With Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, IW Engine had reached the extreme point it could reach. The fact that the game was flawless in every aspect for that period succeeded in winning the "Game of the Year" award. During this period, games such as World at War, Modern Warfare 2 and Black Ops had come one after another, breaking records. At that time, although it did not receive any serious criticism in terms of the graphics engine, even if this engine was updated and renewed in every game, the real breakthrough was the "Call of Duty: MW3 and Battlefield 3" competition in 2011.
The graphics of Battlefield 3, presented by Electronic Arts and developed by DICE with the FrostBite 3 graphics engine, were really revolutionary in the game world and it also created this revolution. It has appeared with graphics that have not been seen anywhere until today. Although a Call of Duty focusing on the story mode was waiting for us, it was poor in terms of graphics next to Battlefield 3. In this situation, the players were hype despite the Call of Duty series. Negative reviews also followed one after the other. Most importantly, the entire team that disintegrated as a result of the problems in Infinity Ward passed to EA, and the hatred against Activision increased in the face of this situation. However, that team had nothing to do with DICE. Over time, this crew would form Respawn Entertainment and then say hello to the players with Titanfall… And years later most of them would even leave and return to the core, Infinity Ward.
This was how the negative criticism and controversy started about the graphics engine. What about later?
The Call of Duty series created the Modern Warfare series as a trilogy and the two-game Black Ops brand. In between, World at War was now on the verge of oblivion because World War II themed productions in FPS productions brought disgusting fainting and seriously bored the players. The firm was looking for innovations in terms of themes. As it came to the present with Modern Warfare, Black Ops 2 chose the future and the futuristic era, and from time to time, by providing story flow to the 80's, he ended the originality of the Black Ops series with two games. So it seemed that the most important issues to be covered were covered.
With Call of Duty Ghosts, a new Call of Duty brand was entered with the new generation consoles of 2013, Sony PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Xbox One. He had a valid theme and progress. It was also one of the games suitable for the Call of Duty series, but could not enjoy the original Modern Warfare and Black Ops series. Then came Advanced Warfare with Sleedgehammer Games, created from former Dead Space producers. In this future production, actors such as Kevin Spacey and Troy Baker were involved. Even though Kevin Spacey was liked especially with the influence of House of Cards, he was going to the top when he was not mentioned for his harassment incidents, which did not give what was expected after a while in Advenced Warfare. It was not understood how it was, but the game, which was full of Multiplayer servers at the beginning, started slowly and lost players rapidly. The next game was Black Ops III, which was independent of the first two games, with the subject of the future, and then we even saw the space-themed Call of Duty game, which was surpassed by the wave of meme environments with the distant future-themed Infinite Warfare. Although it was successful in astronomy and a logical Call of Duty with the consultancy of the astrophysicists they added to the team from NASA, it managed to become the most unpopular Call of Duty game in history. Finally, with WW2, your essences returned. There is a Black Ops IIII without a story in between, I never go into it, but it was obviously the basis of Warzone.
In short, the Call of Duty series presented the future to us as much as the last generation was a production that was in search of a theme and did not include the second world war period with its future-themed content. In the end, after all this experience, they decided to close the gap in the Black Ops series with Cold War and came to the same universe with Modern Warfare as a reboot production.
The Cold War Is Beginning Again!
Let me state that Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is not a reboot, unlike Modern Warfare, and is linked to the other Black Ops series and takes place in the same universe. Let me also mention that last year's Modern Warfare is also included in this universe, only a time difference. Because the original Modern Warfare was independent with the Black Ops series. In Modern Warfare, the possible war between Russia and America started in 2016, and then the Third World War broke out, but according to this timeline, the Black Ops universe was completely reversed. The characters were also irrelevant. In fact, Black Ops was in the same universe as World at War. Modern Warfare was out of all that. However, he has joined this universe in Modern Warfare, which was reboot last year. This is a really exciting situation for the next Modern Warfare and Black Ops.
Our story takes place between Black Ops 1 and 2, and features the production inspired by the true story-based regions and events. Unlike the previous game, there are no imaginary zones called Urzikstan. As in the first Black Ops game, we start in a bar here, and the 60s, 70s and 80s themed music really takes us to the starting point of American popularity and draws us into heavy nostalgia. There are some beautiful side elements in the game, which I can say would not be bad if there were pieces from Queen and Toto. In addition to the original Black Ops characters such as Frank Woods, Alex Mason and Jason Hudson, a completely new character such as Russell Adler, who has already become legendary and cult, also appears in the game. I can say that it is a type that is completely suitable for its period. Everything goes with this new character focus, and that's our key point in the game.
At the time, US President Ronald Reagan works with Adler, and we stand by Woods, Hudson, Mason and him personally, under our own name and our pseudonym Bell.
Bell so we are. Our own name. We play the first two episodes at the beginning of the game as Alex Mason, and then the character creation screen opens, we determine the institution we work with KGB, CIA or independently for CIA reports, and we create our character by adding many features such as age, name, skin color, gender to the reports. We are logging into the game with your own name, namely TAYFUN "Bell" KUMAS. We are another new character. You can look at this situation in more detail from the images below.
We also make personal dialogue decisions in the game. In other words, as in Telltale Games, we choose dialogue and determine the course and fate of the game accordingly. Accordingly, different endings and the mood of the people we face are determined. This is an innovation that has convinced me right now, as this is not something in previous Call of Duty games.
Other Regions in Cold War!
Trabzon is one of the most important areas of the game. Call of Duty I firmly believe that there was one day late in the game but Turkey did not even come to Trabzon may never crossed my mind. This is the part that excites most of our people. never seriously not included in the meaning of the Cold War, Turkey was about to be over uyandıc impressive and Trabzon included in this period. After the researches we conducted, we explained this incident to you as "Call of Duty's Trabzon Policy". After the people and people we caught in Trabzon, we collect the most important intelligence about Perseus, and even one of the most important events we live there, but you will almost have to finish the game to notice him. The attempts made in the KGB center after Ukraine and West Berlin have been quoted exactly. In the Trabzon section, I escaped as many missions as I could and it is great to see that even the coastal shores are modeled exactly as they are.
The Cold Game Begins
The melee system has been developed in the game. You do not fight fist-to-hand, but you can hold an enemy as a hostage, stab if necessary or, depending on the situation, detonate a grenade by placing it on its body. Although there are very pleasant attacks, it is generally more convenient to use an enemy's body as a human shield as soon as it is captured. There is a situation like holding some kind of armor.
Enemy interaction includes close combat as well as BOSS battles. This feature, which came with Black Ops III, made it logical to fight BOSS by firing thousands of bullets to a robot, a soldier, as it contained robotics and cybernetics elements, but it makes no sense to throw thousands of bullets to an ordinary armored Soviet soldier. Again, it might be hard to kill with the effect of armor, but it shouldn't be like shooting a roller coaster with a gun. So there was no need for such difficulties. When the armored enemy dies, we go and look at him, and we see that some of them do not even have helmets. Is it a challenge? It was the same again.
The feel of the game is really great. It can make you feel like you shot someone. This is more realistic compared to other games.
Crysis Remastered, which took its place in the market in the past months, was criticized for the absence of this incident, but the Call of Duty series seems to have successfully completed this as always. Another gameplay feature I should mention is the key breaking feature. However, you can say that, but it seems like there is a reference to the Fallout series. We will see these when the Easter Eggs are released, but the breakout event is suspended with Black Ops Cold War. However, from time to time we do what I say.
There is a puzzle option in the game, and even the systems we enter have choices that we can decide the progress of the game. For example, we have infiltrated a PC, there are options such as CIA documents, KGB documents, nuclear weapon nudes, sorry structure theme, destination. You can access one of these documents as time is limited during the mission. If we cannot learn the structure of a nuclear bomb, we cannot learn to stop it technically, and if we do not know where it will go, we cannot have information about where it will fall. Such situations also change the gameplay, the struggle and even the fate of the known. That's why you have to make a choice just like in real life.
It is impossible not to give spoilers while telling the story of the game, but you will encounter two important names in the later stages. As I said, this is due to the fact that the new Modern Warfare is now included in the Black Ops universe. And I can say this: The fact that it is a Call of Duty game based on real regions instead of an imaginary region like Urzikstan in Modern Warfare, that it informs me of an event that I did not even know as a Trabzon citizen, I learned the difference between West and East Germany in time, an important situation in terms of telling to a generation.
Actually, Call of Duty games were generally political. What about drones in Black Ops 2, drones suddenly came into our lives after 2012, and the vehicles in Advanced Warfare are now prototypes, even the most fictitious Call of Duty products are the clearest summary of this.
Due to the Corona Virus surrounding the world, the announcement of the game as April or May was delayed until August for some reason. I found this really harmful in terms of marketing. Because I think there is no need for such a thing. At the very beginning, they stated that a Call of Duty game will definitely come this year, but its announcement will be delayed. Their announcement was already just a video. The main reason is unknown, but I think this issue may hurt the sales of the game. So if it fails to beat the sales of the previous game, that might be the reason.
Finally, the music is also great. Jack Wall has done as great a job in this regard as anybody else. In particular, I waited for minutes in the menu to listen to the Main Theme.
Despite everything, it has become a Call of Duty game with its standard graphics and incredible experiential features. I can say that it took me away from closing the gaps between Black Ops 1 and 2 and making great stories out of there. I can give you right on the sales price leaking conditions in Turkey because it is expensive, but a possible sale, a reasonable fee if appropriate in your pocket, I do not wish you luck in this game. After all, I do not want to remove the responsibility of saying definitely buy or not because the image of Call of Duty games is obvious. That's why I add them to the list of games that should be given a chance.
