Call of Duty: Black Ops 6

It has been 5 years since I bought a Call of Duty so close to its release date, so I thought I would dive into the newest Call of Duty which is Black Ops 6. When I was younger, I loved the first two Black Ops games and I have recently played Cold War, so hopefully this game can live up to all its hype and deliver. The premise of the game sees Woods & Adler assemble a new team in an attempt to take down a new rogue enemy called The Pantheon.

Characters So in this game you play as Case, an operative of the CIA and unfortunately just like Black Ops: Cold War he is a silent protagonist. I complained about it there and I will do the same here as I really do find it hard to connect to a silent character and I just wish a voice actor could have been found. They do some things to try and make him interesting but it isn't enough and it is a shame that this isn't a memorable protagonist.

Luckily, the rest of the cast are great. Damon Victor Allen reprises his role as Frank Woods and Bruce Thomas reprises his role as Russel Adler and both are great. Adler does take a bit of a step back and isn't as vital here, but he still plays a decent part in the game and I really like the character. This game is set after the events of the past storyline in Black Ops 2 meaning a lot has happened to Woods and I really liked how the game handled that issue and made Woods feel like a more sympathetic character.

Y'lan Noel Plays Troy Marshall and he is a great new character in the franchise. He is the de-facto leader of the new team and I liked how he struggled to handle it sometimes but was also a strong character. He was just a cool addition to the game and a great new protagonist.

Karen David plays Sevati Dumas & Seamus Dever plays Felix Neuman and these are also great members of this team. Sevati is a trained assassin but has a bit of a tragic past and struggles with the fact that she is good at her job. Felix is struggling with causing violence and this moral dilemma is bought up quite a lot and it is something new for a character in a Call of Duty game.

Story The story is definitely a tale of two halves. Firstly, I really liked the team dynamic and the interactions between your squad mates, it made the world feel alive and that these characters were developing throughout. The missions are mostly really fun and I will credit the game developers for adding some real variety here and showing they really cared about this campaign. But this game overdoes it at times and doesn't feel like a COD game, it seems like it loves Zombies so much that they wanted to put it in the campaign too and it was really overused here. The ending is also really weak and feels completely out of place, focusing on a secondary character that isn't even that interesting.

Side Content This game has absolutely loads of content here and it is once again a bit of a mixed bag. The online multiplayer is fantastic, I have maybe never had so much fun on a Call of Duty as I have had on this one when it comes to online. It does have some lag issues but it didn't hinder me too much and hopefully that will get sorted as the future content is released.

Also Zombies is back and to probably nobody's surprise, I didn't really care for it. They have just really commercialised Zombies and it doesn't have the same grit as it did before, it is all over the place and the story offers very little. I appreciate, I am in the minority in terms of not caring for zombies but I just can't deny that I am not a fan.

Gameplay The gameplay is fantastic, as I mentioned above I had some much fun playing this game. It had that feeling of 1 more game, I couldn't stop playing and that is because of how fast it moved, how good the weapons are and how much I enjoyed the majority of the new maps. The issues I had with Cold War are mostly gone for me and this is just so much fun to play.

Graphics The game looks fantastic on the PS5, it is a huge upgrade on Cold War and the characters look fantastic. The backgrounds are great too with the maps standing out from each other and all adding their own little bit of flavour. The weapons are also really well realised, they sound great and the game allows you to design it to your own desire.

Overall Overall, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is a good game. It improve its graphics and gameplay and shows potential in its campaign. But it falls a little short in being this legendary shooter and that is a slight shame. Hopefully Call of Duty takes all the good things they did here and look to build on that for its eventual sequels.

Rating - 7/10.

I really love this game-it's a lot of fun. All the modes are great, upgrading weapons is awesome, and the new maps and game modes are well done (some maps are just okay, but most are excellent). The story and lore are also really cool and interesting. It is a bit pricey on Steam, but you can get it on Xbox GamePass for twenty dollars.

Now for the main issue: the HQ feature that comes with all the recent Call of Duty games and Warzone. It takes up a lot of storage space, and honestly, it's just a bad idea. If I buy Black Ops 6, I want just Black Ops 6-not Black Ops 6 plus a bunch of other Call of Duty games! There's probably a way to remove it, but it's annoying, and it's disappointing they included that.

Overall, it's a great game-super fun, with new maps coming in November, which is awesome. Without the HQ feature, I'd rate it a 9/10, maybe even a 10/10. Hope this helped!

Overall it is a great game after the appalling performance of modern warfare 3. The game containing the new omni-movement system has added better gameplay and more openness than any other call of duty games. When it is also available in the campaign you can enjoy diving off balconies in multiplayer. The zombies returned with round-based and it was ok but the map itself wasn't very "iconic". Last years campaign was terrible but the action-packed Call Of Duty BLACK OPS 6 lives up to its billling for sure.

Being one of the longest campaigns in history for Call Of Duty is a good thing having only 11 missions. But in between each mission there is what is called a rook mission where you go to the safe house and spend the money that you collect from the previous mission to spend on upgrades in your safe house.

This game is worth the money and the time but you will have to get used to the omni-movement in both campaign multiplayer and zombies enjoy BLACK OPS 6 play and like if you agree with me!👍

As much as I scoff when the annual COD rolls around I will admit I have a soft spot for the Black Ops entries. Most of them outside of maybe the 3rd and 4th entries are pretty good. The first will always be my favorite followed by the 2nd and I think dare I say the 6th entry here might be in my top 3 Black Ops campaigns to date. It gets the A for effort at the very least for trying to mix things up and not just have a completely guns blazing experience. Some missions felt like they were extracted and ripped straight from a F. E. A. R. video game, mixing in elements of suspense and even horror tropes which I thoroughly appreciated. There were even some lite puzzle solving in some of the more slower paced suspenseful levels while other levels when slowing things down felt like you were playing a Mission Impossible or Ocean's 11 style heist mission. And the final set of missions kept teetering back and forth between the high octane action and mysterious segments which I thought were pretty cool. Overall if you are curious about the COD campaign in between the online fray I'd say this is definitely worth a peek and since it's only the usual 6-8 hours to complete it can be blown through in a single weekend. Thanks Game Pass. 68 billion well spent Microsoft.

Modern Warfare 3 (2023) was an unsuccessful addition to the Call Of Duty franchise and so for the first time, I did choose not to buy this Call Of Duty game before it was released. Every year I pre-order. However, after being so disappointed with the last entry, I did not have high hopes for this new one. I heard it was going on the Xbox game pass and so I chose to try and give it a go! I thought it was going to be bad. I was proven wrong!

I managed to complete the campaign yesterday and I was really impressed! The narrative was unique. The story was intriguing. The involvement of horror elements worked well. The gameplay mechanics were smooth. Overall, I felt the campaign was really enjoyable!

The multiplayer was such an improvement over MW3's multiplayer! The maps are so much better! There is more variation when it comes to locations and environments. The omnidirectional movement works really well, making the game feel more fast paced and satisfying and the lobby music / soundtrack is awesome! Reminds me of Blacks Ops 2.

I have not played the zombies yet. However, my fondness for this game is so high, that i'm actually looking forward to playing it!

I was concerned last year for the Call Of Duty franchise. MW3 was such a disappointment that I was worried that maybe the franchise had had its day. Black Ops 6 has genuinely surprised me! It's a good game guys. Give it a go! You won't be disappointed this time!