What's more, Fireteam's introduction of squadplay, right down to the ability to respawn on a squadmate, is yet another brazen-faced loan from Battlefield's playbook, but I'm not even mad about it. It's Conquest meets Rush, with a Warzone twist. Blow up a bomb, and its blast zone becomes a toxic wasteland. There are a number of variants planned, too, but players are currently privy to only one in the beta, Dirty Bomb, whereby teams are tasked with collecting uranium caches to arm and detonate radioactive bombs peppered around the battleground. Set across a collection of large-scale zones (which are almost certainly going to be stitched together to form the next Warzone map), the mode is a tapestry of chaos in all the right ways. Nowhere is that picture more flattering, however, than in the recently released Fireteam mode, which is already a favourite of mine amongst the roster of the game's new multiplayer modes.

While my impressions of Black Ops Cold War had been somewhat marred by a poor experience with last month's Open Alpha on PS4, October's ongoing Beta testing presents a much better picture of Treyarch's upcoming instalment.

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