SAUG | Call of Duty Black Ops 6 Multiplayer Gameplay (No Commentary)
0Saug | Call of Duty Black Ops 6 Multiplayer Gameplay (No Commentary)
Alright my friends the word of the day is Omnimovement. That’s where you take a Max Payne-esque leap in any direction, guns blazing, only to land on the ground in the most dramatic way possible to minimize getting shot and maximize your aim after exposing yourself, and it’s a game-changer in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6’s multiplayer mode. Sure, we can nitpick all day at minor things other games do better, but in the face of such fun, fast, and smooth online competition, those seem insignificant. Black Ops 6 is certainly no reinvention and arguably plays it a bit too safe, but its fundamentals – moving and shooting – are at such a high level as to elevate the experience well above that of years past. I spent a couple of hundred hours grinding through the perfectly fine but not at all remarkable Modern Warfare 3, but after a few days in Black Ops 6, I can't even imagine going back.
This isn’t the first time we’ve seen moves like this in Call of Duty, but it’s the first time the developers have embraced the technique the community invented and used to call Dolphin Diving, and they built on it with dramatic flair. I still find it a little cumbersome to execute properly with my mouse and keyboard control scheme, but I'm happy to say after my nearly 20 hours grinding out matches, I've already gotten much better at bursting into a room with a gun-blazing sideways leap