Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Reviews
Black Ops 7 delivers a rollercoaster ride of the franchise's recent highs and lows. Without the campaign, it could almost be considered a strong addition to the series. But judging the story mode on its own paints a very different picture. Even with its weakest campaign to date, the game still offers enjoyable multiplayer and an excellent Zombies experience, leaving the overall product balanced right on the borderline. Activision's willingness to listen to fans and adjust various aspects shows the team is moving in the right direction, if only the narrative hadn't turned out so poorly.
Review in Persian | Read full review
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 takes too many risks in its campaign and, even while earning points for innovation, ends up delivering a bizarre and disjointed plot that attempts to blend science fiction with fantasy elements, seasoned with touches of surrealism, paranoia, and cheap horror. While maintaining a solid core in its gameplay models, refining successful aspects and reviving established mechanics, it seems to overuse recycled content, AI-generated elements, and a generic art style that already shows signs of fatigue and exhaustion, making it a game as dense as it is unbalanced.
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Whether you enjoy Black Ops 7 largely depends on what you expect from a first-person shooter. If you’re mainly looking for a strong story campaign, the new Call of Duty is genuinely disappointing—even with the addition of co-op. But if you return to the series every year for its multiplayer and Zombies modes, Black Ops 7 delivers a fun experience with excellent gunplay, solid maps, and an exciting Zombies mode. Still, the changes in these modes aren’t substantial enough compared to the previous entry to justify a full-price purchase. So, if you’re a Game Pass subscriber, Black Ops 7 is definitely worth downloading. For other platforms, though, it might be wiser to wait until future seasons add more content or to pick it up during a good discount.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 a solid package, offering yet more enjoyable zombie antics and fast-paced multiplayer fun across some well-designed maps. Its outrageous campaign will be divisive, however, pitting players against giant plants, grotesque spiders and more during its running time.
Black Ops 7 delivers fun in Zombies and online modes, but feels distant from the series in identity and gameplay. The campaign is modest, with bold design choices that often miss the mark or feel frustrating. Overall, it's a decent entry just not up to the expectations set by the game's marketing.
Review in Arabic | Read full review
Black Ops 7 takes the series into 2035 with high-tech gear, drones and fast, explosive combat. Its biggest swing is a co-op focused campaign built around hallucination-driven missions that constantly twist environments and tone. Zombies returns to classic round-based action with multiple modes, while multiplayer keeps the sharp, fast Black Ops feel, now boosted by futuristic abilities and expanded movement. It's a bolder, less traditional entry that leans heavily into co-op and high-energy action rather than classic grounded storytelling.
Review in Slovak | Read full review
Black Ops 7 simply isn't worth playing for its campaign mode, so if that's what you dip into the Call of Duty series for every now and then, you can simply skip this year's entry. Based on my recent beta impressions I have hope that multiplayer and Zombies can drag this game up - and to be fair, if online PvE co-op is of interest to you, your mileage may go further here.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 attempts to compensate for its excessive continuity with an immense amount of content. It has the best multiplayer in the series in years, and Final Objective is a fantastic addition with the potential to be memorable. However, its terrible campaign and its desire to refine the usual formula make it a notable game, but not an excellent one.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
The biggest Black Ops ever: packed with content and fun, but with a weak campaign and a few aspects that need refinement.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is a robust package and a companion title to 2024’s Black Ops 6. The game features a unique RPG-style co-op mode, sees the return of the fan-favorite Zombies, and contains a solid multiplayer offering that fans and newcomers alike will enjoy. While the lack of a true campaign is disappointing and the nonsensical story holds it back, the other modes are more than worth the time.
Packed with awful mission design, an always-online campaign mode, nauseating AI slop, and microtransactions everywhere, Black Ops 7 is the nadir for the iconic franchise and a miserable experience all around.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 delivers solid and satisfying multiplayer gameplay. However, its campaign is a major letdown, suffering from a convoluted, overly hallucinatory narrative and a disjointed Co-Op-focused structure. This significantly lowers the overall quality, making the story unremarkable even with familiar characters. Ultimately, Black Ops 7 had the potential to be a much better and more memorable title. Yet, if you're primarily looking for a game to enjoy its multiplayer or Zombies modes, it will likely keep you entertained.
Review in Persian | Read full review
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 has turned out to be the Mr. Hyde to the Dr. Jekyll represented by the previous installment of Activision's long-running series. Whereas last year we enjoyed a surprising campaign and a solid multiplayer mode, albeit lacking in particularly inspired launch content, Black Ops 7 does the exact opposite. The campaign disappoints resoundingly and without appeal, ending up evoking the ghosts of the controversial Modern Warfare III, while the multiplayer is more vast and rich than ever this year. But the biggest problem, at the end of the day, is that the series seems to have reached a critical point, likely crushed by a formula of annual releases that prevent it from delivering a complete package. Above all, Black Ops 7 highlights another element: the static nature of a gameplay formula that is increasingly feeling the weight of the years. And in a 2025 where the series has been overshadowed by hungry competition, reflection on the future of the franchise becomes inevitable and unavoidable.
Review in Italian | Read full review
The Campaign in Black Ops 7 is now designed as an 'always online' co-op experience, meaning you can't pause while playing the story alone. In addition, you are immediately thrown into an unrealistic action bomb, full of super jumps, mutated enemies and bosses that seemingly eat every bullet. However, the Zombies mode goes big with 'Ashes of the Damned', the largest map in the history of the franchise. To traverse this gigantic playing field, the 'Ol' Tessie' truck is essential, as it serves both transport and weapon upgrades (Pack-A-Punch). However, this map is extremely unforgiving, with a successful run taking hours and failure losing all progress and items due to the lack of checkpoints. This is made worse by the Gobblegum system, where rare, powerful bonuses can be purchased with real money, creating a distinct 'pay-to-win' feel. Frustration reaches a peak when technical bugs wipe out your hours of effort and your potentially precious items in an instant.
Review in Dutch | Read full review
The Black Ops 7 campaign is undoubtedly a failed experiment. Its cooperative design, which forces players to be constantly online, and mechanics worthy of a looter shooter result in a confusing, poorly balanced experience, stripped of the series' traditional identity. So again, more than an innovation, this new Call of Duty feels like an update.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is yet another instalment in the franchise exhibiting a futuristic campaign hampered by psychological clichés and a content-saturated multiplayer mode which sticks to the series’ staples. While bold in its nature, the game’s campaign relies almost entirely on back-to-back armed confrontations lacking depth and detail, as well as solely being playable on server-based lobbies. The multiplayer experience comes across as well-rounded but overall stale.
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There’s also the question of value. Following Black Ops 6 so quickly means you’re essentially asking players to commit to another year-long engagement with a very similar experience. The improvements are meaningful, but incremental. If you burned out on Black Ops 6, this won’t change things.
Call of Duty Black Ops 7 delivers a huge amount of content across its campaign, multiplayer and zombies modes with impressive visuals and ambitious ideas. The campaign tries to create psychological horror and succeeds at times, but the absence of a pause option, unreliable saves, missing partner characters in solo missions and uneven pacing can make it frustrating. Multiplayer and zombies remain the most enjoyable parts with satisfying gunplay, good movement and plenty of variety, even if some maps feel unbalanced and the twenty versus twenty mode needs tuning. Overall it is a generous but uneven package.
Review in French | Read full review
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is a title that functions well at its core, yet its shortcomings are prominent enough to noticeably diminish the overall experience. The game delivers impressive technical polish, impactful sound design, and the intense firearm feedback the franchise is known for. However, these strengths aren’t quite enough to compensate for several structural weaknesses. The campaign presents some promising ideas, but much of it feels underdeveloped. The narrative comes across as unfinished as if compelling concepts were put on the table but never fully explored. The result is a campaign that entertains moment to moment, yet rarely leaves a lasting impression or offers standout sequences. Multiplayer, however, exposes the game’s most significant flaw. Black Ops 7 embraces extreme, relentless speed, resulting in adrenaline-fueled action but also a noticeably uneven gameplay flow. Matches often descend into chaos, the time-to-kill is extremely low, and the overall system heavily favors quick reflexes over tactical planning or thoughtful positioning. It can be thrilling in short bursts, but over extended sessions it becomes fatiguing and starts to feel repetitive. In the end, Black Ops 7 feels like a game brimming with potential that it never fully capitalizes on. It’s far from a bad entry, but it never reaches the heights the series is capable of. The action is intense yet frequently overindulgent, leaving little room for meaningful variation. The campaign plays like a short-lived fever dream intriguing but ultimately forgettable. Meanwhile, the multiplayer is undeniably dynamic, but too unbalanced and chaotic to sustain long-term motivation.
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