Call Of Duty: Black Ops 4 Review - 8 Ups & 4 Downs

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8. The Multiplayer Suite Is Ludicrously Addictive

Though Blackout will obviously steal much of the glory away this year, Black Ops 4's core multiplayer suite is as ridiculously addictive and enjoyable as ever. Treyarch have brought their much-praised Specialist characters back for another go-around, while ditching the more outlandish locomotion options which proved divisive with many fans.

For the most part the multiplayer offering here is pretty familiar, but that's not really a bad thing at all. Two new game modes appear in the form of Control and Heist, the latter especially being a lot of fun, having a distinct Counter-Strike vibe to it as players attempt to amass money in order to buy better weapons for subsequent rounds.

There are 14 maps on offer in total - four of them being glossy remakes of classics like Firing Range - and while few of them stick out as bonafide franchise classics yet, the design across-the-board is slick and intuitive, though spawns could probably use some fine-tuning.

There's little in the way of real innovation here, but by stripping away some of the goofier affectations of recent CoD games and focusing on the basics, it manages to be elegantly simple fun.