- Black Ops 7 continues to face a wave of negative user reviews.
- The title has fallen to a score of 1.7 on Metacritic, becoming the worst-rated Call of Duty release to date.
- The biggest criticisms point to the campaign, always-online requirements, and more.
Black Ops 7 has become one of the most interesting Call of Duty titles released in recent years, but for all the wrong reasons. For starters, the campaign has been a major letdown, and controversies surrounding the use of AI-generated content have only made the situation worse.
The game’s user reviews also highlight just how upset the community is with Call of Duty’s latest outing. Over on Metacritic, the first-person shooter has fallen to a score of just 1.7 after amassing hundreds of negative reviews.
Why it matters: Fans were cautiously optimistic for the latest Call of Duty after learning that Treyarch was making a sequel to the beloved Black Ops 2. It seems the game has done little to live up to its predecessor.
With 189 user reviews on Metacritic, Black Ops 7 has made history, becoming the lowest-rated Call of Duty title on the platform by user reviews.
This record was previously held by Modern Warfare 3 after it was heavily criticized for reused multiplayer maps and an incredibly short campaign. Despite all these flaws, Modern Warfare 3 finished with a user score of 2.3 when all was said and done.
The user score aside, there is one key difference between the two. For Modern Warfare 3, the critic score reflected the poor state of the game, with the overall reviews averaging out at a score of 56/100. For Black Ops 7, the critic score is currently much higher at 84/100, but more reviews are yet to arrive.
Anyhow, the criticisms in the user reviews largely revolve around the game’s campaign. Many have noted how the game seems to deliver a worse experience than Modern Warfare 3.
In particular, users have pointed to the ridiculousness of the entire experience, highlighting giant zombie bosses and flying machetes in certain missions. Also, the fact that Black Ops 7 is an always-online title does not appear to have pleased many people.
Most of the scores fluctuate between 0/10 and 1/10, so this seems to be a classic case of review-bombing on Metacritic. Recently, games like Pokemon: Legends Z-A faced similar reviews, but the sentiment seems to be much more widespread in Call of Duty’s case.
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