Black Ops Cold War Realism Playthrough

Here's my blind Realism campaign playthrough of Black Ops Cold War - on time for once! I've stayed spoiler free so I can react to whatever happens. I do play both main endings here, and perhaps I'll have a follow-up going through to play through some of the alternate paths, and getting all the achievements and challenges I missed. I thought it was a very fun game to play through, and I'd definitely say I liked putting this playthrough together much more than last year's fiasco. Hope you enjoy, all you fans of the good old 4 hour reaction playthroughs.
Timestamps (split up by main missions):
0:00 - Intro
0:36 - No More Hostages (Cutscene)
2:10 - Nowhere Left to Run
13:46 - Perseus (Cutscene)
16:46 - Black Debrief: Preparation (Cutscene)
17:33 - CIA Safehouse E9
21:55 - The Memory (Cutscene)
22:58 - Fracture Jaw
39:28 - Black Debrief: Decryption (Cutscene)
40:21 - East Berlin Briefing
46:02 - Operation Red Circus (Optional Mission)
55:00 - Anton Volkov (Cutscene)
55:59 - Brick in the Wall
1:24:06 - Behind the Iron Curtain (Cutscene)
1:24:56 - Redlight, Greenlight
1:43:03 - Confrontation (Cutscene)
1:45:55 - The Excavation (Cutscene)
1:46:55 - Echoes Of a Cold War
2:08:48 - Black Debrief: Names (Cutscene)
2:09:35 - Lubyanka Briefing
2:11:58 - Going Inside (Cutscene)
2:12:46 - Desperate Measures
2:40:54 - Black Debrief: Hastings (Cutscene)
2:42:07 - Cuba Briefing
2:43:13 - Operation Chaos (Optional Mission)
2:51:39 - A Trial to Cuba (Cutscene)
2:52:25 - End of the Line
3:05:04 - Black Debrief: Fiasco (Cutscene)
3:05:52 - Interrogation
3:08:00 - Descension (Cutscene)
3:08:52 - Break on Through
3:32:44 - Identity Crisis
3:33:35 - Revelation (Cutscene)
3:38:15 - An Important Task (Cutscene)
3:39:36 - The Final Countdown
3:46:56 - "Truth" ending scenes
3:52:09 - Mini Review / Thoughts
3:55:14 - Looking at achievements
3:56:30 - The Lie & No Doubt (Cutscene)
3:58:40 - Ashes to Ashes
4:03:51 - "Lie" ending scenes
4:07:40 - Looking at challenges, end
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[@opoc_x37]

Waiting 1 year for a new COD to play it ❌ Waiting 1 year to watch a S0ur playthrough of the new COD ✔️

[@icefly20]

They go from Cuba to Berlin in 1 hour? I want that plane ticket.

[@3Guys1Video]

Lol

[@Laws2]

Concorde flight

[@Slutskiy]

@@Laws2way too fast even for a Concorde

[@purplestrawberrysunset]

​@@Slutskiy it's rental Concorde

[@jlamppost]

Shoutout to all the fans who are watching the entire premiere

[@robounitsunite1824]

Hey that was me

[@UT_KingMehh]

me

[@AntiQuake]

@@UT_KingMehh thanks

[@lindabouldin7909]

Wait bocw it takes in 1981 he is like 21 so 2011 how old is he

[@smoovinunicorn5528]

My name was imma “bell” pepper

[@3Guys1Video]

Lol

[@indianelliot]

He missed the zombies in the campaign:(

[@S0ur]

Yeah :( Might make a followup going through all the other options & getting the 100%

[@OmegaRejectz]

@@S0ur 👀

[@swir_eden9393]

@@S0ur you really should!

[@Steeler091]

What zombies?

[@heavypootis0815]

@@Steeler091 There is trap door right to the cave in break on through and if you go in it it is very dark and has zombies in it.

[@BoxCarRacer-notthebandsorry]

I was Taco "Bell" Burrito.

[@WYDRetroYT]

Mine was Nacho Bell Grande

[@sdrw7389]

Not being able to fully remove HUD in realism is pretty weak IMO.

[@nuawingsix4606]

Yeah lmao MW did that I believe lol.

[@trailerparksupervisor5378]

@@nuawingsix4606 MW 2019 realism was such a better challenge.

[@dropinninja4]

How to beat the campaign on Realism... "Snort G-Fuel" -Sour

[@spark_two]

I love the parallel with the opening lighter scene being like the one used in the OG Black Ops.

[@Why_It]

9:50 I only heard people say that they speculated that Bell was in the multiplayer as the takedown operator because of the body armor that you're wearing in the campaign. But here we see Bell's face light up nice and bright and yeah, he's the operator.

[@opoc_x37]

It isn't 3arc just reused the character model because they probably got lazy

[@MrGamePlayer1000CHNL]

Bell is literally Stone's model

[@knifegobrr6165]

No guys u got it wrong. The good ending shows bell is killed by adler (which is the canon ending) clearly showing that stone is not bell. Also the model has a black mask unlike stone.

[@pixelt0ast]

@@knifegobrr6165 who's to say "Bell" wasn't fatally shot and mind manipulated again to erase the memories of Vietnam. Those memories were personal to Adler and it would make since to remove those memories and make Bell a new alias Stone, who is a gun for hire secretly working for the CIA? Just a theory but completely possible Edit: and you cant say the pistol shot 100% killed bell as mason took 2 sniper rounds by the time of bo2 and is still kicking

[@AdamV-im1nx]

@@pixelt0ast stone is british tho and its very obvious bell is russian not british

[@xdvoltic3075]

Choosing ex kgb for your character was a little on the nose and it was pure accident

[@codieomeallain6635]

Red “Bell” End would have been a hilarious name too

[@SaarphireTTV]

love hearing german in the English playthrough. Adds so much to the immersion.

[@OmegaRejectz]

‘Thanks Treyarch’ *me finding out recently Raven Software made the campaign and that’s why it’s so amazing*

[@GamerScoreInfinite]

*you now realizing without BO1’s fantastic story made by Treyarch, they would have absolutely no base to start this story for.* Without spoilers, the entire concept of BO1 is basically flipped here. Gotta show respect where it’s due.

[@OmegaRejectz]

@@GamerScoreInfinite They’ve long since lost their charm... BO1’s campaign is phenomenal. But BO3 was god awful & BO4 didn’t even have one. I’ll gladly give them credit for their past works but I was really surprised & impressed with Raven’s campaign

[@OmegaRejectz]

@@alastor8091 Most CODs are just shooting galleries. You're picking the best of the best missions in the whole 17 year old series. BO2's campaign is so ridiculously overhyped. Not replayable at all.

[@3Guys1Video]

Ngl, the evil ending is a far better ending than the good or regular bad Yeah Europe gets blown up but at least Perseus never betrays you

[@The_Obsessed]

Valid honestly

[@eatball9504]

4 weeks late, still watched the whole thing. Loved your playthrough

[@LuminePrime]

I was so mad you went over to the Hand Cannon in the KGB mission and didn't pick it up. The icon appeared like 5 times goddamn.

[@het_bob2078]

Wait what? What hand cannon?

[@LuminePrime]

@@het_bob2078 cba to timestamp, but when he is in the kgb mission the leaked desert eagle hand cannon streak is on the table and he doesn't pick it up

[@terriblehits3157]

Thanks for the playthrough. Glad I'm not the only one that thought this campaign was way too easy on Realism... and what's with the crosshairs? Isn't the entire point of Realism difficulty to be as hard as Veteran but without the HUD?

[@NaoyaToudou]

Maybe you're just both extremely good at the game, because I played only on the default mode and I had one of the hardest times of my life.

[@crms00n6]

@@NaoyaToudou I had slight problems on veteran, but that's because Im an agro ego boy who refuses to ever use cover. If you take it even remotely slow, this game is pretty easy.

[@aircraftmodguy6922]

Love your videos Sour,so glad you continue to help each year of Call of Duty!

[@knome2996]

Love the batman while interrogation

[@Torns]

yet again I have watched a whole Sour playthrough. Ty for the entertaining content ❤️🤝

[@xkerberosx1]

Love having this in the background, listening to your commentary and occasionally watching it. But man do i hate how all the characters act tough, it's so cringe and blah

[@DannieDecentVlogs]

Iam gonna be the even smaller batch of people who just listen to the whole video while i grind some call of duty

[@magana7009]

I have beat it on realism and i feel great

[@SamRobbo98]

Same, much easier than modern warfare

[@magana7009]

@@SamRobbo98 yeah, but "Echoes of Cold war" was really hard in the part where you have to escape. I died about 20 times there XD

[@bigsamuraii8386]

Same, I did both endings on realism

[@WYDRetroYT]

Realism was a walk in the park

[@ethanzagozewski5220]

Watching this having played through the game was still entertaining 👍

[@Bodmanford]

The “twist” that Perseus is a group was the only thing that let me down. Alright campaign but coke on its so obvious that it’s a group of people, also it’s every battle pass operator lol

[@willembotterman2348]

Watched the whole première loved it sour you a real g

[@PrismaticalYT]

Shoutout to people in chat

[@np5631]

Nice shoutout, very cool

[@PrismaticalYT]

@@np5631 thanks I guess

[@np5631]

@@PrismaticalYT you’re welcome?

[@theoverseer4886]

Harry “Bell” End would have been a good choice

[@jonathanbagby553]

“I wonder if they made the other half of the room” why was that so funny to me.

[@liamshonk4792]

Hey I was wondering if you had any advice for calling card challenges like collaterals, throwing back frag grenades etc. More luck based ones. Part of me hopes there’s some easy way so I don’t have to wait until enemy’s line up for me. I’m probably just being optimistic

[@kjuuur]

You are spoiling us now, Mr. S0ur. I like it.

[@zacharymorin4634]

BO3 realism was the hardest thing i've ever had to do

[@blinkbone3245]

I remember that, couldn't bear to get past the 2nd mission

[@MrGamePlayer1000CHNL]

The SERIOUS grenade spam and two shot deaths on WaW Veteran pissed me off more

[@WYDRetroYT]

I hated bo3 on realistic it was nearly unbeatable took me a whole week of dying just to beat it

[@aceinthisspace9278]

I was just looking for this yesterday

[@Remori2379]

Rip that one guy named Harry Balzac

[@user-nf8wg4lc4j]

I only got through that infuriating “echos of a Cold War” segment by throwing smoke grenades at my feet so I could take a break from the onslaught

[@GrantFunkyFrabe]

I knew it was gonna be fun to watch sour play the campaign. That cat had me dying 🤣 And the "Inappropriate? That's my name!" 🤣

[@btf_flotsam478]

I like the switch to "Cox" slipping under the radar.

[@TyDie1]

In case anyone was wondering… they did not have a nuke just sitting on a fire base in the middle of vietnam during the war.

[@Sharkshaman]

Fun watch, thanks Sour.

[@RyanMK666]

Noooo you didn’t lie! I completely forgot you didn’t lie! Sadge watched this when it first aired, but damn did I forget that ending xD

[@littlegeeser6993]

Oof he let go of the only automatic m16 because he thought it was burst

[@beoeve]

This makes me want to replay Cold War on PC now!

[@BS-sz9wy]

I feel like the difficulties in this game don't matter, realism is just as easy as the default difficulty

[@GamerScoreInfinite]

They usually matter. I’ve been playing on Veteran every year since I was comfortable enough with the franchise (since Ghosts I think? Started in BO1) And this is undoubtedly the easiest veteran ever. Veteran is usually for veterans and can be frustrating as hell.

[@huhhuh364]

@@GamerScoreInfinite mw veteran was also extremely easy besides the beginning of the final mission

[@GamerScoreInfinite]

@@huhhuh364 I struggled on a few missions. One In particular was that one during the night where we had Wolf locked in some bathroom. And the trucks and flares lighting up the fields at night. Died a bunch of times in the enemies final rush

[@BS-sz9wy]

fr this game was rushed so fast they forgot to make it challenging

[@TheFirebrillz]

Bro I died so many times on that fuckin helicopter lift out of the snowy base. No cover

[@zacharymorin4634]

It would be cool that have a vid with all the alternate paths in the 2nd to last mission. There’s also alot of things you can do in the safehouse. Also do we know why the framerate is so ass in cutscenes on PC? I didn’t have any issues personally on ps4

[@Sand132tame]

everyone appreciate the heli driver with his smiley face on the back😃

[@mattmaestri5971]

I watched the whole thing :D

[@xjdail]

hi sour big fan thanks for the great content

[@snowfloofcathug]

"I'll just choose quickly and save both of them", I had the same thought, but no. It will solve like 90% of conflicts in any medium but apparently the game just won't let us do it

[@ryanscott717]

I love the little gifs you edit in throughout the video so much 😂

[@thebigbean8783]

Holy shit. I haven't watched this!? Hell yes

[@zea7775]

I did it, and the good choice for the finale gave me hell. Took to 30 mins to get past the first part

[@zacharymorin4634]

the ending of echoes of a cold war was annoying even on hardened

[@Abadaba._]

Played it on veteran and I wanted to rip my hair out 😂

[@WYDRetroYT]

I hated that part too sittin here having to stand on a platform with no cover like bruh

[@Vscojen]

The only bad thing about that part is that when you respawn you glitch out

[@kloie_eli3299]

I put my last name as BlackOps and I loved whenever it showed it lmao

[@subatomicseal7789]

I'd heard the legends of Ronald Reagan respecting your character's pronouns, but lord it's so much funnier to see it. It's so silly I honestly applaud it. I don't have a problem with choosing the character's pronouns, but letting your black-ops agent destabilizing foreign countries for capitalistic interest be non-binary is so funny

[@francisfusca2022]

Would love to see sour just go through all the campaign's one day

[@KingofGermanic]

boy do i have news for you

[@_yellow]

The "lie" ending went hard as fuck

[@kamultrashman4989]

You should make a video of you hunting campaign challenges

[@ShacoPL]

2:54:23 Now that is a sick ass transition

[@adammartinez1764]

The bat man voice 😂

[@Hamentsios10]

1:32:38 Wait, it did have music here and it's a bagner. (Not talking about the one you edited in xD ) I can hear it in 1:34:18 though so i guess it took a while to start.

[@user84074]

/ / / SPOILER WARNING! \ \ \ Careful, gamers. The chat and comments are full of stuff about the ending(s). 🤫🔕

[@49mozzer]

Wait... was that an RPD with a PKM box?

[@XYZ-ql1fi]

Lol thanks for the vid good job on it.

[@snakedoctordre]

Thanks Sour.

[@ChanceTM]

Ima End would be amusing... Ima "Bell" End 😆

[@warfury2084]

its hard to believe me but i already finished 3 difficulties and on the last mission for the veteran difficulty

[@dominic._]

there's a dark ops challenge to play every arcade machine in campaign

[@toenelson1198]

2:35 was that a destiny 2 reference? that caught me so off guard

[@_Diggs]

realised that too

[@lousashrex]

2:07:00 I’m glad someone else got destroyed by this. It took my forever, straight Heart of the Reich vibes.

[@comrad36671]

Yknow, even though ive played through this campaign a lot, the graphics quality is pretty good Too busy shooting guys to pay attention to it

[@OmegaRejectz]

POG moment

[@IanPilgreen]

Why is Creed from The Office Hudson's boss?

[@soulesk5513]

Lol at how he did the side missions

[@stardustvideo]

Realism here is normal in COD 1

[@notaspider4084]

Only problem with this campaign is that you can't ice Reagan

[@iamironman3388]

I’ve learned more history from COD games than from school.

[@someguy1365]

Uh... that's a problem. Mostly because Black Ops games are a work of fiction. Maybe the setting is what you're learning from, and even then, it sounds like you need to pay attention better or do some research of your own.

[@iamironman3388]

Well sure if you’re gonna take it seriously, the plots of cod are obviously fictional but the settings and events they are based around are pretty accurate. Also I pay attention just fine in school as an A student. It’s just not very helpful to take the same American History course from 3rd to 10th grade. All I get from it is a few new facts and a different teacher’s way of teaching it

[@TomSmith-dp9zb]

learned more western propaganda maybe. if you want to learn some american history that isn't hashed out as much, listen to blowback, specifically season 2. it's about the cuban missile crisis and the CIA

[@TyDie1]

Just watch documentaries.

[@venomous7321]

I can’t believe that’s how you finished echos of war 😂 I’m actually dying. Thought it was impossible

[@smoovinunicorn5528]

The campaign challenges are easy af they took me abt half a day to complete

[@pods5649]

Hardened: Im the hardest Veteran: No i am Realisim: Amatures Hardened and veteran : what did you say punk?? Realisim: AMATURES!!!!

[@trAp_Tuning]

I love you S0ur ❤️

[@gaminglifeforever8519]

16:25 our very way of live line from black ops JFK Kennedy said that time mason

[@unknownpowfu2052]

Easiest game to play on realism

[@ECM05]

How much harder is veteran vs recruit

[@tangomikemike289]

“Slow Sprint” - S0ur Also, if no one has told you, you sound like Dartigan.

[@homerun916]

@13:25 “Whoopsies”

[@Dandus_TF]

Anytown, USA is still not a Multiplayer Map. ):

[@spinyovalfruit]

The m16 was an m16a1 so it wasn't burst lmao

[@thelightpost6056]

So uh is mustard “bell” sauce not a popular name ?

[@ryan.aviles28]

From the back or front

[@kellyecosourcellcenvironme8060]

You can’t blame them for having bad graphics beacouse they had to work on it during COVID

[@HangmanOfficialUploads]

He complains now about how easy realism is. A money's paw curled its finger when he started doing the older titles culminating in the train station mission.

[@digital0738]

He really just referenced super Mario 64 at 3:25:00

[@dreammaker9642]

Ligma "Bell" Bawlz.... opportunity wasted on the name sir

[@ratatat-qt3nk]

the campaign is so short to me idk why

[@Simon-oe3xp]

If I were to listen to this game, my surname is apparently inappropriate. I don't understand how Gunnarsen is inappropriate. Lmao

[@SASSY-tw6mv]

I never played a cod game and I beat this on realism within 3 days

[@stephenl2571]

Sure you did

[@shoewithbeans8472]

2nd, maybe?

[@michaeljordansburner474]

3rd probably

[@aeternusdoleo4531]

Would you kindly? We have a job to do... Stanley Parable, Bioshock... this game is borrowing a lot.

[@NFEpic]

The good ending is blowing up europe

[@blinkbone3245]

I was joe "bell" mama