Hayden Dingman To be fair, it was not bad, but it was never a mode that got its hooks into me.Without a campaign to tie it all together I wondered “How do you make it a Black Ops game?” After all, the first Black Ops took place during the Cold War, the second blended Cold War elements with near-future warfare, the third was some sort of virtual reality dreamscape. What the heck is Blackout mode? This is the battle royale mode that Call of Duty never really needed. You see one of the ways that they got away without having a story mode in this game was that they said they were spending that time to make Blackout mode a thing. While Call of Duty Warzone is one of the biggest games in the world these days, we have to say that Call Of Duty: Black Ops 4 is the game that really started that. However, changes like not being able to simply regenerate health and having to heal, more emphasis on working as a team and the expansion of the Specialist system where characters have specific abilities all made this a more “thinking” persons Call of Duty game, but not at the expense of the fun. Do not get me wrong, we still have that run and gun first-person shooter style gameplay. I think that we do have to give Treyarch a ton of credit for being brave enough to try and make some changes to the core formula with Call Of Duty: Black Ops 4. This truly is an epic zombie’s mode and the best thing about this is. Not only did these add story to the game, but the gameplay was also changed as there were modifiers here that would make things more random. ![]() At launch, we had three solid storylines to play through, one set on the Titanic which is my favorite, one set in the days of gladiators, and then one based on Mob of the Dead from Black Ops 2. This at the time was the most cinematic of all the zombie modes that had been in a Call of Duty game so far. Ok, so while I am not happy with the way there is no traditional single-player campaign in Call Of Duty: Black Ops 4, to be fair, they made up for it with Zombies mode. To be fair, it is better than nothing, but I have loved the Black Ops storyline so seeing it just be pretty much passed over for what is here is disappointing. Instead, we have once again the Specialists getting their own little backstory sections. So, What’s The Story?Īs I said and as is common knowledge at this point, Call Of Duty: Black Ops 4 does not have your standard single-player story to play through as we expect. Thankfully that was not the case, but this turned out to be a way better game than I thought it would. I am someone that has enjoyed the majority of cod campaigns and with this being part of a series that has a great story to be told, I was mad that it was being passed over and I have to be honest and say that I was worried this was the start of Activision doing away with the single-player campaign. I remember being mad when Call Of Duty: Black Ops 4 revealed that there would not be a traditional single-player campaign.
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