![]() This made making precise sniper shots at enemies feel more finicky than it needed to during intense firefights. There were definitely moments where I lined up a shot at an enemy, only to miss due to the game hitching up. Several enemies on-screen will cause the framerate to chug and chop, which can be pretty tiresome in a game where you're often shooting at several on-screen enemies. ![]() ![]() Instead, what I got was a game that stutters, crashes, hitches, and outright breaks at points.įrom the game's opening in a dingy bar onward, the campaign's frame rate is a constant source of irritation on Xbox. The Campaign's Performance Is Sluggish & ChoppyĪfter several hours into the game's signature multiplayer (more on that in a sec,) I switched over the campaign in hopes of brainless, beautiful, big-budget spectacle with dreadful worldviews and fun setpieces to murder in. But after a few hours, I noticed something troubling about the game's performance on Microsoft's beefy 5-layered new console, the Series X. As per tradition, I picked up my yearly dose of interactive war crimes for the last week - Treyarch's Black Ops Cold War, a fun game with politics about as bad as you'd expect something from called "Black Ops: Cold War" to be. it's funny how a generation of focused advertising campaigns can elicit an emotional reaction to a certain game on a certain platform, eh? Same goes for the Xbox's controller, which just feels tailor-made for the franchise.Ĭhrist. ![]() Having that same roster of people on my friends list log into the new games on Xbox Live, year after year, gives me this fuzzy and nostalgic feeling. ![]() Yet, for some reason, I still play these things on Xbox (or PC, if I'm feeling frisky.) Chalk it up to my inner contrarian, but something about Call of Duty on a Microsoft platform just feels right to me. ![]()
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