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It was the worst Call of Duty of all time, but its players don’t care: you can still find matches in 2025
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Declassified (2012) received very bad reviews at the time, but that has not stopped players from keeping it alive thirteen years later.
The Call of Duty saga was born in 2003 with the release of the first title for PC, but it wasn’t until 2005, with the release of Call of Duty 2, that Activision established the annual release schedule that would define the franchise. Since then, we have seen a major installment every year - the latest being Black Ops 6 - and the occasional additional version or spin-off for portable consoles. These ‘minor’ installments are usually developed by external or inexperienced studios, sometimes resulting in unpolished games of questionable quality. This was the case with Call of Duty: Black Ops: Declassified (2012), a PS Vita exclusive that, despite its many shortcomings, still has an active player base in 2025, as incredible as it may seem, making it possible to find games thirteen years after their release.
In the middle of 2025, it is still possible to find games of Call of Duty: Black Ops: Declassified, considered the worst game of the series
On 5 January 2025, the user @realradec on X - formerly Twitter - shared a very peculiar publication on his account on this social network. Through a series of photos, he demonstrated that thirteen years after the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops: Declassified on PlayStation Vita, it is still possible to find multiplayer matches.
This post went viral not only because of the peculiarity of having a small community of very dedicated players who were not willing to let this video game “die”, but mainly because this title received very bad reviews at the time. One of them was that its multiplayer mode was very limited compared to other installments of the saga released on desktop consoles and PC. There were only seven maps, seven death streaks, five game modes, eighteen primary weapons, ten secondary weapons, six equipment items and twelve perks.
The biggest difference from the “major versions” was undoubtedly the number of players per game: a maximum of eight, divided into two teams of four in team games. It was a lite version of the Call of Duty experience, more suited to a portable gaming environment, but very limited compared to what the major versions offered.
It is ironic that despite its severe limitations and the barrage of criticism it received, Call of Duty: Black Ops: Declassified is still alive in the hearts - and consoles - of a small group of gamers. It’s an amusing anecdote that shows that despite the negative reviews, there are many gamers who choose to turn a deaf ear and still enjoy a title that fails to live up to expectations.
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