Everything GREAT About Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War! 

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Can we actually talk about how sick this campaign is from the twist to the 80s tech to the options throughout the game like for the Russian embassy mission and how many options you get throughout so good I mean we’ve got a job to do. Such a good line. The fan base for this game really annoyed me not all of them but when for the campaign if you save park which I did the fan base going SIMP SIMP nah shes the better character and we had more bond with park

Finnally A game thats not everyones childhood.

17:21 The red doors could also be a reference to the Rolling Stones song "Paint it Black". Especially with the very first lyrics in the song. The song was even used for trailers back in BO3 I see a red door and I want it painted black

In the Vietnam section, you're riding a Huey, not a Hind. Hueys are famous for their appearance as the US helicopter in Vietnam. While Cobras were used, they paled in numbers to the Huey which is one of the biggest symbols of the war. The Hind is a Russian assault helicopter, not entirely different but has a slightly different role and looks very different. It was also used by the Soviets, not the Americans.

Imagine the Break on Through mission but from the perspective of someone watching Adler guide Bell Bell's just unconscious on the table muttering "I fell in a pit and there were zombies and spooky voice laughing" while Adler just gets progressively more annoyed.

I didn't think the Lie ending was sad at all. Sure, in the beginning Bell was just a source of intel to the team, but by the end of the game you've fought alongside these people and risked your life for theirs. It broke my heart to save Lazir and have him still obey Adler in giving Bell more doses of whatever drug despite him knowing it could kill them. Even after lying to Bell the entire game and getting Bell to tell the truth in good faith, Adler lies AGAIN and tells Bell "you're still one of us" before killing them sometime after. Maybe the whole team didn't deserve to die but Adler is (imo) one of the biggest bastards in CoD. Bell's happy ending would probably be the Lie ending as they once again in control of their own destiny and shown loyalty in kind by the Perseus group when they help in the ambush. Hell, one of the LEADERS of Perseus shows up PERSONALLY to help Bell exact revenge and welcome Bell back into their arms. The nukes are still bad though :/

I think this game had excellent callbacks and foreshadowing. The fact Bell can read hidden messages, one being about JFK's assassination shows they were brainwashed all along, and references Mason being brainwashed to kill JFK.

man I can't belive you skipped the bo4 campaign. It was filled with so many great twists and turns that served as a great addition to the Black Ops lore.

During bells memory section at the end of the game you can actually find zombies in a tunnel rat section. I was playing late at night when I found it. It scared me so bad I yelled and woke my parents up they were not happy

9:46 THANK YOU FINALLY SOMEONE WHO ALSO HAD THE SAME PTSD ON THIS MISSON, as a wise crazed old man said “So we are the same, (gaming wins). Shaped by those we have lost.”

I got the good ending for the game but never trusted Adler. When he was talking to us I knew what was about to happen, so was prepped for a possible quick time event. When we both drew our guns I was mashing the right trigger so fast.

Black Ops Cold War was a true successor to the amazing, creative and nostalgic COD campaign's of the late 00's and early 2010's. The missions were all creative and unique, the characters were amazing and memorable. The Numbers in Mason's section were a creative callback. The Soviet Kremlin mission was amazing and had some hitman and fallout vibes. The "breaking through" mission with the flashbacks and revelations of Bell's brainwashing was excellent. Adler's character is up there with characters like Price, Soap, Woods and Mason

"COD and Doritos go together like superpowers and proxy wars" Needs to be put on a T-shirt.

I love Cold War’s campaign, and Adler was a great new character. (Easily one of my new favorites) I also loved how you could choose the name, effects, etc of Bell. Such an amazing campaign.

So, wierd thing, when making Bell's little character profile at the start of the campaign, I chose ex-KGB as their background, not realizing how close it would be to the actual reveal of Bell being part of Perseus. Just a little coincidence I thought was humerous after realising, even if the profile on Bell is everything fabricated by Adler.

I love this game, I wish it could've gotten more love during development. If they started the 2 year cycle with MW19 it would've been so good. The opening shot with Spirit In The Sky is still my favorite shot in recent CODs.

I actually liked the campaign and it felt a little like Black Ops and Modern Warfare mixed together to make a beautiful experience. They also put some horror into the campaign which made it even better. I beat it in Realism and I felt so accomplished after.

The lighter in the beginning instantly reminded me of the old 80s spy TV show ''Mission Impossible'' ( way before it became the Tom Cruise featuring movie franchise), which started in similar manner with a sole match lighting a fuse

Solid campaign imo, idk what it is but I haven’t quite found that “replay-ability” with it but it’s a silver lining with recent campaigns for sure

Can't believe you didn't win the game for the Lie ending. Don't care if it's not canon it's fucking awesome. When the music hits....godDAMN

18:53 although that’s the only one where you don’t die. And since I’m a cold hearted black heartless person, that was my original choice because I unfortunately knew what happened in each ending This is the only black ops game that I have played (I’m more of a modern warfare boy and BO 1 and 2 aren’t on PS4) Also PLEASE do either MW2 (original) or the transformers cybertron games

What I love about the new CoD development is that since CoD is a tried and true formula, it allows the devs to try some new things each game without getting an eyebrow raised from management.

12:43 Back in 2020, Activision decided they're going to make all CODs going forward canon. Here are the current "canon" games that are in the same timeline. World at War WW2 Vanguard Black Ops 1 Black Ops Cold War Modern Warfare 2019 Modern Warfare 2 2022

I loved seeing the phantom 2s, even just for a second to only drop napalm. And this whole game is a aesthetic.

If you really like the Cold War vibes of this, maybe you want to check out "Phantom Doctrine"? It's a Cold War based XCOM-like game. Very fun. Got some twists.

Always excited when I see that you’ve uploaded! Great game, great content!

i just finished my first-time playthrough of Cold War just so I could watch the video without spoiling myself (COD campaigns aren't exactly the longest affairs, so not exactly difficult). I agree with your saying that the campaign is way too short for all the good ideas it had. I think it took me something like five, six hours tops and I was really taking my time with it. Something I noticed that was interesting: For that mindbending mission I seesawed violently between obeying Adler's narrative prompts and defying them, but I never got that projector building the door scene, nor do I remember ever seeing enemies turn into Adler, though I did see lots of other interesting, surreal and creepy things that you didn't mention. I wonder just how many variations of that mission are there? It definitely makes me want to go back and play it multiple times to find out. Which I guess is kind of the point, so mission accomplished? That trippy mission was probably my favorite one in the whole game though--it had so much disorienting and creepy imagery it actually managed to make me feel unsettled. I wish they used more of that horror element in the rest of the game. I also really enjoyed the Berlin Wall mission--that one was too short compared to the rest of the game, in my opinion; but then again, I just really enjoy undercover spy fiction and tend to prefer the more subtle intel gathering stuff rather than the Bond/Bourne-esque action movie (not that I don't enjoy those too, it's just a very different aesthetic--and, I argue, an oversaturated one).

It’d be so badass to see Price, Ghost, Soap, Woods, and Mason.

Loved Cold War's campaign. I still prefer BO2 over it though, but it was fun! Really hope you do MW19, WW2, and Vanguard soon. I absolutely LOVED Vanguard's campaign!

Funny thing is, I couldn’t get into the new Modern Warfare, felt like rewriting history, but loving this one. Picked it up on sale, no regrets. And my custom character was Vasili Petrenko. Defector background. If you know, you know.

It’s so funny cause I re-played this campaign this morning

YES I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE FOR MONTHS THANK YOU

Personally I love Cold War just because BO1 was always my favorite when I was younger. I got to feel the same vibes again when playing it, and to me it was worth the money and time, tenfold.

Love your videos! Keep the positive vibes going brother! ❤

Keep up the good work my dude after this franchise you should the battlefield franchise you will love it. And fun fact when regean is talking to Mason and woods he has a jar of jelly beans in real life he LOVED jelly beans.

8:18 That's a Huey not a Hind darnit!!!

coming back to this great video to say that i’m so excited for black ops 6, i hope you cover it when it comes out because adler’s back and he’s such an interesting character, a man that is nicknamed ‘america’s monster’ and there’s nothing that he could do that is too far in his mind, he’s such a brilliant addition to the black ops universe

There’s a great detail where when you’re in the safe house and if you walk off you can see Adler watching you and when you spot him he looks away again!

It honestly is a well thought out game and in the end I didn’t even attempt to shoot back at Adler and I wish they would have given us a choice on whether to pull your pistol or not

I think Cold War made up for Black Ops 3 and 4, but I do wish they delayed it a year. There was so many glitches I experienced like falling through the map and my progression resetting. I also felt like the last two missions were rushed and didn't feel like final missions.

God DAMN you’ve been cranking these out

Love your vids i wonder if you have plans to do the mass effect series at some point would love to see you break those down

That was a damn smooth transition to the ad

Not sure If this was said already, but the part where Adler is describing bell's experience in Vietnam in the that room reminds me of Stanley Parable.

For me Black Ops Cold War was a return to made what made the black ops games (black ops 1 & 2) black ops games. Black ops and 3 & 4 had some tie ins and references to previous games but BO3 and B04 just don’t feel like black ops games especially black ops 3.

12:42 Just a cameo. New MW games and all the BO games are still separate timelines. Even if they were, their timelines wouldn't match up. For example, MWII takes place in 2022, but at this point in the BO timeline, US is in a Cold War with China, human augmentation is rampant, and we're three years out from BO2. Warzone is also its own timeline.

16:40 its even more interesting that I've never once seen this in game or in videos talking about the mission.

was waiting for this one

Grateful to have been a kid the 80's. Just makes this game FAR MORE FUN.

I have to say playing this campaign made me feel like james bond with brick in the wall where you sneak around east Berlin and use tranq guns, cameras and blacklights. All and all a really fun campaign with lots of different locations. Also being able to make dialaugue and have your choices effect the missions and even others lives. I think it started off strong but did kind of fall off in the last couple missions. 7.75/10

its not just you i know your feeling about the scene.....gods still gives me shivers today

Oh and you forgot to get the Easter egg from Vietnam in one of the trenches, you can go through it and it’s completely black and “things” run at you I highly recommend you play that way art again it was super interesting for me

Treyarch has always been the CoD studio that tried to make the absolute most out of their campaigns and side content like Zombies. Not all stories hit well but you can see that the people there are passionate when it comes to their stories they want to tell. I always wished Activision would say " hey skip out on the multiplayer and just make a cool singleplayer" and then delivere what they can do at full force. A full 10+ hours singleplayer or even a Zombies game with its storyline, which is far too extensive for something that seems to happen " on the side" Cold War has been once again been an attempt to do something great. It may not have landed a perfect landing but it sure aimed well.

I just searched Cold War and seen gamingwins posted! Hell yeah!

When you're in the helicopter remembering the past in this game you can fall down a rat hole and find zombies that kill you . Adler says the whole idea is crazy

to this day i never thought anyone else was scared like i was of that scene in polar express. i feel you man.

Love the video! Are you planning to cover the Kingdom hearts series?

9:42 damn gamingwins be spitting cold, hard facts. Dont forget the foritos too, cant imagine him not having a doritos bag chilling next to his desk to have a munch

I was waiting for this one

Excellent analysis

In the mission 'Break on Through' you can actually find some zombies in a hole, they don't stop spawning until you die, and from what I remember Adler is confused, very confused

Can’t wait for the mw2019 vid and Cold War is cool not just for the missions but also because it started the cod universe

I live in the same town as the kid from polar express. So I have to watch it every single Christmas multiple times. I’m a full grown adult and that puppet scene still scares me.

I actually got the bad ending my first play through, I was super posted when I found out I had been lied too the entire game by Adler, never obeying his orders and not feeling bad at all for when I had to kill him

Fracture jaw is the reason I went on a hunt for a Steppenwolf vinyl record and got magic carpet ride.

In the mission “echos of a Cold War” you can find a picture of Steiner from BO1 and mason would see the numbers too

I always thought the spinning head Adler in Break on Through was a Jacob's Ladder reference whose themes are very similar to Cold War.

After watching Oppenheimer and then replaying this campaign because I remembered how much i enjoyed it the first time and hearing about the Russian spy in los alamos and seeing Oppenheimer in the game just made it so much better for me

I really liked the LIE ending, so different, and our friend Perseus looks super badass in that coat xd

yo gaming wins, i loved your akrham reviews and all your other videos, can it be possible if you do a video about sea of thieves?

9:52 I remember the crazy ass Scrooge puppet 10:23 That a grenade disguised as a cigarette box? 13:24 ....You dropped justice on them like a ton of bricks?

a small flub with the Huey is the fact that the model is actually a UH-1Y venom is an upgraded twin engine Huey which wasn't tested until early 2006 and wasn't deployed and used actively until January 2009 you can tell it is a UH-1Y venom by the twin exhausts at the rear of the cockpit for the twin turboshaft engines

While I love this campaign, I think CW really shines with the zombies mode. Singlehandedly my most played zombies ever

Real talk though- given the betrayal that you face in the "Good Ending" as Bell, I was...almost drawn to the "Bad Ending" as being the actual good one. Do millions die at your hand? Sure. Is the entire world order practically expunged leading the way for Perseus to take control of the USSR and eventually the world? Yeah. But...ultimately...Perseus was the only one who actually believed in Bell to do what he felt was right. Perseus was the only one who was willing to stand by Bell's side. He doesn't HAVE to kill Adler's team in Duga, but if you call on him, he absolutely will save you and stand by your side. Was it the "Good Ending"? Maybe not. But at least you weren't betrayed by those who you trusted. Instead...you got to betray them first :D

4:26 I have Salamon shoes and boots which are both waterproof Perseus looks like Gerneral Sheperd from MW2 only with Sowjet uniform

You should do a video on AC Origins. Trust me, you won't be disappointed. It's story is good.

When i listen to paint it black i always think of black ops cold war because of the lyrics i see a red door and i want to paint it black

I’m really hoping that you cover the Bioshock games. They are the closest thing to art in the video game sphere.

I panicked on the Lazar or Park choice and didn’t know I was supposed to hold it. Ended up leaving both behind on accident.

The puppet train scene also scared the fuck out of me dude you are not alone

This game is beautiful from the campaign to the multiplayer to the zombies. It is a 10/10 experience for anyone who has not played it

Finally someone who was sacred of that scene in the polar express

Just a nitpick, but at 8:20, the player isn't in a Hind, It's a "Huey", the Bell UH-1. "Hind" is the NATO designation for the Russian Mi-24 helicopter. Sorry, can't help myself.

Would love to see your interpretation of 'A Way Out'. Also be a fun collaboration for you and another RU-vidr!

I would really love to hear what you thought of the music in Call of Duty vanguard when you get a chance to do that campaign. I think it really carried it since the story felt so rushed.

Super under rated game 🔥🔥

“Addy Daddy” omg I love you 😂😂❤️

Glad Raven Software brought the Black Ops campaigns back on track after whatever Bo3 was and Bo4 obviously lacking one.

I‘m gonna give Tryarch credit for having Ghassem and Arash the typical Persian accent, especially with Ghassem‘s nose 😂😂😂

I named my character Silver "Bell" Tanaz while playing this game blind. Name does have quite the *ring* to it

8:18 Not a Hind, It's a Huey Gunship. Hinds were only used by soviets and soviet allies. Super heavy gunships, loads of ordinance, room to transport a squad of troops. Basically an APC for Spetsnaz

The fact you called the HUEY and HIND is an insult to the maker of that workhorse of a helicopter

At first I wasn't so sure about this type of Call of Duty game because of how the multiplayer looked like a massive nosedive compared to the excellent MW2019 in quality and gameplay. Playernumbers and a fair bit of a hands on myself proofed that this was unfortunatly the case. So usually you would assume that the Campaign would have a similar quality but I was pleasantly surprised to see what they made with the campaign. The dialogue options, the alternative approaches to several mission encountters, the overall MK-Ultra themed plot and setup for something much, much bigger. They really managed to create not just a new cast of intriguing characters but left me wanting more as well. it wasn't the best of campaigns but its brim full of great ideas and potential. When it comes to Treyarch, I always have this feeling that the people that work there want to make a totally different game alltogether but are shackled by Activisions demands to bring out a new game every 2-3 years that follows the cycle that CoD has been in since 2007. From the Campaign to Zombies, the most fun and coolest stuff was right there. I hope when Microsoft officially takes over Activision, things can change. Let Treyarch create a cool Singleplayer game!

It’s cool how you can actually fail to save both of them if you take too long to choose

During the memory Vietnam mission you can enter a series of rat tunnels that lead to a cave filled with zombies

Did you ever play the video game for the polar express? The puppeteering scene was much more scary in the game

Those are badass tattoos

For me the line on using someone likeness is if they are a public figure i.e. a politician and if they are relevant to the storyline.

Adler: remember, no soviets!!! Belikov: uhhhh Adler: nah you're good