Call of Duty: Black Ops 6's campaign is at its best when its delivering dumb fun and at its worst when it gets too close to reality.
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who play Call of Duty and those who don’t. For three glorious hours, I was finally part of the former. Then it all came crashing down in a hail of gunfire.
Related Stay trashy For its first few missions, Black Ops 6 is a thrill. It opens in the middle of a generic military shootout, but that’s just a loud introduction to its more playful setup. After getting too close to a shadowy group dubbed Pantheon, a small group of agents is cast out of the CIA and forced to go rogue. It’s a confidently cheesy setup that allows characters like Frank Woods and Troy Marshall to set out on a globe-trotting adventure that hops from set piece to set piece.
More than any Call of Duty mission I’ve ever played, Most Wanted understands the shooter’s strengths. Its best missions feel like they were ripped out of Jack Reacher.
It also leans into the worst parts of Call of Duty. As I have in so many video games, I’m once again shooting waves of Middle Easterners whose bodies pump out pink mist. It’s not much of a surprise; missions like this are par for the course in modern American war media. All you can really do is roll your eyes and hope that the story moves on to a better set piece afterwards.
For casual players, I imagine this is the kind of moment that can be written off with a tried-and-true “it’s not that deep” defense. I’m sure Raven itself hasn’t thought much about what it might be inadvertently saying here either. As fun as Black Ops 6’s campaign is, it’s also a thoughtless hodgepodge of schtick missions pulled from other games. It’s a greatest hits collection, which is why it’s so easy to hail as a return to form without giving its “head-empty” story much thought.
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