‘Black Ops 4’ is the first truly new Call of Duty game since 2007. It’s refreshing.

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For 11 years, Call of Duty has been a safe bet for Activision. 

It’s popular, it sells by the boatload, and it changes very little year after year. It prints money, basically. But Black Ops 4, released on Oct. 12, upends that common thinking. It’s still safe — there’s a freaking battle royale mode! — but it’s not the Call of Duty many of us know.

Think back to 2007. That’s the year Call of Duty went from cinematic first-person shooter set during World War II — like so many other popular shooters at that time — to game-changer.

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‘Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII’ is leaving some fans behind. That’s the whole idea.

Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII might not be for you anymore.
When Treyarch, the studio behind this year’s entry in the series, revealed Black Ops IIII back in May, that reveal was accompanied by a revelation: No more campaign. For the first time, one o…

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