Welcome to our review of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, the new annual entry in the Call of Duty line up and we played its campaign for this review!
Forced to go rogue. Hunted from within. This is Call of Duty: Black Ops 6. Developed by Treyarch and Raven, Black Ops 6 is a spy action thriller set in the early 90s, a period of transition and upheaval in global politics, characterized by the end of the Cold War and the rise of the United States as a single superpower. With a mind-bending narrative, and unbound by the rules of engagement, this is signature Black Ops.
The Black Ops 6 Campaign provides dynamic moment-to-moment gameplay that includes a variety of play spaces with blockbuster set pieces and action-packed moments, high-stakes heists, and cloak-and-dagger spy activity. In a best-in-class Multiplayer experience, players will test their skills across 16 new maps at launch, including 12 core 6v6 maps and 4 Strike maps that can be played 2v2 or 6v6.
Black Ops 6 also marks the epic return of Round-Based Zombies, the fan-favorite mode where players will take down hordes of the undead in two brand-new maps at launch. Post-launch, players can look forward to even more exciting maps and groundbreaking experiences dropping into both Multiplayer and Zombies.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 has a rather trippy campaign and it is what Microsoft and Activision needed to shine a positive spotlight on the company after a shaky year at best. Plagued with some unusual bad press, many eyes were looking at Call of Duty as their big game of the end of year. With a stellar playing multi-player and zombie mode, the continuous players got their fair share of delights and well, for many of the more casual players, the campaign is still the one they look at most. After several slightly underperforming campaigns over the last few years, the expectations were very high and well, it delivered… kinda.
In itself, this is a very diverse campaign that has a little bit of everything, from all-out tripping on LSD to bringing out the top dog in you and sniping every possible enemy coming at you. From the desert in Sadam his palace to somewhere classified in the US where you are trying to find evidence of a weapon of mass destruction. A trippy search as you get “poisoned” and have to fend off all sorts of zombies coming at you, a well played maneuver in a game franchise that was in need of a real hit.
Technically, this is the point where I have some issues, especially at the trippy level. These zombies hunt you down in such a way that if they do manage to corner you, you are a goner. There is no escaping, it is basically instant death. I could not even shoot my way out of it, half of the time, I barely got one or two zombies snuffed out, to the extent that I ended up recording my gameplay and verifying it afterward. It may be meant this way, but in all honesty, this would suck monkey balls if this was truly intended in such a way that even a gun with 100 bullets at the ready can not even save you.
Not to keep this against the game, no, the campaign might be a bit loose in the story department, but it does perform very strongly as a shooter with a variety of attack modes, from all out to going covert and trying to figure out the puzzle to snipe everyone without setting off any alarms. I loved this variety and if anything, the campaign is actually quite strong. We all know we had a few meager years in that department and well, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is here to stay and impress.
In conclusion, aside from the trippy LSD trip in the middle of the campaign, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is actually a more than decent CoD game and may even be one of its strongest titles in more than a handful of years.
