20 Recent Video Games EVERYONE Knew Would Suck

20. Call of Duty: Black Ops 7

Even though 2024's Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 felt like a serious return to form for the FPS franchise, eyebrows were swiftly raised when Activision announced that it would be immediately followed by Black Ops 7.

More to the point, Black Ops 6 developers Treyarch and Raven Software were tasked with also releasing Black Ops 7 the very next year, counter to the usual Call of Duty production model of cycling between different studios to ensure annual releases while maintaining quality.

It was a red flag from the jump, then, and on release week reviewers noted two other hugely concerning things - the campaign was always-online and therefore couldn't be paused, and the game contained AI slop art.

It was painfully obvious that Black Ops 7 was hurriedly sloughed out with the bare minimum effort, and so nobody should've been surprised that it scored some of the series' worst reviews to date while also posting the franchise's worst sales in almost 20 years.

The fallout was ultimately dire enough that Activision even vowed not to release back-to-back Black Ops or Modern Warfare installments ever again.