Black Ops 7 Underperforms: Worst Reviewed Call of Duty in Years

Ladies and gentlemen, the most predictable thing in the world has happened. It's been confirmed that Black Ops 7 just wasn't good enough. My god, I am so shocked and appalled by this recent revelation. I'm shocked and amazed. I can hard I can hardly believe that the game that was the worst reviewed Call of Duty of all time that had a campaign written by uh autistic [__] robots didn't live up to the standards. I can say the R word, okay, because I am one. Yeah. So, Black Ops 7 at least in comparison to how the franchise traditionally performs uh has not been performing well. Call of Duty is kind of like Tom Brady in the

sense that like God, you hate to see his success last this long. At some point you just kind of wish for his downfall just so something else that's more unique and interesting could take his place. And then we get Patrick Mahomes. Go Hawks. By the way, this video was edited by a Bucks fan. In any case, while this uh relative falloff may not be like massive in the grand scheme of things, I think Black Ops 7 was still like the fifth bestselling game of 2025 in North America. Like that's still good. But from what I saw, it is the worst selling Call of Duty since 2008. Now, if this pattern and this trend continues, we'll see. But it's clear that this has spooked the uh the higherups and the staff at Treyarch, Raven, Activision, and Xbox because uh

they made multiple posts about like, "Oh, we're we're not doing carry forward. You won't be able to use all those dumb beus and buttad skins in Black Ops 7 because we're going to just ruin the art style again 2 months after release." Anyways, but uh they put out they put out a blog post uh actually addressing this. So, I thought we'd read it together as well as one other article and just discuss this. A message from the Call of Duty team. First off, thank you all for the feedback we have received over the last few months. Call of Duty has enjoyed long-standing success because of all of you. A passionate community that demands excellence and deserves nothing less.

Okay, so right off the bat, they don't know who their [__] target demographic is. Or they do and they're lying about it. Demands excellence deserves nothing less. Call of Duty fans, let me know. Let me know if that sounds like the greater COD community to you. Uh because that's [__] hilarious. Demands excellence. Deserves nothing less. Eat the Here's your trough of slop, you [__] piggies. Eat it. Eat the slop. I think demanding like a story in a campaign written by like maybe a real human being. I don't think that's demanding excellence. I think that's demanding like oxygen necessary to breathe. It's It's going to be one of those posts, fellas. We also know that for some of you, the franchise

has not met your expectations fully. Yeah, you should have put that text in [__] size 72 font. Okay. Not met expectations fully. You guys are a [__] disgrace. Okay. All right. We've already gone down that rabbit hole. We don't need to we don't need to go back to Wonderland. Uh yeah, I have been I've been very adamant and passionate and straightforward and clear and concise and all that with my COD reviews. I don't like to brag, you know. I consider myself to be a humble guy. The most humble guy there is, but my Call of Duty reviews are quite popular. My Call of Duty videos are quite popular. I think I speak for a pretty sizable chunk of the community. Uh and that's the most

important part. It's it's not the performance. It's that people value my videos enough to feel like I'm speaking for them. And so like yeah, yeah, you have not met expectations fully. Duh. To be clear, we know what you expect. And rest assured, we will deliver and overd deliver on those expectations as we move forward. I'm sure you will. I'm sure you will overd deliver the biggest trough of slop we have ever seen. I'm sure I'm sure the slop is gonna I'm sure I'm going to be drowning in slop. Yes. See what this franchise has done to me. See what this job as a YouTuber has done to me. I complain because I care with respect to Black Ops 7. What the [__] do you mean with respect to Black Ops 7?

[__] that game. That game don't respect nobody. Didn't respect its players or its developers. I'm sorry. We set our sights to deliver a spiritual successor to Black Ops 2. You know when you have like a hundred horrible terrible things you could say and you want to say them all at once, but that's your intrusive thoughts talking and you just I'm going to be the bigger man. If at least for a brief moment. Let's let's continue. You Yes, you did seek to deliver a spiritual succession to Black Ops 2. Yes. The studios have poured their passion into making a great game that we are all very proud of.

[screaming] Buddy, if you're proud of this game, then I bet you look at your toilet bowl in the morning and think, "Wow, I really pooped that big." I bet you're impressed with your own poop. Okay? Like, you're proud of this? You shouldn't be proud of this. You should all be ashamed. That is one big pile of [__] You should all be deeply embarrassed. Look, look, some people might say that I'm overreacting, that I'm being hyperbolic. I give a [__] okay? I actually give a [__] about Call of Duty and Black Ops and the Black Ops series. A and even if they had done like Black Ops 3 wasn't that offensive. It sucked that it wasn't a true sequel, but it didn't go out of its way to piss on

or to shamelessly cash gab and nostalgia bait from its more popular previous entries. Try and go boom. This game did. So, I have no respect for it. You should not be proud of this game. You should be deeply ashamed. This thing should be buried underneath an Indian burial ground so that no sane person ever attempts to revive it. Dog, we're a paragraph and a half into this. My god. But it's one thing for us to say it. More importantly, it's up to you to try and judge for yourself. I think I have. So, as it relates to Black Ops 7 in the future of Call of Duty, here are a few important notes. You'll have the opportunity to play Black Ops 7 for free. That's great. I still won't. I still won't because you're creatively

bankrupt. You have no respect for this series and you're shoving in all this AI [__] I No, no. Double Birds. I think Double Birds is appropriate in this situation. No. Next week, we're opening the doors for everyone to jump on top of a nailbit and and scrape their ass against it and play Black Ops 7 multiplayer and zombies for a free trial along with a double XP weekend. We would like you to experience the game firsthand and decide for yourselves. Dog, I saw a meme. I saw a meme the other day and it was a guy [__] on a plate about to [__] on a plate and a guy who's like sitting at the table is like, "Why are you giving me shit?" And a guy pooping on his plate before he poops, he's like, "How do you know it's [__] if

it hasn't come out yet?" And that's that's what this is. That's that's what this game is. We are committed to unprecedented seasonal support. We do not care. We do not care. Your continuing feedback will help shape our seasonal updates over the coming months. Season 1 is the largest live season ever. It's always Every season is always the biggest, most expansive live season ever created ever created in the history of seasons. It's It's going to be bigger than fall, ladies and gentlemen. Bigger than fall and winter combined. We won't rest until Black Ops 7 earns its place as one of the best Black Ops games we've ever

made. Now, now I feel bad. H Have you ever been in that position where someone is like, I'm going to do this and I want to accomplish that and I'm going to do all of these great things and they're telling you all about their hopes and dreams and in the back of your head you're like this is completely hopeless. This is that none of this is ever going to happen. This person's dreams and their spirits are going to be crushed once they face the cold hard reality that their vision is complete completely fruitless. Okay, I feel bad. Black Ops 4 is better than this. You like you learned the lesson with Black Ops 4. If you're not going to put an effort into the campaign, just don't make one. And at least

you salvaged it with three zombies maps in Blackout. And the multiplayer of BO4 was the worst part. But that's the same old tired uh bare bones basic ass map design problem the series has had for forever. But they at least salvaged the lack of a campaign with with other enticing offerings. it. We're praising Black Ops 4 right now. Think about four things have fallen. Yeah. No, it's it's never going to be one of the best Black Ops games ever made. In fact, it is always going to sit at the very bottom. Learn from your mistakes. Give up now. Our strategy going forward is changing. We will no longer do back-to-back releases of Modern Warfare or Black Ops games.

Wow. Really? I pointed this out. I pointed this out back in [__] 2023. I pointed this out in a video that got like 5 million views. Again, trying to keep it humble, not trying to brag, but that video made the rounds. I made this exact point. The reason why Call of Duty remained fresh back in its glory days is it was constantly changing settings. When it comes to Modern Warfare 3, however, I'm [__] exhausted. Having the same setting two games in a row does nothing but make the campaign and multiplayer feel more rehashed than it should. So despite the fact that the system, the engine, the mechanics, the gameplay, the fundamental core of each game was relatively the same, the reason why Call of Duty in uh endured so much

success was the difference in setting and weapons and the sandbox and maps and the story. And it's like it's taken you this long to [__] realize that. It's like you made this post trying to discourage any reasonable COD fan from having any hope that you were capable of salvaging this franchise at all. Bro, you guys [__] suck. Yeah, you guys [__] suck, man. You suck so much ass. We're We're no longer going to do this thing that we knew was a bad idea for at least 4 years. We finally learned. The reasons are many, but the main one is to ensure we provide an absolutely unique experience each and every year.

It took you 22 Call of Duty games to realize this. I'm just a [__] gaming YouTuber, man. I realized this like 3 years ago. It and you just now figured it out. Like this [__] is making me mold. What's up, everybody? This is the bald man here. Yeah, this idea that Call of Duty should change settings each year. Uh that's been apparent ever since Infinite Warfare. That [__] was 9 years ago, man. These people are nine years behind the curve. They like they only care about money. It like Call of Duty is a shell of its former self. It's never going back to the glory days. I'm

not trying to be pessimistic. I'm trying to be realistic. Like there's too much corporate interest in this franchise for it to ever return to where it once was. And uh and this is just another uh PR sch uh [__] response from the corporate overlords who are ruled by micro slop. It's it's the ultimate gaming slop empire. Like think of how many ways and how bad you have to [__] up to turn a guy like me. One of Xbox's biggest fanboys, one of Call of Duty's biggest fanboys to turn me into such a hater. Look at what you've done to me. you're you're responsible for all my problems in real life. No, I just I do this as a living. But you know what I mean?

It's like how do we get to a point where I'm reading this post that's meant to reassure me as a Call of Duty fan that everything's going to be all right, that oh yeah, keep spending money on our products. And I just I'm just like laughing at you. I'm laughing at how pathetic all of you are, how embarrassing it is. And because you're now part of Microsop and Microsop is intent on ruining everyone's life, even just by proxy, I have to relentlessly bully you guys as well, right? That's the only way society is going to improve. We have to continue to relentlessly bully you until your products improve because you guys suck so much [__] ass. But uh I'm sorry that this is what it's come to. We will

drive innovation that is meaningful, not incremental. I love the admission. What is that? A Freudian slip. Maybe not quite a Freudian slip, but did Yeah, we haven't given a [__] so maybe we'll try giving a [__] That's what they're saying. While we aren't sharing those plans today, thank you. Because we do not care. Uh we look forward to doing so when the time is right. To be clear, the future of Call of Duty is very strong and we believe our best days are ahead of us. G given the depth and talent of our development teams. Okay. They got a [__] jester to write this one. All right. Can I hire the clown that wrote this for my birthday party? Bro, he's killing it. The future of Call of Duty is very strong.

Our best days of ahead are ahead of us. I mean, how good was Black Ops 1 and World at War? Really? Not as good as what's coming in the future. Don't forget to spend money on product and consume, consume, consume, consume. Don't ever stop consuming. Please, for the love of God. We have been building the next era of Call of Duty and it will deliver a fat steaming load of [__] right under your chest, which is precisely what you want along with some surprises like maybe some extra piss in your face that push the franchise and the genre forward. We look forward to welcoming you in, listening to you, and moving forward together.

Good God. I was going to read another article, but I mean that's [snorts] this is a post meant to reassure me as a fan. And I guess I'm the problem because I'm so familiar with the franchise. I played so many games. I know what I like. I know what I don't like. And I also make YouTube videos for a living. Obviously, take this whole video with a grain of salt. Like I'm very jaded and pessimistic and I feel like I have every reason to be. Microsoft and Xbox have given me every reason to be. So has Activision and Blizzard. So has Call of Duty. You didn't just make a bad Black Ops game.

You [__] on the legacy of your forebears in such a an indefensible way that is just flatout embarrassing to like and your pathetic attempts to try and salvage this. It's like the future of Call of Duty is so bright and strong. Go [__] yourself, bro. You guys [__] suck. Okay? Somebody has to tell you this. You [__] suck, man. You [__] suck. I'm not going to lower my standards because I give a [__] about this franchise and all those fun nostalgic memories I have. I have better expectations for this franchise. Like the fact that you guys have given me so much material to make videos [__] on Black Ops 7.

Like it's I haven't even played it, folks. I just spent 25 minutes talking about 1 2 3 4 5 six paragraphs. six paragraphs of absolute utter embarrassing nonsense, man. But I get it. You guys are running a business. You have a company and a brand to run. And but it's like I' I've been around too long. I see through it all. I see through it all with X-Ray goggles. So, I'm I'm part of the problem because I am the jaded crowd. I am the passionate lover turned exater. I actually have no faith in the future of Call of Duty as something that I'm interested in because I mean Microsop has played their cards. Uh they've they've come out in full support of uh sloppifying everything. Sloppy Nadella just recently served up a second

serving of his world famous sloppy seconds. Like they're they're just trying to [__] over everything. And this is what Microsoft does. This is how they run their business, right? That this is what I see. This is the uh high aim vision. This is the high aim vision. I see the traffic coming down the road a mile down. Microsoft runs their business by acquiring studios, by acquiring profitable things, uh and then like sucking the nutrients and the life force and the value out of them before discarding them. Like Mr. Krabs's jelly factory that like that's that's Mr. Krabs was a character that was supposed to teach us so much about the dangers of extreme unregulated capital capitalism. Sorry to go all communist

woke on you, but that's what I feel like Spongebob was trying to say. And it's it's really hard to deny that reality when we're seeing it play out in front of us with Microsop and all of the [__] shitty awful anti-consumer things that they're doing and it's spreading throughout all of their gaming divisions and no doubt it's spreading to Call of Duty. So, uh, until the company culture at Microsop changes, which I don't think it will, keep eating, piggies. Keep eating. Get nice and fat for the slaughter. That was a video, huh? Uh, let me know your thoughts and opinions on the return of Call of Duty Black Ops 7.

I may not play it, but I will continue [__] on it. Like, as long as you give me reason to, I will continue [__] on it, right? cuz you know people got to stand up for something, right? In any case, if you enjoyed the video, feel free to give it a like and subscribe to the ActMan for more awesome content. All right, everyone. That's all I got for today. This is the ActMan signing out. Peace.