![]() There’s not an awful lot the series could do to bring newcomers over to explore all of the new mechanics being used by whichever Activision studios turn it is to churn out the latest version, so they don’t bother. You could argue that Call of Duty has been famous for sticking to its tried and tested formula for the longest time – barring 2018’s Black Ops 4 which dropped in a Battle Royale instead of a campaign – you know what you’re going to get and you’re either on board or you’re not. If you took out Mason, Woods and replaced them with Soap and Price, you’d think you were playing the same game. ![]() I say that because the campaign feels almost exactly the same as 2019’s Modern Warfare. Call of Duty is back once again and it’s still a ton of utterly brainless, exciting escapism, whilst offering very little in the way of innovation. Now that there’s a bizarre but hugely successful cross-transition Battle Royale also to contend with, Cold War has its work cut out for it to stand out as a true Call of Duty classic, and whilst it’s nowhere near such heights of Modern Warfare, its sequel or the original Black Ops, there’s a familiarity here that stands alongside the AAA blockbuster insanity it’s oh so famous for. Still, it all immediately came back to me when firing up Black Ops Cold War for the first time on PS5, and how Ghosts seems like such a stripped back, simple experience in comparison. There was an air of freshness about it, and I still miss Riley. It was hugely exciting to play the game on a brand new system, even if it wasn’t even close to being in the top ten of all time classic titles in the series. I remember when Ghosts, of all the Call of Duty’s, was the flagship iteration leading into the release of the PS4. Black Ops Cold War treads a familiar path, but adds an extra layer of kaboom just for good measure.
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