This is the worst COD campaign I've ever played. It goes beyond being boring and phoned in and becomes actively annoying and unfun. Some of the worst boss fights I've seen since the PS2 era. You'll find yourself expertly moving through an area only for a smoke bomb to go off on top of you and out of that smoke bomb 30 enemies will instantly spawn in from nowhere right on top of you and body block you until you die and there's nothing you can do, all because you were too good at the game and progressed to the objective too fast. I can't believe how bad this is. I'll take Modern Warfare III's series of bland open warzone maps ANY day over this trash.

Tried out multiplayer in splitscreen (I’m not the one who bought the game), and this is just the least interested I’ve been in CoD since Infinite Warfare probably. Last year’s Black Ops 6 was very fun but left me with a feeling that I probably wouldn’t remember much about it, and following that up with yet another Black Ops, I’m just really feeling the staleness where the fundamental fun of the gameplay isn’t enough without some major shakeup or just really good execution. The maps I played here don’t feel like anything special. The sequence of MWII -> MWIII -> BO6 -> BO7 just feels kinda cursed, as MWII and BO6 were really solid IMO but then I can’t be that excited to just do another similar one right afterward that’s recycling maps and the same kind of feel. Hope they can take time to reset at some point and work games like Vanguard and WWII back into the rotation. In the meantime I will probably just keep skipping at least every couple entries if not more as there is better stuff out there to play (including a similar recent game that I may get around to reviewing soon).