
Alright, it's been well over 24 hours since Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 officially launched on Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S via Game Pass, and if you're interested in it, we're hoping you'll have had time to play a bit already!
This is obviously a huge package featuring a single-player campaign mode along with all kinds of multiplayer offerings including Zombies, so we're not asking you to sum up everything in these initial impressions - we just want to know your first thoughts on what you've played of Black Ops 6 over the past day-or-so.
Here at Pure Xbox, we've mainly been dabbling in the campaign so far, the review of which we published yesterday...and we had excellent things to say about it, giving it a "Great" score of 8/10 while praising its "supernatural surprises".
We're still new to the multiplayer side of things as we didn't get access pre-release, so we're particularly interested to know what you think of the online portion - has it lived up to expectations for you, or have you been left disappointed?
What Are Your First Impressions Of Black Ops 6? (1,478 votes)
- It's amazing, I'm loving it!
- It's pretty good, yeah
- It's alright, not bad
- It's a bit disappointing to be honest
- I think it's really bad actually!
What's Your Initial Verdict On The Campaign? (955 votes)
- It's fantastic, one of the better ones!
- It's good, I'm enjoying it
- It's OK
- It's not very good so far
- It's BAD, one of the worst!
What's Your Initial Verdict On The Multiplayer? (1,065 votes)
- Loving it, it's everything I hoped for!
- Yeah, I'm enjoying it so far
- Eh, it's alright I guess?
- Not a fan really, but it's serviceable enough
- Hate it!
Let us know your thoughts in the polls up above, as well as the comments section down below!
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I’ll cast my vote at the end of the weekend. Was only able to play yesterday for about 20 minutes but the multiplayer was fun like the beta. I’m excited to try the campaign and zombies. Visuals and controls are good and it’s the most entertaining CoD I’ve played in a very long time.
Only played the first mission and about 5 multiplayer games but I'm enjoying it so far. I'm a lapsed FPS player since Battlefield turned rubbish so I'm absolutely terrible but I'm liking it enough to hopefully get better.
I will be trying it later today but honestly I don't have high hopes for it. CoD has been dead since MW 2019 but I will say I have always preferred Black Ops over MW. I just hope the MP isn't a campfest and you don't get punished for moving around the map like the MW games.
Only played multiplayer for a couple of hours last night, but it's far better than the last lot of modern warfare games. Not sure if I'm going to play the campaign or just continue on multiplayer tonight. Should get about 6 hours in tonight.
Played the first mission only and wondered round the place.
So far really good and spot on what I expected.
Playing at 120fps with VRR on and seems dam smooth and fine. Motion blur off.
Texture stream cache on large no limit.
All seems good to me.
I thought it Will be much worse but the story Mode is actually pretty okay for action game.
Not a fan of the skill based matchmaking. It sounds good in theory, but the implementation is questionable. It seems I’m either paired with people picking up a controller for the first time in their lives, or after dominating them I’m placed in a lobby populated by every esports pro on earth, where I can’t even turn around before getting gunned down and plopped back into noob country. There is no in between.
Why is the AI so unbelievably bad? It really lets the campaign down, in my opinion.
2 missions done on the campaign and I'm excited about it. Need to try MP and Zombies at some point.
Only played a little bit of the campaign but I'm absolutely loving playing multiplayer loads of fun it's great I'll eventually try zombies aswell but not for a good while yet multiplayer all weekend when I'm able! 10/10
I wish they slowed down the pace to make it a little more realistic. The fast crap makes it seem like a cheap mobile
So far the best call of duty ever.
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@DEATH2SONY umm what???? You alright there?
I haven't tried the campaign yet but multiplayer and zombies are both top tier. They knocked it out of the park this time.
I'm kinda curious why no review on PushSquare. Bitter melons?
@FarmDog08 probably like most sites they have waited for it to release to play multiplayer. (As most sites do with multiplayer elements )
Even this site only did a campaign review.
But sure try and flame console wars
@PsBoxSwitchOwner I've seen other reviews for the campaign before the MP. Just curious why it's absent, without even a review in progress post by them. Still seems odd to me. This is one of the biggest launches each and every year, regardless if one likes it or not.
@FarmDog08 stuff like Eurogamer havent done a review either It’s only been out a day. IGN and PX only did a campaign review. I’m pretty sure they will do a review. And it will be a 7/8.
They put a rubbish review of mech warrior 5 up as well.
I think it's a game pass thing.
But hey ho, not gonna comment again because this rubbish with console wars is b*ll*cks!
COD is fun as always. I hope everyone on PlayStation if they can, spend full rrp on it.
@PsBoxSwitchOwner Good point. IGN and PureXbox are my primary gaming news channels.
I appreciate all new maps, 90s vibe, omni movement system is cool, they brought back medals and most importantly for NOW no clowns/niki minaj/snoop dog and etc. just normal skins mostly
@DEATH2SONY
That's some high end crazy nonsense you are spouting .😵💫
You might want to take a break from gaming, saying this as a .MH provider.
Step away for awhile
@TheSimulator
Waves upon waves of enemies rushing at you is pretty much what a COD campaign shooter is all about since the originals. But that doesn't work for non-War settings like terrorists etc., and hence why you say unrealistic. Then again, it's a game, so doesn't have to be realistic at all I guess. I don't really like COD campaigns for this same reason as you.
One of the better CODs
Best COD in years. I only really play Multiplayer and I have been glued to it since it came out.
@FarmDog08 Is IGN any good now? I stopped visiting about 10 years ago because it was all click bait (which was a pity as it used to be decent prior to that)
@Mogzino I like their Xbox podcast Unlocked as well as the Playstation and Nintendo ones Beyond and Nintendo Voice Chat repectively, and they have a lot of posts per day.
@Tasuki yea so dead they can't stop making money 😅
@Mogzino I haven't taken IGN seriously since 7.8 too much water.
@DEATH2SONY he's back with a load of nonsense with nothing to do with cod again. 🤣 Lay off the weed or whatever your a week or 2 pal 😭
Microsoft made cod great again 😎
It’s fabulous. What a game. The campaign is back to its very best and the zombies mode is a down fun.
Personally I think this is the 'best' Call of Duty for years, maybe even a decade. The campaign is decent in both length and replayability - certainly better than recent CoD's. Zombies feels like a return too form too after some 'experimental' Zombies modes and the Omni-Movement is in my mind is the 'advanced' movement upgrade to the 'Boots on the Ground' combat the Game needed.
Going back to MW3, which felt more 'fluid' than MW2, it now feels clunky and dare I say 'dated' compared to the slick, smooth and fluid movement of BO6. Even if you don't play like a sliding, hopping, diving action movie stuntman, the movement feels more natural/realistic and smooth.
It also feels like a complete game not DLC or something rushed together. It feels a lot more polished and balanced too from Day 1. If MW2 hadn't carried forward content into MW3, it would have felt like there was little/no content (although the seasonal content helped), but BO6 feels much more like a Complete 'Base' game at launch.
I would think that Fans of each 'traditional' mode, Campaign, MP or Zombies, would feel like BO6 is a return to form, if not the best CoD in over a decade...
Easily the worst i have ever played, this is the only call of duty where i either go negative or neutral every match, lucky to go 1.0, reinstalled cold war and I'm consistently top of the scoreboard like i usually was with a ratio of 2.67 and I'm actually unlocking scorestreaks!
Nobody jumps like a clown in cold war and i think that's because they have protection against abusing it but in BO6 you can just jump constantly maintaining perfect aim with zero cooldown or decreased height and i know for a fact people are getting invincibility frames due to bad netcode when they do jump.
This year's game is just so fake and it's not me being bad at fps games at all, the last call of duty i played was cold war and before today i last played that in 2021 but i can still go back to that after these years and do great against people who are gonna be more sweaty than the people currently playing BO6.
Campaign has some decent missions but the mission where you fight the zombies and the last mission are just terrible and it all ended abruptly, i was hoping for a bell reveal or something, zombies is another disappointment the USA map is just bland and boring and it lacks outbreak mode.
The MP characters are very boring it's just like someone took a bunch of pictures of people in a grocery store and made them into characters, brought back a few characters yet adler and park are locked behind a paywall and have the most ugly outfits i have ever seen.
The first campaign that hooked me and finish it in 3 days since the Xbox 360 days, I’m genuinely surprised at how well put together it is and the variety for each mission, those mannequins will give me nightmares lmao
Had to add my own comment too because "wow" comes to mind. I played the first mission and thought it would be standard Call of Duty fare, but similar to how MW2 had "Alone", Black Ops 6 gets creative.
I loved the espionage mission at the gala, and the open world mission in Iraq, and now I'm on "Emergence" and it's hitting "next level".
Very pleasantly surprised with the campaign so far!
Someone is buying Series Xs in my neck of the woods 😂. NOT Series S...X! ONE physical copy of Black Ops AND Sonic X Shadow is left, dangling from the Walmart glass case shelf 😂
I said it on other post on here. This is the best COD since the 360 days for me. I am loving it. The multiplayer is great. Sure it needs a few tweaks in a patch or two. But overall it’s really good. The extra year shows. I wish all the games had an extra year to polish and make sure it’s this good. Between this and Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred expansion, my Xbox has been on all month and is looking like it will stay that way.
@Deityjester so its bad because you can't own on this one? Lol....Maybe wateva tactics you used on other cods aren't as effective...you claim it's other players that are the issue...maybe it's you who needs to realise you aren't as good as you think If you aren't able to adapt ...and switch up how you play to be more effective
P.s I am by no means great and I'm not a jumpy player but I have no issue being in the positive k.d ratio on blops 6
Also you do realise all the better players are going to be on newer cods ..
So you thinking you can just jump into cod after like 3 years and be topping the leaderboard every game on a just released version...haha... and then saying but I can go play an older cod which will be full of alot more casual players and own as the reason you think you are amazing?
You sure it's a game issue and not a skill issue ?
I've only managed to play 4 missions on the campaign so far but I've really enjoyed it. I'll complete that before jumping into MP and Zombies, so I'm looking forward to that. I was reading about the revamped progression system for MP and it sounds like a good old grindathon Can't wait to start it up.
@DEATH2SONY you are pathetic
@Blurd they gave an average game an average score 🤷♂️
I like the multiplayer except the spawns which are terrible on some of the maps. The campaign is excellent so far so much better than MW3.
Campaign is great, its back to the old CoD, which is exactly what I have been asking for. I dont play multiplayer, so no interest in that. Zombies I will try in a few weeks when I have time, excited to see where that goes as well.
I really like the gameplay and some other changes but the multiplayer maps are some of the worst in the series.
Everything is great about the game Multiplayer wise, but the SBMM and that lobbies get disbanded. Other than that Multiplayer is solid.
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