

Ditching the single-player campaign was controversial with some players, but others welcomed it with open arms, arguing that the series has always been primarily multiplayer-focused. There is no campaign this year, and Blackout is technically what replaced it, since Black Ops games have always included multiplayer and zombies. Black Ops 4 may be a new game, but it's rooted in the past in a way fans will appreciate. And Treyarch has never been shy about bringing back the same zombies maps over and over. Other famous maps of the series, like Jungle and Slums, return in Black Ops 4's standard multiplayer. Asylum - that's right, World at War hasn't been forgotten either.

Blackout's large-scale map isn't a new destination so much as it is a smattering of fan-favorite maps together on one enormous playing field: Firing Range. Frank Woods, Black Ops' brash protagonist, barks orders in the tutorials that educate multiplayer fans about Black Ops 4's different classes. At every turn, in every mode, there are reminders of what made the Black Ops series what it is. Black Ops 4 is composed of three main modes: regular multiplayer, the Blackout battle royale mode and zombies mode.
