
Activision has shadow-dropped Call of Duty: Black Ops and its Black Ops 2 sequel; they're available right now on the PS Store for PS5 and PS4.
They both cost £34.99 / $39.99 each, but PS Plus members can get them at a 50% discount until 6th August 2026. This brings the prices down to £17.49 / $19.99 for a limited time.
These are straight ports of the two FPS titles, with the PS Store descriptions describing them as the "original" efforts — you don't get any remaster treatment here. "Experience the original Call of Duty®: Black Ops, first released in 2010, now available on PS4 and PS5 for the first time."
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To clarify, it's the full contents of the base game: single player campaign, multiplayer, and the Zombies mode.

Also, these are just the base games, meaning you don't get any of the DLC packs with your purchase. A new season pass offering all the expansions for each game is now on offer, once again with a discount for PS Plus subscribers.
The Black Ops and Black Ops 2 season passes are £25.99 / $29.99, but PS Plus members get 67% off, bringing the prices down to £8.57 / $9.89.
Will you be buying either one of them? Let us know in the comments below.





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But don't you need PS plus to play online?
Fantastic news, I’ll make sure to let those in my friends circle know that have been waiting for these to drop!
Though I get CoD gratis each year, I don’t get these included in that! So I’m snapping them up later this evening!
Thanks for the heads up, as work has my head spinning and I totally forgot!
With dlc? If not I'm good skipping it 👍
Edit: I'm blind, no dlc= no buy at that price point, unless it had some updated graphics at least.
That's a pretty compelling discount with PS Plus.
Does it have multiplayer modes etc?
@Mes_Urson Each, and yes they both have every mode
Does anyone know if PS3 DLC purchases would work with these ports?
Milky milky that poor old cash cow.....
@Oram77 thankyou!
Ouch! £35 each? I'm good thanks. Even at discount price i'll pass
@Mes_Urson Yeah As much as I love BO1 + 2 I ain't paying that much (even with the nice discount) for them...
@SyracuseSalt absolutely would not, unfortunately
@Mes_Urson they never drop their prices for COD games. even on PC black ops 1 & 2 have been 35 dollars for years
sucks
@ItsAlwaysSunnyyy thanks for the reply. I’d be more tempted to double dip on these if I could still use the DLC I paid for back in the day.
Some one has to bring PS3 games to PS4 and PS5. Gosh i wish Sony would bring Resistance and Motorstorm. I would day one buy those at full price.
Can't seem to find it here on the US store . . .
@HonestHick I have a feeling that a PS3 emulator could show up on the PS6 as they been doing a lot work with it in recent years, so who knows 🤞 Unless you meant remasters/remakes
Super tempting but then I remember I'd rather play with back buttons so I can remap running to it instead of r3 😩
@Oram77 Or an Xbox gamertag? 🤣
Can't find them on the UK store. Using the app or on the console.
None of the existing DLC included, no improvements.
Wow. What an amazing deal.
If this is their way of soothing my annoyance with the decision on physical media, they are boneheads. I've been disinterested in CoD for quite some time and I don't have any desire to return.
@HonestHick
Add Infamous and Killzone to that list
$30 for the full-game or $60 for both is a much better deal, and rather reasonable, than $70 or $140 at full price. Unless you're only buying for the campaign, you basically need to get the season pass and get the extra MP and Zombie maps at this point.
So $30 for the each full game, DLC included, is much better than $70, considering than people wanting the complete game is probably to play online.
But are these really just ports, not even a resolution upgrade? If they are still 1080p or lower the forget what I said, $30 and even $20 is too much to ask for these games.
Pleasantly surprised at the price. £26 for either game with the season pass isn’t too bad.
Are there any improvements at all, like framerate or Resolution boosts or are they entirely the PS3 versions?
Sort of abysmal not including the DLC but i’m guessing it’s to maintain parity with Xbox, which already had them with BC and so you had to buy the DLC. Would like to see these hit PS Plus at some point.
@Oram77 Stay tuned on some fascinating stuff regarding that, that and other hardware is what I’m most excited for people to start discussing.
The run up to PS6 is going to be really interesting to see people speak of, as there’s a whole lot people seem to really not be aware of.
So yes, anyway, just stay patient and stay tuned haha.
#nophysicalnobuy
£35 for a 16 year old game, with no DLC included is unbelievably greedy.
@HughJasol
Black Ops:
https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP0002-PPSA34501_00-CODBO1GAME000001
Black Ops Season Pass:
https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP0002-PPSA34501_00-CODBO1SEASONPASS
Black Ops II:
https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP0002-PPSA34502_00-CODBO2GAME000001
Black Ops II Season Pass:
https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP0002-PPSA34502_00-CODBO2SEASONPASS
Black Ops II Customization Pack (Free):
https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP0002-PPSA34502_00-CODBO2CSMTICPACK
Instantly bought black ops 1. Sony can have my cash still.
Everyone who canceled their PS Plus subscription to protest the all digital future will still get this discount since the cancellation only takes effect at the end date of their current subscription.
Of course they find a way to make years old games as expensive as possible again. I'm so tired of the greed. 🙄
@Don Though I would question why someone would cancel PS Plus in uproar over lack of physical games after 2028, to then go on to make a digital purchase.
But very true, for those who only stick to their public financial position when faced with a keyboard, it is the case your statement holds true.
Another insight into the pricing practices we will be subject to once Sony eliminate retail competition. Even at a discount, those prices are eye watering for such old games.
This is why we need physical because those prices are stupid.
Sigh…. I guess I’ll pick up BO2 and its Season pass after all
@The-punishr yes for sure and many others. There are still a lot of great games trapped to the PS3 that i would love to have and happily pay for.
Their naming convention reminds me of the (incredibly poor) rebrand of the Xbox right before it fell off the cliff
@Oram77 that would be great if PS6 had that. One thing is for sure, they don’t want to mess around and have nothing worked out for BC on PS6, with physical gone and no word on their plans for how players will use PS4 and PS5 discs. They need some pro consumer moves with PS6. Time will tell, it’s a tad early for them to speak to much on PS6. But rest assured if MS states Helix will have a disc drive and use physical media, Sony will release some of its plans for PS6 BC.
@HonestHick
Absolutely 100%, that's why I've been holding off on welding the pitch fork, we need the details in FULL on how everything is going to work. I said this couple of times now, but I'm fully behind what Xbox is rumoured to be implementing with the whole disc-to-digital as that would go a long way with gamers (not everyone I know). They also need to improve the store... like a lot, even more if that will become the primary way of purchasing games.
Does it get a physical release?
@RawnDawn literally just read the article and you’ll get your answer
So it runs at 720p?
@Jacko11 Pretty sure it got updated since I didn't see that info at first, that or I'm blind lol
@Oram77 they have an awful refund policy at the moment, so that would need to get way way better. On Xbox you can play the game for a few hours and get a refund, same with steam. Sony would need to match or beat that. I am 100% digital and I have been since the start of PS4/Xbox One, so I am not going to complain much but I like options and I think it stinks for those that like physical media. Tho I’ve been on records on here and Pure saying I think it’s over once it’s a 90/10 spilt. Sony is getting roasted on their socials right now, so at some point you’d think they’d say something, but truth is, PS3 Sony is back and they don’t think anyone will get in their way. I am looking forward to seeing how this plays out.
If they have a 100% off sale, I might download it and maybe check it out. Hard to get excited about a game that came out 15 years ago and being treated like it's currently a big deal. It was ok in 2010, it's trash in 2026.
@HonestHick I’ve been screaming for a port / remaster / remake / ANYTHING of the Resistance series for ages now.
@Romans12 If you have never played them before and only play on PlayStation, it is a big deal. If you played them and loved them on PS3 and haven't played them since then, it is a big deal.
Stop trying to cause arguments because they will sell very well despite your lack of endorsement.
These should have been free for those of us that bought the digital PS3 versions. Considering that they're the exact same versions. Sony is being exceptionally vile this week.
Kinda wild that i already own the DLC for both of them on PS3 but i have to pay to play without hackers.
@DETfaninATL me too, i know that series isn’t the biggest seller. I know the 3rd game kind of fell off of interest but darn it, i loved all 3 games. Mind you i am really only a PS exclusive player. I play all my 3rd party games on Xbox, not cause i think it’s better or anything, i just like the controller better. So for me, i buy a PS3-PS5 and all i get is whatever 1st party titles they have that i like. So i really want these titles to come out. When I bought the PS5 I LOVED Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart so much, i beat it 3 times. Still one of the best looking games on the console in my opinion.
So Resistance for me would be something to really get excited for. Hell I’ll even take it as a live service game if that’s what it takes. I love the enemies in that game.
Reteleasing these without remastering them is ridiculous
While I acknowledge those discounts are nice, it still rubs me the wrong way that Activision is just selling ports of these fairly old games with no visual or QoL upgrades. Then they’re taking away the DLC, only to sell it as a new season pass—for ports of old games!
I can understand why this is still appealing to some but for me, I find it mildly annoying and I’m ok passing.
Can't believe they released them with multiplayer, instant buy for both and the rest of my summer planned.
I wish they would have done this with the MW2 re-release, that would have been nuts.
You need to write a news sorry about how the online is broken and no one can join each others party’s
Also trying to find an online lobby only works about 20% of the time you get mostly errors until it finally works
Wii U Blops 2 was me and my son's fave to play together. Haven't played it since WiiU taken offline. This is a no brainer at £24, complete with dlc using discount. Yay!!!
So people are cancelling their subscriptions and I was one of them , they are killing off physical games and now have the audacity to charge that for DIGITAL copies when you can literally buy them each for about £1-4 at CEX physically.......
Oh sony oh sony! Is this a taster of what's becoming the norm by other " a discount " IF you have a subscription..... ive got both on xbox they cost me like £4 physically! Nah thanks and your mad for considering it at that price! No improvements just ports of 1080 resolution bare minimum effort at a daft price! And no dlc ! And you can pull it when you have a bf at Activision at any point! Nah nah and nah you've got some big king Kong ones !
All the people crying about playstation ending discs are more than happy to buy this download crap😂
Was on a gaming hiatus when these originally released. I assume they ran in 30fps and in this release it will be the same ?
Can someone explain why this has happened as if this is a straight port of the PS3 games then how has this happened as we can only stream PS3 at the moment plus the fact that u need to buy it again even if u already bought it digitally on PS3 is appalling and don't get me started in the dlc.it should've been the 2 games with all the dlc as one bundle
@stefan771 how can they do that as right now the only way to play PS3 games is to stream them.
@get2sammyb if u already have it on PS3 u should get it for nothing
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