Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s Blackout battle royale mode is both accessible and fun

It’s confession time: I’m terrible at Fortnite and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. But I’m better at Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s Blackout battle royale mode. I gave PlayStation 4 closed beta a try yesterday as Activision and Treyarch started testing their much-anticipated last-man-standing mode of this year’s Call of Duty.

I don’t really know why, but Call of Duty feels better. The guns are familiar, and I can’t jump all over the place like in Fortnite. Indeed, with Fortnite, you have to master building wood fortresses and jumping around to evade, all the way sniping at enemies from a mile away. And with PUBG, I had an awful time hitting anything with its weapons, and I never really invested much time in it. It was hard, very hard, for the battle royale games to pull me away from Call of Duty.