Krys DeAbreu

(ZOMBIES ONLY REVIEW!!!) The game feels so weird to play. extraction is an ok addition but it just feels like a wuss way out, compared to the classic survival which is what zombies is always about. the field upgrades and upgradeable items are alright as well, but it just feels like it purposely makes the game harder for lower level players, since they start off with worse equipment than literally anyone else. the fact that theres also no starting characters besides the operators also makes me sad, since we went from having characters with a story ark to just random soldiers with adler sims park and stitch. Why not add in weaver, or samantha maxis since we know shes still in this world, or at least one character that we can get attached to that adds something to the table besides kill quips. the camos are disappointing to say the least, considering they dont even cover most of the gun besides the body. The only camos that fully affect the guns looks is diamond and plague diamond, and even that looks like dookie. the diamonds are only on the body and then the gun is just painted over in gold(for mp) and pink (for zombies) and both dark aether and dark matter of this cod are the worst ones to date. Now for the actual map and gameplay: Honestly, pretty disappointing. making points kill-based just makes everything harder,especially when friends join in on a decent to high round because their guns dont do anything unless PAPd, and even with that it hardly makes a dent because your guns rarity also affects the damage. And with the fact that you can upgrade rarity of guns using RNG-based salvage and tech scrap along with needing to spend 50,000 essence total just makes it feel like treyarch was trying to make the players lives harder and not more fun. A small other thing is the intel, which went from being fun little easter eggs the black opps community tried finding together, to just an item that randomly drops or that you get from doing trials. Final thoughts: I love black ops, and I want cold war to be better. This game was so hyped up and the zombies trailers were so exciting since they had literally limitless ways to take this story, and in my opinion they took the laziest and worst route. It feels like multiplayer was their prime objective, bringing in all the same attachments but giving certain ones reworks( some attachments raise the chances of scrap and equipment dropping) and recycling the same operators. So all they really did was take the classic zombies we know and love, took the characters, killed them and tried replacing it with a hollow shell of what zombies once was. If I were to describe it, I would basically say that CW zombies is WW2 zombies all over again. Thats just my opinion though and I hope that treyarch will try and get zombies on track soon to be what it truly can be