Everything GREAT About Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War!
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EY, YOU NOT ALONE ON PTSD FROM POLAR EXPRESS DOLL SCENE, IM WITH YOU LMAO
Are going to do the rest of the god of war franchise?
Can we actually talk about how sick this campaign is from the twist to the 80s tech to the options throughout the game like for the Russian embassy mission and how many options you get throughout so good I mean we’ve got a job to do. Such a good line. The fan base for this game really annoyed me not all of them but when for the campaign if you save park which I did the fan base going SIMP SIMP nah shes the better character and we had more bond with park
I took too long and left both of them to die. And just as I made my decision I was zipped up and away from them.
@@annpc5284 F
Don't really want to be "that guy", but it wasn't the embassy, it was the Lubyanka, HQ/Archive of the FSB
@@Harzberg nah you can be that guy that’s fine
@@dyloosutherland3075 that's nice of you :)
Finnally A game thats not everyones childhood.
and it wasn’t very good, what a shame.
Inb4 kids watching this video after 20 years
@@AntiQuake story was good
@@platinumwolf526 yeah I thought it was alright, just didn’t like the characters at all. If Treyarch had the game the whole time I bet this would’ve been a top three campaign though. But they didn’t so it’s just average even with a pretty good story.
Thank you for being honest
In the Vietnam section, you're riding a Huey, not a Hind. Hueys are famous for their appearance as the US helicopter in Vietnam. While Cobras were used, they paled in numbers to the Huey which is one of the biggest symbols of the war.
The Hind is a Russian assault helicopter, not entirely different but has a slightly different role and looks very different. It was also used by the Soviets, not the Americans.
The only thing but knocked me out of the fun of this game though is the models depicted are Ns which didn't fly until the 1980s, had completely different engines and you can see in the exhaust nacelle which just makes it look wrong for the setting. Makes me wonder if they jut decided to use an old model from modern warfare as opposed to creating something more appropriate?
@@indianajon7980 Well, Modern Warfare didn't use any Huey models, none of them existed. Black Ops has always been a series which featured a huge amount of anachronistic things- most of the weapons and vehicles were in the original Black Ops, or at least a large amount of them were.
Black Ops I let you control an Mi-24 Hind A for a mission, but that helicopter wasn't a thing until 1974, and that mission was 1968, for example. And many of the guns weren't out for years if not decades.
@@indianajon7980 well actually their I think is a reason?
@@indianajon7980a lot of the firearms in the Black Ops games are anachronistic.
I was just about to comment that they were riding in a Huey. That's my favorite helicopter of all time, so I love it when it gets recognition in film, and video games alike. Just a beautiful aircraft. I know what you guys are talking about when it comes to the weapons that didn't exist, or weren't used during the conflicts depicted in the original Black Ops. The G11 for example was a prototype. It was never brought out into the field. From what I've heard only 10 were ever made. Still badass.
17:21 The red doors could also be a reference to the Rolling Stones song "Paint it Black". Especially with the very first lyrics in the song. The song was even used for trailers back in BO3
I see a red door and I want it painted black
Damn, that's good catch, never would've think of it.
Imagine the Break on Through mission but from the perspective of someone watching Adler guide Bell
Bell's just unconscious on the table muttering "I fell in a pit and there were zombies and spooky voice laughing" while Adler just gets progressively more annoyed.
Hudsons perspective, watching it happen and getting balder from stress and anger somehow
I didn't think the Lie ending was sad at all. Sure, in the beginning Bell was just a source of intel to the team, but by the end of the game you've fought alongside these people and risked your life for theirs. It broke my heart to save Lazir and have him still obey Adler in giving Bell more doses of whatever drug despite him knowing it could kill them.
Even after lying to Bell the entire game and getting Bell to tell the truth in good faith, Adler lies AGAIN and tells Bell "you're still one of us" before killing them sometime after. Maybe the whole team didn't deserve to die but Adler is (imo) one of the biggest bastards in CoD.
Bell's happy ending would probably be the Lie ending as they once again in control of their own destiny and shown loyalty in kind by the Perseus group when they help in the ambush. Hell, one of the LEADERS of Perseus shows up PERSONALLY to help Bell exact revenge and welcome Bell back into their arms.
The nukes are still bad though :/
It begs the interesting question though: The world, or 'family'?
There’s that, and also Woods and Mason dying. Which is a big no-no in my book
@@knightmare5097 they're the discount onion versions of once great characters
Adler is the best damn spook I've ever seen on camera, no matter what ending we pick, he's a Judas. His betrayl to Bell was gut-wrenching. It's so easy to hate that son of a bitch and that speaks volumes to the performance and character development put into this campaign. Phenomenol performance.
@@leonrussell9607 “I’m a goddamn onion, Mason”
9:46 THANK YOU FINALLY SOMEONE WHO ALSO HAD THE SAME PTSD ON THIS MISSON, as a wise crazed old man said “So we are the same, (gaming wins). Shaped by those we have lost.”
During bells memory section at the end of the game you can actually find zombies in a tunnel rat section. I was playing late at night when I found it. It scared me so bad I yelled and woke my parents up they were not happy
Baller
man I can't belive you skipped the bo4 campaign. It was filled with so many great twists and turns that served as a great addition to the Black Ops lore.
I loved Menendez's long lost brother Bromendez, when he started breakdancing in the interrogation room I lost it
@@AmyRoseWasHere I loved that he said, "train go boom" right before he breakdanced too. Great callback to an amazing line from BO3.
@@SeaGLGamingi loved when Davids son broke through the glass kicking bromendez in the nuts while punching his face. then he killed a clicker with galvaknuckles
I think this game had excellent callbacks and foreshadowing. The fact Bell can read hidden messages, one being about JFK's assassination shows they were brainwashed all along, and references Mason being brainwashed to kill JFK.
Black Ops Cold War was a true successor to the amazing, creative and nostalgic COD campaign's of the late 00's and early 2010's. The missions were all creative and unique, the characters were amazing and memorable. The Numbers in Mason's section were a creative callback. The Soviet Kremlin mission was amazing and had some hitman and fallout vibes. The "breaking through" mission with the flashbacks and revelations of Bell's brainwashing was excellent. Adler's character is up there with characters like Price, Soap, Woods and Mason
So, wierd thing, when making Bell's little character profile at the start of the campaign, I chose ex-KGB as their background, not realizing how close it would be to the actual reveal of Bell being part of Perseus. Just a little coincidence I thought was humerous after realising, even if the profile on Bell is everything fabricated by Adler.
I made Bell's actual surname Bell, since I thought it would be funny.
I got the good ending for the game but never trusted Adler. When he was talking to us I knew what was about to happen, so was prepped for a possible quick time event. When we both drew our guns I was mashing the right trigger so fast.
"COD and Doritos go together like superpowers and proxy wars" Needs to be put on a T-shirt.
I love this game, I wish it could've gotten more love during development. If they started the 2 year cycle with MW19 it would've been so good. The opening shot with Spirit In The Sky is still my favorite shot in recent CODs.
18:53 although that’s the only one where you don’t die. And since I’m a cold hearted black heartless person, that was my original choice because I unfortunately knew what happened in each ending
This is the only black ops game that I have played (I’m more of a modern warfare boy and BO 1 and 2 aren’t on PS4)
Also PLEASE do either MW2 (original) or the transformers cybertron games
If he did war for cybertron and fall of cybertron that would be awesome!
@@sgtroach1510 Totally!
I actually liked the campaign and it felt a little like Black Ops and Modern Warfare mixed together to make a beautiful experience. They also put some horror into the campaign which made it even better. I beat it in Realism and I felt so accomplished after.
For me Black Ops Cold War was a return to made what made the black ops games (black ops 1 & 2) black ops games. Black ops and 3 & 4 had some tie ins and references to previous games but BO3 and B04 just don’t feel like black ops games especially black ops 3.
Solid campaign imo, idk what it is but I haven’t quite found that “replay-ability” with it but it’s a silver lining with recent campaigns for sure
I mean, there's the Break on Through mission which as a ton of replay ability, but yeah, the choices don't really matter at all
@@ClonedGamer001 i agree except for the last choice that's the only one that really matters
There’s the whole “evidence” side plot, which can get you side missions and change the outcome of the ending you get (if only through the narration at the end)
Can't believe you didn't win the game for the Lie ending. Don't care if it's not canon it's fucking awesome. When the music hits....godDAMN
I love Cold War’s campaign, and Adler was a great new character. (Easily one of my new favorites) I also loved how you could choose the name, effects, etc of Bell. Such an amazing campaign.
12:43 Back in 2020, Activision decided they're going to make all CODs going forward canon. Here are the current "canon" games that are in the same timeline.
World at War
WW2
Vanguard
Black Ops 1
Black Ops Cold War
Modern Warfare 2019
Modern Warfare 2 2022
drop WW2 and/or Vanguard from that list and I am perfectly fine with that
Loved Cold War's campaign. I still prefer BO2 over it though, but it was fun! Really hope you do MW19, WW2, and Vanguard soon. I absolutely LOVED Vanguard's campaign!
The lighter in the beginning instantly reminded me of the old 80s spy TV show ''Mission Impossible'' ( way before it became the Tom Cruise featuring movie franchise), which started in similar manner with a sole match lighting a fuse
I feel it was meant to be a call-back to the original Black Ops
If you really like the Cold War vibes of this, maybe you want to check out "Phantom Doctrine"?
It's a Cold War based XCOM-like game.
Very fun.
Got some twists.
Thank God you skipped Black Ops 4, that game has no good qualities in it whatsoever.
So bad they didn’t even try with a campaign 😂
i just finished my first-time playthrough of Cold War just so I could watch the video without spoiling myself (COD campaigns aren't exactly the longest affairs, so not exactly difficult). I agree with your saying that the campaign is way too short for all the good ideas it had. I think it took me something like five, six hours tops and I was really taking my time with it. Something I noticed that was interesting: For that mindbending mission I seesawed violently between obeying Adler's narrative prompts and defying them, but I never got that projector building the door scene, nor do I remember ever seeing enemies turn into Adler, though I did see lots of other interesting, surreal and creepy things that you didn't mention. I wonder just how many variations of that mission are there? It definitely makes me want to go back and play it multiple times to find out. Which I guess is kind of the point, so mission accomplished?
That trippy mission was probably my favorite one in the whole game though--it had so much disorienting and creepy imagery it actually managed to make me feel unsettled. I wish they used more of that horror element in the rest of the game. I also really enjoyed the Berlin Wall mission--that one was too short compared to the rest of the game, in my opinion; but then again, I just really enjoy undercover spy fiction and tend to prefer the more subtle intel gathering stuff rather than the Bond/Bourne-esque action movie (not that I don't enjoy those too, it's just a very different aesthetic--and, I argue, an oversaturated one).
I know this is way late, but there are four possible paths/outcomes with Break on Through. Dunno if you can do them all in one play through, but I somehow popped the trophy for it after two runs. It was a total mind f*** and I loved it!
Keep up the good work my dude after this franchise you should the battlefield franchise you will love it.
And fun fact when regean is talking to Mason and woods he has a jar of jelly beans in real life he LOVED jelly beans.
What I love about the new CoD development is that since CoD is a tried and true formula, it allows the devs to try some new things each game without getting an eyebrow raised from management.
12:42 Just a cameo. New MW games and all the BO games are still separate timelines. Even if they were, their timelines wouldn't match up. For example, MWII takes place in 2022, but at this point in the BO timeline, US is in a Cold War with China, human augmentation is rampant, and we're three years out from BO2. Warzone is also its own timeline.
I loved seeing the phantom 2s, even just for a second to only drop napalm. And this whole game is a aesthetic.
Treyarch has always been the CoD studio that tried to make the absolute most out of their campaigns and side content like Zombies.
Not all stories hit well but you can see that the people there are passionate when it comes to their stories they want to tell.
I always wished Activision would say " hey skip out on the multiplayer and just make a cool singleplayer" and then delivere what they can do at full force. A full 10+ hours singleplayer or even a Zombies game with its storyline, which is far too extensive for something that seems to happen " on the side"
Cold War has been once again been an attempt to do something great. It may not have landed a perfect landing but it sure aimed well.
Real talk though- given the betrayal that you face in the "Good Ending" as Bell, I was...almost drawn to the "Bad Ending" as being the actual good one.
Do millions die at your hand?
Sure.
Is the entire world order practically expunged leading the way for Perseus to take control of the USSR and eventually the world?
Yeah.
But...ultimately...Perseus was the only one who actually believed in Bell to do what he felt was right. Perseus was the only one who was willing to stand by Bell's side. He doesn't HAVE to kill Adler's team in Duga, but if you call on him, he absolutely will save you and stand by your side.
Was it the "Good Ending"? Maybe not.
But at least you weren't betrayed by those who you trusted.
Instead...you got to betray them first :D
I think Cold War made up for Black Ops 3 and 4, but I do wish they delayed it a year. There was so many glitches I experienced like falling through the map and my progression resetting. I also felt like the last two missions were rushed and didn't feel like final missions.
Oh and you forgot to get the Easter egg from Vietnam in one of the trenches, you can go through it and it’s completely black and “things” run at you I highly recommend you play that way art again it was super interesting for me
Always excited when I see that you’ve uploaded! Great game, great content!
It’s so funny cause I re-played this campaign this morning
I have to say playing this campaign made me feel like james bond with brick in the wall where you sneak around east Berlin and use tranq guns, cameras and blacklights. All and all a really fun campaign with lots of different locations. Also being able to make dialaugue and have your choices effect the missions and even others lives. I think it started off strong but did kind of fall off in the last couple missions. 7.75/10
Personally I love Cold War just because BO1 was always my favorite when I was younger. I got to feel the same vibes again when playing it, and to me it was worth the money and time, tenfold.
You should do a video on AC Origins. Trust me, you won't be disappointed. It's story is good.
Funny thing is, I couldn’t get into the new Modern Warfare, felt like rewriting history, but loving this one. Picked it up on sale, no regrets.
And my custom character was Vasili Petrenko. Defector background.
If you know, you know.
Super under rated game 🔥🔥
It honestly is a well thought out game and in the end I didn’t even attempt to shoot back at Adler and I wish they would have given us a choice on whether to pull your pistol or not
I finally got around to playing Cold War when I got my series x. It’s honestly one of my favorite of campaigns now next to WaW and Bo1. I loved it and the references my only real gripe is woods and mason aren’t their characters voices but woods is very very close minus a few scenes it’s ok but mason…oh boy that one was worse.
I don’t really think I cared much for the soundtrack of a cod game besides WaW really and a few from bo1 but Cold War one is very good.
Cold War is only brought down by its multiplayer with its awful SBMM. Zombies was awesome for me just haven’t played the last two maps due to not having friends to really.
At first I wasn't so sure about this type of Call of Duty game because of how the multiplayer looked like a massive nosedive compared to the excellent MW2019 in quality and gameplay. Playernumbers and a fair bit of a hands on myself proofed that this was unfortunatly the case. So usually you would assume that the Campaign would have a similar quality but I was pleasantly surprised to see what they made with the campaign. The dialogue options, the alternative approaches to several mission encountters, the overall MK-Ultra themed plot and setup for something much, much bigger. They really managed to create not just a new cast of intriguing characters but left me wanting more as well.
it wasn't the best of campaigns but its brim full of great ideas and potential.
When it comes to Treyarch, I always have this feeling that the people that work there want to make a totally different game alltogether but are shackled by Activisions demands to bring out a new game every 2-3 years that follows the cycle that CoD has been in since 2007.
From the Campaign to Zombies, the most fun and coolest stuff was right there. I hope when Microsoft officially takes over Activision, things can change. Let Treyarch create a cool Singleplayer game!
I actually got the bad ending my first play through, I was super posted when I found out I had been lied too the entire game by Adler, never obeying his orders and not feeling bad at all for when I had to kill him
While I love this campaign, I think CW really shines with the zombies mode. Singlehandedly my most played zombies ever
I hope you don't do "Everything great about Vanguard". I would understand if ya did, but that would still be giving that game too much credit.
Not sure If this was said already, but the part where Adler is describing bell's experience in Vietnam in the that room reminds me of Stanley Parable.
Yeah people given the new Woods voice actor shit but I actually kinda liked it and he did a god damn good job
8:18 That's a Huey not a Hind darnit!!!
Just a nitpick, but at 8:20, the player isn't in a Hind, It's a "Huey", the Bell UH-1. "Hind" is the NATO designation for the Russian Mi-24 helicopter. Sorry, can't help myself.
Cold War feels like those games where if they just had a *little* bit more time at least, it could’ve been legendary.
I really enjoyed the campaign, but it felt just a little bit too short and the choices lacked any impact compared to BO2.
But if it had one more year? Who knows, maybe it’s on BO2’s level, as unlikely as that might sound.
So in terms of whats canon MW 2019 and MW2 2022 are the only Modern Warfare games that canon to the Black Ops timeline.
Honestly? Two years later I think Cold War is an amazing cod with a great campaign, mp and zombies
13:37 I MADE THIS JOKE TOO, BECAUSE ADLER AND BELIKOV WERE JUST WALKING AS IF WE WERE IN NO RUSSIAN.
“No more Russians” never laughed so hard 💀💀💀💀💀
It’d be so badass to see Price, Ghost, Soap, Woods, and Mason.
That was a damn smooth transition to the ad
8:20
the hind is a Russian gunship that can transport troops
that is a "Huey" utility helicopter
when i played this, my dad wanted to know if adler was voiced by Robert Redford and is that why he looks like him. in a way, he really does look like him. lol.
I really liked the LIE ending, so different, and our friend Perseus looks super badass in that coat xd
Imagine COD releasing every two years and activison let treyarch and infinityward work on one titel. We would have a working multiplayer and a mindblowing campaign
Hate this game all you want, but I LOVED zombies
it just means that the mw reboot trilogy is connected to black ops
Grateful to have been a kid the 80's. Just makes this game FAR MORE FUN.
I just searched Cold War and seen gamingwins posted! Hell yeah!
5:54 Since you asked we've been doing it for decades without it being a problem. Hitler, Stalin, with Red Alert being praised for how accurate and realistic his madness was. Xao. Pol Pot. Yet because some hate say Reagan he's off limits. Depicting atrocities committed by the Japanese in World War Two is supposed to be off limits. The bombing of Hiroshima, that's supposed to be off limits. Just like night I watched a video of someone saying basically, "I hate the Strike games I hate the Strike games I hate the Strike games," those helicopter shooters. "I hate the Strike games because one of them had rogue ops, I hate the Strike games because one had depictions of Vietnam."
I'm two minds about it. On the one hand I think little if anything should be off limits. Graphic depictions of The Sound of Freedom's content or The Handmaid's Tale? Go for it. On the other there is the question of taste, viewers, players, should know going in what type of content they're going to see. I think what would be the deal breaker is whether there is a political message attached to it. Someone showing Nazi atrocities in a game, absolutely. Someone showing Nazi atrocities in a game and saying this is freaking sweet we should have this today, errr...
Glad Raven Software brought the Black Ops campaigns back on track after whatever Bo3 was and Bo4 obviously lacking one.
There’s a great detail where when you’re in the safe house and if you walk off you can see Adler watching you and when you spot him he looks away again!
A flawed but good game , definitely not their worst nor their best , in comparison to say ,vanguard ,this game is gold in comparison, but in comparison to modern warfare 2019 , this game is just okay. But at least it had zombies
For how much I didn’t enjoy Cold War I truly didn’t hate the campaign
That was the perfect way to describe it lmao
I’m really hoping that you cover the Bioshock games.
They are the closest thing to art in the video game sphere.
Actually, the US used Hueys, Hinds were russian
While I appreciate what Treyarch was trying to do, it really feels like they’re just rethreading the same twists from Black Ops 1 just for fanservice sake.
Going back to Yamantau kinda solidified that idea in my head too.
This game could have been great if it had nice feeling, non-tacky weapons and good blood effects
4:26 I have Salamon shoes and boots which are both waterproof
Perseus looks like Gerneral Sheperd from MW2 only with Sowjet uniform
I‘m gonna give Tryarch credit for having Ghassem and Arash the typical Persian accent, especially with Ghassem‘s nose 😂😂😂
Bocw is still my favourite cod.........sue me
Bro really picked park 💀 lazar all the way
I need a pair at least of those shoes cuz delivering package for Amazon Flex and starts pouring my shoes get wet.
YES I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE FOR MONTHS THANK YOU
I'm enjoying your series of CoD videos, so thanks - nice narratives, observations, and humour. Cold War ranks among my favourites mainly because of the Vietnam sections in the Campaign (especially the first Vietnam mission). I really wish we could have a Vietnam War-based CoD game!
Can’t wait for the mw2019 vid and Cold War is cool not just for the missions but also because it started the cod universe
Statue of Happiness? maybe this is the GTAIV/CoD crossover we have being waiting for
For what is worth, Cold War managed to be a good game, despine the issues it had going against it
So in my books it was the closest thing we got to Black Ops 1
20:29 When you say "that will never happen," you might actually be wrong. Black Ops 6 will be the first COD game released with Microsoft at the helm instead of Activision following the acquisition. Hopefully Microsoft realizes after the failure of Halo Infinite that video games need a lot of time in development to succeed.
See my problems were 1. It was short, and 2. (Not the game's fault) I thought the theme might have been the attempted Demoralization of the US a la Bezmenov as the ads portrayed, but there was none of that.
The KGB level was pretty fantastic, if more Metro than CoD.
i mean... can we all agree that for a COD game developed during a worldwide pandemic and people working from home, cold war was a good game. i loved the 80s or cold war era and this was an interesting play on it (even though the real cold war was nothing like this) but also the subtle nods to other CODs was very nice. overall, cold war yet had some issues, it had a charm that'll be unmatched. i give cold war a 7.5/10
I loved the break on though mission has I didn't trust adler and kept not listening to him and was genuinely freaked out
8:18
Not a Hind, It's a Huey Gunship. Hinds were only used by soviets and soviet allies. Super heavy gunships, loads of ordinance, room to transport a squad of troops. Basically an APC for Spetsnaz
I feel like resurrecting people has a line, a fairly vague one but a line, politicians/public figures make sense for games/shows/movies in the era, actors make sense if they were in the universe but passed away or aged too much for the scenes, nobody really cares about BO1 jfk from what i remember. the line being drawn is using dead actors as a main character, unless they expressly wanted it, your using their likeness in a way that if they were alive, would get you sued, nothing wrong with selecting an actor or design who looks similar, without trying to claim its them, and that especially works for live action.
I absolutely hated the Vietnam flashback memory expertise mission thing was. Here, do the same f-ing thing 5 times in a row except each time it will get progressively more "Alice in wonderland."
Also that final mission, I have never been happier to betray my "team" that was the best part of this campaign.
I'm okay with resurrecting dead actors / people if the story requires them to function and if the person's family gives the okay.
For instance, Lance Reddick, I hope they can have him in Horizon 3 whenever that gets made.
Okay, the Remember, No more Russians got me there as I played No Russian back in MW2. Although it reminded me of Yuri and Makarov, it was still funny none the less.
It was a good campaign, but its big weakness was its length. Just way too short of a game, I felt that it left a lot on the table. It's very clear that it was developed during the COVID times of 2020 and had to leave a lot on the cutting room floor. It's a shame that CoD Cold War was the installment that had to come out in that unlucky year, because it had the potential to really be something special.
Small fact(SPOILERS): In the choice between telling the truth and lying at the end, when you lie, the subtitle color for your teammates names immediately change from blue to red.
still……. GIMME A CONTINUATION OF BO1…. I want a true Woods and Mason getting into shenanigans game…. With some more CIA sprinkled on top
Also can we talk about how Treyarch at the time was pushed up because people were complaining about the next one of the three sections that does COD games (Sledgehammer) and people dreaded them getting the reigns. So Activison broke their cycle and pushed Treyarch to make a game a compete game cycle early thus why it is so short