This is my second log because I've since started playing the multiplayer and... I'm hooked. Tears of the Kingdom, a game I've been waiting for for four years, is out now, but instead of putting my attention towards it, I've been splitting it with this game, and mostly this game at that.

But oh well, I'm having fun so that doesn't matter. I played a lot of Call of Duty multiplayer as a kid, so it's been a fun experience seeing how much stuck with me, how much things have changed, and the memories flooding back when playing returning maps. I really like the addition of health bars and field equipment, and the movement feels better than it used to back in the day.

That said, I have a couple hang-ups.

Firstly, spawn camping is a huge problem in this game. That kind of comes with the territory, but there are workarounds. Make enemy spawns restricted areas, or make respawns take five seconds, or move spawns when multiple opponents are encroaching on it. To be clear, not all modes have this problem, but Demolition, for example, does. And a lot of maps in this game are really easy to spawn camp - I admittedly have done it without realizing at first and then forced myself to stop.

Secondly, matchmaking does not account for level differences. If you're just starting out, you're just as likely as anyone else to get put in a match with a bunch of people whose levels are in the thousands after they've prestiged dozens of times. Now, this is a two-and-a-half year old game in an annual series where the new game takes over as the main one, so finding matches at all can be difficult, but I can just tell this was a day one issue (er, people wouldn't be that high leveled day one, but you get it), I hope one of the games since then or coming later will fix this, but I kind of doubt it.

Well, there's my thoughts on the multiplayer. Will I make a third review for zombies? Uh, probably not, cause I'm not interested in that mode, but who knows.

[European Portuguese - Xbox Series S - Dated 23/12/2020]

Análise ao modo Campanha:
"Apesar de ser uma história enraizada em clichês narrativos (os ‘mauzões’ são os russos novamente) os mecanismos que avançam o enredo são muito bons. A jogabilidade apresenta momentos frenéticos, mas também mais calmos e furtivos, os níveis estão bem construídos e apresentados, assim como a banda sonora que acompanha a ação. Call of Duty: Black Ops – COLD WAR apresenta, nesta nova iteração da franquia, uma história adulta, coesa e interessante, destacando-se positivamente pelo clímax no fechar da cortina final."

See more @ https://caixadoulisses.wordpress.com/2020/12/23/call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war-analise-a-campanha/

Multiplayer: Treyarch never fails to impress even with the short time Activision gave them to develop this title. Good maps, smooth movement, and high TTK make this CoD title a significant improvement from MW2019.

Zombies: As someone who used to dedicate my time on CoD Zombies a fair bit when I was younger, Cold War's approach to the mode was to make it a little more catered to the casuals. I always liked the challenge with the Mode when there was a limit to how many lifelines you could have to stay alive, however with Cold War they were so many so-called innovations and features that were added that resulted in more possible lifelines and overpowering yourself and your weapons. Such things were the ability to customize the starting weapon (including attachments), leveling up the perks which at some point makes them overpowered, the rarity system where the damage of the gun could get improved significantly during the game and etc.

Other then being more casual than earlier titles the Mode was still enjoyable. One thing I did like with the new implementations was it did make it so you could have multiple purposes for playing every game session. Other then doing the Easter Eggs (which mostly was mid) there were upgrading guns, upgrading perks and unlocking camos (which was zombies exclusive).

Map pool was small and underwhelming, and it doesn't help that half of them weren't that good with Treyarch's standards of map design. However I personally enjoyed the launch map Die Maschine and Mauer Der Toten which came out after the disappointing map Firebase Z. Outbreak was a cool concept of multiple bigger maps in one with the removal of the traditional round counter. I did like how it allowed you to be more free to do whatever on each map, that being doing side missions and/or main missions. However the execution could have been better, at some point it would get repetitive with the same handful amount of mission types just cycling through and the population of zombies on the maps not being up-to-par.