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ake love not Warzone...
actually, screw that.
You should do both! Call
Of Duty’s battle royale
offering has been out in
the wild for a while now and the early
results are impressive. Last year’s
Modern Warfare may have been a
successful reshuffle for a series in
need of a makeover, yet Warzone goes
one further: it leans on the gigantic
shoulders of Apex Legends, Fortnite,
and PUBG while making some key
improvements in the process.
The numbers are extraordinary.
Though Warzone’s free-to-play status
has naturally made it more accessibleto a larger number of PS4 owners than
a traditional full-priced game, the pull of
this Modern Warfare companion piece
shouldn’t be underestimated. Six million
players within its first 24 hours. A
ludicrous 15 million after just 24 hours
on the PlayStation Store and other
digital storefronts. At the current rate,
every last person on this annoyingly
damp globe will be racking up kills in
Warzone within the month.
Make no mistake: this is the most
pivotal moment for Call Of Duty since
the original Modern Warfare nuclear-
blasted our expectations in 2007. Call
Of Duty may still be the most popular
videogame franchise in the world, butthe emergence of Warzone shows
publisher Activision is adept at reading
the current market and adjusting its
place in an ever-shifting medium to
keep pace with free-to-play phenomena
like Fortnite.
Does Call Of Duty: Warzone lay
down an entirely new template for
the biggest shooter series around?
Will its success change how future
COD entries tackle single-player
campaigns? Does its impact put yet
another nail in what feels like PUBG’s
rapidly closing coffin? Whatever the
future holds for Warzone, we’re all too
happy to celebrate its wildest features
over the coming COD-tastic pages.Wecelebrate thebattleroyalesensation’sbest
features, as the latest addition to the biggest shooter
series on the planet takes aim at Fortnite and co