Call of Duty: WWII borrows from Activision hits Destiny and Overwatch

Call of Duty: WWII may return to the “boots on the ground” origin of Activision’s military shooter franchise, but the latest entry in the series has also borrowed a handful of elements from the publisher’s other major shooters: Destiny and Overwatch.

I finished the WWII single-player campaign over the weekend, and it was nothing special. It featured lots of eye-rolling dialogue from gruff men between turret sequences where you destroy the entire Nazi aerial fleet. It didn’t win me over, unlike the multiplayer. I’m really enjoying my time with team deathmatch and the other modes in WWII. In my first handful of hours online, I’ve noticed that it features ranked play similar to Overwatch and a social space similar to Destiny.