Strong spy-thriller campaign
Mentioned in ~1 in 2 positive reviews
“Probably the best BO campaign since 2012. Shame they didn't make more.”
Steam review · 8.8 h played ↗
Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Mostly Positive · 79%Mostly Positive · 79%Treyarch, Raven Software, High Moon Studios, Beenox, Activision Shanghai, Sledgehammer Games2023FPS · Shooter · Action
$59.99
Open on Steam ↗US Steam price, checked 5 h ago
The verdict
A well-liked Black Ops entry with a strong short spy campaign and fun Zombies, but the PC port suffers texture glitches, crashes and hackers. Skip it on AMD GPUs or if you want lively multiplayer.
Great for
Campaign and Zombies fans who buy on sale and want grounded, classic-feeling CoD
Main risk
Memory-leak texture glitches and crashes that Activision no longer fixes
What players love
Fun, accessible Zombies mode
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“Honestly, Cold War has one of the best Zombies modes in Call of Duty.”
Steam review · 248.1 h played ↗
Best of the modern CoDs
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“It's the perfect combination of new gen COD, and the golden age COD games.”
Steam review · 13.8 h played ↗
Multiple endings and choices
Mentioned in ~1 in 10 positive reviews
“I also like that they made it easy to play the various endings. You don't have to start from the beginning to try out the different paths you can take.”
Steam review · 8.9 h played ↗
Great gunplay and movement
Mentioned in ~1 in 15 positive reviews
“Cold War is the absolute peak of CoD movement. Not too slow, not too fast. Beautiful gunplay, mostly well-balanced.”
Steam review · 249.9 h played ↗
What players complain about
Texture glitches and memory leaks
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“Game suffers from a memory leak causing textures to load entirely blurry or not at all.”
Steam review · 19.3 h played ↗
Frequent crashes, especially on AMD and Zombies
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“dont buy if you have an AMD graphics card, game will run like ass and will crash whenever you play zombies”
Steam review · 239 h played ↗
Always-online required, even for campaign
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews
“Being disconnected every 5 mins from a singleplayer game because the company decides to include always online DRM is just awful.”
Steam review · 3.3 h played ↗
Server disconnects and abandoned game
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews
“For the past week now the servers have been absolutey shot”
Steam review · 2442.4 h played ↗
Endless shader compiling and huge install size
Mentioned in ~1 in 13 negative reviews
“close the game too fast and you will have to compile shaders for an hour again.”
Steam review · 51.5 h played ↗
Hackers and cheaters in multiplayer
Mentioned in ~1 in 14 negative reviews
“there is a lot of hackers in multiplayer.”
Steam review · 42.6 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: UnsupportedController support175 GB
Minimum
OSWindows® 10 64-bit (v.1803 or higher)
ProcessorIntel® Core™ i3-4340 or AMD FX-6300*
Memory8 GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 670 / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1650 or AMD Radeon™ HD 7950
Storage175 GB available space
Recommended
OSWindows® 10 64-bit (latest update)
ProcessorIntel® Core™ i5-2500K or AMD Ryzen™ R5 1600X Processor
Memory12 GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 970 / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1660 Super or AMD Radeon™ R9 390 / AMD Radeon™ RX 580
Storage175 GB available space
OSWindows® 10 64-bit (v.1803 or higher)
ProcessorIntel® Core™ i3-4340 or AMD FX-6300*
Memory8 GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 670 / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1650 or AMD Radeon™ HD 7950
Storage175 GB available space
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