The silly 120 second video shot me right in the feelings.

It has a lot to live up to.

And for the most part, it has been a joy to drop in again.

A soldier flies through the air after dropping out of their plane at the beginning of a Warzone 2.0 match.

PUBG,Apex Legends,Radical Heights(remember that one?

), and so many more have I tried.

Those lulls are all-important!

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But not when they’re marked by a seemingly endless stretch of looting with the occasional tumbleweed rolling past.

If you wanted to swap your gun for theirs?

Much like its regular multiplayer modes, Warzone 2 is more deliberate than its predecessor.

Dropping into Al Mazrah’s Observatory in Warzone 2.

Still, the stickiness of looting may change as patches roll out.

Want a loadout you prepared earlier?

Sometimes you’ll hear “yournan_eatsplaster” blaring Jason Derulo’s Watcha Say.

Looting a shelf in Warzone 2.

Isn’t Fortnite technically still in beta?

Your aim is to tick off your checklist and exfil successfully.

If you die, you lose everything you took into battle.

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Want to go hunt other players?

Want to demolish some AI and do some missions for EXP and loot?

c’mon, in your own time.

A selection of active missions in COD MW2’s DMZ mode.

But these improvements will come, and I’m genuinely excited to see the mode evolve alongside Warzone.

Some matches are stuttery, elastic messes.

I’ve had important AI enemies fall through the floor in DMZ and Strongholds not even work as intended.

Downing a player with an RPK in COD MW2’s DMZ mode.

But I can forgive Warzone for its launch woes because it’s everything I’d hoped it would be.

A reinvention that makes the mode feel fresh and more deliberate, while keeping the pace of the original.

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