Booting the latest Call of Duty, I was given terrible-looking menus, an overwhelming amount of options, too much information, and some ugly-looking ads. It’s not a fantastic first impression and looks like a cobblestone mess. In other words: it’s bad.
There was a time when I played all the news Call of Duty game. I would play the campaign for a weekend and then spend many hours for a few months playing online. But around Black Ops III I started skipping games. Partly because I had other things to play with, partly because my friends stopped playing and also because I was bored of everything. The sizes of facilities are growing of each game I was not excited to jump back either.
My CoD the holidays ended when Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War went on sale recently on PS5. I explored some space by removing the older games I had finished and installed the latest giant Activision game with a silly name.
First impressions are important and Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Oh My God I Hate write that name makes a very bad first impression. The moment you turn it on, you’ll be faced with three games to choose from, like a horrible monster that’s been built from older pieces stapled together to create a creature. And both space and Cold War consume, War zone, Call of DutyThe super popular free battle game Royale, is still an additional installation that should contain your hard drive.
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Once I got into the actual game I bought and downloaded, I decided to play multiple players. That’s when the really horrible menus appeared.
Cold War, like other recent ones Call of Duty games, it is filled to the brim with options, modes, functions, equipment, etc. It makes you feel like you’re making your money, which is nice. But all these things have to be organized, listed and presented to the players and Cold War he does a terrible job at it. It is extremely overwhelming. At one point, my girlfriend looked at it and proclaimed, “This is horrible. It gives me a headache.” Readers, I wasn’t wrong. For example, look at the store page at Cold War:
Looks like I came across some online ads from the early 2000s. Oh, and this screenshot doesn’t show that many of these items move and shine, like a bunch of annoying gifs.
I started flipping through and found that the rest of the menus and user interface were terrible too. There is a tab dedicated to a mode called “Outbreak”. But I can’t really understand what I’m looking at when I open it and it honestly makes me never want to participate in this mode, because if this is my point of entry, I don’t care.
There’s also the main screen where you land when the online multiplayer game starts, which shows an ad, several meters, progression levels, and game modes, while in the background the soldier walks nervously. This man is trapped in the terrible user interface. Someone help him!
There are also some weird little quirks. One that I found very funny is that all of the game’s single player challenges are in the multiplayer menus. I don’t know why they’re here, but it’s possible that some other part of this extravagant menu buffet has the answer.
I finally played Call of Duty: Cold War Black Ops Something IDK Whatever, and I had a great time! The combat feels fantastic, especially at 120 frames per second. I played a lot of Nuketown, got a few solid attacks and had fun. But getting there meant too much work and mixing up the menu. Unfortunately, I’m not sure there’s an easy way to solve this problem, as it’s modern CoD the games have become so big and filled with features that maybe you can’t do much streamlining without removing content.
I miss the older ones Call of Duty games, which had simpler, easier-to-navigate menus, making action-to-action much less annoying. These games also had less sausage content inside, which made the menus more enjoyable to navigate. So my solution is simple: smaller Call of Duty games. What do you think?