Of the three core pillars to this Call of Duty title, the campaign stands out as the winner despite its brevity.įireteams is a 40-person mode with four-person squads, and it features large-scale, team-based firefights similar to Call of Duty’s free-to-play battle royale, Warzone. While you can barrel through the critical path in the boisterous campaign in about five hours, you’d be passing up optional missions and plenty of secrets, including old Activision games to play. One trip takes you deep behind Soviet lines to discover a training facility where soldiers practice incursions on a quaint simulated USA town – and you can bet that gets rowdy in a hurry.
While those missions steal the show, even the rank-and-file excursions around the globe pack plenty of punch and creativity. The absolute highlight of the late-game takes place in Vietnam, a mission with a well-designed looping structure that left me grinning and dumbstruck. One tasks you with playing a double agent through the famous KGB headquarters Lubynaka building, letting you solve some puzzles and come up with solutions as to how to sneak your strike team in. The best missions in the game have a “choose your own adventure” feel to them. While your core mission is to hunt down a covert Soviet operative known as Perseus, the journey takes you all over the world and even to the recesses of the mind. Picking these bonuses doesn’t drastically change the action, but they provide a nice avenue for customization. Subtle bonuses let you alter various aspects of your playstyle I selected traits for a higher health pool and taking less damage while stationary, allowing me to handle trading fire from cover much more easily. While the multiple ending paths you can take won’t blow you away, they’re a neat little incentive to go back and replay missions another way.Ī character creator allows you to pick several profile perks to tailor your approach to the campaign.
Taking Call of Duty to these weird places has been hit-and-miss in the past, but this story resonates well as you unearth its mysteries and make choices. It starts out with a classic Call of Duty guns-blazing soiree, transitions into more of a spy-vs-spy affair, and then goes off the rails with some absolutely wild, reality-warping fare. The campaign is an enjoyable-but-short return to form for Black Ops.
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