The battle royale between Call of Duty and Battlefield.

The DeanBeat: The battle royale between Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 and Battlefield V

Activision and Electronic Arts disclosed the war plans for their big first-person shooter games of the year, and now it’s time for one of those “tastes great, less filling” debates about which video game is better: Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 or Battlefield V.

It will be months before the games debut in October and we have full information about features, such as the quality of Black Ops 4’s battle royale mode (EA hasn’t even acknowledged Battlefield V will have one yet). But it’s time for armchair generals like me to wag their tongues. I love both of these series, and I thought Battlefield 1 and Call of Duty: WWII were both terrific games. I’d love to see the sentiment analysis of how gamers reacted to both revelations. Activision said that more than 80 million people watched the reveal and its various bits of content.

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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.