In 2025, most modern multiplayer shooters look like shitposts festering from the brain rot of a video game fan who has never logged off. Goku's graced the Fortnite battle bus. You can run around with Nerf guns in Overwatch 2. Beavis and Butthead can shoot you with a pizza launcher in Call of Duty. The branded crossover situation has gotten bad enough that developers of upcoming shooters are promising they'll cut out the nonsense — and the most recent mea culpa hails from none other than the developers behind Call of Duty: Black Ops 7.
Call of Duty punches back after weeks of Battlefield 6 domination

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