Why Black Ops Cold War is TERRIBLE and GREAT! 

The best COD game of the last 5 years IMO. What a slammer. 80s theme, Campaign was great, MP was classic COD, and Zombies was awesome. Too bad we didn't get a true year 2 for this one.

Can we talk about how amazing the Cold War sound track was. Best ever imo. Not to mention the fact that they brought back all of the old Black Ops series tracks in the Battle Pass. Wish MW would do the same thing. Hearing 'Pentagon' from Black Ops 1 hits you right in the feels and gives you nostalgia overload ❤

The fact that I was able to play as Woods & Mason in zombies is what finally won me over. Aside from that, it was definitely one of the best CoD games I've ever played overall since BO2. As you said, I can still see myself playing this several years later. Top tier for me!

I loved this game, and the fact that treyarch did get the short end of the stick and made this game in only a few months is crazy, I wouldn’t say it’s my favorite or one of the best but it’s definitely top 10 for me

Cold War has some of the best post Launch content such as the added perks, tier 5, easter eggs (for outbreak) new maps for outbreak, Patch updates, New Alt ammo, new tacticals and supports, super ee, rage inducer, new guns.

Cold War is a top 5 CoD for me. And the first CoD I got a platinum trophy on. The campaign was stellar, one of my favorite ever, the Zombies was the first Zombies installment that I really got into, and even the MP was good when reverse boosting.

There’s one mission in this game that I adore and believe that it’s one of the best missions ever in CoD. That’s the secret spy mission where you’re in the Russian building and you have to try and get Adler (and I think woods, probably belle). I remember playing this mission and the feeling of playing was amazing. The rest of the campaign is average but this is the diamond in the rough.

Hey Chop, you may not see this but. Your longform content has been wonderful to listen to while doing other things. You've become one of my favorite youtubers. Cheers.

I really liked how accessible Zombies was. I mean I’m married, I have 2 jobs, I’m a leader in my church. So for me to be able to come home and enjoy a game of zombies without having to grind for hours to figure out how to do everything was great. I loved that I could have fun and kill zombies without being extremely frustrated because “I don’t have time to get better.” It was a lot of fun for me. Maybe they can add a difficulty setting like in BO2 where you have easy for casual players and hard for streamers. Make the Easter Egg on the hard one so it’s more fun to search for.

CW scorestreaks worked for me because they reward you for more than just killing things. Disabling enemy streaks and specialist equipment, and capturing/playing objectives also gets you points that work towards your scorestreaks

I’m a total Cold War history buff, it’s arguably my favorite part of 20th century history to explore and learn about, the espionage and fear of all out nuclear war between the two powers, is so exciting to look into, and this game was absolutely a treat for someone like me and is easily my top 5 COD campaigns now.

I think a lot of people missed that Alder is voiced by Master Chief

I actually quite like the out of game progression of Cold War, it gave a good reward for high rounding - the ability to high round that little bit easier next time now that you can upgrade a perk or skill. One thing I will say though, there should be a hardcore option for the next installment; this hardcore mode should start you off with a set default weapon and have all perks set to like level 2 etc etc... Hardcore mode should also be the default for the leaderboards and scoreboards, whereas normal should be for casual fun or players who enjoy the newer features

Criminally underrated game. Genuinely my favourite COD since Black Ops 1.

Its nice to finally see someone with a level headed take on this game, most creators still say or perceive this game as if it was still in the state it was at launch

I think the reason the emblem editor doesn't exist anymore is because they want to sell you them instead and not for any other reason

I was there Day 1 for Zombies (literally… I finished the WAW campaign on launch day), and I’ll say that THIS game made me a zombies fan. I loved WAW zombies, liked BO 1 a lot, then Tranzit and Die Rise completely killed it for me. I checked back in for Shadows of Evil and thought it was obtuse, frustrating, and confusing. I bought Cold War close to a month ago on sale, booted up Zombies and just couldn’t put it down. Was it easy, sure, but it was what I needed to reignite the zombies fan in me. I loved that Outbreak and Onslaught were cool changes of pace from the round based maps. Also, the progression system gave me that extra incentive to play a lot more, and for once in my life, actually get good at zombies. So much so…. that I took my newfound talents to BO3 and pretty much never looked back. I finally understood the complexity and sense of adventure that BO2 and 3 maps offered. Cold War took me from dying on Round 7 saying “fuck this Beast bullshit” on SOE, to setting up PaP by round 6, then training zombies like a champ for hours. I’ll forever be indebted to Cold War Zombies for making me a believer.

Cold War is, in one word, promising. For a game that was made on a budget, both monetary and time wise, it’s genuinely solid, and gives me high hopes for what they’re cooking for the 2024 release, I genuinely think the next experience is going to be fantastic

I enjoyed the game a lot during its life cycle, my only gripes with it ever was the visual bugs throughout the UI and Friends list etc, that literally never got fixed. The zombies was good but felt barebone and honestly just different than the original black ops Zombie modes. MP was really good aside from the score streak system that just didnt reset upon death. Overall very underrated game and honestly the best game weve had in the past 4 years.

Bought cold war 2 days ago now, loving it after playing mw2 for the past few months. Found your channel the other day too and watched all these cod reviews. Loving them! I was wondering when the cold war episode was coming and I woke up today to find you had posted it a few hours before (: cheers dude ! Keep up the good work

This was actually my very first cod. I never played as a kid, got into it now as a young adult. In spite of its problems, it’s now one of my all time favorite games ever. I loved the campaign (especially since I didn’t know about the whole BO1 mind twisting stuff), multiplayer I continue to insist is a lot of fun despite it getting so much hate, and zombies was incredible, even if clearly rushed. Treyarch put so much passion into this game and it really shows, despite the time crunch. This one game led me to go back and buy every previous black ops on sale to learn all about zombies as an entire series and have no regrets. I have both mastery camos on Cold War (nearly every weapon including DLC, just 3 more to go) and have almost finished Zombies Dark matter on BO4 and am master prestige 250 there. However after Vangaurd came out (which i dont think is nearly as bad as everyone makes it out to be but is still CLEARLY not a great entry) and, while I find it to be casual fun, didn’t quite hit the same marks I mostly stuck with CW. I never bought MW2, it doesn’t look interesting enough, didn’t have the most fun on the trial days, and no zombies. Maybe when its really cheap for a campaign run (i borrowed MW19 to play the campaign and its campaign was also awesome), but I want to avoid being caught up in the COD cycle. I’ll probably keep buying the Treyarch entries and skip the rest.

You could really feel how the pandemic affected zombies and the campaign, but regardless I really loved Cold War. The events leading up to Cold War were great too; seeing the community come together to do something again was really cool.

Not a fan of this game, but respect it for what it is and how much time was given for this project and the fact that it had switched hands mid development.

Cold War was my first ever CoD game and after watching all of your other in depth reviews I've been eagerly awaiting this one! Wonderful as always sir!

I love your videos thanks for the amazing content hope to see you soon!

If Cold War had an updated engine it would have been a top tier COD. Zombies was very good as was the campaign. Map and weapon variety was good in MP. The engine and game play just felt old in comparison to MW2019. At least we had map voting and dead silence as a perk

I have Cold War in a special place in my heart got me through 2021

This is my absolute favorite MP of the New Gen CODs. Sure, it lacked content at launch and eventually filled that it with mostly remakes of old maps (begrudgingly understandable given the conditions of both production and post-launch support), but it played like a golden age COD. …and yah, the SBMM and disbanding lobbies was annoying, but you could say that about all of the other New Gen CODs, too

the vibes from this game are immaculate

Cold war multiplayer was so much better than Vanguard & MWII. It was actually fun

I watched this entire video and hardly noticed it was over an hour. Instant sub.

In terms of operators, I think “zombie exclusive” operators would work well. You have a certain selection of operators that you can use in zombies- maybe the four canon crew members at first with certain fun unlockable or purchasable ones coming later (think the zombie from AW or Maxis/Ravenov). This solves the generic operator problem for the maps and storyline (giving us more story and more time with a new crew to hopefully enjoy them like the OGs, but also allows for the use of these operators in Warzone and MP, allowing for a curated zombies experience while keeping the MP and Warzone experience for every player.

mw3 was my favorite multiplayer, could fast reload and fast aim down sights with rpg, and if they had flak jacket a direct hit would still kill. recent cod games launchers are trash

My favorite COD. I loved the zombie maps and grinding guns in Nuketown. I know Chopper is trying to just focus on the game itself but another perspective is the impact it had on Warzone. I played way more Rebirth Island than Coldwar during the time it was out, and I can say that the Cold War guns were way better than the MW and Vanguard ones. The optics, feel, blueprints, and camos were all the best. Not to mention the collabs they did with operators the Donny Darko, Rocky and Scream were awesome

Cold war feels more like a real COD game then any thing released since black ops 4.

Been waiting for this! thanks so much!!

I still love the zombies in this game, I love the savage mechanic and the revamped packapunch, the perks, the only thing I dislike was the maps in round based sadly for me, the first map was the best and most fun

Cold War got me back into zombies. The upgrades gave me something to grind for and gradually getting those was pretty fun, it’s something I loved about Extinction. Treyarch should take a page from extinction and give XP bonuses or crystals for using modifiers that make the game harder.

mauer der toten easter egg is exactly the difficulty level I want to have when attempting a solo easter egg run. Great job!

I’ve been searching for a brand new vid about cold war anything at all. i absolutely love this game and still putting in hours on both zombies and multi. it’s not perfect but damn is it addicting. thanks ch0pper entertaining and everything true

i loved this game, played it all during covid and got me through some hard times

Respect for chopper keeping us well informed on dental health products

honestly the fact that there are fewer setpieces in the campaign and more opportunities to engage with the characters at your own pace between missions was a huge boon for the campaign imo, it fully accomodates the player that wants to blast through in a sitting and the player who wants to indulge in the character interactions it was probably a happy accident but replaying some of the older campaigns recently has me remembering how tedious it can be sitting around as things happen in front of, to and around you and its not something i can always set my patience aside for personally

This Call of Duty was the most fun I had with CoD since MWR. The Zombies mode had me coming back to grind so much it's a shame we didn't get at least one more map.

The EEs are my favorite part of Cold War and what puts it so high up for me. These were the first ones I’ve ever been able to do with randoms first try 😅

Personally I think out of game progression for zombies gives more longevity in the form of replay ability for late/casual players

i’ve been playing cold war zombies for the past two weeks and have been watching a ton of ur old videos 😅😅😂

I loved that level with the red door, I got the zombies easter egg too 😄

I have played all of the Black Ops games and this one is my favorite. I got over 2k hours on the game and got dark matter and aether on almost every weapon in the game. I wish this game got more years of updates

Zombies was dope, the potential of OUTBREAK really opened my mind to the possibilities of a stand alone zombies game. Imagine black ops Cold War zombies X GTA or something of that nature, true open world COD zombies, shit would be dope 🤞

As usual another banger vid

I will come back later to watch this its 1 am and i got work at 11

I honestly like this game a lot. I feel that it would’ve been 200x better if didn’t happen and they actually had more time to work on it

I love cold war, favorite cod since bo2. I just love treyarch cods though. Main issue I had with CW was the free streak system. Other than that it's a top tier cod.

Great video! Just one quick thing I noticed though, you said that Treyarch did the campaign but it was actually Raven Software that was the lead developer for the campaign.

How did you know I just started playing Cold War zombies again papa choppa 😳

The killstreak system I think isn't really all that unnecessary or confusing. It's just a good way to compensate for the sbmm. In which you might die a lot but even then, you end up with couple of low grade streaks

The fact that the odds were damn near completely stacked against Treyarch with this game (not being their game and having to clean up the mess that SHG and Raven made, global pandemic and having to work from home, limited development time) and it still ended up being a fun game, shows you how dedicated this team is to making games. Meanwhile, the developers who actually did have the time and man power can't fucking get it right and fuck up at almost every turn, embarrassing themselves in the process.

Man alone that Vtol,naplam strike and air petrol sounds is unbelievable scary

I love that you make these videos cause it really points out things that was good and ppl overlooked. CW was good for what it had and if it had more time like MW19 it would be the best cod since bo3

I love the multiplayer in Cold War, it’s so much fun than the rest of the games

I really enjoyed the theming and style of the campaign, baring a silent protagonist which I will forever despise and argue against. The side quests were fun and the story was solid

Great video. To everyone invovled in making this game, you all are the True MVPs. Thank You🥇🏆

The way they put nacht on die machine was so good. And it reminds me of how in bo2 on Tranzit, Nacht was just there and when I played it with my friends for the first time and one of them mentioned it and the rest of us were just like “okay 😐” cause it felt so cut and pasted in. With firebase Z i feel like there should’ve been a time limit on the orda boss fight. Me, who is just a casual zombies player who likes to so easter eggs, and my friend, who sucks at the game, did the easter egg first try.

Honestly this kind of random, but if Vanguard never would’ve came out, & Black Ops ColdWar would’ve lasted two years as a game, ColdWar would’ve been so much better, because we all know for a fact that Vanguard was a flop and was not really a good game, & like I said if ColdWar lasted for two years they could’ve done so much more with it!!! But is MW2 better then ColdWar IDK???🤔, But IK for a fact MW2 isa Tuff GAME🤩😎🔥

I was just so disgusted by the lack of empathy the CoD community’s showing when this game first release, everyone was calling this game a scam, the fact that it’s on the old engine got it a lotta hate, ppl are saying Treyarch has fallen, and constantly comparing it to MW19 to shit on the game, I know it’s a fact that MW19 is more complete and overall “better” in a technical point of view, but that’s because IW have all the time they need and wasn’t pulled away to assist other projects like Treyarch did, Treyarch was brought on board to so many projects along with their own game development, it’s a miracle this game even came out, and in that whole year as well you just constantly heard ppl saying they’re waiting for IW to bring them the next MW, saying that they’re the only competent devs of CoD, I always get so triggered by these comments, ppl who say these things have no idea what they’re talking about, these statement, I’m getting a little radical here, but they are simply wrong, it’s not a matter of opinion or preference when your opinions are just wrong, and just to be clear I’m not an IW hater at all, I not saying they’re incompetent devs, I actively enjoy MWII and am excited for the upcoming season, I enjoyed MW19 when it’s around as well, I’m just so sick of Treyarch getting so many unreasonable criticism, I feel like the whole thing is just wrong

Completely appreciate and love these videos! I personally loved cold war for multiplayer and zombies. Can't wait to see what's next! I appreciate the lack of dev time they had and cant believe it came out this good considering everything that went during the time

Another thing I loved that this game introduced is no perk limit

Cold War was the best COD since Black Ops 2, yes I said that...

that liamftw cameo caught me off guard, funny stuff

Awesome video Only difference in opinion I have is, that treyarch should go back to old gunsmithing. I like being able to see what my gun looks like, different attachments, maybe 7 max.

Cold war is absolutely a top 3 cod

I have an alpha build of this game from all the way back from June 2020 and its crazy to see what they had completed in such a short time.

They should bring back the WW2 zombies quest, you have a casual easter egg/main mission that walks you through it, you only get half the story, while having a hardcore easter egg that gives the complete story.

Is that Geoff Ramsey in the Colgate ad doing a bad accent? That's precious and I love it, if that's the case

As someone that was too young to play the classic CODs because of my strict parents I really loved that I had a chance to play faithful remakes of all time great maps

Cold War had a more arcade feel to it, more pick up an play in terms of their multiplayer and I loved that about it and their Campaign was wicked as well, I also loved that the mind games that the black ops series carried with it carried on as well

As an OG COD player, and someone I love with world at bar and the OG black op, along with my love of the 80’s. I absolutely loved this game. It was so good, I wanted more of it!

The addition of dialogue choices, intel, mission planning and free roam areas like the Lubyanka building is something I absolutely loved. I can see why some people didn’t like it (especially given the demographic) but as a big RPG player I hope they continue that trend and keep weaving these story elements into gameplay.

The worst part about Cold Wars campaign is that we didn't get more of it. Its easily my favorite campaign for the current/last generation and it sucks that it ends so fast.

I love how much of a "lightning in a bottle" situation this was to have the one campaign with the most amount of writing end up being the one with the most potential for worldbuilding; the cold war scenario and the espionage, backstabbing, moles, all this has so much potential and I fear they'd squander it all if this was a regular campaign just being made like all the other cods with just shooting gallery missions with no real weight

I have loved this Cod in every game mode it has, safe to say this a huge revival for the zombies community and campaign lovers

29:12 Not sure about all of the possible reasons for the scar. But for two of them Adler says he got the scar in ‘73 or ‘75, so he wouldn’t have had it then. But then again one of the other ones says he got it as a young man. He was born in 37’ so if he got it before he was say 21, then a scar that’s developed like the one he has makes more sense for being over 20 years old as opposed to 6-10 with the other years. Additionally I kinda wish that the KGB insider guy Dmitri Belikov had a different name and that “Bell” was actually the soldier named Belikov, idk just think it would’ve been fun.

bought this last black Friday and it's now in my top 5 cods it's like a black ops greatest hits mixed with it's new 80s aesthetic

Cold war was my first full on black ops game and. 1. The campaign blew me away with characters, story, lore, stakes, and replayability 2. Got me hooked into zombies and dipped my toes into bo3 3. Multiple was meh, but my first time I could really hold my ground and flant my new abilities and looks 4. I actually made friends?!?! 5. Mf this was them on a time cruch and covid constraints?! What will they do not under pressure!

I actually really enjoyed this one’s campaign too I hope they do this again!

Since you are reviewing every call of duty can you do a short review of cod mobile

Great video! I still play Cold War on a very regular basis (almost as much during its cycle). I thoroughly enjoy the Campaign, I've never been much of a MP player but still have fun when I do, and Treyarc Zombies is the reason I pre-ordered. I've seen many people trash Outbreak but its my favorite mode in the game and I revisit it often. The pandemic did a number on the production of Cold War and it shows but hopefully we'll get the full potential on Treyarc's next go.

I never played Zombies before Cold War. Now, I only load it to play Outbreak. I'm so excited for 2.0!

Yes whenever i think of cold war i think of the desperate measures mission

My biggest complaint is that almost every map crashes on PlayStation or just doesn’t even start to begin with so I can’t even play it half the time

Great video

I haven’t seen anyone write this but there is another reason why people are reminded of bo1 when playing the campaign besides brainwashed main character and the “Cold War” setting. Both main characters have the information needed to find the location of the main villain. Mason knows what the numbers mean and where to go to stop dragovich and stop Nova 6 from being released, and belle knows the location of Perseus and the nuclear warhead. For anyone who ever reads this comment if I got anything wrong, please feel free to correct me as I haven’t played bo1 in about 5 years and the Cold War campaign I rushed through a bit

What pains me is how short the development time was. This had so much potential, but still is one of my favorite CoDs ever. Especially in the new era.

Just bought Cold War yesterday Upgrading from black ops 4 Only thing I hate is SBMM , takes longer to find matches , feels a bit isolating to keep playing with new people everytime

I liked the streak system a lot in Cold War. If u don’t have to safeguard ur streak progress than you are allowed to take more risks in gameplay

Great video. I fully agree that MdT, Outbreak and Onslaught should be the blueprint for Treyarch's next game. I just want the next game to have a more vivid colour palette, like BO3 and BO4.

Honestly Ch0pper, I couldn't have said any of this better myself. Great Video and love to see someone appreciate cold war for the gem that it is. Also, you are finally someone who can agree that onslaught wasn't bad. I personally love to play it from time to time cos it's a great change, considering I've played all the maps quite a bit, and it's great that there's finally a good content creator that can agree with my opinion on the game

Loved the video but what I find curious is that you used the Vangaurd zombies theme for it lmao that was the only thing good from Vangaurd. But Cold War will always be my fav zombies game it was so good

Had Cold War on ps4 on release, I remember it was a grind to get elite kills in zombies for camps so I played onslaught to speed up the process 😅