Call of Duty: Black Ops 4.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 beta hands on with the tense Heist multiplayer mode

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Treyarch unveiled a new Heist mode in its second beta test for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 multiplayer. I’ve played it a number of times on the PlayStation 4, and here’s my hands-on report.

The Black Ops 4 multiplayer beta test continues until 10 a.m. Pacific time on Monday, August 13. With Heist mode, five human players compete against five human rivals. You have to locate a bag of cash and then take it to the extraction point. It’s reminiscent of similar modes in Counter-Strike and Battlefield Hardline, and it almost always ends with some kind of dramatic struggle.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.