This article contains spoilers for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6. and there are several reasons why it stands above the rest.

There’s a full-onopen-world level, with tons of optional objectives to seek out.

Pull off casino heists, infiltrate military bases, and do it feeling like an absolute badass.

Adler hangs from a broken elevator shaft in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6

Essentially, ‘Emergence’ feels like Control meets Doom.

TheControlaspect is clear from the start, and is mostly present in the aesthetics.

The biolab combines gleaming retrofuturism with dated kitsch.

Black Ops 6 soldier and zombies.

Those coexist with the kind of soaring arches you would see in Syd Mead’s concept art.

Case needs to open an important door and, to do so, must track down four keycards.

Combat leans into Doom here, too.

Both Seth Rogen skins in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.

The fleshy designs of some of these boss monsters would be right at home in Doom Eternal, too.

Its more like the arena battles that make up the bulk ofDoom Eternal.

Sometimes having three main modes that all hit the mark is more than enough.

Split image with characters from Control, Doom, and Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.

Case inserting a yellow keycard into a desktop in Call of Duty Black Ops 6.

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