40€ for a 14 year old game...

I've owned this game on every platform and I can comfortably say it's just as good on pc only some minor differences from the console versions are different in multiplayer but overall the pc port gives the same vibes as console. Would 10/10 recommend

4.5/5
Must play campaign

Only one black person in game but unfortunately he die. Expect to see more black people in the next black ops installment

Last night I lost 1250$ gambling, if this review gets at least 50 Likes and 25 awards my best friend let me sleep in his house because my parents fired me from the house.

This is a terrible port of a good game.

FRANK WOODS
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This review only applies to the singleplayer campaign.
I guess this is what I should've expected from a direct sequel to World at War that happened to come out in 2010. In many ways, it's the most 2010 game I've ever played from 2010:
- Slow movement? Check.
- A few too many quick time events? Check.
- A few too many vehicle segments with dogcrap controls? Check.
- Haunted house level design, with the player ferried through the most linear FPS maps ever devised for a commercial FPS game up until that point? Check.
- A COD with a new theme for a new decade that happened to play host to the anniversaries of the hottest moments of the Cold War, thereby guaranteeing maximum appeal? Check.
- A general feeling of artificiality? Check. (Maybe it's my inner game designer talking, but often when the NPCs and music are rushing you, you usually don't actually need to rush and you have all the time in the world. In fact, sometimes I'd advise against rushing or you'll break the level's scripting. Even when there's a timer on the screen, that countdown is VERY generous. As in, you probably have twice the required time to complete whatever the timed objective is. I played on Veteran, and after needing to reload a few times, I realised how much of this game's AI is scripted and not reactive to your decisions at all. As a player, you have very little agency, and the gameplay essentially exists to test your accuracy with semi-realistic automatic weapons.)
- A slightly convoluted story that needs to be completed twice to really understand wtf is going on? Check. (This is in stark contrast to later live service CODs, which would much prefer that you spend your time, and therefore money, in the multiplayer.)

As always in every single game that has them, the AK-47 / STG-44 is the most OP weapon in the game and your first priority during any mission will be to drop whatever over-engineered NATO trash you start with and replace it with an AK or AK derivative. Especially when the AK47Us with extended mags start showing up... yup just forget every other weapon apart from in that mission where you need the heat optics to see enemies through gas/smoke. My heart loves that the AK is always OP in every game ever, but my brain hates it.

I like COD for different reasons to most people. It's the historical/political commentary that gets me in, at least on a discount. This one, is, uh... well it's a good game and I kinda want a Reznov body pillow, but it finishes what MW2 started in turning the series away from stories that can be taken seriously. BO1 is a lot less critical of postwar US foreign policy than I expected it to be, and throws the grey morality that I associate with most COD campaigns out the window. Seeing as half the game is set in the ****ing Vietnam War, that's a massive missed opportunity.

The story is good, don't get me wrong, but it feels (and plays) like it belongs in an 80s or 90s James Bond film. Previous CODs usually went out of their way to humanise the enemies to some extent, but BO1 is very black & white. For many people, this game (and the BO series generally) is probably their only exposure to Cold War historical themes, which is better than nothing, but in no way is it historically accurate. I guess that when the period and themes that the writers have to work with are mostly semi-classified CIA documents and conspiracy theories, some stuff has to be made up. And I gotta say, that ending was cool, in a sort of inner male politically aware teenager kinda way.

Best game of 2010? Hell no. GOTY 2010? Hell yes.

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