Call of Duty: Black Ops 4

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83 12 October 2018

Shooter Action Warfare

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is a shooter developed by Treyarch, released 12 October 2018 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

Verified 10 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is a shooter game developed by Treyarch and released in 2018. It was published by Activision. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on IW Engine 3.0.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is a 2018 first-person shooter game developed by Treyarch and published by Activision. It is the fifteenth installment of the Call of Duty series and the fifth entry in the Black Ops sub-series, following Call of Duty: Black Ops III (2015). The game was released on October 12, 2018, for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One.

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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and warfare. It supports multiplayer for up to 88 players online. Local play supports 4 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.

Where it sits in the Call of Duty series

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is the 177th of 204 entries we hold in the Call of Duty series. The next entry was Call of Duty: Legends of War in 2018. Its critic score of 83 is 10 points above the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - Collection 1 at 90.

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How it was received

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 82% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 14 points above the year average. Players rate it 75, 8 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

What it launched against

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 launched on 12 October 2018, within three weeks of Red Dead Redemption 2, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Return of the Obra Dinn and Assassin's Creed Odyssey. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Red Dead Redemption 2, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Return of the Obra Dinn, Assassin's Creed Odyssey.

Cheats and codes

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