Call of Duty: Black Ops 7's Single Player Campaign Is Being Torn Apart 1

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is out today, 14th November 2025, and players are not happy, with its campaign being a particularly thorny issue.

Many of the problems fans are having with the single player story are technical ones, mainly relating to the game's always online nature.

For example, even when playing solo, you cannot pause the campaign at any point. Perhaps worse, there appears to be no checkpointing at all, meaning you have to restart a mission if you quit out.

Exacerbating this is that updates to the game will interrupt the campaign, forcing you to install them before you can continue.

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Some players are also complaining about the lack of AI companions; the story focuses on a group of soldiers that players take on when playing co-op, but if you're playing on your own, those characters simply won't be there to help.

It's also been pointed out that, even if you're playing solo, you have to engage with the game's online lobbies and so on to enter the campaign.

The campaign itself is also coming under fire. Activision made no secret that the game's story would be exploring some more surreal territory, but players aren't too pleased with some of the actual missions and content.

We won't post them directly here for spoiler reasons, but some choice clips doing the rounds on social media are getting a lot of attention.

Many Call of Duty fans are displeased with the campaign's direction, though this is obviously a more subjective point than the aforementioned online issues.

That's still not the end of it, either; some players allege to have found examples of AI-generated artwork throughout the game, notably in calling cards.

While we can't definitively say it's AI art, Call of Duty has been caught using the technique before, with six-fingered zombies and so forth.

However you slice it, Black Ops 7's campaign hasn't gone down well at all.

Our review of the game is on the way, but in the meantime, what are your thoughts on the game so far? Have you been playing it? Tell us in the comments section below.

[source x.com, via eurogamer.net]