![]() IPad 3, iPad 4, iPad Air, iPad iPad, iPad Mini 2, iPad Mini 3, iPad Mini 4, 9.7" iPad Pro: 2048x1536, 1536x2048 IPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone 13 Pro Max, iPhone 14 Plus: 1284x2778 IPhone Xs Max, iPhone 11 Pro Max: 1242x2688 IPhone X, iPhone Xs, iPhone 11 Pro: 1125x2436 IPhone 6 plus, iPhone 6s plus, iPhone 7 plus, iPhone 8 plus: 1242x2208 IPhone 6, iPhone 6s, iPhone 7, iPhone 8: 750x1334 IPhone 5, iPhone 5s, iPhone 5c, iPhone SE: 640x1136 IPhone: iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS: 320x480 Update: The option to turn the graphic violence off is presented to the player when the game opens, as well as in the options.MacBook Pro 13.3" Retina, MacBook Air 13" Retina, MacBook Air 13.3"(2020, M1): 2560x1600 Dual monitor: I found it a bit troubling to do so, but it undoubtedly makes the game better. I’m just happy there’s an option to turn it off. It may not bother everyone, and that’s fine. The disconnect between the game’s over-the-top tattoo-shop aesthetic and random splatterpunk-like violence is evened out. It’s a remarkable shift for what sounds like such a “little” detail in print. That sudden sense of whiplash I experienced when a fun, tactical game suddenly turned into a slow-motion shot of graphic violence went away. Black Ops 4 is often silly and colorful, which is part of the reason the random, graphic violence feels so wrong Treyarch/Activision It’s not an easy to setting to find you have to go into the interface tab and scroll down to the content filters and set “graphic content” to “hide,” from “show.” No more random moments of shocking gore in your laser tag. ![]() The option to turn down off the gore is presented at the beginning of the game, but you can turn it off at any time if you manage to miss it during the game’s opening moments like I did. That is, until you get caught in an explosion and watch your arms and legs be blown off while your body trunk, now covered in bloody stumps, drops to the ground. The central message isn’t that war is hell, it’s that running around the woods with your friends while changing the rules of tag every now and again is a whole lot of fun. There is a game mode in which eliminated players drop oversized, cartoonish dog tags that need to be picked up to score a point. The aesthetic is part Rambo: First Blood Part Two But in 2029, and part sugar skull. ![]() I feel strange running around these levels, shooting at - and being shot at by - hulking, fantastic representations of future soldiers carrying garishly painted weapons. The single-player campaign that used to be mined for the aesthetic and assets of the multiplayer modes is now gone, and it makes those few moments of graphic violence that were left in the game feel strange and out of place. War games use violence for differing effects and emotional responses, but Black Ops 4 isn’t about war at all. The best way to relieve some of the dissonance is to turn off the gore. There’s a bit of a tonal inconsistency there. But what I’m actually playing is a virtual version of laser tag, in which I’m trying to eliminate players on the other team in order to score points and win the match. Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, with its very serious music and dramatic flourishes, tries to give the sense of an experience with gravity.
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