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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Oct 17, 2018

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 may lack a traditional single player campaign, but its exciting multiplayer, battle royale, and Zombies modes more than make up for it.

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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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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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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 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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4 / 5.0
Oct 14, 2018

It feels good to have Treyarch back at the helm with Call of Duty: Black Ops 4.

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8.5 / 10.0
Oct 25, 2018
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Unscored
Oct 11, 2018

Call of Duty works best when it throws a diversity of experiences at you. The multiplayer game accomplishes this with the constant duels between the Specialists. The Zombies experience will keep you trying to survive for just one more round. And Blackout could provide an endless set of crazy and fun experiences.

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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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8 / 10
Oct 15, 2018

Despite the lack of a campaign and any tonal consistency, Black Ops 4 boasts a thrilling entry into the battle royale space.

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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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8.4 / 10.0
Oct 19, 2018

Black Ops 4 Step forward in the call of Duty path without having to run on walls or jump to irrational heights!

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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 15, 2018

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is fantastic, plain and simple. The concerns over the game not being worth it due to a lack of a single-player campaign seem overblown, when compared to how much effort was put into improving the online moes. This easily feels like one of the most content-filled Call of Duty entries and I can absolutely recommend picking this up, even if you're a since-jaded fan of the first-person shooter series.

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Oct 16, 2018

'Black Ops 4' delivers the best Call of Duty multiplayer battles in years.

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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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