Really hooked on this game, first CoD I've picked up for about a decade, so never even tried Zombies before. Even after a few days solid I still occasionally hit some new mode and end up discovering it has some maps I've not played on yet. Hit the "mosh pit" button today and loving the crazy firefight shit that combination of modes and maps creates.
I also really like the constant dopamine hits of levelling things up or achieving stuff, especially how it doesn't really force you into playing one specific mode for a prolonged period, levelling things up in Zombies seems slower, but due to the random nature of drops etc, you end up getting levels across things I wouldn't usually have a loadout for.
I keep putting a newly unlocked gun in my loadout and thinking this is the gun I'm going to stick with for the rest of the game, then by the time I've got a cool cross-hair and camo for it, I've already changed my mind and moved onto some other new hotness weapon. You get a nice sense of accomplishment just customising your gun and equipping it with the things you've unlocked, it hooks into that primitive part of my brain that's happy I found a bigger stick to hit someone with.
The only real negatives I have our the launcher, it opens up to a fucking advert every time. Given how much I'm enjoying it I wouldn't even mind paying £30 for some extra stuff, but literally having to dismiss it on load makes me not want to buy it on principle.
The other negative is the game is clearly catering for people who buy CoD every year, so for someone who's maybe not played this type of game since the Xbox 360 era, it's just super confusing, even when a mode loads there isn't any sort of text to say if it's a respawn mode, or a single life mode etc, then you get buttons for things like "Moshpit" which are really not obvious without googling, and Zombies, well, I've let so many people down (and die!) because it took me a good few hours to pick up even the basics. They could really add an old-fart mode tutorial or something for this stuff, or just have some actual onboarding stuff during the loading screens (but the animations are very cool).
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