Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 finally launched last week, two years after the original war zone and almost three weeks after the launch of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2. First impressions are quite positive overall. As long as the foreseeable number of connection problems can be ignored, the future of Warzone 2.0 looks remarkably bright.
Warzone 2.0 is available now and can be downloaded on PlayStation, Xbox and PC.
Let’s eliminate the negative things first. My team and I spent about three hours at Warzone 2.0 immediately after launch. Of those three hours we were able to play about twenty minutes of Warzone and ten minutes of the new Warzone DMZ mode (which is a cool new survival mode similar to DAY-Z.) The rest of the time was unfortunately spent staring at screens loading and resetting the game several times.
It should be pointed out that this was my experience at the launch party in one of the most popular online battle royale games in the world. Millions and millions of players were probably trying to access the game around the same time. I’m not excusing the frustrating infrastructural connection issues, I’m just trying to keep in mind the vast scale of this shared experience.
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Luckily, things seemed to stabilize pretty quickly. When we returned about four hours after launch, we were able to access several game modes almost instantly. Once we understand voice chat settings, it is. Three of us were playing on PS5 and one of us on PC, but after messing around in the settings screens, we were finally good to go.
The immediate thing that is original war zone players will notice while playing Warzone 2.0, that’s how different the instant gameplay is from its predecessor. Everything from loot collection, to opponent kill time, to the overall pacing of the game feels far removed from the days of Verdansk and Caldera.
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Battle Royale Quads is an explosive and aggressive environment where quick thinking and clear communication are essential. Trying to capture the different shades of Warzone 2.0 will take a few matches in this mode due to its almost constant gunfights. And there are a lot of new aspects of the game for players to get familiar with.
Loot is scattered much more realistically, with ammo and gear placed on shelves or desks, rather than floating haphazardly through the environment. Looting other players’ corpses is also a different experience, with the introduction of loot packs.
The operation of the gas is also different, there are now three circles to monitor as the match progresses. The Gulag has also been updated to be a 2v2 Deathmatch, which drops player counts faster and makes it harder for players to get out of the Gulag alive.
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Battle Royale Trios is a slightly less dense experience, with a few more moments of respite between actions. Players are also not advised to slow down in this mode, as things can go from oddly quiet to violently loud at any moment. Duos are a much more tense experience, however, where teams will actively chase each other using pincer tactics.
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Solos mode is incredibly tense and, due to the faster TTK, is also a more brutally punishing mode compared to any previous single player mode. solo in Warzone 2.0 delivers the kind of intensity expected in a horror game, with players having to listen for enemy footsteps and expecting death to await them around every corner.
On PS5, I didn’t encounter any visual or gameplay bugs. Apart from the various connection problems, I can report that I did not encounter any technical problems in Warzone 2.0. The addition of an FOV slider on consoles is welcome and levels the playing field for all gamers. The graphics in Warzone 2.0 are also extremely impressive, without any loss of visual fidelity Modern Warfare 2 country.
Warzone 2.0 was never going to be a seamless experience, especially in this early post-launch period. However, if the game’s connection flaws can be overlooked, there’s a nice engaging experience to be had here. It will probably take war zone veterans some time to settle Warzone 2.0but once they do, there’s plenty of fun to be had in this well-done online experience.
8/10
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