I kept eyeing the score in the bottom left corner as my ears cautiously sought out the slightest noise of footsteps.
I watched as new players began to trickle in one by one. I ran around the snowy European village with the blown-out church hunting down and firing at any movement I saw. “Oh, I see.” Then my brain clicked into place. I ran up to another person, thinking they were on my team, and was shot to death. The match was Free-for-All but in the first ten seconds, I didn’t know it. I felt that familiar longing, the mouth-watering desire to unlock camos and Battle Pass levels.Īnd suddenly, early in the evening on November 3, 2021, I finally loaded into a multiplayer lobby in Call of Duty: Vanguard. The bulk of potential checklists giving me flashbacks to the four months starting in November 2019 when I played almost nothing but Modern Warfare. Rummaging through the menus, I looked through the various Operators, weapons, perks, attachments, calling cards, and challenges that Vanguard housed.
I felt a rush as the trusty Sten I had used most of the match rocketed to Level 15 and my character shot to Level 12.īecause Vanguard had not yet officially launched and likely only a small pool of press and influencers were trying to play, getting into a multiplayer match was a longshot. The two of us reflected on past Call of Duty games, Zombies, reviewing games, and the undulating cadence of this yearly tradition.Īfter a harrowing revive right before exiting within an inch of our lives through a portal, the results screen indicated the gooey residue of 1200 Nazi zombies each had been splattered all over the icy German village we were trapped in. Not only did we pass the hours literally and figuratively shooting the shit, we indulged in one of Call of Duty‘s simple pleasures: mindless killing. Early in the evening on NovemI patiently waited to load into a multiplayer lobby in Call of Duty: Vanguard.Ī few short minutes before, I had wrapped up an 11-round session of Zombies with fellow Vanguard reviewer Nathan Stevens.
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