While our favourite section sees you playing Bell's hazy memory of a previous mission as Alder narrates, incredibly, moments become more surreal as you defy his narration. You're also tasked with collecting intelligence throughout, which brilliantly serves gameplay by informing puzzles, which unlock two optional missions.īut the best moments in the game involve holstering your gun to infiltrate a huge Russian military base with several optional paths to try to access a bunker, very similarly to the Hitman games. Players can now take enemies hostage to use as bullet shields, before finally pulling a pin on their grenade, and shoving them into scattering soldiers trying to slot you.

SHOP NOW: Call of Duty: Black Ops on Xbox Meanwhile your gender – which impressively includes non-binary as an option – can be chosen, along with personality traits such as aggression, paranoia, teamwork and many more able to be chosen, which gift you in-game perks, such as faster reloading, higher damage, or better accuracy. You're free to rename your character as you wish, along with selecting your career background, which affects some dialogue through the game. We played on Regular and suffered plenty of deaths for that, across the seven hour campaign, but harder settings will likely require more playtime. The enemies still have all the tactical knowledge of a block of cheese, but they can easily overwhelm in greater numbers, or with well-placed rockets and grenades. Slick stop/start shooting mechanics while peering down the iron sights of your various weapons from across the '60s and '80s. If you've ever played Call of Duty, you know what to expect.

Activision / Treyarch Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War review – Gameplay

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