It makes me wish Raven was in charge of the main title for once. It has twists and turns, and even a cipher or two to solve. This story mode is a mix of Black Ops 1 style story beats with some downtime like in BO 2&3, which helps make the pacing of the game more consistent. The main story campaign this time is handled by Raven Software, whose last full story mode work is within the highly underrated Singularity, and boy is they still pretty good at this. The Soundtrack that accompanies the main story is one of the highlights for me, fitting the moment quite well and best of all, it’s available to listen to even during multiplayer matches. Loud-sounding guns and explosions that fit the more “arcadey” nature of Treyarch’s games. Sound design-wise, it is your standard CoD affair here. This shows the assimilation of the CoD games within each other since the introduction of the battle royale mode last year. But with the addition of the Warzone and Modern Warfare menus within the UI doesn’t fit the aesthetic of the game about the Cold War. The UI is almost exactly the same as what we have seen in the previous game. Kinks of the old engine I suppose, but hopefully, their next game in 3 years would see them use the new IW engine. Like once on a Zombies map, all of the zombies had black textures like they all were wearing a tuxedo and it lasted all of the 10 rounds that I was playing. Though it does come with some glitches as well. Its sharpness thanks to them placing Ray-Tracing for next-gen consoles makes it quite good-looking and smooth. I do credit Treyarch for making their aging Black Ops 3 engine work wonders with the graphics of BOCW as it doesn’t look out of place within the more superior IW 8 engine seen in Modern Warfare 2019. So, is the game good again? Has the Skill-Based Matchmaking finally been fixed? And is the story mode as bonkers as people say it has been? All in due time, folks. It’s quite weird to be covering the yearly Call of Duty game this late within its launch but thanks to the power of the patient gamer, we have gotten the latest COD game for the fraction of the price during the start of its 2nd Multiplayer season.

Cold war call of duty review