Step into the year 2035, where Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 thrusts players into a fractured world teetering on the brink of collapse. From the neon-lit sprawl of Avalon to the endless nightmare of the Dark Aether, every firefight feels like a descent into chaos and memory. Treyarch and Raven Software deliver a co-op campaign that bends reality, while multiplayer erupts with frenetic energy and Zombies return in their most terrifying form yet. This is not just another mission; it’s an immersion into war’s psychological shadows.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Review Pros

• Awesome graphics. 
• 94.72GB download size for just the game, but the download size varies depending on what you choose, as every game you own and HD asset versions are here, and you choose. 
• Steam achievements.
• The campaign has its own in-game achievements. 
• Full controller support from the get-go. 
• Mouse and Keyboard support.
• The game is in the COD launcher, so every game is in one place.
• Set the graphics preset to quality or performance.
• Graphics settings – graphics preset, render resolution, dynamic resolution, upscaling/sharpening, Nvidia image scaling preset, Nvidia image scaling sharpness, VRAM scale target, variable rate shading, texture resolution, texture filter anisotropic, depth of field, detail quality level, particle resolution, bullet impacts, persistent effects, shader quality, on-demand texture streaming, allocated cache size, download limits, tessellation, shadows, weather grid volumes, water quality, ambient occlusion, static reflection quality, and screen space shadows.
• Display settings – display mode, display monitor, display adapter, screen refresh rate, display resolution, aspect ratio, restart shaders pre-loading, gamma, brightness, Nvidia Reflex low latency, exo mode preset, v-sync (menus), v-sync (game), and focused mode.
• Controller settings – 12 layouts, you can remap the controls, bumper ping, stick layout preset, vibration, amd deadzone inputs.
• Accessibility options for hard-of-hearing, hard-of-sight, arachnophobia mode, low motor strain, simplified controls, and ways to reduce motion sickness.
• You can import settings from your previous title, and it’s nearly instant. 
• Can remap controls for the mouse and keyboard, along with mouse sensitivity and Invert the axis. 
• Invert axis and sensitivity sliders for every part from ADS to movement.
• Benchmark test option.
• First-person shooter gameplay. Which is technically true, but in the campaign, you can switch to third person. 
• Tutorial pop-ups as you play, and some will have a timer on them or confirmation that you have seen them. 
• Three game modes – Co op campaign, multiplayer, and Zombies.
• Co op campaign has its ownobby system, leaderboards, and daily challenges for bonus exp. You can play solo or choose random to join. 
• Overclock is the new gimmick this year. As you use your lethal, tactical, and field upgrade, you level it up and then can overclock and add a new ability or buff to it. You can level each item up twice for a choice of overclock. An example is the pinpoint grenade, which can be overclocked so your whole team see tagged enemies, not just you. 
• Player card with banner and Emblem. You can show off any selected items in your showcase that you have earned or bought. 
• You can ping items and enemies in the game, or mark Danger or look here, which makes us non-speaking players useful. Ish. 
• Four campaign difficulties – Recruit, Regular, Hardened, and Veteran.
• Cutscenes are a mix of in-game and FMV, along with in-game interactions. 
• Excellent voice work throughout. 
• Combat speciality in previous games was when you had three perks from the same colour, and you would then get a bonus fourth buff. This year, that’s still there, but so is the new hybrid where you mix and match colours and types to create a new fourth buff in multiplayer. 
• Challenges – weekly, daily, armoury unlocks, Weapons, operator challenge, and calling cards, and it’s all wrapped up in clearer menu options. The multiplayer menu will show what’s next to complete, and you can set up your own list. 
• Matchmaking in multiplayer now minimally considers skill in the system. 
• The final kill or best kill, like a double headshot or a little rampage, is the kill at the end of an MP game.
• At the end of the game sequence, you can see the players load out and press a button to copy the loadout. 
• One thing the game is going for a lot more than before is health bars above every player, regardless of campaign or online; it’s everywhere. 
• Unlock and activate double exp tokens for rank, weapon, and/or battle pass.
• Uses the Cod HQ as its suite of games, so here is where you select each of the game modes and come back to it every time you want to switch, including other installed games in the series.
• The story this year is kind of a culmination of all the stories and characters, and they all come together in an explosion orgasm. 
• Hard-hitting soundtrack with improved special effects and noises.
• Quick multiplayer play lets you select the modes you want to play and then join the best game.
• Audio options let you mute players and/or party members.
• Full clan support, including tags, etc. 
• Proximity chat option.
• Your settings, rank, purchases, and progress are all tied to your Activision account, meaning you can play any version as long as you are logged in.
• In multiplayer, the best play of the game is shown at the end with a winner’s circle presentation.
• Decent loading times. Still not as fast as it used to be, but mildly faster than last year. 
• Immersive vibration implementation.
• All the challenges for unlocks like calling cards, etc, are all broken down into flow menus, making them easier to read and follow.
• The HUD can be completely customised from HUD element placement to map type, colours used, and so much more.
• All new badges, pop-ups, awards, etc, are in-game with a slick neon blue colour scheme. 
• The campaign has its own set of optional challenges for multiplayer profile cards.
• Collectable audio logs in a single player.
• Three save files for the campaign.
• Four campaign difficulties: recruit, regular, hardened, and veteran.
• Slight puzzle elements in the campaign. 
• The campaign uses a lot of archival news footage from the time.
• Tutorial pop-ups as you play through the campaign.
• Daily challenges you complete in multiplayer pop up in the game, as do all other challenges you complete.
• The campaign is a force of nature with movie-like graphics, a gripping story, and excellent production value.
• The face tech showing emotion, etc, is much improved over the last entry, once again raising the bar. 
• Accessibility options are plentiful to the point where you can have allies show blue and enemies show red in the campaign.
• Multiple choice encounters within the story.
• The acquisition desk in the campaign is where you spend cash found in levels and have you building stations that unlock new operator perks.
• Operator perks take money, but you choose what to buy; these are things like fast reloading, more ammo, etc.
• You can replay missions.
• Puzzles are hidden throughout the campaign.
• Levels are bigger and encourage multiple ways to approach encounters.
• Stealth is a big part of levels; you can take out enemies quietly and pick up and hide bodies in a variety of ways.
• Ominimove is the new movement system that allows you to sprint, slide, and dive in any direction and aim in different poses. 
• Pickups in levels include weapons and gear.
• Checkpoints trigger as you play.
• 20v20 skirmish playlist is in multiplayer again, as is face off mosh pit, and gunfight, along with seasonal 24/7 maps and yep Nuke Town is on there at the moment, just in case you missed it. 
• Find armour plates for a bonus shield.
• The campaign feels a lot more fleshed out and fun; it’s a bigger, more rounded experience.
• Some of the levels will give you a selection of weapons and items to choose from.
• Lock-picking and hacking mini-games in the campaign.
• The campaign lets you heal amd revive each other. In solo play, you can self-revive with the kit. 
• Scores, exp earned, etc, will pop up in the campaign. 
• The game has it where you can automatically peek and shoot around corners. (completely optional)
• The campaign pacing and genre mixing keep it fresh but also engaging.
• Swap shoulder view with a button press in campaign third person. 
• Button prompts show in-game from reloading to mounting and mantling. 
• Tac map – at a certain point in the campaign, you get access to this, and it allows you to track objectives and fast travel around locations.
• There is a lot more openness to the campaign; you get to control the narrative a lot more, where you go and what you do.
• Auto saves regularly.
• Jailbreak machines can be found in the campaign, and they let you upgrade your weapons. 
• In the campaign, you have caches to restock ammo and shields, and then you can find weapon and item caches. 
• The gear wheel system lets you quickly swap between items and gears.
• The banter between you and your team is fantastic; it reacts to what’s going on and adds loads of atmosphere.
• You can take and use other vehicles in the campaign.
• During the campaign, you get to use scorestreaks, which help you learn the multiplayer element.
• I could not stop playing the campaign.
• All these years of mediocre campaigns have led to this, and it’s great, almost like a best of the best. 
• In the campaign, you can find and use the armour plates.
• The campaign does give you a point of no return warning before entering the final parts of the story.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Review Cons

• There isn’t a dedicated achievements list in Steam, and instead, they just get added to a massive list of all COD games, and it is hard to know which is which.
• The long numbers and letters of the game version, etc, are at the bottom of the screen, and it’s just messy. 
• Shaders pre-loading means long load times and constant restarting; sometimes, the game won’t even tell you this information.
• I have moments where I will constantly get dropped into games that are just about to end.
• The co op campaign is a nice setup, with cutscenes, then just a lobby, and it’s not the best way to introduce the mode. 
• Bad spawn points are a huge thing; some maps have gone because of it, but it’s still pretty bad.
• Still getting it where my battle pass points don’t show until I reboot.
• Multiplayer load times are not as fast as they used to be.
• More as an FYI, but credits brought from the shop are only available on that storefront.
• If you own a Vault Edition of the game, it is only recognised in the store of the platform you bought it on. (you can still use the vault items tho)
• Never sure when you hit a checkpoint in the campaign.
• No way to skip cutscenes the first time through. 
• During the campaign, the AI can still have amazing aim regardless of difficulty, and when you are spotted, and sometimes when you are not, they know and shoot at you.
• Lost Internet connection and the game, no matter the mode (online/offline), throws up an error and then shuts the game down. Online always needed a connection.
• No season has passed as of yet.
• Not all vehicles can be driven in the campaign.
• A couple of the maps in multiplayer have real spawn camping issues.
• Your AI partners can be really bad and don’t always help or even stealth with you.
• For as awesome as the campaign is, there is a lot of filler chucked in, and sections get dragged out.
• Ai can see you a bit too easily.
• In single-player, you cannot pause the game, and you need an online connection at all times to play the single-player story.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7

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Developer: Treyarch, Raven Software, Beenox, High Moon Studios, Sledgehammer Games, Infinity Ward, Activision Shanghai, Demonware

Publisher: Activision

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