Players can employ different real weapons to shoot at enemies with the possibility to toss an occasional grenade. Curiously enough the game doesn’t even seem to feature walking sounds, prompting “interesting” moments in multiplayer with enemies walking past each other without realizing.Īs with all CoD games, Cold War’s gameplay belongs to the first-person shooter genre, in particular to the more realistic kind.
Everywhere players go, all sound will be covered by the constant shooting and explosions. Despite the overall quality of the soundtrack, it is completely overshadowed by the heavy SFX. Sound in most shooters is generally underwhelming, but even more so on Cold War. Those that are not relevant are a different deal though, seeing as most are identical to each other with little variation other than their uniforms. Environments all feel mostly different and unique, with the same also applying to story-relevant characters. The cast of characters is plentiful and the banter entertaining, although most of the characters are interchangeable.Ĭold War’s graphics are quite good, as it’s to be expected of a game that’s at the end of a generation’s life cycle. Overall, while not a prodigy of storytelling, Cold War’s plot is an entertaining spy story although the focus is still very much on the gameplay. The files contained in said console reveal Perseus has stolen a nuke from the American government, sending the team on a race against the clock. After dispatching the soldiers in the area, the pair encounter a console with stored logs. In this facility, Bell and his companion Frank Woods find a training area outfitted to look like an American town. After a flashback mission where Bell recalls his first encounter with Perseus’ doings in Vietnam, the team decides to go after Anton Volkov, a mobster with ties to Perseus who then leads them to a secret facility. Players take control of an agent known as “Bell”, as they accompany the rest of the team’s members. After debriefing US president Ronald Reagan, Adler’s team now sets out to find the elusive spy. Upon apprehending the second of them, he reveals the implication of the soviet spy known as Perseus, who was the mastermind behind the operation. The game’s story revolves around Russel Adler and his black ops team as they pursue two of the participants in the Iran hostage crisis. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War brings more of the usual gameplay with a story about espionage during the Cold War. Its core concept hasn’t varied much from one game to another, although some content such as the plot for the campaigns has. The Call of Duty series has been going on since 2003 with yearly releases.
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