

But after a few hours, I noticed something troubling about the game's performance on Microsoft's beefy 5-layered new console, the Series X. As per tradition, I picked up my yearly dose of interactive war crimes for the last week - Treyarch's Black Ops Cold War, a fun game with politics about as bad as you'd expect something from called "Black Ops: Cold War" to be. it's funny how a generation of focused advertising campaigns can elicit an emotional reaction to a certain game on a certain platform, eh? Same goes for the Xbox's controller, which just feels tailor-made for the franchise.Ĭhrist. Having that same roster of people on my friends list log into the new games on Xbox Live, year after year, gives me this fuzzy and nostalgic feeling. All other trademarks and trade names are the property of their respective owners.Yet, for some reason, I still play these things on Xbox (or PC, if I'm feeling frisky.) Chalk it up to my inner contrarian, but something about Call of Duty on a Microsoft platform just feels right to me. ACTIVISION, CALL OF DUTY and CALL OF DUTY BLACK OPS are trademarks of Activision Publishing, Inc. Welcome to Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War.įor more information, please visit © 2020 Activision Publishing, Inc. Descend into the dark center of this global conspiracy alongside iconic characters Woods, Mason and Hudson, and a new cast of operatives attempting to stop a plot decades in the making.īeyond the Campaign, players will bring a Cold War arsenal of weapons and equipment into the next generation of Multiplayer and Zombies experiences. Nothing is ever as it seems in a gripping single-player Campaign, where players will come face-to-face with historical figures and hard truths, as they battle around the globe through iconic locales like East Berlin, Vietnam, Turkey, Soviet KGB headquarters and more.Īs elite operatives, you will follow the trail of a shadowy figure named Perseus who is on a mission to destabilize the global balance of power and change the course of history. The iconic Black Ops series is back with Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War - the direct sequel to the original and fan-favorite Call of Duty®: Black Ops.īlack Ops Cold War will drop fans into the depths of the Cold War’s volatile geopolitical battle of the early 1980s.
