Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Reviews

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is ranked in the 91st percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
Recommended
Oct 16, 2018

Call of Duty nails battle royale with a blistering, jank-free experience.

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IGN
Top Critic
8.5 / 10.0
Oct 20, 2018

Black Ops 4 has a few rough edges, but any of its three modes make for an enjoyable shooter experience that feel distinct and personalized.

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78 / 100
Oct 17, 2018

A quality-made but unsurprising multiplayer FPS that offers refined versions of the current most popular modes and top-tier shooting.

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8.5 / 10.0
Oct 25, 2018
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Oct 19, 2018

The lack of campaign is sorely missed in this bold new direction for Call of Duty, but the multiplayer shines like never before.

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Metro GameCentral
GameCentral
Top Critic
8 / 10
Oct 19, 2018

The best Call Of Duty of the generation and while some will bemoan the lack of a story campaign, it's hard to argue with the quality and quantity of content on offer.

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9.5 / 10.0
Oct 10, 2018

Whatever you're looking for in your online shooter, Black Ops 4 offers an impressive, highly enjoyable content suite that should keep you coming back for more

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8 / 10
Oct 17, 2018

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is both broad and deep, but the star is its smartly executed take on battle royale, Blackout.

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Polygon
Top Critic
Unscored
Oct 12, 2018

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is the most 2018 game release you can imagine, and it might be one of Activision's most forward-looking moves in recent memory.

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Unscored
Oct 12, 2018

As a cornucopia of multiplayer action, what I've played of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 feels like it delivers.

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8 / 10.0
Oct 14, 2018

How well Activision manages Black Ops 4 will possibly influence the entire future of the series. For now, two thirds of it is rising to the occasion.

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Oct 16, 2018

With all things considered, Call of Duty Black Ops 4 achieves its score with room to improve… or plummet.

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9 / 10
Oct 19, 2018

Black Ops 4's Blackout is clearly the star of the show, with Treyarch making this Battle Royale business look easy, but it's standing on the shoulders of a great all round multiplayer experience and a Zombies mode that's bigger and more streamlined than ever. You might still miss having a single player campaign, and there's work to be done to ensure Blackout's longevity, but this could easily be the start of a new era of Call of Duty.

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8.5 / 10.0
Oct 17, 2018

Treyarch and Activision have managed to achieve with Black Ops 4 exactly what fans were asking for. An addictive multiplayer mode, a bigger than ever zombie experience and a Blackout option that despite of it being in the need for improvements, leaves a really good impression. The Call of Duty saga is back for good with a game that will certainly be worthy of your time.

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Erik Kain
Top Critic
9 / 10.0
Oct 30, 2018

If you're only here for the campaign, there's no reason for you to buy Black Ops 4. But if you're a multiplayer gamer and enjoy battle royale games, there's plenty of great, addictive content to keep you playing for months on end.

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8 / 10
Oct 11, 2018

Black Ops 4 feels like one of the strongest Call of Duty entries to come along in years. Despite not having a solo campaign or some of the past games' more bombastic mechanics, Treyarch has proved the adage that "less is more." And this game's "less" is good enough to keep me waiting around for "more."

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Unscored
Oct 19, 2018

A competent, carefully crafted but ultimately safe iteration in a long, storied franchise that, frankly, has much better entries. Yet it's also one of the most distinct Call of Duty games, an obvious bid at turning the series into a one-stop-shop multiplayer extravaganza—the only game Call of Duty fans will ever need. Until next year, at least.

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8.6 / 10.0
Oct 16, 2018

If you manage to go beyond the absence of the single campaign, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is a solid multiplayer shooter full of content.

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8.4 / 10.0
Oct 15, 2018

We are missing it's campaign, but our tears will be wiped by the excellent Blackout mode or it's expanded multiplayer or coop options. A great Call of Duty if you are one of those that weren't into it's single player campaign.

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9 / 10.0
Oct 19, 2018

Black Ops 4 is an excellent entry into the series. Some may mourn the loss of the single player campaign, but this is the tightest most balanced multiplayer the franchise has seen in a long while.

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