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The DeanBeat: The battle of the holiday first-person shooter games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 6 min

Some people are freaking out about net neutrality right now. Me, I’m deciding where to put my holiday play time. Will it be Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, Star Wars: Battlefront II, or Call of Duty: WWII?

The best answer, of course, is to play all three of the recently launched first-person shooter games. I’ve completed the single-player campaigns of each title, and they’re all reasonably good. But not everybody is going to pour all that time into each campaign and then play the games on multiplayer as well. Hopefully, I can help sort this dilemma.

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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.