Black Ops 7 multiplayer review: the game Black Ops 6 should’ve been

Much like we saw in 2023, when Modern Warfare 3 immediately followed Modern Warfare 2 from the year before, forgoing the biennial release schedule of alternating Call of Duty games between Infinity Ward and Treyarch, Black Ops 7has done the same, following 2024’s Black Ops 6. The result is a multiplayer experience that doesn’t feel, or look, all that different at first glance. It’s the same engine, after all, and the core components are still identical, so to the many who didn’t particularly enjoy last year’s game, they’d be forgiven for thinking Black Ops 7is more of the same.