After almost 20 years on the frontline this most enduring of shooter series is still finding new ways to blow up bad guys
CoD campaigns have become something of an acquired taste in recent years. Indeed, (possibly apocryphal) anecdotal evidence suggests many fans now don’t bother with them at all, preferring instead to dive straight in to the competitive crap shoot of multiplayer.
2019’s return to the world of the Modern Warfare-era felt like an attempt to reboot not just that seminal shooter series, but also the franchise’s fading reputation for single player thrills and spills. Three years on, this sequel aims even higher – albeit with end results that miss as many of their targets as they hit.
The action picks up three years on from the predecessor’s teasing denouement. Captain Price and his scene-stealing facial hair is now leading his firmly established Task Force 141 on the hunt for a Middle Eastern terrorist and the nuclear bomb he intends to use against the United States.
The bloody trail takes in as visually diverse locations as the waterways of Amsterdam, US-Mexican border town set in the shadow of Trump’s ill-fated wall, and a subterranean cave beneath a Spanish coastal wind farm, all rendered in stunningly lifelike detail thanks to the developers Infinity Ward’s envelope-pushing photogrammetry technology.