Game released unfinished. Play of the game doesnt work. MVP screen glitches out and cant even see players. Packet burst bugs. Search and destroy defusing bomb glitches ruining competitive integrity. Spawns in all gamemodes, especially hardpoint and patrol, make it unplayable and brainless. It released with a good amount of maps but 75% or more of the maps are awful and a few are recycled from past call of duties. The camos recycle and are just different colors than the previous ones. The completionist camo is incredibly underwhelming. The camo challenges do not make sense for the class of guns, never have i had to get point blanks with a SNIPER RIFLE! The breakable barriers make some maps extremely annoying to play due to people poking holes and headglitch hiding eons away with sniper scopes on their LMGs. The game released with operators that are boring, dull, look bad, and have extremely limited customization. Developers point out that they will focus more on the competitive scene than they have in previous years but managed to mess up the Call of Duty League ruleset and not a single professional is happy with the game. The game is simply unfinished, it feels like it is in alpha, and they are not paying attention to what people what. They got rid of basic fundamental mechanics of call of duty by getting rid of the red dots on the map when people shoot which has been a feature in call of duty for a decade. Now, instead, its a perk that you have to equip.
And this is just the multiplayer...
Zombies is possibly the biggest call of duty disappointment I have experienced in a very long time. The zombies was hyped up to be new, exciting, adventurous, good story line, and so on. However, I hopped into a game and finished everything that there is to finish in literally 30 minutes, no exaggeration. No easter egg on release, no round based zombies, map is just a mashup of the multiplayer maps with lower brightness and fire added. Pack a punch is boring and doesnt add any kind of creativity or excitement to the gameplay like it used to.
Just plain bad.
The game is unfinished and sledgehammer should be embarrassed. ESPECIALLY since they had the most time any developer has ever had to create a call of duty. They were supposed to release this game last year instead of cold war but it was not finished so treyarch stepped in and rush finished cold war in the height of the pandemic so sledgehammer can continue to work on this game and 'perfect' it. With that considered it is even more disappointing. It is not like they were making a new engine for the game to run on, it is ran on the same engine as modern warfare 2019. This is a joke. Only redeeming part is the campaign. Everything else is an embarrassment.
Halo Infinite beta is this week and the multiplayer is free and that game is already better than vanguard. Horrible.