I have returned in all my amazing Glory and even changed my name to protect the innocent, the Squad  Leader has a very not so kind review of the latest Activision/Game Pass release “Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.”. Now as you would expect from yours truly, this review was done with much love and compassion for as long as my beverage lasted, which means in plain speech that this title was beyond frustrating for so many reason that I am about to jump into. But first I wanted to state that at first I was going to stomp the old bones stumps of mine to peck out a funny and dark side story featuring myself and our loving Editor, Marcus Blake. Then as every good Squad Leader does, I had a shit and thought about it, decided it wasn’t worth it. Now I gotta break up with Call of Duty, yeah that bad.

Alright Gang, Call of Duty has done it again with releasing something pretty generalized, lackluster, and downright boring to slog through a campaign that I have done to date since the Advanced Warfare use of Kevin Spacey, just ewwwww. So I’m going to start this rant with the campaign and then work my way down to zombies, right after these brief word from our Why In Hell Would You Department on the multiplayer additions to omnimoving… have you lost your mind! Why in the hell would you make multiplayer leaned only towards PC players that have forgotten the sweet touch of Mother Nature and embraced the glow of the screen to be their guiding light into rotting. Didn’t play it and I won’t play it because we all know the “Devs” teams will drag their dirty unchanged diapers at the speed of smell to make any fixes to stop cheaters as they throw cosmetics to purchase at the store.

Gang, I really wanted to have hope in this Black Ops game and in the beginning I thought you know what this is when they turn it around, really get their shit together, and actually started caring about the relationship we all once had. Nope, pretend to care and failed to deliver anything new or remotely exciting to long term veteran players, they even threw a damn zombies mission into it. Without dropping heavy spoilers the beginning of the game actually felt like a blockbuster film, set into a great time period for Black Ops. I even enjoyed the use of the black light, lock picking, and hacking terminals done in an enjoyable post-Cold War fashion that gives you the feeling of a possible good time. Even teased us with Lou Diamond Phillips and gave us an interesting team build up, then the storyline takes a hard right into the wall of saw this coming a mile away. Don’t be excited for the faceless hero Case in the game, because the ending pulls one of the cut to black before anyone can actually being shown dead leaving the player to think they were killed and we know the developers will pull the sad little stunt of hero returned villain to sell game content in the cosmetic store. I would also like to add that it was really stupid to add a heist in the storyline as a distraction for something great, but no way in hell would burned agents not grab more cash than what is given in the missions completion. The workbenches and use of perks in the campaign make no sense if Activision was attempting to give the player a taste of what was going to be in the multiplayer, they forgot how make game elements fun or that part of the game changed hands to many times. Do I like all the connections to Black Ops 2 being made hinting at the return of some older storyline that hasn’t been beat to death… The Numbers Mason!

Well Jerry I suspected something was wrong when Zombies started cheating on me with advanced cryptography when all the Zombie Chronicle Easter eggs released were getting a touch long winded and convoluted. But when round based Zombies came back, it didn’t look anything like me and that’s when I knew Zombies was fooling around with an Algebra professor that has a kink for convoluted scavenger hunts. Honestly Gang, best of luck to you and trying to find the win on this edition of why do headshots do nothing after round 5 and all your weapons might as well be shooting frozen peas, the weapon leveling is very unbalanced and while it does offer the player more attachment slots to equip as you level, the infield advantages they offer are meager. Making the player slowly unlock and level various known Perk sodas and Field Equipment is designed to make the player constantly slog through match after match with the illusion of replay value, while returning to the sad tactic of putting sub traits that don’t allow for progression until another useless sub trait is unlocked. The developers decided that making a 29 step Easter egg for each map that even a dedicated experience squad will struggle wasn’t bad enough, the return of gobble gum does not gives you the feeling Zombies is going to become Pay to Win. Zombies has become a boring lackluster version of its former glory and while much of this may be caused by the growing pains of new management, it is highly doubtful this rendition will be anything more than what was seen in Call of Duty; Vanguard.

In conclusion, its time to break up with Call of Duty all together! If this was an actual relationship between two people, sadly we are trying to fix them and we are about to hit rock bottom, Call of Duty didn’t want to change under the old leadership and we kept  rewarding their toxic behavior. So its time to do the right thing for our mental health and our personal sense of fun, throw this Call of Duty gam into the street and change the locks! Delete this game and demand a refund if you made the mistake of a purchase. We deserve better than this and we as gamers know this, look at any review comment section of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and it is be verbally abused as it rightfully deserves and it is sad to think this an established publisher with generations of experience. Gang this is the rating, warts and all, 4 stars out of 10 stars, just don’t do it and save your much need money. It’s not even worth downloading for FREE on Xbox Game Pass! But, now that Microsoft is in full control and the old bosses are out at Activision, there will be a great Call of Duty game in the future…the kind we used to have before Activision got sloppy and thought they could just put Call of Duty on the box, and we would play it.  Maybe they will go back to the drawing board and create a better game because Black Ops 6 certainly isn’t it! Until then, we will wait and see and just go back and play the COD games that are actually good and worth playing again.